culture

For world history we learned about many different cultures. The culture i was assigned to was the mayans. I had to read multiple papers on them and research the culture in order to create a poster to show others. However, the mayans are very intelligent, and i wanted to blog about their amazing reign. All of their structures were alligned east to west. They even had a ball field for games. The Mayans were great at predicting the future. They could even, in theory, predict worlds end. The mayans were very smart and had many interesting features. I Thought it would be neccesary to share this information with you because they were some of the most advanced cultures other than today.

struggle of Michael Phelps

The other day i was reading the Yahoo homepage, when something caught my eye. Michael Phelps, a worldclass athlete had a picture of him smoking marijuana. Although he still set multiple world records, his sponsors and many others were outraged by this simple picture. His career was going well and all of a sudden, this comes. One small thing and it puts his job in jepardy. Personally, i think this was taken way out of control. If you talk to all of the people around his age, i would say over 50% of them have tried this illegal substance. He really is not doing anything out of the ordinary, it just happend to get out of hand.

natural disastor

I was reading an artical on natural disasters and it struck me. The artical i was reading was on the 2004 tsunami. This was one of the biggest tsunamis ever recorded and killed over 225,000 people. The tsunami was caused by a 9.1 magnitude earthquake creating waves over 100 feet. I thought this was an interesting artical and wanted to share it.

outside reading

The latest peice of writting i have read is the local phonebook. I was thinking i wanted to check out some jackets at Dicks Sporting Goods. Then i realized i wasn't quite sure it would be open. Quickly i opened the phonebook where you can find any number to any house or store. flipping through the thousands of pages i finaly stumbled across the "D" section. I found Dicks' number and found out they didn't close untill 10 pm. I was very exited so i got in the car and went on down to check out some jackets.

outside reading

The most recent artical I have read is my math book. Not only is the book all numbers and problems. It exlpains how to do the work in detail. Every day there is a different chapter assigned, but you aren't requiered to read the whole chapter. I beleive it helps to actually read rather than skip right to the homework questions because if you missed something in class you can recall by simply reading the chapter.

outside reading

The most recent reading ive read was my strength and conditioning workbook. This tells me about the practical parts of working out. How to do workouts and what muscles you are working in different machines. This helps a lot to make sure the lifting im doing is helping not hurting.

Snowboard heroes

This is Chad Otterstrom performing an underflip 720 on Chads gap. Chads gap is a huge gap that was destroyed years ago due to too many people getting hurt on it. Chad is a hero becuase he was the first to try it, which is why it is named after him.


http://shinzitay.free.fr/snow/fotoz/snow-fr/topic_kicker/chads_gap_small.jpg ^

Snowboarding video of Eero Ettala

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9Sl27_fnNU

While studying snowboard heroes I learned you must always go big, otherwise why even be there and not get better. If your not trying as hard as possible you might as well go home. That is what the meaning of this quote below is.

http://www.myinkblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/go-big-text.jpg ^

This photo is of Heikki Sorsa, one of my favorite snowboarders. He is very good and he is a hero because he never gives up. Heikki has broke many bones and been in the hospital plenty of times, but he keeps gettin on the slopes to do what he loves.

http://www.snowboard-mag.com/img_assist/gen/19805 ^

Conclusion: What i learned from this is that really you must keep on keeping on. Many people get hurt once and they're done but these guys keep doin what they do no matter what the consequences. I've always loved snowboarding and you can count on it that i wont be giving up any time soon.