Interests

QUESTIONS

1.  In your opinion, what was the purpose of this blogging activity? (Why did I choose to do blogging instead of more traditional writing activities?)

My blogging activity helped me with my creative side and to express my opinion. It helps me to say what I want to and express my opinion. When I speak on the Internet, I always can have voice in my writing. I can sometimes even wright about the things that I dislike also. I will often want to prove a point when I am writing about something. I will want proof that the stuff I am saying is true. I can use the insert link option or the add a video or picture option to my paper. All these things are good reasons to use the blog.

2.  What have you accomplished during your blogging?

During my blogging experience, I have improved greatly in the area of writing with compound and complex sentences. I have started to work on my technological things too. I have learned how to add all sorts of pictures and movies to your post to make it more interesting. The thing that I have improved the most on during my blogs is my sentence structure and my use of language. I am now able to work on a blog and make it look acceptable. I have also accomplished the fact of making a blog that is over one thousand words with this blog. Before this blog, I was just getting into the habit of blogging; now that I have seen this blog at about one thousand five hundred words, I start to see that I  really can write more that three hundred words. I learned how to make one thought into hundreds of words. That alone is a skill.

3.  What key concepts have you learned while blogging? (This can be about writing, research or technology etc.)

The key concepts I have learned when I am working on my blogs include putting interesting pictures and links, as well as the videos. My researching skills have been based on the things I need to explain a sport. The writing skills i acquired while working this blog were usage of language and to be able to write compound complex sentences. I write about what I feel in blogs and that is the most helpful thing. Research was the least improved section in my blog. I hardly needed to research my blogs because I knew most of the sports very well.

4. Based on the skills you learned while blogging, how will this benefit you in the future? This maybe inside or outside of school.

In the future, the technological skills I have learned will help me if I decide to blog in the future. When I  get a job interview as an older male, I will want them to have a good blog about me to write about. It could also help my schoolwork in the computer skills category. When I work on future goals, I will let people see my blog and they will be impressed by my good blog and become friends or colleagues. There are many benefits to my blog, but they should, if done all help me.

ABOUT MY BLOGS

When I reflect on my five free writing blogs, I want to say that everything about every blog that I wrote about was completely what I wanted in the long run. That is mostly or even completely wrong. When I go back to think about how I worked in on my blogs, my mind always remembers the bad first and then switches over to the good. The bad thing was I always just did the blog to complete it. I would often finish in less than an hour and then  have free time to just relax over the weekends. I could also be good in some of my work when I was really working to make it more flawless. I improved immensely compared to how I did on my first blog. I worked harder as the blogs went on and I tried to make sense of my blogs. I researched more on the sports that I didn’t know about.I wrote on those until the end. I also tried not to write about Soccer because so many kids wrote on it already.

My first blogs and some of the other blogs hardly made sense. When I reflect on my first blog; the first thing that comes to my mind would always be the expertise for the pitchers and how strong they are when they can throw a high ninety’s pitch and still somehow keep accuracy. People describe the throw as a whip that lashes through the air. My first blog composed of almost all simple sentences and simple structures. It had some exiting points in them, but overall, they were simple sentences that took the brains of a second grader. I also had many flaws with not capitalizing the word I and other capitalized words that were easy to remember. I was just trying to get that first blog through with and to go watch television or play on the computer. 

By the second blog, I was still not really into the blogging mode and the second blog eventually was starting to get into rhythm during the paintball section. My writing flow was so fast that I wrote down a bunch of information in a huge condensed paragraph. During the time that I was writing, it was in the complete order that made no sense. There were some sentences that were complex and compound, but nothing that I really wanted in that order. The blog did however improve from the first time that I blogged. I was starting to understand how it was to be a blogger and to write for an unknown audience. Playing paintball was something I had done that day and it was something that I remembered how it felt. I could easily describe all the ups and downs of that sport and have visuals from my paintball welts. It was fun, but it was really hot outside. We had fun, and it shows in my blog if you pay attention carefully.

