More than 100 members attended the recent South & West Dorset Netball League presentation evening, which saw Bridport side Autobitz crowned winter 2015 Premier League champions. Waterside were runners-up, and O Jo’s were Division One champions. The newly formed JD Wetherspoons won Division Two after dominating the league.

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The summer title went to the formidable Belle Construction, while Boho – Belle’s sister team – finished as runners-up thanks to their side’s mixture of experience and youth. Bay Fencing scooped the Division Two summer title, with rivals Café Oasis finishing a close second. Bay Fencing missed out on the fair play award, however, with Weymouth Junior Netball Club winning this season.

Individual prizes

The evening’s individual awards were presented by a variety of local businesses and netball sponsors, including New Body Fitness, Bay Fencing, and Belle Construction.

Abbie Elliott of the Poachers side was awarded the prestigious prize of players’ player, while Cresta Leisure’s Jayne Guppy was named umpires’ player. The previous winner of the Louise Beals Service to Netball Award, Alison Holmes, was on hand to present the accolade to this year’s winner, resident photographer Kevin Frampton.

Netball: A growing sport

Netball is currently the biggest women’s team sport in the UK, with increasing numbers joining the ranks every year. A great way to keep fit and make new friends, netball is easily accessible to players of all levels. If you’re new to the sport or are looking for ways to improve your side’s performance, it’s a good idea to incorporate netball drills into your training sessions. These can improve focus and help players function as an effective team. Sites such as http://www.sportplan.net/ have a wealth of resources for novices, experienced players, and those just looking to introduce a bit of variety into their exercise regimen.

In addition to being a fun pastime, netball has a number of health and fitness benefits. Players can cover a considerable distance over the course of a tough game, which boosts cardiovascular fitness. The sport can also help improve hand-eye coordination and flexibility.

Besides the physical benefits of netball, team sports in particular are associated with improved mental health and increased confidence. The relatively low cost of setting up a netball team makes it a great choice for anyone looking to get fit and have fun.

Patella dislocation occurs when the Patella is forced out of this groove, usually laterally, causing pain, swelling and temporary deformity of the knee joint. Quite often the Patella relocates spontaneously when the patient moves the leg but if this does not happen then it must be relocated by a suitably qualified medical professional.

What is a Patella Dislocation?

Patella (kneecap) dislocations are quite common and can be very disconcerting to the sufferer. The Patella sits in a groove (Trochlea) in the Femur and usually glides up and down in this Femoral Trochlea during movement. Dislocation occurs when the Patella is forced out of this groove, usually laterally, causing pain, swelling and temporary deformity of the knee joint. Quite often the Patella relocates spontaneously when the patient moves the leg but if this does not happen then it must be relocated by a suitably qualified medical professional.

Perhaps even more common is a Patella Subluxation, a partial dislocation that relocates before the point of full dislocation. There is still pain and swelling because of the bone on bone friction and in either a subluxation or dislocation the patient will suffer apprehension and instability.

What causes Patella Dislocations?

There are a number of predisposing factors that may lead to Patella Dislocation. The shape of the Trochlea, the size and shape of the Patella, inherent joint laxity either ligamentous or muscular, stage of maturation, muscle imbalance and poor proprioception.

Patella dislocations occur more often in younger athletes due perhaps to some of the aforementioned factors but also perhaps because of the vigorous activities undertaken. Dislocations occur either extrinsically (direct contact with an external force) or intrinsically (from forces generated within) usually when landing with a twist or from a twist such as in gymnastics, rugby or football.

What are the signs and symptoms?

A Patella dislocation that does not relocate spontaneously is obvious. The Patella sits to one side of the knee; usually the lateral side, and the patient will be unable to move the knee at first. There will be pain and swelling follows fairly quickly afterwards. The sufferer will have felt a “giving way” of the knee at the point of impact or landing and apprehension will limit movement. Usually Patella dislocations incur other injuries such as Patella Ligament damage; bone-on-bone friction, which can cause fragments of bone to break off; Capsular tears and other soft tissue damage.

