We've had a very fine horsesrcool summer camp for children and adults. 8 straight weeks - Monday to Friday.
Just finished yesterday the 8th camp. All kids and parents had a great time, all went well....a few fell off their pony but not hurt in any way but their ego. And not even that for everyone knows if you ride horses or ponies enough times, you are going to come off at some time. As one ex USA Show Jumping champion wrote in his book, "If you've never fall off a horse you haven't done much riding."
I have put some videos up on my Youtube (1horsesrcool) of the summer time.
Will head out tomorrow to visit my Dad once again, about a 7 hour drive west of Calgary. Will come back next Friday - August 31st.
Will have no access to a computer so will not be writing or doing anything on my website, youtube, blog, until next Sabbath.
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The Fall Feasts are around the corner and this year for the Feast of Tabernacles will be flying to the USA to keep that Feast and Last Great Feast, with Tara and Nathan Chapman, MO State way. It looks like some others will be with us also, so should be a nice "house - back yard" Feast of Tabernacles.
Well more about that as we get closer ...... feast of Trumpets and Atonement before the last two feasts.
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Saturday, August 25, 2012
Saturday, August 18, 2012
Mercola and "skin"
Mercola.com has an article on healthy skin.
All but 2 points I would agree on.
He says don't eat carbohydrates including whole wheats. And go on a gluten free diet.
Now, he's probably right IF you have skin troubles, due to serious medical problems of some sort.
But for those who have no skin troubles per se, whole wheats should be a part of your diet. They contain vitamins and minerals and other things that make for a healthy diet.
Now I do not eat much of any whole grain products today, but that is to keep my weight under control, just as I do not eat potatoes any more (used to love baked potatoes with butter once or twice a week) to again keep my weight under control.
I have seen that many people have pimples on their face due to just eating way more sugar products than they should. Here I'm not talking about people having bad skin for more serious medical problems, just talking about pimple face-skin because of way more sugar in their system than should be.
The other 8 or so points Mercola gives for healthy skin are indeed good general health laws.
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All but 2 points I would agree on.
He says don't eat carbohydrates including whole wheats. And go on a gluten free diet.
Now, he's probably right IF you have skin troubles, due to serious medical problems of some sort.
But for those who have no skin troubles per se, whole wheats should be a part of your diet. They contain vitamins and minerals and other things that make for a healthy diet.
Now I do not eat much of any whole grain products today, but that is to keep my weight under control, just as I do not eat potatoes any more (used to love baked potatoes with butter once or twice a week) to again keep my weight under control.
I have seen that many people have pimples on their face due to just eating way more sugar products than they should. Here I'm not talking about people having bad skin for more serious medical problems, just talking about pimple face-skin because of way more sugar in their system than should be.
The other 8 or so points Mercola gives for healthy skin are indeed good general health laws.
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Fructose and the "fat switch"
Wow.....Mercola.com, has a great article on "fructose and the fat switch" - a new book out by another research doctor.
It blows away many things taught in the past.
One shocker to most is the fact that "breakfast" is not the most important meal of the day, a truth I discovered many decades ago. I was never, even as a child, a big breakfast eater, now modern research and modern science has proven this to be a truth.
The keys to loosing weight, keeping weight under control, is in Mercola's article and the new book that is just out.
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It blows away many things taught in the past.
One shocker to most is the fact that "breakfast" is not the most important meal of the day, a truth I discovered many decades ago. I was never, even as a child, a big breakfast eater, now modern research and modern science has proven this to be a truth.
The keys to loosing weight, keeping weight under control, is in Mercola's article and the new book that is just out.
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Saturday, August 11, 2012
LOVE!!!
LOVE!!!
A four letter word that has so much packed into it, it is indeed the biggest and fattest word of any word invented my humans in any language.
Back in the 1960s I had a book called "Love, Hate, Fear and other Emotions." They had even in the 60s discovered that our emotions play a mighty important part of our health. I well remember in the book the facts they gave on orphaned babies and love. They discovered that the babies that were picked up and cuddled, held, loved ... THRIVED; but babies not picked up and loved did not move on in health, some even died.
LOVE - the subject is so large - I will only start it here and will go into full detail with the subject on my website under "Christian Living."
FROM THE BOOK "1001 QUOTES, ILLUSTRATIONS, AND HUMOROUS STORIES"
God loves us the way we are, but he loves us too much to leave us that way.
