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Rush Hour Security Guard
1,615 wordsThump, thump thump, thump thump, thump, rattled through my head like the beating of a Native American drum as the car charted across the highway 93 bridge into Boston. I was with three of my friends who lived in Massachusetts. We entered the city. The buildings were so huge, they were hypnotic, all I could do was stare in awe at the mighty achievements. This is gonna be dope, Ive been waiting all summer to skate Boston! I said. I hope we dont get pinched. I heard the cops in Boston didnt especia...
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Hockey League Sullivan George
1,772 wordsHockey is a great sport that is watched and played by many Americans. To play hockey there are many things that will be needed to survive. There are three basic parts of hockey that are needed to be learned to play this game. The first one is to learn the rules of hockey, the second is all the measurements of the game, and the third are the basics of how to play. First of all, the most important thing is to know how to play. There are many rules you have to know. Also, the referees give signals ...
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National Hockey League Sullivan George
1,677 words... icing, and that is where an opponent hits another with his stick and the stick is above his shoulder. (Hockey Rules, 3) When someone hits another with his elbow then they will get a penalty for elbowing. When a player turns his stick the long ways and holds his stick with both hands and hits the other player like that then he will get a penalty for cross checking. If a player is driven into the boards by an illegal check then a two-minute penalty will be served in the penalty box. If the puc...
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Hours A Day Ice Skating
497 wordsWhen you hear the word speed skating what do you think of? Do you think of Dan Jansen in the last winter Olympics speeding across the ice? Perhaps you think of Chad Hedreck with his ten gold medals from the inline racing world championship a few years ago? If you thought about either one of these or anything like it you are exactly right. The are both great speed skaters. Dan skates on ice, and Chad is an inline racer. From the skates and training to the over all style and form of skating you wi...
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1990 Skateboarding Skateboarding Manufacturers
517 wordsDozens of new manufacturers sprung up and skateboarding entered its third wave of popularity. Numerous vertical champions emerged including Tony Hawk, Christian Host, Lance Mountain and Neil Blender. In the street, Mark Gonzales, Natas Kaupas and Tommy Guerrero took the ollie to new heights. Freestyle skateboarding was also a part of the scene and Rodney Mullen dominated all competition. In the mid to late 1980 's three main manufacturers handled most of the skate market-Powell Peralta, Vision/S...
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Parents Let Me Stay Eleven
489 wordsYep! If you are reading this youve probably already conquered the tumultuous eleventh year of your life. However, if you are ancient you have probably forgotten all about being eleven, so here are the advantages and disadvantages. First of all, there are many advantages of being eleven. For instance my parents trust me more. My parents let me stay home alone instead of having a babysitter. They also let me go to movies without them leading me by the hand. My parents dont act so paranoid about me...
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Make A Living T V
1,704 wordsPOP, SLIP, STOMP! Dude bog ular noble-pop to back-she indy-slide blunt press bro! ! ! You may wonder if that had anything to do with skating, well guess what, it did. There is this totally extreme sport that only the most extreme athletes on the planet can endure! Its called skateboarding and its awesome. There is a very long history to skateboarding, and the sport has definitely changed greatly over the years-About fifty years to be perfectly exact. It all started out with just a piece of wood ...
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Middle Aged Man Entire Play
687 wordsI>Folly- Any foolish and useless but expensive undertaking The play Talley's Folly, in my opinion, is just that a folly. However the play would be better named "Wilson's Folly" for the writer, Lanford Wilson. I had several objections to this play being considered a classic. It was composed of nothing but petty details in dialogue. It also had no plot or any creative twists to it that would make a reader want to continue to read the play, and consisted of two surpassingly ordinary and one ove...
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Miles Per Hour Cardiovascular Fitness
2,057 wordsImagine that you " ve just turned 16 and your parents bought you a brand new Mustang. You " re cruising on the street at approximately 25 miles per hour. So maybe you " re not breaking the speed limit, but everyone's staring. You feel the light breeze through your hair. Then you " re in the air, 12 feet high. Finally, you land on your back and come this (gesture 6 in. ) close to cracking your skull. What happened? You were skating. As Aaron Spohn, a well respected ramp builder for the National I...
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Channel My Competitiveness Game That Night Hockey
770 wordsI love Hockey because it's a very competitive game. There is nothing better to me than winning a big game or making a nice play. Some people have different opinions than me on what the game means to them. My mom and my girlfriend are good examples of this. My mom goes to the games and enjoys watching the goalies. She enjoys there bright colored padding and is always is amazed at how they can skate with all that heavy equipment on. My girlfriend, like my mom, does not go to watch the high paced a...