Patella subluxations have similar symptoms as dislocations except that the Patella relocates prior to full dislocation. Apart therefore from the deformity of a dislocation the symptoms are pretty much the same.

What else could it be?

There are other conditions that can mimic a subluxation such as a Meniscus tear; Jumpers knee; Patello-Femoral Pain Syndrome; bone lesions and a host of other conditions. The deformity of a Patella Dislocation however is pretty obvious.

Siam, Ayutthaya Kingdom 1774. The Burmese invasion brought destruction and the consequent fall of the Siamese capital. Thousands of prisoners were brought to Burma as slaves for work and entertainment.

Among the large number of kick boxers within the prisoners there was a man named Nai Khanomtom. Son of the chief of his village, he saw his family get slaughtered by the burmese when he was just a little boy and grew up in his life in a hardened way, always with the shadow of fear from the Burmese troops.

Nai Khanomtom, like any other Thai prisoner, was deeply rooted into Thai culture and values. Proud of his own country and people, he would never give up easily nor accept to be defeated.

That year the Burmese king wanted to organize a 7 days long religious festival with many forms of entertainment and for the occasion he wanted to compare the Burmese boxing with the Muay Boran. Nai Khanomtom was selected to fight against the Burmese boxing champion.

On the ring placed in from of the king throne Nai Khanomthom begun the Wai Kru to pay respect to his teachers and ancestors dancing around his opponent. While the dance is a traditional ritual for the Siamese also to respect the spectators, the Burmese were surprised and perplexed by the dance and believed that was some sort of thai black magic.

However, as soon as they start the fight, Nai Khanomtom charged his opponent with every weapon Muay Boran can offer. They call it “the martial art of the 8 limbs” because it uses hands, feet, knees and elbows.

The Burmese champion was knocked out pretty quickly but the referee declared the fight invalid as the Burmese were too distracted by the way kru dance.

In this moment of perplexion the king sent other 9 men to fight against Nai Khanomtom who defeated all of them, one by one without taking any time break.

The last opponent was a famous Burmese kick boxing teacher and Nai Khanomtom managed to defeat him with his kicks. After that, no one dared to fight against Nai Khanomtom.

The king was very impressed by the skills of Thai people and he remarked: “Every part of the Thai is blessed with venom. Even with his bare hands, he can fell nine or ten opponents. But his Lord was incompetent and lost the country to the enemy. If he had been any good, there was no way the City of Ayutthaya would ever have fallen.”

After this event, freedom was granted to Nai Khanomtom and his fellow thai prisoners.

Since then, every year on March 17 in Thailand is celebrated the National Muay Boran Day to honor Nai Khanomtom and all Muay Boran ancient teachers whom developed this martial art to the well known Muay Thai of today.

Riding a bike seems like a skill to some people, but unless there are any stunts involved, it’s actually just a matter of controlling the bike’s momentum. Still, there are a few people who do not like bikes. This is because they either had a bad experience with it as a kid, or they just didn’t learn it when they were young and is embarrassed to do so when they’re old. Either way, they believe it takes a while to learn how to ride a bike, which isn’t so.

To start learning bike-riding, there are a few items that you need to have. Safety is of utmost importance, so you’ll need to acquire helmets, knee pads, and elbow pads. It’s going to feel really weird at first, wearing all of these while you’re not even moving with your bike, but it’s better to do it early so it becomes easy to turn it into a habit.

The next step will be balancing the bike without your feet touching the ground. Do a few drills where you lift both feet simultaneously and trying to keep the bike balanced for as long as possible. If you can get at least a couple seconds, then you should be fine. This is because it’s a whole lot easier to balance the bike when in motion than stationary.

Once you’ve gotten the gist of the balancing aspect, you can start moving with your bike. If you’re really not comfortable yet, begin with straddling your bike and “walking” with it. This should give you a sense of how to steer the ride. Start walking slowly and work your way into pushing yourself forward a little harder. Just put one or both feet on the ground when the bike is about to fall to stay in an upright position.