(Atonement, Salvation)
When [Jesus] wrapped a towel around his waist, poured water into a basin, and began to wash his disciples' feet (see John 13:4-5), Simon Peter objected that this was beneath the dignity of the Master. We the disciples are to be the servants, I want to insist along with Peter. But Jesus answered him, "If I do not wash you, you have no part in me." This is a stunning and stupendous thought. Unless I can believe in this much love for me, unless I can and will accept him with faith as my servant as well as my God, unless I truly know that it's my good he seeks, not his glory ... then I cannot have his companionship. What an amazing revelation!
Catherine Marshall
(Service, Devotion)
How do I want to be remembered? Not primarily as a Christian scholar but rather as a loving person. This can be the goal of every individual.
Elton Trueblood
(Legacy, Goals)
More people have been brought into the church by the kindness of real Christian love than by all the theological arguments in the world, and more people have been driven from the church by the hardness and ugliness of so-called Christianity than by all the doubts in the world.
William Barclay
(Christianity, Church)
The height of our love for God will never exceed the depth of our love for one another.
Patrick Morley
(Fellowship, Community)
Love should cast out terror, but not awe. True love must include awe. This is one of the great truths about sex and marriage that our age has tragically forgotten: awe at the great mystery that is sex.... God is love. But love is not luv. Love is not nice. Love is a fire, storm, earthquake, volcano, lightning, and hurricane. Love endured the hell of the cross.
Peter Kreeft
(Sex, Awe)
A man is only as good as what he loves.
Saul Bellow
(Character, Devotion)
I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no more hurt, but only more love.
Mother Teresa
(Sacrifice, Suffering)
Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
Washington Irving
(Character, Sanctification)
If you're going to care about the fall of the sparrow you can't pick and choose who's going to be the sparrow.
Madeleine L'Engle
(Servanthood, Compassion)
Love is ... a free gift.... And it is most itself, most free when it is offered in spite of suffering, of injustice, and of death.
Archibald MacLeish
(Sacrifice, Servanthood)
People need love, especially when they don't deserve it.
Unknown
(Devotion, Compassion)
Christians state glibly that they love the whole world, while they permit themselves animosities within their immediate world.... But loving the world at large can only be done by loving face-to-face the world that is not so distant.
Calvin Miller
(Compassion, World)
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Lee Iacocca once asked legendary football coach Vince Lombardi what it took to make a winning team. The book "Iacocca" records Lombardi's answer:
There are a lot of coaches with good ball clubs who know the fundamentals and have plenty of discipline but still don't win the game. Then you come to the third ingredient: If you're going to play together as a team, you've got to care for one another. You've got to love each other. Each player has to be thinking about the next guy and saying to himself: If I don't block that man, Paul is going to get his legs broken. I have to do my job well in order that he can do his.
The difference between mediocrity and greatness," Lombardi said that night, "is the feeling these guys have for each other."
In the healthy church, each Christian learns to care for others. As we take seriously Jesus' command to love one another, we contribute to a winning team.
Christopher Stinnett
(Caregiving, Teamwork)
This story comes from a Sunday school ministry in the part of New York City that has been rated the "most likely place to get killed." Pastor Bill Wilson has been stabbed twice, shot at, and had a member of his team killed:
One Puerto Rican lady, after getting saved in church, came to me with an urgent request. She didn't speak a word of English, so she told me through an interpreter, "I want to do something for God, please."
"I don't know what you can do," I answered. "Please, let me do something," she said in Spanish.
"Okay. I'll put you on a bus. Ride a different bus every week and just love the kids."
So every week she rode a different bus-we have fifty of them-and loved the children. She would find the worstlooking kid on the bus, put him on her lap, and whisper over and over the only words she had learned in English: "I love you. Jesus loves you."
After several months, she became attached to one little boy in particular. "I don't want to change buses anymore. I want to stay on this one bus," she said.
The boy didn't speak. He came to Sunday school every week with his sister and sat on the woman's lap, but he never made a sound. Each week she would tell him all the way to Sunday school and all the way home, "I love you and Jesus loves you."
One day, to her amazement, the little boy turned around and stammered, "I-I love you, too." Then he put his arms around her and gave her a big hug.