As I started on my third blog, I started to think that I would work really hard on this blog to teach a lot of information on football. I know a lot of facts about football and probably all of the rules too. I have played football before, but never before on a real team. On a real team, everyone has to work to achieve the overall goal. The teamwork made me think how much I enjoyed even watching the sport. This sport is so slightly organized that I can understand it by relating it to my room. On this blog I tried my hardest to put in all the facts that I could think of. The blog turned out just like my room. There was a lot of stuff in it, but it is harder to find when you don’t have organization. During that blog, I started to understand how it was to really put effort into a blog and not have it turn out the way you want. That was also the time when I figured out how to put links and pictures in my presentation of the blog. I finally got to write about a tackling sport. 

My fourth blog was just plain fun for me. When I started typing I tried to make the blog as realistic as possible. I am a person that loves ping pong to play as well as to watch a close game of it. Ping pong only is fun to watch when both players are playing their best and are doing well. The game is very intense with concentration. People often laugh at people that play ping pong, but it is not as easy as it looks. In this blog, I started to organize my thoughts in to categories and choose which categories are most important.  My videos that I had on the blog were funny but cool at the same time. In all, my fourth blog was purely entertaining. If you watch the videos in the blogs, you can tell that they are staged, but it is still entertainment that you can easily enjoy.

My fifth and final blog was my most organized blog out of all my blogs. In this blog, I almost forgot about speaking only the positive and was thinking about the negative. Soccer is the sport of actors. People get kicked and fall when they are not in pain. All I could think of for half the blog is how bad the sport’s players were that I forgot that it was even a good game. I then started to reflect on the good side of Soccer and how it could be really good. I then could make the blog flow and organize it better. Also, when I think about soccer now, I can remember all the good things that came out of the soccer blog. I remember the great moments and the amazing plays put into the game as well as the hard work.

Crazy Soccer Hits Video

Soccer is the only sport that we have a different name for in  America. In all other countries the sport is called Football. Since I am used to the American ways, I will use the word Soccer to explain all of the sport’s glory. Soccer is the sport that Americans underestimate the most if they don’t play it. People think that it is only the most famous sport in the world, so why do they have to add up to the great amounts of fans that there already is. We begin to underestimate the ways (both good and bad) of Soccer.

Soccer is the only sport that I just can’t stand to watch because of a single reason; I can’t enjoy a game that is in the professional league. The reason I can’t stand to watch soccer is because people fake falling and getting hurt just to call a foul. I have seen some pretty bad calls by referees because someone tripped on their shoelaces right next to a person and the person that fell cried about it and got the call. There was nothing wrong with the play and bad calls are made. People have even tripped over a ball and got a penalty shot before. It takes almost all of the fun out of the game when you realize that the game has people that just fake serious things like injuries. 

Soccer also has an upbeat side to it. In Soccer there are break away shots, penalty shots, and of course the goalie blocks. In Soccer my three favorite things were just listed. In any break away, people are at a flat out sprint to the end without hesitation. They push every last bit of energy out of their body just to reach the goal, and somehow still have the strength to push their leg through the ball and propel it to the goal. My second favorite part of Soccer is the penalty kicks. The only people that are left to the intense moment are the kicker and the goalie. The goalie has a very small chance as the kicker tries to mess with the goalie’s mind. The kicker kicks it for one of the sides. He will probably aim low and the goalie will miss the ball almost always. If the home team’s goalie blocks a ball, the crowd will go wild and the team will be relieved. Those are my favorite things about Soccer.

What i believe to be the largest argument between Americans and the rest of the world is that some people call the world’s sport Soccer, others call it Football. Since I obviously am on the american side, I will tell the story of the correct name by my point of view.  In the beginning of Soccer history, everyone had their own words for it. One day two kids got into a fight over the sport and a kid punched the other kid. That is the story of how it is correct to the call the world’s sport soccer. Sure, you use your feet, but it isn’t called feetball is it? What about the goalie, does he only use one foot? I prefer the term soccer best.

