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Hiking - Don't Lose Your Way
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Hiking – Don’t Lose Your Way

- by John Katu
Hiking - Don't Lose Your Way

Hiking can be a great experience, just make sure wander away, things can be from bad to worse pretty quick. Even just the slightest misstep from the trail can cause a major problem. As with any sport, being prepared and mindful can be your best protection.

The simplest way to never wander off is naturally to remain about the established trail. Most national parks as well as other hiking areas have marked trails running throughout them. They can have signs (though possibly very subtle) and can show you just how far you will end up hiking. Staying on these will assure you do not wander off. However, if that suits you the task of exploring new areas or have been hiking the same trails for many years and they are searching for something more important, you might be more mindful of your surrounding.

Before you head out hiking, know where you’ll be heading. You can purchase topographical maps at sports stores or you can buy one for the most part National Parks visitors centers. These maps show height difference about the land, which means you could have an easier time determining that you are and where you are going. A compass is another useful tool, yet it’s generally employed in conjunction with a map. If you have a compass no idea of where you are heading, you happen to be just lost in the disclosed direction.

If you’ve hiking books with previously hiked trails, they’re going to generally give you …

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My Perspective on Being Overweight and Overage in Taekwondo Training
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My Perspective on Being Overweight and Overage in Taekwondo Training

- by John Katu

I have recently trained in the Korean martial arts, and to be frank, it appears that my training appears to be completely fruitless – and it is not because I am unwilling to learn taekwondo, but rather It’s due to two important factors which have placed me on a handicap: being overage and being overweight. As much as I have untapped potential which can be used to serve a larger community, sadly these two factors are bringing me down like a prisoner carrying his heavy burden all day and night.

Being Overage

At the not-so-young age of 31 years old, paying attention to details is very different when I was just sitting in the classroom. It is a sign that I am getting older, and thus it is more difficult for me to learn the sport. Watching children learn the basics of taekwondo feels refreshing, but at the same time, it reminded me of my inferiority as I was then wearing eyeglasses. I started wearing them at around 6 or 7 years old, as I have inherited my nearsightedness from my parents. Being bespectacled for close to twenty years is a curse and a hindrance to my physical training and development, as I never had the chance to participate in sports. Most of the time, my classmates in elementary school would oftentimes exclude me from playing because of my handicap. I can understand their concern, but at the same time, it also amounts to contempt, because it only shows that …

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Embroidered Sportswear - An Excellent Garment For Your Chosen Sport
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Embroidered Sportswear – An Excellent Garment For Your Chosen Sport

- by John Katu
Embroidered Sportswear - An Excellent Garment For Your Chosen Sport

Many individuals engage themselves in sports to keep up a healthy lifestyle. Indoor sports such as badminton and basketball and outdoor sports such as tennis, cycling, and swimming can raise your body energy and increase your confidence. It also provides you physical strength and vitality that will help you perform your everyday activities without getting easily exhausted. Playing sports does apply to any or all ages yet it requires appropriate clothing for comfort and safety reasons.

Whether you like sports activities or consider joining future competitions

It is vital to utilize appropriate garments suited to your selected activity. By wearing proper attire, you can move freely and assure yourself of protection from any harsh elements inside your surroundings. Thus, outdoor activities including swimming and diving require wet suits and indoor activities such as gymnastics require leotards.

Sports enthusiasts who join competitions purchase their sport’s attire. For them, their sport’s attire plays a large role in winning competition. However, wearing appropriate clothing to create home the bacon just isn’t enough. In a competition where various teams are competing for the prizes, identification is extremely important. By wearing sports garments with a similar design, you can easily be distinguished as part of the team. One technique is customizing it with the help of a particular sports emblem for the garments which represents the team.

Like every other garment, sports garments may be embroidered too. Many individuals preferred embroidered sportswear than painted sports garments because embroidery stitched on your activewear is a lot …

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Family Fun On The Water
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Family Fun On The Water

- by John Katu
Family Fun On The Water

Today’s household is generally reduced to almost “no time.” Parents will work longer hours, kids and teens’ attention is being consumed by social media marketing, television, and also texting entire conversations. The distractions are all around us. Heck, I remember when I was younger we actually were required to access it our bikes and ride to check out friends, and then we talked using them using our voice.

Times have changed, however, not the entire thing maybe for that better. Families need more options to hanging out together than simply “friending” one another online and “posting” regarding the day’s events. Without interaction together it is hard to essentially know somebody.

Luckily there’s a great way to solve this challenge. Spend time together without electronic distractions, get to know each other, and obtain bodies in motion for exercise. It’s called paddle sports. Quite commonly known as kayaking, canoeing, along with the growing popular operate paddleboards or sups.

Throughout the planet, we are blessed with a lot of rivers, lakes along with other bodies of water that are there for your exploring. Not to mention the natural beauty Mother Nature will talk about. The type of scenery is only found via watercraft.

Sure, boating is extremely good too, nonetheless, it has some major disadvantages. It is not free for gas, insurance, docking, and so forth. It is also very difficult to get into those little nooks and crannies of nature. Using a kayak, or canoe doesn’t require any extra money. Only a …

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The New Springboard - Africa
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The New Springboard – Africa

- by John Katu

For the past handful of decades it has been alleged that in case you put ten Africans within a race, the fastest American would take position eleven. And so it has been the case for the other sports arenas for instance boxing; tennis; golf – sorry, soccer. A single would also appropriately argue that the former boxing globe champions Mohamed Ali and Mike Tyson as American citizens but of African descend. The same brush may also be used to paint Serena Williams and Tiger Woods for the Tennis and Golf sports respectively. So what about Africa?

To the majority of the outside world, Africa is a poor continent with enough population that is either susceptible candidates or already graduates of the American Idea of Discouraging Sex – sorry – AIDS. By inches, with the like of Swaziland’s King Mswati’s 13th wife’s infidelity, yes, this is possible. Also remember that majority of riffraff’s overhear suffer life elimination via hunger, kwashiorkor, malaria, elephantiasis of the scrotum, and septic wounds – diseases that understand clearly that they belong to the “socially excluded” (the latest euphemism for the poor). But the rich exit in style, through posh-sounding diseases, the affluent diseases – always to do with heart and related to overconsumption of meat and alcohol and stress. Yes, Alcohol. Alcoholism is another African way of dissolving problems.

The continent also produces sensational soccer players such as Didier Drogba (Chelsea) and MacDonald Mariga (inter-Milan) who have made the European leagues the current cash cows of …

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