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Shane “Sugar” Mosley, born in September 7, 1971, holds several world titles in three weight divisions. Holding a fighting record of 46 wins, 5 losses with 1 no contest and 39 knockouts; Mosley has never been knocked out or stopped in his boxing fights. A native boxer of Pomona, California, “Sugar” is currently the WBA Welterweight Super champion. During the early part of his career, he personally trained himself from 1992-2004. He also sought Joe Goossen to become his trainer in 2004. He worked with John David Jackson in 2005. This year, he is currently trained by Nazim Richardson, which is best known for his work with Bernard Hopkins.
Shane Mosley got to where he is today the hard way. He fought bout by bout to make his way to the championships, eventually earning world championships in the lightweight, welterweight and junior middleweight divisions. His many wins have brought him a reputation as one of the greatest boxers currently active in the sport. He has even acquired the nickname “Sugar”, just like the all time boxing greats Leonard and Robinson. Mosley’s hard work and constant training have brought him a Fighter of the Year Award (in 1998), as well as his three world championships.
Even as an amateur fighter, success was expected from Shane Mosley. He has won most of the titles in the amateur boxing division. During the period of years, from 1989 to 1992, he became the United States Amateur Champion at lightweight (1989), World junior Championships (1989), United States Amateur Champion at lightweight (1990), bronze medalist of the Goodwill Games in Seattle, USA (1992) and the United States Champion at welterweight division (1992). All in all, he compiled an amateur record of 250+ wins. The critics have said that Mosley’s stepping up to boxing pro is destined for stardom.
Shane Mosley’s February 11, 1993 fight against the former California state champion Greg Puente marked his debut in professional boxing. In this five-round blowout, he defeated Puente. However, due to promotional difficulties, Mosley was only noticed in the boxing scene until he brought a 23-0 record with 22 knockouts when he defeated the IBF lightweight champion Phillip Holiday. His display of brilliance in speed, power and ring savvy trashed Holiday at a twelve-round fight, walking away with a new world title. This was followed by yet another achievement. In his following fight, Sugar defeated Manuel Gomez by knockout at round eleven.
Through the years in his career as a boxing pro, Shane Mosley have fought a number of great boxers. He was called the undefeated lightweight champion, finishing 34 fights with a 34-0 record. After he made successful 9 title defenses, he moved up two divisions to face Oscar de la Hoya for his Welterweight title. During his June 17, 2000 fight against de la Hoya, he emerged as the winner, a split decision victory. And that was the start of the beginnings of a great fighter; a fighter that the international boxing scene looks forward to watching in any arena.
Generally considered one of the best players in the NBA, Dallas Mavericks point guard Jason Kidd is known by teammates, opponents and fans as a formidable player. He led the New Jersey Nets to two consecutive NBA finals in 2003 and 2003 before joining up with the Mavericks.
His signing with the Mavericks was something of a homecoming; Kidd began his NBA career with the team before playing for Phoenix and then New Jersey before returning to Dallas in 2008. Only a few months after rejoining the team, he scored his 100th triple-double in the last game of the regular season.
The oldest of six children, Kidd played on public courts in Oakland while a youth, often with Gary Payton (an NBA All-Star). The two remain close to this day and often speak fondly of playing on these courts.
Jason Kidd earned the Naismith Award while playing for his high school team, being ranked as the top high school player in the nation. He went to college at UC-Berkeley where he also played basketball. He was a finalist for the Naismith and the Wooden Awards as a college player. When he left to enter the NBA draft in 1994, his #5 jersey was retired.
He has been a 9 time NBA All-Star and a member of the All-NBA First team in 1999 through 2002 and again in 2004. Additionally, he has been on the 1995 NBA All-Rookie First Team, won the 2003 NBA Skills Challenge Championship and made the All Defensive First and Second teams every year between 1999 and 2007.
Along with some of the other living legends of the game, Kidd represented the US on the US Men’s Basketball team in 2008′s Summer Olympics, bringing home the gold medal. He has an unbroken 56-0 record in USA Basketball, including exhibition games and also won a gold medal in the 2000 Summer Olympics!
