and i was showing that young 01 year old yesterday how to do the hockey turn, he
tried it but kept his feet together, u relaly gotta spread your legs
out to turn sharper, and it does feel like you're gonna stop, you
definitely slow down if you put too much pressure on your feet, i dont
know if theres a way to keep the pressure off. good way to practice
stopping, probably.
If you spread your legs far apart, you can turn faster if you're going slow, but you're just gonna stop, really. If you keep your feet closer together, you can keep turning in circles, and this helps to prevent you from putting too much pressure into the skate/ground. (This is because you're not using force in your leg to keep your balance. When your legs are further apart, you have to push into the ground with the back leg or else you'll either fall, feel like you're gonna fall and push harder, or both.) When you push the back of your foot into the ground harder, that's when you perform a hockey stop. I can't do it, at least not on purpose. I've done it a few times, but I still turn slightly while my wheels screech along the ground.
tried it but kept his feet together, u relaly gotta spread your legs
out to turn sharper, and it does feel like you're gonna stop, you
definitely slow down if you put too much pressure on your feet, i dont
know if theres a way to keep the pressure off. good way to practice
stopping, probably.
If you spread your legs far apart, you can turn faster if you're going slow, but you're just gonna stop, really. If you keep your feet closer together, you can keep turning in circles, and this helps to prevent you from putting too much pressure into the skate/ground. (This is because you're not using force in your leg to keep your balance. When your legs are further apart, you have to push into the ground with the back leg or else you'll either fall, feel like you're gonna fall and push harder, or both.) When you push the back of your foot into the ground harder, that's when you perform a hockey stop. I can't do it, at least not on purpose. I've done it a few times, but I still turn slightly while my wheels screech along the ground.
paint in the crease - so how would goalies play in this? How do you guys play with that? just avoid the crease when skating? Seems unsafe regardless.
you didn't know they werent' gonna stick around long after cleaning up the water? I mean, you'd get tired/bored doing that, I think it would kill your motivation to play hockey for real long. You could argue that it would only embrace that passion, but you gotta use energy to clean it up, and then you realize "hey, i might be tired now." But if you clean it faster like you did, then you can play longer 'cause your motivation won't be gone. Who knows.
That article - the medication obviously didn't work. Gladwell leaves a huge interpretation, though, going from "this medication is killing more people than the control group" to the company statement saying "we believe this medication should be further researched".. the implication is that it doesn't work, though. "Glaxo was a memory." That statement alone shows that they lost their funding for the current research. If it does work, well, it wasn't working at that time. Could be like that one drug from the 50's/60's that almost killed a girl and then turns out to be, when mixed with 3 others, to be the best anti-cancer drug for the one particular disease (don't remember which one).
Read 3 other articles by him last ngiht.. titles were something like 1) "Are we formed by the age of the 3?" 2) "Are Parents Necessary" (these first two would work well together, though he doesnt' really tie any ideas together.. the comparisons/contrasts are there), and 3) The one on Gretzky, Yo-Ma, and the neurosurgeon.. this one is almost a complete whack-job. He tries to say that Gretzky stayed after practice and performed the same practice moves over and over which helped him in a game... I can say that the most insightful thing he mentions is that Gretzky liked to play from behind the net so he could see all other players on the ice.. yeah, you would be able to, but how often do you get to stand back there with no opposition? not long, if at all, but I guess if you could even for a second, you'd be able to see everybody and go from there. Otherwise, having creativity, intelligence, ability to think fast, and obsession/compulsion to want to be perfect and to actually practice to be perfect, then yeah, anybody could be the next Gretzky/Lemieux/Jordan/Federer/Tiger. I've always felt, and still feel with no help from this article, that the biggest difference between the superstar and the normal person is that the superstar has the uncanny ability to do the same movement repeatedly, thousands of times, and still want to do it. Most people get bored after a few attempts. Most people just aren't driven/inspired, I guess you could say. How can they be when doing the same thing over and over does get b oring, the results don't get much better (law of diminishing returns), and it gets lonely which is huge for most people.