That was 2:30 on a Saturday afternoon. At 6:30 that night, the boy was found dead in a garbage bag under a fire escape. His mother had beaten him to death and thrown his body in the trash.
"I love you and Jesus loves you." Those were some of the last words he heard in his short life-from the lips of a Puerto Rican woman who could barely speak English.
God's Love!
My Sunday school class of youngsters had some problems repeating the Lord's Prayer. One child prayed, "Our Father, who art in heaven, how'd you know my name."
Clara Null
(Children, Prayer)
Love for Pigs!
In the 1980s, people shelled out thousands of dollars to own a potbellied pig, an exotic house pet imported from Vietnam. Their breeders claimed these minipigs were quite smart and would grow to only 40 pounds. Well, they were half right. The pigs were smart. But they had a tendency to grow to about 150 pounds and become quite aggressive.
What do people do with an unwanted potbellied pig? Fortunately, Dale Riffle came to the rescue. Someone had given Riffle one of these pigs, and he fell in love with it. The pig, Rufus, never learned to use its litter box and developed this craving for carpets and wallpaper and drywall. Yet Riffle sold his suburban home and moved with Rufus to a five-acre farm in West Virginia. He started taking in other unwanted pigs, and before long, the guy was living in hog heaven.
There are currently 180 residents on his farm. According to an article in U.S. News & World Report, they snooze on beds of pine shavings. They wallow in mud puddles. They soak in plastic swimming pools and listen to piped-in classical music. And they never need fear that one day they'll become bacon or pork chops. There's actually a waiting list of unwanted pigs trying to get a hoof in the door at Riffle's farm.
Dale Riffle told the reporter, "We're all put on earth for some reason, and I guess pigs are my lot in life." How could anybody in his right mind fall in love with pigs?
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LOVE does not often come easy for many. It is much easier to hate, be jealous of, be antagonistic against, hold a grudge against, dislike others, be cold towards others, be un-sympathetic, and be in plain words an un-loving person. It takes effort to love, especially when others do not show you love. It's easier to just go along with the side of human nature that is not the nature of love.
We shall in this study learn about LOVE, about love in many ways, and what the Word of the Lord has to say about LOVE. When you feel love is far from you; when you feel love is not in you; when you feel love is hard to find; then you need to sit and read this study again and again as you find the need to build up love in your heart and mind towards others and towards God.
To help you find love you could take a walk out in the peace of nature, see the beauty all around you, meditate on the good things you have, or sit and watch a nature movie, read a book on the glories of flowers. Just fill your mind with thoughts of how people have loved others, what they did or said towards others that showed wonderful love.
LOVE is a deep subject, a small word, but HUGE in scope and meaning. So here we go to find out all the truth about LOVE! YOU'LL FIND IT ON MY WEBSITE UNDER "CHRISTIAN LIVING"
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Some FINE examples of SPORTSMANSHIP!
IF YOU'VE BEEN FOLLOWING THE LONDON OLYMPICS you will have heard and seen some very fine examples of sportsmanship.
It is good and inspiring to see that true sportsmanship has not been completely lost in this age of selfishness and "win at all costs" world.
It has been good to see people that were thought to maybe be "over the hill" come and take gold, or silver or bronze.
It has been good to see people just being there to do their best, go beyond their best, though they were never really in the class of medalists.
It has been something to see some near perfect scores, amazing to see how they've perfected their skill to make it look simple, when you know it is not simple at all.
The Bible tells us to laugh with those who laugh (of course the correct laughing), to rejoice with those who rejoice, to cry with those who cry. So I've shed a few tears with those who shed them for disappointment when they did (for various reasons) not do the best as they've done before; and I've shed a few tears with those who shed them in joy as they moved beyond whatever they've done in the past, even getting a medal.
Did you hear about the Canadian guy (who won gold in the last Olympics) who fell down on his bike and took out the guy just behind him. The fellow who was taken down wrote this beautiful letter on his facebook. It was his first Olympics and he said among other lovely things, how he was so privileged to have ridden next to this Canadian man, who won gold in the last Olympics.
My oh my, now that is the true spirit of real sportsmanship!!
This is the way it will be in the age to come, true sportsmanship will be back with a blast, the above example I've just talked about will be the norm of things. People will respect each other, they will love each other. We shall all know we are God's children.