While Jason’s NBA career was on the right track, his personal life was not. In January of 2001, he was arrested and pleaded guilty to domestic abuse on his wife. He was ordered to attend anger management and counseling. He gave up alcohol, and it was reported that they had reconciled.
Six years later, in 2007, he filed for divorce claiming intense jealousy, paranoia and threats of false abuse charges from his wife. A month later, his wife counter-filed claiming he broke her rib and damaged her hearing by smashing her head into the console of the car. They had three children.
A year later, it was reported that Jason Kidd was expecting another child with girlfriend and model Hope Dworaczyk.
Despite personal problems, Kidd was one of two players in NBA history to record at lease 14,000 points, 6600 rebounds and 9,000 assists. He joined the ranks of Walt Chamberlin and Magic Johnson as one of three players to average a triple-double for multiple playoff series games. He was named the USA Basketball’s 2007 Male Athlete of the Year. He has been a consistent super-star and an all time triple-double leader with 101, behind Oscar Robertson with 181 and Magic Johnson with 138.
Jason Kidd is nothing if not an accomplished player, having set records and made great achievements in the NBA and as an Olympian. He is also a humanitarian, sponsoring youth programs in the greater Dallas- Ft. Worth area.
Go on, kick it! I was standing in the darkened garage of my instructor to be, surrounded by his high ranking black belts. The bag they were telling me to kick hung ominous and silent form the ceiling.[l:4:J]
This should be simple, its only a bag, Im gonna impress the heck out of these bozos! I mean, my school is made of good kicks. Its only a bag, eh?
I drew in breath and set my stance. I eyed the canvas thing, and studied my opponent. It looked to be about seventy pounds, not too tough, and I didnt notice that the ceiling had been re-enforced to support the bag.
With mighty shout I thrust my sidekick out. My sidekick was my strongest kick, and it should bounce that bag off the ceiling like it was a ballon. My foot impacted, and nothing happened.
Well, a few things did actually happen. The bag swayed a small inch, and I was thrust back by the force of my own kick, and a shock of lightening slithered up my nervous system to my spine. And, oh yeah, all those black belts tried unsuccessfully o smother their grins.
My composure a gone thing, I looked at the bag in shock, and then stepped up to it. I felt the thing and asked, What did you put in here? I looked at the man who would end up being muy instructor, and he just grinned a quirky grin.
The first bag I ever kicked was a duffle bag filled with free sawdust. I poured the sawdust in and bounced it up and down until it was as solid as I could make it, and then I kicked it until I thought my kicks were solid. I was under the impression that I knew what a bag was all about.
What Bob, who became my instructor, did when he packed his bags was sheer genius. He packed them with sawdust, like I had done, and he bounced them until they were quite solid. To make a true footbreaker out of the thing, however, he began adding a cup of sawdust every weekend.
But that wasnt tough enough. No way. The real deal happened, and his genius sprouted, with his next invention.
He cut circles out of newspapers and packed them into the bag. All the news thats fit to print…The Daily Kick! Thats the facts behind the toughest bag to ever knock me on my butt!
Cristiano Ronaldo, born February 5, 1985 plays winger for the English Premier League club Manchester United. As a youth player, Sir Alex Ferguson, who signed the eighteen year old to a 21.24 million contract in 2003, where in that same year he won his first cap for the Portuguese, noted Ronaldo’s talent. As a delight to his fans, Cristiano reach the final of the UEFA Euro in 2004 and scored his first international goal.
Christiano Ronaldo was a big scorer in both the club and international scenes in the 2006-2007 season. His also got his first Premier League title and became that league’s best scorer for the season. The next year, Ronaldo he became the FIFPro World Player of the Year and was honored with the Ballon d’Or award. The young man’s career was heading into the stars already.
Maria Dolores dos Santos Averio and Jose Dinis Averiogave named Christiano “Ronaldo” after then-United States President Ronald Regan–but it wasn’t for his leadership skills, rather it was for his acting skills which made him his father’s favorite actor. Ronaldo also has two older sisters and a younger brother.