Read 3 other articles by him last ngiht.. titles were something like 1) "Are we formed by the age of the 3?" 2) "Are Parents Necessary" (these first two would work well together, though he doesnt' really tie any ideas together.. the comparisons/contrasts are there), and 3) The one on Gretzky, Yo-Ma, and the neurosurgeon.. this one is almost a complete whack-job. He tries to say that Gretzky stayed after practice and performed the same practice moves over and over which helped him in a game... I can say that the most insightful thing he mentions is that Gretzky liked to play from behind the net so he could see all other players on the ice.. yeah, you would be able to, but how often do you get to stand back there with no opposition? not long, if at all, but I guess if you could even for a second, you'd be able to see everybody and go from there. Otherwise, having creativity, intelligence, ability to think fast, and obsession/compulsion to want to be perfect and to actually practice to be perfect, then yeah, anybody could be the next Gretzky/Lemieux/Jordan/Federer/Tiger. I've always felt, and still feel with no help from this article, that the biggest difference between the superstar and the normal person is that the superstar has the uncanny ability to do the same movement repeatedly, thousands of times, and still want to do it. Most people get bored after a few attempts. Most people just aren't driven/inspired, I guess you could say. How can they be when doing the same thing over and over does get b oring, the results don't get much better (law of diminishing returns), and it gets lonely which is huge for most people.
has to reglue it,
the last blade did the same thing, was loose at the top, very top
where it goes in, but where it meets the stick is fine, weird.
Yeah, this is not weird at all. When I changed my blade on Friday, the glue at the top of the blade gets pushed to the outside of the shaft. It happens to everybody. It shouldn't be a problem. Trust me, you don't need much glue. They really put a lot on which is good. When I changed the blade, I barely put the blade in and couldnt' push it in anymore, it was stuck man. Less than a centimeter in, and I couldn't get it in or out. Had to heat it up to melt the glue to get it out.. Tried it again, same thing happened. So what I did - heated it up again, pushed the blade in as far as I could (still only an inch or so), got a book and used it as a hammer on the top of the blade with the stick upside down. SLammed 'er home in 2 or 3 whacks.
Going to play hockey today. Gonna be tired, man, but it'll get me back on a regular sleep schedule. Should get my purple jersey for the league. Purple Puckers, we're called. What a name. Gonna definitely practice skating backwards faster and transitioning front to back faster. Should be easy. Gonna try some toe moves and general stick handling on skates which is much different than on feet. Much different. Different heights, speeds, angles to hit the puck based on speed, turning faster, etc.
Oh yeah, there have been these high school kids showing up playing on their feet at stickTime. Not sure why. I haven't played wtih them 'cause they have their own group of folks with a goalie and a girl. The girl actually looks like a decent player. Guess they play there 'cause the snow just makes it impossible outside, plus nobody likes being cold. They play on the other court, half-court games I guess. I dont konw, I play full court , all-out, shut down D and/or hard forecheck. I make it hard for the other team no matter what.
Grinder
Power Forward
Cooke, Kennedy, and Staal back together. Boom.
I'll watch 127 hours sometime this week probably. Heard it was worth it.
here are the new yorker articles this week , I'll save you the hassle from having to see which ones are gated.
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/12/13/101213fa_fact_lehrer this is from a month ago, don't remember reading it.
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/08/02/100802fa_fact_gawande I might hav eto read this again, it's from the summer There's a person here with no electrical currents in the heart being kept away from the Reaper, a pretty Grim guy. If you saw this fella, well, the Grimster would be more inviting, I can tell you that.
http://www.newyorker.com/humor/2011/01/17/110117sh_shouts_kenney looks like a play, i'm not reading it though.
http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/atlarge/2011/01/17/110117crat_atlarge_lepore gotta be worth it. 6 pages.
http://www.newyorker.com/talk/financial/2011/01/17/110117ta_talk_surowiecki This guy and Henrik Hertzberg always talk politics. Sometimes they're good, most of the time just mediocre, and I dont have time for mediocre.
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/01/17/110117fa_fact_brooks another potential worthy read. 6 pages.
http://www.newyorker.com/humor/issuecartoons/2011/01/17/cartoons_20110110?printable=true cartoons. hah the parents and investment one is good for incentives. ha, sexless marriage. I dont get the surgical twins. Ha, P.R. guy (that's actually brilliant, well played, New Yorker) hahaha, most dangerous game is easily the funniest. GPS for guys is kinda lame. hahahaha Visigoths and Wild Cards, haha, that's great.
Hmm, NewYorker is $40 a year for 47 issues online, That's probably worth it. Especially to keep them alive enough to keep publishing. And you'd get enough reading material weekly to keep busy wtih informative and entertaining pieces.
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