All those steps teach you how to balance and steer the bike in motion. For a little more momentum, do this on a road that’s on a bit of a slope. Kick yourself into a slow speed and let the slope carry the bike. This makes for a good practice of steering as well as getting a feeling of how it is going to be when it is you who’s pedalling the bike. At any rate, this is also a good time to learn braking. Brake when you need to stop, and balance the bike again during a full stop.

Once you feel you can control the bike when it’s moving, start learning how to pedal it yourself. Dividing your attention between the pedal and steering the bike can be a little awkward at first, but will eventually become second nature.

Once you have full control of the bike, brush up on the rules of the road. In some cities in some countries, there are designated lanes for bikes. You can start practicing there if you wish. Also before you can actually ride or learn how to ride a bike, you’re going to need one. There are a lot of different types of bikes, so prepare to do some research and asking around as to what type of bike will be your first. If you’re looking for road bikes Melbourne, check out more details at Chappellli.

The participation certificates, awards or trophies: some say it kills the motivation, where as some say it boosts up the confidence of all the participants. Well, it is about the way of thinking. Different people have got different type of thought process, so it varies from person to person.
• Participation trophy: Motivation killer?
It has been asked a thousand of trillion times if all the participants should be given a trophy. The answer was a big ‘No’ and will always remain No, at least if you keep asking the same people who are against it.
Whether it is the corporate function where the best employee of the company is going to get trophy, the sports event where the winning athlete is going to get the award or the school competition where the winning kid is going to get the medal, only the deserving candidate should be given the trophy and not the rest.

Giving the trophy only to the deserving candidate will boost up the confidence in him. All the other people will also feel like achieving the same, which will give them the motivation. This will make them work harder and smarter so that they can achieve the same as the winner. Striving hard for achieving will hone their skills and talent. It will encourage them to work harder and faster.

If all the participants are given the trophies, it will give them a sense of achievement. This will ruin it all and will reduce the impact and encouragement of working hard. It will not motivate them so much as compared to if they do not receive any award. Going home empty handed will make them feel worse than at least getting a participation trophy.

It works the best in the companies and the organisations where they give the award or prize to the employee of the month. Every month the employee who has worked the hardest deserves the award. So, looking at the winner, all the other employees get motivated to work even harder in the coming month.

Shortly, loosing is good for you! It will at least make you perform better, the next time. The greed of taking away the award, trophy or medal can motivate you to work harder than anything else.

• Participation trophy: Confidence booster?
When it is about kids, the participation trophies act as the confidence booster. Kids like getting gifts and appreciation. So, in order to make them take part in the competitions, they should be given trophies irrespective of they win or lose. It makes them feel more confident about themselves and it gives them a sense of self esteem that they can do something. Only if they get such feeling, they will continue participating in the school competitions, at least because of the greed of gifts and trophies.

Conclusion:

Well, sometimes they act as a confidence booster when it comes to kids, where as sometimes it acts as a motivation killer, when it comes to the employees or athletes. So, depending upon the age group, profession and category, the view varies. Thus, the debate continues…

So you want your girls soccer team to play like the boys?

Before I illustrate how this can be done we first have to understand the differences between the two,If you buy any of the hot new training videos like Epic or Coerver you will notice that the training is done by both girls and boys,what you won’t see is the on field use of this training.

So basically you have the adventurous nature of boys and the inherent cautiousness of the average girls soccer player,girls learn soccer in an exact way while boys in a more general one. Most boys want to learn every move possible then they want to use them on the field to embarrass their friends or opponents,while the girls will only want to learn a couple moves, then they will take a season or so to feel comfortable with them and slowly maybe a couple times a game they will start to use them because a girls soccer player doesn’t want to be embarrassed.

For boys the training never ends they are playing,practicing,watching or talking about soccer all the time.The average girls soccer player comes to practice and if they don’t have a sibling who plays they may not think about or play soccer until the next practice.