His early career began at the age of only eight where he played for the amateur team C.F. Andorinha-in 1995, Cristiano signed with CD Nacional, a local club. Overjoyed with his success, the Sporting CP club signed him after a three-day trial run; the amount of the signing has never been released. At the Sporting CP in Portugal, Ronaldo trained at the Alcochete, a footballer’s academy and was the only player ever to play for Sporting’s U-16, U-17, U-18 and B-team. In 2003, the Manchester United players begged for Sir Alex Ferguson to sign him-and so became a footballer and fan favorite.
The first Portuguese player ever to sign with an English team, Cristiano now found himself backed by a talented club. But, he didn’t want the #7 that was so tied in with David Beckham and Eric Cantona; instead, wanting to be his own man, Cristiano took #23. In a 4-0 win over the Bolton Wanderers that year, Cristiano made his club debut in the 60th minute. Then in October of 2005, Christiano scored United’s 1,000th Premier League goal. Fans gave him the vote to take part in his first-ever FIFPro Special Young Player of the Year awards.
In 2006, Ronaldo attained consecutive Barclays Player of the Month awards, only the third player in history to do this since Dennis Bergkamp in 1997 and Robbie Fowler in 1996. Cristiano’s 50th career goal with Manchester United came against rivals Manchester City F.C. when they claimed their first Premier League title in just four years. Again, Ronaldo was voted the FIFPro Special Young Player of the Year Award and thought it looked like he might switch forces to play with the Real Madrids, he signed with United in April of 2006 for a cool $31 million a year-he became the highest player in United’s history.
2006 saw Cristiano win three of football’s top accolades: the PFA Players’ Player of the Year, the PFA Fans’ Player of the Year, and the PFA Young Player of the Year. Cristiano has been know to be, shall we say, hot tempered, and his antics got him banned for three matches in the 2007-08 season. However, he told his coach that in the future he would not allow rival players to get him riled up. He was made team captain for United in March of 2008 and scored 35 goals for the season, breaking the 40-year-record of George Best who had 32 in 1967-1968.
In spite of at one point leaning toward the Real Madrid team, Cristiano chose to remain with United for another year. He scored personal goals nos. 100 and 101 in November during a 5-0 victory over Stroke City; and it then seemed beyond the shadow of a doubt that Ronaldo is heading for football greatness that few players can ever dream of. Manchester United rewarded Ronaldo’s season performance, which he ended with 446 total points, by giving him the first Ballon d’Or award since George Best’s in 1968. There’s no end in sight for Cristiano Ronaldo, much to his fans’ delight.
There are two ways you can go about making your own baits, firstly is to start from scratch and make the base mix prior and literally take it from grass roots through to the finished product, or you can start with a ready made base mix and construct the bait from there.
Each of these methods has its advantages, the main of which is the costs involved and the final quality of the bait you are aiming to produce. For example adding flavorings, eggs and any additional oils are the only things required when you already have a good base mix, where a majority have the right quantity and quality of ingredients that are required. Although the more expensive of the two ways you do get a very good quality product at the end of this process.
Secondly is to start with the individual ingredients used to make a very basic base mix that you can then add to, the three key ingredients in making your own base mix are Soya Flour, Ground Rice and Semolina. With a little patience you have a basic start to your base mix.
Now is the time to remember one of the main rules of mixing your own bait, liquids get added to liquids and powder gets added to powder. Basically this means you need to add all the powder mix together before you add any liquid to them what so ever. The best way to do it is to have two completely different mixing areas and then add them together at the end and mix in. Powders are best mixed in a plastic bag so you can see the mix has all come together properly.
With the base mix ready you need to move on to the next step. The manufacturer will have guide lines on how many eggs you should use but the normal amount is four eggs for every kilo of base mix that you have generated. Break your eggs into a bowl and add the amount of flavors you need for the amount of bait that you have and mix it all together in a bowl with a fork, be careful not to put too much effort into this as the air in there will determine how soft your mix is at the end of this process.
Once you are sure that your liquids are all fully mixed you can start adding them to your base mix, a little at a time, not to much but add a little quite often and keep mixing it with a fork until the mix becomes too thick to use a fork on. At this point you have to get your hands dirty as you will need to mix by hand (wear gloves if you don’t want to smell like your bait for the next week). Continue dribbling in the mixes together until when you break the ball open you will see that it is the same dampness all the way through.
