Category : sports & Exercise : Health & Medical

How to Make a Backyard Ski Jump

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Long after the snow melts, the desire to ski lingers on. A summertime ski jump is the perfect training tool for sharpening your skills in the off-season. You might not be boosting overhead airs off the lip of the halfpipe, but hiking your jump will keep you in shape for when that time arrives. With

How to Put on Goalie Leg Pads

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Over the years, a hockey goalie's leg pads have changed from little more than cricket-type pads to today's modern "pro-fly" style. Once simply a piece of gear to protect the goaltender's shins, knees and upper thigh from hard shots, the pads now rotate around the leg to form a veritable horizontal w

How Do You Move on "Stardoll"?

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"Stardoll" is a paper doll dress-up game for Web browsers. In the game, you can create a custom doll with a collectible wardrobe of clothes and accessories. The dolls live in a virtual suite that you can fill with furniture and decorations. You can also create a "Scenery," which is a picture that ca

Catching Fish From A Kayak

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Having been a fisherman all my life and simply because of a terrible adventure on a canoe trip in moving water decades ago, I've mostly shunned any kind of pointy nosed contraption that has a resemblance to a real boat ever since then. I have since had large fishing boats, flat bottoms, small b

How to Clean Sparring Gear

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The sparring gear that is used in boxing, martial arts and mixed martial arts is exposed to sweat, bacteria, viruses and blood among other things. This is not appealing, but it is something that needs to be effectively dealt with to prevent the spread of anything that can cause illness or disease. U

How to Get Rid of the Cowbirds

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The brown-headed cowbird is an unwelcome guest at many bird feeders. This is more because the cowbird is a "brood parasite" than anything else; the females will never build a nest of their own, choosing instead to lay their eggs in that of another species. Cowbird eggs hatch quickly, and often the g