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Lot Of People Recreational Sport
448 wordsSkateboarding is a very popular recreational sport. There are twenty million people who skateboard around the world. Skateboarding was invented by Alan Ollie Gelfand. They got the name Ollie from his middle name. The Ollie was a fundamental basis for harder tricks. To put it in more simple terms, it means whenever you jump with the skateboard. You do this so that you can jump over things, jump in the air to do tricks, and so that you can jump on grind rails. There are over three-hundred manufact...
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Ice Hockey Degrees Fahrenheit
1,400 wordsHockey is a sport of finesse, toughness, and speed all wrapped up by player talent. Hockey can be played on any surface, though ice and hard rubber "roller turf" are the two major fields currently played on by professionals. All though to some these two variations on hockey may seem the same, they actually have many differences. Roller hockey contrasts that of ice in several ways. While the playing surfaces are the most obvious difference, number of players, periods, and skates also vary. The mo...
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Hockey League Sullivan George
3,469 wordsHockey is a Hockey Hockey Hockey is a great sport that is watched and played by many Americans. To play hockey there are many things that will be needed to survive. There are three basic parts of hockey that are needed to be learned to play this game. The first one is to learn the rules of hockey, the second is all the measurements of the game, and the third are the basics of how to play. First of all, the most important thing is to know how to play. There are many rules you have to know. Also, ...
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90 Degrees 4 X
1,466 wordsHow to Grind Well you want to learn how to grind. The first thing that you need to know is how to stall. Stalls are essentially skating up to an object, jumping onto it, holding there for a couple of seconds, and then jumping off. This can be anything from a stair, to a curb, to a car, to the coping on a vert. To begin learning stalls, it is easiest to do it by going straight at the object you want to stall on, lets say a stair. Slowly skate up to the stair, and at about a foot away jump up onto...
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Light And Dark Magical Powers
1,095 wordsWhen studying a novel it sometimes helps to look at the language used in a specific passage. In the novel In The Skin of a Lion by Michael Ondaatje, this approach is extremely helpful. It will help you better understand the characters and give you a clearer idea of what the author is trying to say. Within the novel, the passage entitled The Skating Scene, where Patrick observes the loggers skating late at night, is stylistically interesting. By looking at metaphors, symbolism and diction, we can...
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Martin Luther King American Dream
1,126 wordsAt the first of the year Miss Schoonmaker asked us if we thought America was a success or not. This got me thinking what are we going to learn that will make us think our country isn? t a success? Well throughout the year I learned things that made me believe America is not a success. Things that made me not believe in America were how we go against things we pledge. Like the Constitution and how we treated blacks in the Civil Rights era. Another example is the? American dream? . The Dream was a...
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Talent In Hockey Mario Lemieux Won
447 wordsBorn: Mario Lemieux Mario Lemieux Born: 1965 Mario Lemieux was born on October 5, 1965 in Montreal, Quebec. He had two brothers, Alain and Richard. They both also had talent in hockey, so when he was four years old, his parents sent him to the local hockey rink to learn how to skate. He was put under the watchful eye of Fernand Fichaud, Mr. Fichaud had seen his brothers play and knew that the Lemieux possessed extraordinary talent in hockey. He taught Mario how to grip the stick properly and how...
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J D Salinger Catcher In The Rye
1,938 wordsCatcher in the Rye? s pallid cover, adorned only with seven multicolored bands in its upper-left corner, is not what one would call eye-catching. Its reverse side lacks criticisms or reviews of any sort; in fact, it is bare of anything except a copyright date. Human beings are advised not to judge books by their covers, rather that they should look further than the obvious and try to apprehend the implied meaning. The world has peered past Catcher in the Rye? s cover, cracked its pure, uniform s...
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Age Of 18 Half Hour
710 wordsCheck Health beat Article 03 Topic: Safety on Wheels Feeling Wheel Wonderful! Bicycles, scooters and inline skates have many things in common but perhaps the most prominent shared features are wheels. Sure, they look different but they work to achieve the same effect. They move someone from place A to place B then to C and sometimes they do it at high speeds. Although operated differently, the one thing they have in common is that they are all powered by human energy. That makes them fantastic f...
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Back And Forth High Strength
1,791 wordsWHY DO SKATEBOARDERS SHOES WEAR OUT SO FAST? Through out skateboarding history a sand paper material known as grip tape has been glued to skateboard decks. This material made for gripping onto boards also destroys sneaker soles. Grip tape causes friction between sneakers and itself, while making a grip and facilitating control of the board. Pedaling wears out sneakers like walking, but at more accelerated rates; much higher than walking. Becoming more circumspect, there is the factor of increase...
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