Once you have your paste you need to split it into equal portions so these can be put into your bait gun. Once you have these then you can put them through the gun ready to go onto your bait rolling table. Remember if you want 18mm boilies then you need to use the 18mm nozzle on your gun, using a table gives your boilies a smooth round ball shape and there is less chance of them breaking.
Once you have rolled your sausage in the rolling table and produced an amount of mix into the required size spheres you will need to move on to the next stage, boiling your bait. Take a small amount of your boilies and place them in a pan of boiling water for around two minutes. Refrain from putting too many in the pan at any one time as this can restrict the bait from cooking properly.
Once they have been in the pan for around two minutes you can remove them and put them on a dry tray for around 24 hours which will give them a chance to form their skin in full. At the end of this time you will be able to go and try your bait out on the fish.
Woodworking is a very productive hobby. You can create useful things for your house and still enjoy what you do. If you can develop your skills, it is highly possible also that woodworking can become a very lucrative business for you.
So here are some very basic woodworking tips for beginners, which could help you significantly. However, it would also be best to strengthen your skills in this kind of craft by reading books about woodworking, which you can find in your local library.
First you need to decide on the type of project you want to create. This is one of the most important woodworking tips for beginners. A specific project will serve as your purpose in starting a woodworking hobby or career.
Whether you will make a simple cutting board for your pictures or an elaborate table and chairs for the kitchen. It is always important to have a plan in your mind about the type of project that you will start.
Having a separate area for you projects is important because you will make a fair amount of dust and noise? You can turn your garage or basement into a shop. However, make sure that your work will not unduly inconvenience your family or your neighbors.
When you set up your woodworking shop, make sure that it has enough space so you can work comfortably. It is also best if your shop has its own power source so you can easily use your electric tools.
Planning is important so that you can create a schedule and not get bogged down. You need to decide how many hours you will devote for your woodworking project.
If you will not properly schedule and organize your work, then it would be impossible for you to finish a project. Worse, you may eventually lose interest because of the delays caused by your erratic schedules.
Starting a woodworking project is simple. If you will notice, these woodworking tips for beginners focus more on your motivation. That is because woodworking needs time and effort. You need to focus on your project and maintain a regular work schedule for it. Once you finished a project, you will certainly be encouraged to start another one until you sharpen your skills in woodworking.
The son of legendary racer (and DIRT Motorsports Hall of Famer) Emil “Buzzy” Reuitman, David Reutimann is the third generation in his family to take up the sport, sometimes racing with his father at Florida’s East Bay Raceway Park (known as the Clay by the Bay by fans).
He started as a dirt track racer and moved his way up into the ranks of NASCAR racers, being the 1997 Rookie of the Year in the Slim Jim All Pro Series as well as 2004′s NASCAR Craftsman Truck Rookie of the Year. With many top ten finishes, although few wins, Reutimann is a racer to watch.
He was the winner of the 2005 Nashville Toyota Tundra 200, which he followed up with a 2007 win in the Sam’s Town 250 in Memphis, his first Busch Series car win. He ran the entire series on 2007, coming in second in the standings.
A resident of Zephyrillis, Fla. Reutimann has earned several awards in the NASCAR Southeast Series since 1997. He moved up to NASCAR in 1997 after spending some time racing modified vehicles on the short tracks of his native Florida.
For the last few years, he has been racing in the Nationwide Series as well as the Sprint Cup series for Michael Waltrip Racing. He hasn’t achieved the level of success of some NASCAR stars, but he has been a consistently high performing racer with top finishes in a lot of the sport’s most important races.
David Reutimann chose an old acquaintance from the racing world as his crew chief in 2009. Rodney Childers is now taking care of the number 00 Toyota; the two have known each other since 1999′s Slim Jim All Pro race. Childers says that he was eager to take on the position, appreciating as he does Reutimann’s personality and lively sense of humor.
While maybe off to a slow start, David Reutimann has burst onto the scene in the past year and he is becoming as comfortable and good as anyone else on the track. They are hoping to build on that and get in some top-10 finishes, so that the top-5 will eventually come and ultimately their first win.
