Recreation and Hobbies Articles
posted on 1 August 2012
When I was a child I never learned to ride a bike. My parents tried to teach me on one occasion, but then gave up, and so did I. It looked like I would never ride. Even browsing the cycle shops in london and wanting so much to have a new bike, I just was so scared of riding a bike. My old bicycle sat unused in the carport, until it was finally sold. I still remember it it was brown. Over three decades passed, and in all that time I was just one of those people who never learned to ride and surely never would learn. For a number of years I entered sweepstakes regularly online. One day an unexpected box arrived by UPS. It was a bicycle I had won in a sweepstakes. I assembled the bike according to the instructions, and I decided that I could learn to ride if I wanted to badly enough. At first I tried in the backyard, mostly trying to balance myself, but with little luck, but I kept at it. Then the moment came that I found myself balancing and peddling across the yard, but the moment was brief and was followed by more failures. Still I kept trying, and my short streaks of riding got longer and longer. Eventually I could pedal around the yard. The time had come to try the street. I started into the street, and suddenly realized the street was going downhill slightly, and I was barely under control. Somehow I didn't wreck that day. My experience grew and grew, and I haltingly rode around the block, not coming close to going in a straight line. Every day I rode, and after a year I can ride pretty good. People my age that I know don't ride any more and haven't since they were kids. I guess they got it out of their system. So, in a way, I am lucky. I learned how to ride somewhat late in life, but I learned how to appreciate the experience more than most people do. It was a little embarrassing at first, when I was just trying to learn how to ride, but it was absolutely worth it. |
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posted on 26 April 2012
What do you do when you have free time or when you want to break away from your work? People have different ways in which they do spend their holidays. There are those that opt to visit a place away from their home so that they can have fun there and there are those that will simply do an activity that they love doing. Activities like hiking, Rock Climbing and hunting are some of the activities that anyone can choose to do especially when they are free. They are interesting since you get to visit the forests and see nature. You at least go to a different place that does not have people in them and breathe in fresh air. It is fun when you are walking through the forest especially if you are the kind of person that enjoys nature. Some of these activities that we do are very helpful in our health. They help in keeping fit since they cut down all the extra calories that are in our bodies. As you climb the rock, one sweat a lot and so it is through this that you burn all the excess fats. |
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posted on 7 March 2012
Photography is as much about finding opportunities as anything else. Even a wedding photographer will tell you the same. For example in a wedding it can be as simple as finding a ten minute spell when the sun comes out and finding a good position to make the most of the light. What photographers can forget is that what really makes a good photo is the subject matter itself. Sure, you need to get the technicals right to ensure the quality of the photo, but what makes a photo INTERESTING is the subject matter, and that requires harnassing the best opportunities - which require the lensman to be in the right place at the right time. Hunting down these opportunities is not easy of course - it requires patience and intuition. But it's a skill you can hone and improve, and it becomes a lot easier over time in my experience. |
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posted on 12 February 2012
It's interesting to know that although the Stripped Bass is on top of the food chain and would live on smaller species of fish, there are other baits you can use in catching them. The striper guide knows this and my guide was kind enough to educate me on this technique when we went fishing.
The Lake Texoma is so enourmous that it's so overwhelming to catch just one Stripped Bass. It's a challenge in itself. The challenge begins with your choice of bait.
Usually, the Striper Guide is in charge of supplying and preparing the bait you need at the start of the day. I found out from my guide that you can use nightcrawlers, chicken liver, bloodworms and sandworms as well. They also use clams, achovies, eels, shad, menhaden and herring as well. That looks like a huge succullent menu for the striped bass if you ask me! |
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