In a attempt to conclude this my way, I will tell you that Soccer has its ups and downs, but it shouldn’t be called Football. 

CRAZY PING PONG VIDEO

MATRIX PING PONG VIDEO

COOL VIDEO OF PING PONG

I chose to write about table tennis because I think table tennis it the sport of coordination.  It has the most coordination because you have to adjust to the various speeds of the ball as it curves and changes speed in the air. There are four basic spins in table tennis. There is up spin, down spin, The slice in spin, and the push out spin. The spins are named from how the ball reacts to the hit. The down spin is when you thrust your paddle up as the ball curves towards your paddle. This makes the ball have a spin that has the top of the ball rolling foreword in the air to cut down to the table. The down spin has a complete opposite effect on the ball. You push your paddle down as the ball hits to put that effect on it. The ball will then, if you succeed in doing this, slice the air to make the ball almost hover against gravity. If you put a down spin on a ball, you have to hit the ball lower than you normally would in order to make that spin work. The same mechanics are used for the inward slice motion on a slice spin. The ball comes to you, you pull the paddle in towards you as you hit the ball, and the ball curves. The push spin is my favorite if you are with someone that is the same handed as you. You can use this spin to push the ball away from you opponents reach. If you can get this spin just right, the other player will not even get close to the ball. If you can correctly use the four spins, you can catch the other person or even two people off guard with new skills. Ping pong spins are easily learned in a day or two and you can increase your coordination so you can be ready for the ultimate down spin slam. This basically just contains a long armed, extended wrist flick, that is too fast for the other person to catch up with. My favorite ping pong video is posted at the top. If you have not seen it, you are missing something. It might be crazy of runny to you, but to me, it’s inspirational. The rules you need to know to win the game are two simple things. The serve and the other hits. The serve is the only thing that has to hit both sides. You hit it at about a thirty five to forty five degree angle and let it hit one corner and then bounce into the opponent’s  opposite corner. Then the game becomes just like tennis. You hit it to your opponent onto their side of the table and they hit it back. The rule you need to know is only hit it if it hits your side of the table. If the ball goes off the table and you don’t touch it with you paddle, it is your point. If the ball hist off your paddle hand and hits your opponent’s table, the ball is in play and will be able to be hit back. Have fun with your ping pong knowledge and go play.

Crazy catches Video

There are many Interesting and extravagant things about Football. The first thing I think of when I think of American Football is the tackling involved in the vigorous sport. People shoving their way through the front line of the offense so they can knock down the quarterback before he can rocket the ball or hand it off to a team member. The goal for each play on the offensive team is to reach the en-zone with a player with the ball in his hands. If that plot succeeds, then they get six points. At that time they have two choices. Take the simple way out and kick the extra point, or try to run it in for an additional two points. Most teams stick with the easy way out of it and get it through the posts. If the long yard gain doesn’t work, then, with the four down they are given, can try to achieve ten yards and get another four downs, in which they can slowly progress up the field. If they are not within an easy throw on their last and final down, they can choose to kick it in two ways, they can punt it a giant distance and dive the ball to the other team, or if they are in distance of a strong kicker’s range, they can try to kick it from the ground through the field goal. The game can continue for many downs in one drive (time of possession per the one scoring opportunity) there are a few things that people always get mixed up with when they are learning American football. A confusing part of it is how to decide when it is a fumble, and when it is just an incomplete pass. The difference is that if the ball slips out of the QB’s (quarterback’s) hand before he starts to throw the ball forward, it is a fumble. If his hand is in forward progress when the ball gets taken out, it is an incomplete pass. I could go on about how there is such a thing as intentional grounding, but that is very complicated to explain all about the QB’s pocket and how he has to throw it to not make the throw intentionally grounding. The most exiting and probably one of the most cared for parts of Football. the interception. The interception is when a person on the defensive team picks the ball out of the air on the throw. This should not be confused with a fumble because the ball never hits the ground in an interception. The final thing that I want to talk about is timeouts. Timeouts are breaks in the game (not including half time) that are about three minutes long. During timeouts, teams drink Gatorade and sometimes even get oxygen if they are really out of breath. Teams talk strategy and learn the weaknesses of the other team. At the end of the game, they count up the score and declare the winner.  That is basically all the rules you need to learn to get up and go adventure into the world of Football as you learn about various sports.