Childers new role as Reutimann’s crew chief may prove to be the winning edge the racer needs. He has four years of experience in Sprint Cup level crew chiefing and Michael Waltrip Racing has established a solid relationship with Toyota, having the necessary commitment to really make waves in NASCAR.
Reutimann is not one of NASCAR’s biggest names yet, but this year Reutimann is going for broke in his quest to achieve racing stardom. Michael Waltrip and David Reutimann will be sharing number 00, also known as Aaron’s Dream Machine, which is sponsored by Aaron Rents. Aaron has been with Michael Waltrip for a decade now and fans are excited to see Waltrip behind the wheel once again.
Reutimanns numerous top 10 finishes in the Nationwide Series and continuing improvement as a Sprint Cup racer is fueling excitement about Michael Waltrip Racing in general and David Reutimann in particular.
Our goal is to present a potential massage chair buyer with a comprehensive and unbiased review of a given massage chair. We have developed a 5 category system to evaluate a massage chair. We give equal weight to each category and give 0 to 20 points rating and then add them up to present an overall score. Our categories include Warranty & Customer Service, Comfort/Ergonomics, Ease of Use, Features and Massage Therapy. This systematic approach forces us to a disciplined method of evaluating a massage chair to help guide anyone looking at massage chairs. The Sanyo HEC-DR7700K shiatsu massage chair price is in the luxury range of $4,000 to $5,000.
First is how the manufacturer rates in both warranty coverage and customer service. The manufacturer needs to stand behind its product. Sanyo gives a 1 year labor, 1 year parts and 1 year in-home service as well as 1 year shipping. Panasonic puts a machine life cap of 1,000 hours of use. Sanyo gives a relatively short warranty which is on par with Panasonic but lower than most manufacturers. The electronics company’s such as Sanyo (or Panasonic) work off selling extended warranties. Sanyo now offers in-home technician service and may pay for shipping for the first year (not always clear). They have a national hot line with 24/7 service. Customer Service and turnaround time is average. Overall Rating for Sanyo warranty and customer service is 14.
Comfort & Ergonomics: Massage chair recliners should fit the body and be comfortable to site on. The Sanyo DR7700K is well padded and the chair back comfortable. The detachable head pillow is designed well to support the head. The seat is average to sit in and the armrests are plush. Unfortunately, the footrest cannot be adjusted which limits the chair to shorter individuals. Taller people feel some restriction with the footrest. Overall Rating for Sanyo DR7700K for comfort and ergonomics is 15.
East of Use: Ease of use is defined as how intuitive the controls and how complicated are they to use without reading the instructions. Sanyo is known for its stereos and other electronics with advanced features. The remote control of the HEC-DR7700K is fairly simple and intuitive to use. Select from 4 automatic programs and sit back and relax. One button takes you to the Zero Gravity position. The Sanyo remote contains manual massage controls in a side panel. The sub-remote, unfortunately is tethered by a cable to the chair. Overall Rating for the Sanyo HEC-SR7700K for ease of use is 19.
Key Features: The important features of the Sanyo HEC-DR7700K are the GK Rollers which is designed to provide over the shoulder massage in a third dimension. The other key feature is the Zero Gravity which takes the weight off you spine. The jointed massage heads of the GK Rollers push out and over the shoulders in a gripping action. Most rollers move in the X and Y coordinates, Sanyo has added the Z coordinate to add a real third dimension to robotic massage. Zero Gravity is a comfortable position with the body weight evenly distributed across the back. Overall Rating for the Sanyo HEC-DR7700K for features is 18.
Massage Therapy: The DR7700K has 4 full body automatic courses, 5 massage speed settings and in a total combination of 83 manual massage courses. The manual massage techniques include the following: Shiatsu, Kneading, Tapping, and Kneading & Tapping. Additionally, because of the GK roller system, Sanyo offers Grip, which is a squeezing sensation. Sanyo incorporates various stretches. The DR7700K massage chair uses 24 airbags with projections that perform a shiatsu massage on the calves and an undulating sole shiatsu massage. There are a wide range of massage capabilities and the GK rollers add a critical third dimension. Our rating in this category is 19.