As a Coach,Player or Parent you are going to want to speed up this mechanism,the only way that the girls are going to ever be able to play like the boys is if we take the path of Hillary Clinton from the 90′s.

When it comes to girls soccer “It takes a village”

What does that mean? Well for coaches that means handing out home work that includes both physical and mental work,for players it means working at the game like it is a game, try to have fun with the game and the game will become fun.For parents that means be involved with the improvement of your girls soccer game the reality is that your influence is the most important.

Some things the boys do like tracking balls or playing balls out of the air are just more natural for them,so spending important effort or time on trying to get your girls soccer team or individual player to excel at those abilities is probably not the best way to spend your time or resources.you can make them better in those areas,but if you focus on getting them more explosive and creative you will achieve better results.

Complete girls soccer training

Physical: You will want to use training that incorporates high levels of technical training as well as including conditioning,agility and strength training. Away from training have your players touching the ball on a daily basis and include conditioning,agility and strength training as homework.

Mental:You will want to use training that uses creative problem solving(like 1 attacker vs. 2 defenders) also praise players for creative thinking during practice or game play.Away from training give them homework that includes watching soccer games live or on TV with the idea of having them try to see alternate solutions to what the players on the field used.

So while the rules of soccer and the basics of the game are the same for both boys and girls soccer players it is important for coaches,parents and players to know how to maximize their time and training to reach your desired results.

Snowboarding is an outdoor activity that involves the use of boots, snowboard desk, and bindings. It is an old game since 1910s that were first started in Michigan. Snowboarding being a winter game, it is challenging to be present during the summer. Some skiing companies are investing heavily to make sure the snowboarding sport is present all year round. For example soda springs resorts in California organize snowboarding summer competitions that attract participants from New Jersey, Michigan, Vermont, Wales in United Kingdom, and New York. Different skiing companies and resorts specialize on selected styles for the clients, due to the presence of many styles applied in snowboarding. Different styles have specialized equipment and techniques that the company invests in order to provide best services to the clients. This article describes the diverse locations in the world that offer summer snowboarding recreation and competition activities. Additionally, the article gives a brief description of the styles and techniques each location offers.

Bear Mountain offers beautiful services of jibbing, slopestyle, and snowboard racing styles. Jibbing at Bear Mountain requires application of few tricks for the purpose of creativity and enjoyment of the sport activity. Bear Mountain is located in California. Within Bear Mountain hospitality companies such as Bear Mountain Ski Resort, Bear Mountain State Park, and Bear Mountain Inn offers reputable services that keep the tourists flocking all the year round. Ski Portillo in Chile offers favorite summer site for competition and recreation services. Ski Portillo allows its clients to use different styles in snowboarding such as freeriding, freestyling, alpine snowboarding, and a half-pipe. The alpine terrain is in Ski Portillo is wide that allows participants in snowboarding to use different tricks. The resort offers boarding services to a maximum of 450 visitors at a time hence making it very competitive.

At Oregon, there is Timberline Lodge that offers snowboarding sports throughout the year. The participants of snowboarding have the opportunity to use slope style, big air, boardercross, big mountain, and freeride styles. Zermatt in Switzerland is a cool and enjoyable place to visit during spring for snowboarding. Zermatt has shelters and camp bases for recreation and relaxation. Competition sports and snowboarding are the major activities at Zermatt that attract champions in snowboarding and tourists from all the continents. The most suitable snowboarding styles to use at Zermatt are freestyle, alpine, and boardercross.

While in Argentina, Las Lenas is the beautiful scenery to do snowboarding sport. The place is rocky and steeply hence making the sport entertaining. Plenty of fun is present in Las Lenas due to low temperatures and beautiful view of the ocean beaches. Lodging facilities are available at very competitive and affordable rates. For the beginners in snowboarding, it is recommended to use a simple and well known snowboarding style while at Las Lenas due to steep slopes. Racing organizations such as United States of America Snowboard Association (USASA) and NASTAR use Las Lenas as a training field for competitors in order to have the best score during world champion competitions.