I think that paintball is the best sport to do if you like war games. Have you ever played Halo or any other game similar too it. In Halo there are different sized courses. I think that paintball fits into the category of sports. Now imagine that you are in a small confined area, (twenty meters by forty meters) and you are getting shot at with an excruciating paintball to the side of the head. That is not what you want from ten meters away. If you ever play paintball in a small confined space, remember to not let anyone use frozen paintballs. It almost always leads to disaster. There is only one problem.  When you get shot anywhere but the chest plate or the helmet you are safe and do not have to leave the battle arena. Be careful, because people can break into a rampage of rapid fire and charging. When a person goes into a paintball area, he might never come out the same. He could have been barraged by paintballs and have scars for life. A really scary thing that can happen in paintball is that you can be surrounded with opponents. When that happens, the person will then probably panic and shoot a lot of bullets. Then the other team can yell at the person to surrender. If the defenseless kid is intelligent in the slightest, he would surrender, but if de doesn’t, he is shot mercilessly. Another fun thing in paintball is a paint grenade. Paint grenades simply explode on impact, thus destroying any other people in about a five-foot radius. Unfortunately there are no grenades in Qatar yet, but there should be. Other than just plain team versus team mode, there is the relentless game of team versus team capture the flag. The rules rest on a single variable, the flag. Now the flag starts in the middle of the arena, in between the two bases.  Each team tries to get that flag and his goal is to grab the flag and then take that flag to the opposing team’s base. There, they can place the flag down and claim their victory over the other team. The worst place to be when you are in a paintball arena is right in the middle of everything. There it is possible to be shot from every direction and everyone pays attention to that one person. At that point, all you can do to save yourself is to run. That sadly has almost never worked. Paintball is the best sport if you can always pay attention to your surroundings. Always remember to move around if you ever play paintball because marks are never fun. 

I am going to post about baseball as my first real post. The thing about baseball that really catches my attention is how fast some people can throw the ball in such a small range of space, and this is just professional baseball. Professionals make it seem so easy when a guy comes up to the plate and on the first pitch he drive the flawlessly thrown 98 mile per hour fastball out of the park easily, then trots around the bases and makes it look easy. Is it steroids or is it skill? Who will ever know? I like to think they play it clean and rely completely on skill. Another thing that I wonder is how do the outfielders become so fast and strong to jump, dive, and fire the ball back in to the field. People are always in awe at how the infielders have such good reflexes to catch the powerfully hit ball. If I had to pick the worst place to be in when I would play it would have to be when the runner is on base, then the runner takes a lead off (a head start), and then the runner is caught in between two bases and has to pick one base to run to. A person on either side of the runner, and they chase the runner to the middle until they tag him with the ball. That is probably the worst spot to be if you had to be the runner. If you were a fielder, the worst place to be (other that the pitcher and catcher, would have to be the third baseman. The third baseman’s spot is sometimes referred to as the hot pocket.) When the batter turns on the ball and hits a strong line drive hard left, all his momentum is picked up as much as possible, then the very end of the momentum is headed right towards you. My last point is that batting is really stressful if you were to be in the professional league. People would always boo you is you did something wrong in your home stadium, and if you were in someone else’s stadium, they will cheer if you mess up. In conclusion, baseball is a fun sport that you can enjoy if you understand how hard it is to be a baseball player.

My blog is all about what I feel like writing. Here I am able to express any opinion I have on things. Sometimes they are positive, sometimes negative. It can be sports, technology, even school. The blog can be really is a joyful mood, or it can be almost a rant on something I either don’t understand or I don’t like at all. I will try to wright anything that can become a good blog that people are interested in.