How does the Sanyo HEC-DR7700K stack up? Overall, our rating of the Panasonic is an 85/100. Sanyo brings some cutting edge technology with their GK Rollers and Zero Gravity into its massage chairs. The design is fairly modern leaning toward minimalist. The controls are fairly well designed and easy to use. Main drawback is the weaker warranty coverage and added expense for an extended warranty as well as the footrest not being adjustable. Otherwise, the Sanyo HEC-DR7700K has solid technology and is fairly effective in delivering relief. Hopefully, Sanyo will design more for the American market and include more ergonomic chairs in the future, but for now the HEC-DR7700K is a solid choice.
The best thing about making homemade baits is the control and incredible satisfaction they provide in terms of control over your costs and catches and actual ingredients and so on you might choose to exploit to best effect! Most anglers discuss baits in terms of their favourite flavours or brands with very little focus upon exactly how such baits really impact upon fish senses which is a great shame (this aspect is a massive advantage lost on the majority of average anglers!) So if you want to know more about the truth about the real power of homemade baits and need help in designing and making them fast ” just read on!
The growing numbers of anglers in the UK and all around the world reflect a movement towards the desire of anglers to take back control over every aspect of their fishing and the desire to understand more complete details about bait and actually how it works in relation to carp diet and senses etc that in the past has been largely ignored by the majority who have been dependant upon readymade baits! When I began carp fishing in the nineteen-seventies everyone made their own baits out of necessity and it really was a challenge to find appropriate and accurate information about what exactly made carp feed and what fulfilled their essential nutritional requirements that you could actually get hold of and use in homemade baits, but all this experience and knowledge has meant our homemade baits can hold their own and even out-fish popular brand readymade boilies. Homemade baits have always if so desired been a tremendously effective economical and unique edge in carp fishing, (being different is vital to constant success of course,) it is very easy to forget that the relatively few truly knowledgeable bait designers with the big bait companies all started out at home in their own kitchens or garden sheds!
Having banked twenty forty pound carp from UK lakes I realise many things have changed about carp fishing in the past 40 years and especially the size of carp now available, but it is very obvious you need to fish the waters with fish of the size you wish to catch ” I know anglers who have very few twenties under their belts because of the limited lakes they fish within a particular region of the country. Your fishing goals are very personal and weight of fish is very irrelevant in many aspects; your personal success can be measured in many ways beyond fish weights and any sponsored angler can sit full-time on any water until they catch all the fish in the lake (i.e. big deal!) It is best to measure your success by setting your own goals and exactly how you aim to achieve them and fulfilling those goals than by comparing just how many thirties or whatever you have caught in a year and catching them on your own homemade unique baits makes all the difference to and gives a far deeper meaning to catch results in my opinion!
Like most carp anglers, I do not have the luxury of any of the advantages of the full-time sponsored angler or retired builders for example with loads of money and time to sit on big fish waters and rave about what great anglers they are (big deal!)! I have to fish against bait and tackle-sponsored anglers wherever I fish just the same as most of my fellow anglers, but one thing I have is desire, focus and willingness to constantly learn and refine my thinking which is so vital in fishing. Being able to make an effective homemade carp bait is a very well proven leveller to those advantages others may have in terms of money, time, personal contacts and up to date fishing intelligence and so on.
Although beginning in carp bait making is like starting junior school again – when you are really competing against bait companies (and individuals) who are exploiting professionals with PhDs in food science, fish nutrition, electrochemistry and so on, you can be certain your efforts will pay-off, big-time! Although certain anglers will rave-on about a balanced nutritional value bait being as fully digestible as possible and sorted down the third limiting amino acid level, you may noticed that over 90 percent of all carp caught in the world are not caught on such baits; this is because only a handful of well-connected bait designers can actually produced baits to this effect! The nutritional, metabolic and health impacts of a fast and efficiently digested bait cannot be under-estimated however; it figures that the more energy a fish has available after eating baits and the more a bait offers in potential rewards that carp detect in them, the more chances you have of fish actually mouthing baits and consuming them repeatedly ” with more chances of captures than very many competing baits perhaps with much less to offer (view my unique ebooks on bait design and making at Baitbigfish for more!)