Do you want to buy a football kit? Do you want to find the best designer football kit? Do you want to buy it from the best company? Do you want to purchase the quality products? If the answer to any of the questions that were asked above is yes, you are at the perfect place.

If your dream is to design your own football kit, you can do that taking certain factors into the consideration like appearance, durability as well as functionality. If you do not get time to design it on your own, you can always go and buy it from the store.

People have understood the importance of the custom football kits. As a result, there are several people who have started up the business into that field. They have started the stores wherein they sell sports clothing like t shirts, shorts and socks for football, hockey and basketball, to name a few.

As there are number of companies that sell such products, it becomes really difficult to choose the best one. Even if you choose the best company, it is not so easy to select the best football kit. There are a lot of factors that should be taken into the consideration while purchasing it.

You need to be careful while buying it, as it affects your performance. If you are planning to buy it now, this one is going to e real interesting and worth reading. Here are some of the tips and tricks to buy them.

1. Wherever you go to buy it, make sure that you have got large options to choose from. Of course, there are plenty of options when it comes to football kits. There are various different brands, so you need to choose one as per your requirements. Although you have got the comprehensive range of products to choose from, you choose the one that you feel is the best. The products should be worth the price you pay.
2. Although purchasing good quality products is of primary importance, you need to make sure that you stay within your budget. You should not look for the options that exceed your budget.
3. Try it before purchasing the kit as only after trying it out, you will come to know if it is comfortable or not. Comfort plays a key role here! It contributes a lot in your results.
4. It is always a good idea to customise your products. For example: you can get your name written on the back of your tee. Such personalised products will make you feel better and you will have more fun. If you do not want your name to be displayed, you can also get the name of your favourite player written on the front or back of your t shirt.
Now that you know all the points that you should consider while buying the football kit, it is advisable for you to take care while buying and make the right choice. Good luck with that!

When picking up your swim hat, whether getting into it, adjusting it on your head, removing it or typically using it, strive to hold your fingernails at a distance from it as avidly as you are able. When you have lengthy nails, it might be difficult. Possibly you could put on some gloves every time you are using it.

Numerous bathers will moisten the head of hair a little with fresh water or use some hair wax on their hair before putting the bathing hat on for the reason that this makes it more easy to slide on. Be aware or that various pools won’t let you use gels as it might soil swimming pool water. Many ladies have lengthened hair, so ahead of placing the bathing cap on, the tresses ought to be gathered in one way or another adequately around the head. It could be perhaps be put in a knot, braided, twisted, or perhaps a light hairnet could possibly be considered. Never ever employ a slide, pin or another pointed article to hold the hair fixed in position as this might end up in a rupture of the swim cap.

Any time you are placing the swimming cap on, be certain that the fore section of the swimming hat is pointing towards the floor together with the back facing upwards. Slide your hands directly into the cap and make sure that your thumbs are on the outer surface of the hat directed towards the sky. Making use of the back side of your hands, smoothly open it until the orifice is large enough to squeeze over your head.

At this point you must put the hat over the top of your head. Many folk noticed that bending over to carry this out is a lot easier for themselves, so you can try things out to uncover the best way for you. Place the hat near your scalp making sure that the front interior of it holds the front of your skull. In one stroke, pull the swimming hat rearwards and envelop your entire head and drag the back of it down as far as it will go.

Gently withdraw your hands out from the back of the hat making sure that your claws are far away as potential.

Your swimming hat will now need shifting. The strands of your locks that stick out need to be very carefully fingered into it being sure that the skin layer and the hat have as tight a seal as can be. It may be that the nape of your neck has a tiny amount of your locks that jut out past the rear of the swim cap. This is an insignificant problem though, and you could have tiny levels of water getting in.

If there happen to be some folds or lumps, you can just eliminate of them making use of your palms and tips of the fingers.

As a way to remove the swim cap, slide your finger tips within the swimming cap and move them higher up. In my opinion that just in front of the ears is the most suitable position.

These particular guidelines are very easy to comply with and if you do, you will have no a trouble with splitting your hat.