Have you listened to the applause of the 80 thousand people in the "track and field" stadium for all and everyone who received a medal, no matter their color, their nation ..... the British and ALL people from all nations in that 80 thousand have shown respect, love, and sportsmanship, to all athletes.
It has been one of the greatest Olympics in the last 100 years.
Now just think how even greater it will be in the WONDERFUL AGE TO COME!!
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It is good and inspiring to see that true sportsmanship has not been completely lost in this age of selfishness and "win at all costs" world.
It has been good to see people that were thought to maybe be "over the hill" come and take gold, or silver or bronze.
It has been good to see people just being there to do their best, go beyond their best, though they were never really in the class of medalists.
It has been something to see some near perfect scores, amazing to see how they've perfected their skill to make it look simple, when you know it is not simple at all.
The Bible tells us to laugh with those who laugh (of course the correct laughing), to rejoice with those who rejoice, to cry with those who cry. So I've shed a few tears with those who shed them for disappointment when they did (for various reasons) not do the best as they've done before; and I've shed a few tears with those who shed them in joy as they moved beyond whatever they've done in the past, even getting a medal.
Did you hear about the Canadian guy (who won gold in the last Olympics) who fell down on his bike and took out the guy just behind him. The fellow who was taken down wrote this beautiful letter on his facebook. It was his first Olympics and he said among other lovely things, how he was so privileged to have ridden next to this Canadian man, who won gold in the last Olympics.
My oh my, now that is the true spirit of real sportsmanship!!
This is the way it will be in the age to come, true sportsmanship will be back with a blast, the above example I've just talked about will be the norm of things. People will respect each other, they will love each other. We shall all know we are God's children.
Have you listened to the applause of the 80 thousand people in the "track and field" stadium for all and everyone who received a medal, no matter their color, their nation ..... the British and ALL people from all nations in that 80 thousand have shown respect, love, and sportsmanship, to all athletes.
It has been one of the greatest Olympics in the last 100 years.
Now just think how even greater it will be in the WONDERFUL AGE TO COME!!
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Dr.Mercola.com and DIETS/weight control/carbs/fats
In the last week of August 6-10 Dr. Mercola. com has had some informative articles on DIET/WEIGHT GAIN/FATS/CARBS.
IT ALL MAKES SENSE TO ME.
LOOSE WEIGHT BY CUTTING DOWN ON CARBS BUT THE RIGHT FATS ARE VERY IMPORTANT.
USING COMMON SENSE I HAVE LIVED THIS DIET FOR A FEW YEARS NOW. I KNOW EVERYONE IS DIFFERENT AND WITH SOME METABOLISM CHANGES AT DIFFERENT PERIODS AS WE AGE. SURE SOME STAY THE SAME ALL THEIR LIVES, I'VE KNOWN SOME. THEY CAN CONTINUE TO EAT AS FROM A TEENAGER AND NEVER GAIN AN OUNCE. BUT THAT IS NOT ME.
MY METABOLISM CHANGED WHEN I HIT 40, THEN AGAIN AT AGE 60. BY THE TIME I WAS 68 THE SHOCK WAS I HAD GONE UP TO 188 POUNDS.
I HAD TO RE-EVALUATE MY DIET. AND IT WAS CLEAR TO ME I MUST NOW LIVE WITH LOW CARBS AND CORRECT FATS - PROTEIN IS A MUST, AS IS FRUITS AND VEGETABLES.
HENCE AS I'VE TOLD YOU BEFORE, I TAKE ABOUT 12 VITAMIN SUPPLEMENTS FOR THE HEALTH OF THE PROSTATE, BONES, SKIN, HEART, MUSCLES, AND I TAKE ONE VITAMIN/MINERAL SUPPLEMENT SPECIFICALLY FOR MEN OVER 50.
TO PUT IT IN SIMPLE TERMS I NOW CANNOT EAT LIKE I DID WHEN I WAS A TEENAGER, NO WHERE NEAR. I MUST EAT MUCH MUCH LESS, AND MAKE SURE I GET PLENTY OF EXERCISE.
I KNOW A DIET OF LOW CARBS, CORRECT FATS, PROTEIN, FRUITS AND VEGETABLES ***WORKS***
WITH IT I'M ABLE TO KEEP MY WEIGHT BETWEEN 160 TO 170 POUNDS - CORRECT FOR MY HEIGHT AND BONE STRUCTURE.