Talking to average carp anglers on the bank just shows how much they are missing out on tremendously better catches if only they knew more about bait than references to their favourite flavours or brands; this it a tragedy because everyone can get better educated about bait design and exploitation and leverage bait to much greater effect than they ever previously imagined. Many anglers have heard of balanced or high nutrition baits or so-called food baits, and having the knowledge to be able improve the performances of all kinds of carp baits, from particles to pellets to boilies to ground baits etc by leveraging potent natural feeding triggers in particular is hugely beneficial to multiplying your catches! The digestibility of carp baits is very much an edge and most anglers know next to nothing about how this is achieved and why it is such a powerful advantage over fish and most competing baits in the long-term, producing the biggest fish that incidentally require the highest energy requirements repeatedly!
Of course flavours are such a popular subject for carp anglers, but most realise that the majority of flavours are just average or worse while a relative few are very potent by comparison to others and really do work, if not directly in effecting feeding responses, then indirectly helping enhance and improve ionising effects of other bait substances such as betaine and amino acids and so on etc! Some very most effective flavours are the type that by methodically testing against standard baits you can overdose and top standard baits so they catch far more fish at almost any water you visit than the very same standard bait from the same bag but with no extra added flavour, but please be aware that anything has a flavours of some sort even plastic and rubber baits, and carp can detect some substances to a few parts in a billion (this is fact.) Although chilli extracts are very popular few anglers rally appreciate the many aspects of their impacts upon fish senses, digestion and metabolism, long range chemoreception and lateral line sensitivities and mode of feeding they can induce and so on; it may come as a big surprise that carp actually enjoy the pleasure from the pain response initiated by the hot peppers ” just as we enjoy hot curries and spicy foods for the same reason (see my flavours and feeding triggers ebooks for more!)
When you understand and appreciate much more deeply the relationship between substances carp depend upon for their very survival and how these impact upon their senses, health, digestion and metabolism etc you will be able to boost and top readymade baits like crazy be supremely confident in making and using your own specially powerful boilies, pellets, particle and fake baits and be able to leverage substances in ground baits to pull even more fish to your hook baits and get them feeding far more intensively and competitively! Everyone is on a learning curve in regards to baits but I can save you decades of researching and practical experience in choosing ingredients, formulating recipes, making baits and applying baits for big fish success and I am biased only in regards what works – as I am deliberately not affiliated with any individual bait company whatsoever despite having contacts and friends at many of the leading ones. You can even boost the simplest of baits far more than you might have ever read in the vast majority of carp magazines ” I have written my ebooks to help you achieve your big fish dreams just as I have; so find out more at my site Baitbigfish!
By Tim Richardson.
What are the biggest mistakes you can make when coaching youth football? Coaching youth football can be a very rewarding activity, but unless you and your players are on the same page, you will find that you are shortly going to be running into a number of problems. When it comes to teaching sportsmanship and athletic ability, you’ll find that you are in a place to make a huge impact your players’ lives, but are you doing well with it? Check out some of the common coaching mistakes that you are likely to run into.
One of the most important things to learn is that you can’t focus solely on conditioning, you have to remember the sport you are teaching. Running practices that do nothing but instill conditioning will zap your kids of their energy, focus and passion. Try to keep your conditioning drills to no more than one third of your entire practices, and use actual football drills, practicing and scrimmaging the rest of the time.
A second trap that coaches fall into is applying the same routines and holding the same expectations for kids of all ages. Kids are still developing physically, mentally and emotionally and will be capable of different things at different ages. Therefore you can’t run a practice for preteens the same as you would a practice for seniors in high school. You have to remember how old the kids are that you’re working with and you have to adjust your strategies and your mindset appropriately.
Pack your practices tight. Too many coaches for youth football simply go on the field and run their players through a haphazard type of training. Good planning will help you make the most out of your time and that of the kids. Remember that you should have a plan for the practice before you walk on the field and the minute the kids are in uniform, they can expect to get started and keep going until practice is out. The more you plan, and the more you can direct them towards what they need to do, the more focused they are going to be and the better practice is going to go.
Finally, remember that the biggest coaching youth football mistake that you can make is not researching the topic. There are lots of resources out there that will tell you how to be a good coach and how to get the most out of your players. There are resources out there, so make sure that you use them!
