It seems like such a simple thing, such an obvious thing: Stroking is the base of any figure skating warm up, right?
It may be the base, but there's more to stroking than you might think. The stroking portion of your warm up needs to get your pulse rate up, warm up your muscles, help you feel your edges under you, and get you skating with the best technique right from the start so that you can do everything else. Oh, wait, that last bit... that's the hard part, so, let's start there.
Continuing in this week's theme of warm ups for ice skating practice, I want to share an exercise I call "jumping the tens". Depending on various factors, you might want to change this to "jumping the threes" or "jumping the fives". In general I'd say either do fewer jump types with more reps or more jump types with fewer reps. Of course, your personal fitness level or injury profile should also be taken into consideration when you decide how many reps to do of each jump.
Over the course of my skating career I've spent a lot of time on very small rinks. The first rink where I ever trained was the old San Francisco Ice Arena on 48th Avenue and Kirkham. It was tiny and was the oldest indoor ice rink in the US still standing for many years before it was closed down in late 1989.
The spin cycle is a series of spins from easy to difficult, skated at the beginning of a session with no previous spin warm-up. This exercise is intended to help increase consistency across spins even on the first attempt.
There are no second chances. If a spin is good or bad, it doesn't matter. Just move on to the next one. Between spins, think about what would have made the last spin better and what you need to do to have a perfect next spin. Visualize your next spin completely. Feel it in your body from entrance to check in your imagination. Then spin.
Every on-ice session needs a warm-up and a cool-down period. Some of the warm-up and cool-down can – and should – be done off ice, but warm up time on ice should not be neglected. Elite skaters often spend the first half hour of their daily ice tie on moves in the field (MIF) in a warm-up mode. By that I mean that they work on stroking and MIF patters with power and fluidity, without slowing down for technical adjustments for a full half hour.
I'm in the process of upgrading my server for fun and for profit, as they say. I was on an ancient Fedora 4 system and finally I reached a point where I couldn't upgrade some of my software to work on the system at all without compiling a bunch of other requirements by hand, too. I've been with Open Hosting for a long time now.
To do a hard reset, turn off your NookColor. Then, hold down the Home Nook button and then press the power button at the same time until your machine powers back up and gives you a choice to reset your nook. Power button will cancel it and the Nook home button at the bottom will continue with the reset. Confirm it and it will take a couple minutes and your machine will be back to square one.
edited from: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=9568755&postcount=4
That reset will clean out all your data, but it will not fix a messed up operating system.
Every so often, for no apparent reason, KDE kills the network manager. After rebooting or switching users, suddenly the network manager icon says that the network is "unmanaged" and if you try to right click, it tells you that network manager is disabled. I have read that this same thing can happen if you have a failed sleep or hibernation mode.
I have been having troubles since I started doing development for embedded software with the amount of available space in my /opt directory. You see, normally, you put all of your cross-compilers and software development kits (sdk's) underneath the /opt directory.
Git, Bazaar, Subversion...
Back at Amazon in 2000 we used CVS. It was the first time I'd ever used a command line version control system. I stayed with CVS as my versioning system of choice until 2005 when I started using Subversion on a contract. Aside from the fact that I had to alias the word "cvs" to "svn" because I kept mistyping, I decided that I really liked svn better.