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IT ALL MAKES SENSE TO ME.
LOOSE WEIGHT BY CUTTING DOWN ON CARBS BUT THE RIGHT FATS ARE VERY IMPORTANT.
USING COMMON SENSE I HAVE LIVED THIS DIET FOR A FEW YEARS NOW. I KNOW EVERYONE IS DIFFERENT AND WITH SOME METABOLISM CHANGES AT DIFFERENT PERIODS AS WE AGE. SURE SOME STAY THE SAME ALL THEIR LIVES, I'VE KNOWN SOME. THEY CAN CONTINUE TO EAT AS FROM A TEENAGER AND NEVER GAIN AN OUNCE. BUT THAT IS NOT ME.
MY METABOLISM CHANGED WHEN I HIT 40, THEN AGAIN AT AGE 60. BY THE TIME I WAS 68 THE SHOCK WAS I HAD GONE UP TO 188 POUNDS.
I HAD TO RE-EVALUATE MY DIET. AND IT WAS CLEAR TO ME I MUST NOW LIVE WITH LOW CARBS AND CORRECT FATS - PROTEIN IS A MUST, AS IS FRUITS AND VEGETABLES.
HENCE AS I'VE TOLD YOU BEFORE, I TAKE ABOUT 12 VITAMIN SUPPLEMENTS FOR THE HEALTH OF THE PROSTATE, BONES, SKIN, HEART, MUSCLES, AND I TAKE ONE VITAMIN/MINERAL SUPPLEMENT SPECIFICALLY FOR MEN OVER 50.
TO PUT IT IN SIMPLE TERMS I NOW CANNOT EAT LIKE I DID WHEN I WAS A TEENAGER, NO WHERE NEAR. I MUST EAT MUCH MUCH LESS, AND MAKE SURE I GET PLENTY OF EXERCISE.
I KNOW A DIET OF LOW CARBS, CORRECT FATS, PROTEIN, FRUITS AND VEGETABLES ***WORKS***
WITH IT I'M ABLE TO KEEP MY WEIGHT BETWEEN 160 TO 170 POUNDS - CORRECT FOR MY HEIGHT AND BONE STRUCTURE.
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Thursday, August 9, 2012
The nice BIG man does it again!!
He's a nice guy, the world loves him, and he did it for the world..... first man to repeat gold in the 100 m and the 200 m. At the present he also holds the world record in both distances.
The Jamaican men win the gold, silver, and bronze, in the 200 m.
A very small country of 3 million, but what sprinters they produce, quite unbelievable really.
Well done Jamaica!
It is probably a sure bet that Jamaica will win the 100 m x 4
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And what about that Canadian women's Soccer team? My oh my .... from 8th rank in the world, from 10 or more years of struggling to get better and better. One of the great stories of this 2012 Olympics.
Cheated (yes they were) from beating the USA and into the gold medal final, they come back to face one of the best women's teams in the world.... France. And they fought, hung on, yes had some close calls, but the ball has to go in the net to count as a goal. And in the last minute or so it was Canada that put the ball in the French net.
Soccer will surely hit a new high now in Canada, for it is the most popular played game in the world.
Sadly for many the truth of the medical facts are proving that you have to question if girls and women should even play Soccer; the strain on the body, bones, muscles, tendons etc. are not in the overall created to take such a beating. But in saying this I know girls and women playing Soccer will increase, certainly with the ladies Soccer team for Canada doing so well, it will increase in Canada.
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The Jamaican men win the gold, silver, and bronze, in the 200 m.
A very small country of 3 million, but what sprinters they produce, quite unbelievable really.
Well done Jamaica!
It is probably a sure bet that Jamaica will win the 100 m x 4
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And what about that Canadian women's Soccer team? My oh my .... from 8th rank in the world, from 10 or more years of struggling to get better and better. One of the great stories of this 2012 Olympics.
Cheated (yes they were) from beating the USA and into the gold medal final, they come back to face one of the best women's teams in the world.... France. And they fought, hung on, yes had some close calls, but the ball has to go in the net to count as a goal. And in the last minute or so it was Canada that put the ball in the French net.
Soccer will surely hit a new high now in Canada, for it is the most popular played game in the world.
Sadly for many the truth of the medical facts are proving that you have to question if girls and women should even play Soccer; the strain on the body, bones, muscles, tendons etc. are not in the overall created to take such a beating. But in saying this I know girls and women playing Soccer will increase, certainly with the ladies Soccer team for Canada doing so well, it will increase in Canada.
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Monday, August 6, 2012
Upsets at the Olympics!!!
Yes we usually get some ..... upsets, the dark horse coming through, the favorite falls.
Now being the captain of my High School "soccer" team (known as Football all over the world expect North America - and why North American "football" was so named I'll never know, the foot is never used but by the kicker) the Canadian/USA lady semi-final was a great game, soccer as it should be played, men with all their pushing, grabbing, fouling, and etc. should take note.
Canada played their hearts out - a population of 33 million against a USA population of 300 million .....
well done indeed Canada. And Canada's captain - a "hat trick" of goals .... my what a classic and historic game she had.
Oh yes by the way, the call of the ref for "hands" was a terrible terrible call, a huge mistake..... no deliberate hands was as clear to see as the sun shining in a cloudless sky. Should have been no penalty kick.... and yes Canada would have beaten the USA......
Sorry USA (no not sorry really) you really did not win that game.
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Synchronized swimming in the Olympics is often overlooked by most. Overlooked or could say unknown as to the mighty physical strength you must have to do that sport. Seen some indepth documentaries on the subject. You have to be in fantastic fitness and body control, balance, breath holding. It is a skill that truly does need hours and hours of practice and much physical strength.
It blows me away how they can do it all. Fantastic!
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Now being the captain of my High School "soccer" team (known as Football all over the world expect North America - and why North American "football" was so named I'll never know, the foot is never used but by the kicker) the Canadian/USA lady semi-final was a great game, soccer as it should be played, men with all their pushing, grabbing, fouling, and etc. should take note.
Canada played their hearts out - a population of 33 million against a USA population of 300 million .....
well done indeed Canada. And Canada's captain - a "hat trick" of goals .... my what a classic and historic game she had.
Oh yes by the way, the call of the ref for "hands" was a terrible terrible call, a huge mistake..... no deliberate hands was as clear to see as the sun shining in a cloudless sky. Should have been no penalty kick.... and yes Canada would have beaten the USA......
Sorry USA (no not sorry really) you really did not win that game.
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Synchronized swimming in the Olympics is often overlooked by most. Overlooked or could say unknown as to the mighty physical strength you must have to do that sport. Seen some indepth documentaries on the subject. You have to be in fantastic fitness and body control, balance, breath holding. It is a skill that truly does need hours and hours of practice and much physical strength.
It blows me away how they can do it all. Fantastic!
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Sunday, August 5, 2012
Usain the BOLT!!!
It is one of those once in 50 or 100 years - a person in his sport who is a small (well for Usain Bolt a big/tall) miracle.
A man from the 3 million population of Jamaica, who is now the undisputed world's fastest man ... well since records have been kept.
Jamaica also will celebrate 50 years of independence from Britain. It is an interesting country. Very much still influenced by British rule. They are British in many ways. When I was in Florida for 3 and 1/2 years I went to a Jamaican Church of God, and learned a lot about Jamaica, like ... they do not want anything to do with American Blacks. Most Jamaicans are educated, they love education, they have schools (the British introduced) where they all wear uniforms, so the rich and the poor child can all be equal in school.
Yes, a small country, a small population, but big hearted, and people who are taught to give back to others if and when they make some fame or money.
So not surprising that Usain Bolt has and will yet do much in giving back to Jamaican people and children.
Yes he's a nice guy, and it's good to see nice guys win.
Jamaican people are also great singers, and love to sing. I once said to some Jamaican ladies, "Next to the Welsh, you are the most singiest people I have ever met." One of them replied, "Oh don't you know why?" I answered I did not. "Well, the first white people to come to settle Jamaica was captain Cook and his sea-faring men. They were Welsh!!!! And they taught us to sing!!!!"
Now some wonder why Bolt can run so fast. It is not rocket science really. He's 6 feet 5 inches tall, and has taught himself to move those legs like a greyhoud, obviously faster than other tall men in the sprint race (there was another 6 foot 4 inch guy running against him who could not move his legs fast enough to beat Bolt).
I must say that I wonder when some of the 6 foot 8 inch and taller men will try the 100 m race. How about some of the Basketball players .... maybe they will give it a try.
What I'm getting at is "Where does it stop in height and stride advantage." I do not want to take anything away from Bolt, but I wonder why all those tall Basketball players are not out trying to move those legs and arms in the 100 m sprint.
Sooooo....... maybe down the road they will have to have a 100 m sprint for those under 6 foot tall and another for all those over 6 feet, hummmm ..... maybe be it will get that we will need three races; one for 6 foot and under, one for 6 foot to 6 foof 6 inches; and a third for those over 6 foot 6 inches. :-)
Just a thought.
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A man from the 3 million population of Jamaica, who is now the undisputed world's fastest man ... well since records have been kept.
Jamaica also will celebrate 50 years of independence from Britain. It is an interesting country. Very much still influenced by British rule. They are British in many ways. When I was in Florida for 3 and 1/2 years I went to a Jamaican Church of God, and learned a lot about Jamaica, like ... they do not want anything to do with American Blacks. Most Jamaicans are educated, they love education, they have schools (the British introduced) where they all wear uniforms, so the rich and the poor child can all be equal in school.
Yes, a small country, a small population, but big hearted, and people who are taught to give back to others if and when they make some fame or money.
So not surprising that Usain Bolt has and will yet do much in giving back to Jamaican people and children.
Yes he's a nice guy, and it's good to see nice guys win.
Jamaican people are also great singers, and love to sing. I once said to some Jamaican ladies, "Next to the Welsh, you are the most singiest people I have ever met." One of them replied, "Oh don't you know why?" I answered I did not. "Well, the first white people to come to settle Jamaica was captain Cook and his sea-faring men. They were Welsh!!!! And they taught us to sing!!!!"
Now some wonder why Bolt can run so fast. It is not rocket science really. He's 6 feet 5 inches tall, and has taught himself to move those legs like a greyhoud, obviously faster than other tall men in the sprint race (there was another 6 foot 4 inch guy running against him who could not move his legs fast enough to beat Bolt).
I must say that I wonder when some of the 6 foot 8 inch and taller men will try the 100 m race. How about some of the Basketball players .... maybe they will give it a try.
What I'm getting at is "Where does it stop in height and stride advantage." I do not want to take anything away from Bolt, but I wonder why all those tall Basketball players are not out trying to move those legs and arms in the 100 m sprint.
Sooooo....... maybe down the road they will have to have a 100 m sprint for those under 6 foot tall and another for all those over 6 feet, hummmm ..... maybe be it will get that we will need three races; one for 6 foot and under, one for 6 foot to 6 foof 6 inches; and a third for those over 6 foot 6 inches. :-)
Just a thought.
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Saturday, August 4, 2012
Sports and Olympics in the MILLENNIUM
I was a sports kid growing up......in England, so it was Football (Soccer to North Americans), Cricket, and Track and Field. I was very fast so the 100 m and the 220 m was my specialty, though I did do the 1/2 mile and a little cross country.
I only ever lost one sprint of the 100 m. And at the time did not know about "anticipation" of the gun for the start. Obviously two kids did know. The Olympics a few decades ago had the same problem come up, sprinters anticipating the gun, hence you get a one or two stride push-off ahead of the rest. So now in the sprint races the gun is fired at the starter's desire, hence no one can anticipate, or if you do it is usual a false start, and two false starts and you are out of the run, to the dressing room you go.
Never did really like being in Track and Field per se ..... way too uptight I would get before a sprint race, though I was extremely good at the sprints...... but just never seemed fun to me. Now being captain of the Soccer team and on the Cricket team ..... I could relax and just have fun. Team sport was what I could enjoy doing ..... individual sprints, no never could enjoy them, too much stress.
A huge amount has changed since the 1950s when I was in Grade and High School. Sports have become way too much big business and way way too much money the top athletes in big team sports get paid.
Carnal nature means you will always get some who will try to cheat, in today's world, with dugs to boost their power. And some of the famous team sports (sadly including Soccer) are way more rough and violent than in the 1950s. Big business has come in, players getting far too much money, so it is win at all costs most of the time.
I enjoy the Olympics. I enjoy seeing people do their best at their chosen sport. I enjoy the sometimes "upset" in an event ..... someone not expected to get gold, gets the gold.
I do NOT enjoy the modern timing machines of the space age...... timing down to the 1/100th of a second, MAYBE even a thousandth of a second. That is just going way too far. I think 1/10th of a second should be the most you break it down to. Yes that would mean you may get TWO first places, or second place, or third place. Hence two gold medals given out, or silver, or bronze.
What will it be like in the MILLENNIUM?
First some so-called sports (like Boxing) will NOT be at all! Second, there will be no full time sports people, where you earn your living at sports, hence the HUGE money some get for playing "sports" will be gone. Sport will be as it once was.....sport.....part time, for the love of it.
There will be a different attitude towards sport in the Millennium, with Christ ruling the earth. People will have fun at it, and will do their best with what time they can put into a sport. Yes I think there will be competitions. Competitions are not of themselves wrong, but there will be a different, more relaxed, everyone happy for what they and others can do. There will be no big business sports in the Millennium.
People in the age to come will be productive in productive jobs, and sports will be part-time enjoyment.
So okay we today can see what can be accomplished with full-time sports people, but would we not still enjoy sports and what could be accomplished with sports being part time. Yes of course we would, it used to be that way at one time.
The world has many things upside-down and inside-out and front to back and back to front. In the millennium things will be corrected and life will be a joy but a joy in the right balanced way, where everyone can be a productive benefit to society, and sports of every kind (from Chess to the Olympic stuff to Team sports) will be just that "sport" for a good relaxing fun time, still doing your best at your chosen sport, but part time, just for the sport of it.
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I only ever lost one sprint of the 100 m. And at the time did not know about "anticipation" of the gun for the start. Obviously two kids did know. The Olympics a few decades ago had the same problem come up, sprinters anticipating the gun, hence you get a one or two stride push-off ahead of the rest. So now in the sprint races the gun is fired at the starter's desire, hence no one can anticipate, or if you do it is usual a false start, and two false starts and you are out of the run, to the dressing room you go.
Never did really like being in Track and Field per se ..... way too uptight I would get before a sprint race, though I was extremely good at the sprints...... but just never seemed fun to me. Now being captain of the Soccer team and on the Cricket team ..... I could relax and just have fun. Team sport was what I could enjoy doing ..... individual sprints, no never could enjoy them, too much stress.
A huge amount has changed since the 1950s when I was in Grade and High School. Sports have become way too much big business and way way too much money the top athletes in big team sports get paid.
Carnal nature means you will always get some who will try to cheat, in today's world, with dugs to boost their power. And some of the famous team sports (sadly including Soccer) are way more rough and violent than in the 1950s. Big business has come in, players getting far too much money, so it is win at all costs most of the time.
I enjoy the Olympics. I enjoy seeing people do their best at their chosen sport. I enjoy the sometimes "upset" in an event ..... someone not expected to get gold, gets the gold.
I do NOT enjoy the modern timing machines of the space age...... timing down to the 1/100th of a second, MAYBE even a thousandth of a second. That is just going way too far. I think 1/10th of a second should be the most you break it down to. Yes that would mean you may get TWO first places, or second place, or third place. Hence two gold medals given out, or silver, or bronze.
What will it be like in the MILLENNIUM?
First some so-called sports (like Boxing) will NOT be at all! Second, there will be no full time sports people, where you earn your living at sports, hence the HUGE money some get for playing "sports" will be gone. Sport will be as it once was.....sport.....part time, for the love of it.
There will be a different attitude towards sport in the Millennium, with Christ ruling the earth. People will have fun at it, and will do their best with what time they can put into a sport. Yes I think there will be competitions. Competitions are not of themselves wrong, but there will be a different, more relaxed, everyone happy for what they and others can do. There will be no big business sports in the Millennium.
People in the age to come will be productive in productive jobs, and sports will be part-time enjoyment.
So okay we today can see what can be accomplished with full-time sports people, but would we not still enjoy sports and what could be accomplished with sports being part time. Yes of course we would, it used to be that way at one time.
The world has many things upside-down and inside-out and front to back and back to front. In the millennium things will be corrected and life will be a joy but a joy in the right balanced way, where everyone can be a productive benefit to society, and sports of every kind (from Chess to the Olympic stuff to Team sports) will be just that "sport" for a good relaxing fun time, still doing your best at your chosen sport, but part time, just for the sport of it.
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