How To: Learn hurling skills, equipment, and training basics
Check out these general tips to get the most out of your hurling training program.
Check out these general tips to get the most out of your hurling training program.
This is a rugby tackle tutorial from RugbyDevelopment.com Watch a simple handling drill to develop short accurate passes and support lines. Look for the outside channel to shuttle to the second attacker.
Learn some other tackle technique for players defending around the fringes. From a low position he's looking to get him off his feet. Attacker must stay as close to the ball as possible. The defender is looking to get his weight on top of the attacker.
Develop your tackle to increase chance of a turnover on the rugby pitch. If the attacker stretches to the outside and is faster than the defender this is a strategy. Stay as close to the ball as you can. The referee will define you are on your feet and can draw a penalty.
This is not charm school. Far from trying to maintain perfect posture, the man in this video is training his ability to balance things on his head for the love of sport, the sport of freestyle soccer. Here, you will learn how you to can pull of the iconic Head Stall freestyle soccer move, in which the ball in balanced on the player's head for as long as possible.
Going, going… gone! Say bye-bye to a big bum with these butt busters. You will need:
This video shows how to remove a rental sticker from a Nintendo NES game cartridge! All you need is: 1) Goo-Gone or De-Solv-It 2) 1 cotton ball 3) A smidgen of patience
With the 2018 FIFA World Cup underway in Russia, soccer (aka "football") fans worldwide can show support for their favorite teams and players in augmented reality via Snapchat and Facebook.
If you've been paying attention, you already know that ARKit can detect horizontal surfaces and estimate ambient light, but did you know that it can also help you improve your soccer game?
The world of gaming has never been cooler thanks to Apple's ARKit. From AR arcade games to giant god battles to Pac-Man, we've seen our fair share of awesome and innovative games.
Beer pong is a classic game created by college kids to drink and have a good time. However, the process of setting it up is messy and takes a while. Luckily, a demo has introduced an app coming soon where you can play an augmented reality version of beer pong using Apple's ARKit.
Seaweed isn't just for rolling sushi anymore. The food science world is introducing chefs and home cooks to dulse (rhymes with pulse), kale's wacky seaweed cousin that tastes surprisingly like bacon and may even be the next big superfood.
Pong, one of the simplest video games ever created, has managed to evolve in some crazy ways over time, from the original basic 2D version and colorful Breakout sequel, to the PlayStation game with power-ups and 3D graphics, and now Cyberpong VR—a virtual reality game on the HTC Vive—where you act as the paddle instead of just moving it into place with a controller.
Polaroid's answer to the masculine-fueled GoPro comes in the form of a tiny family-friendly square, fittingly named the Polaroid CUBE. Starting at a very modest $99.99 , the water-resistant action camera comes in all different colors, shoots HD video at 1080p, allows users to take 6MP pictures, and supports a microSD card of up to 32GB. Attached to the bottom of the cube is a magnet that allows you to stick the camera in many places, including the side of a car (though the Polaroid representa...
We don't typically cover games here on softModder, unless they have some special feature to offer like unlocking your device, but sometimes you've just gotta game. When you've only got a few minutes to do so, you've gotta choose the right game, and I've got just the thing for you.
Whether you've got an itch for a mini-flamethrower, a shower of burning sparks, or a exploding ball of flames, these little fireworks-producing lighters may be the answer to your pyrotechnic cravings!
André Broessel of rawlemon has developed a solar energy generator that can use both sun and moonlight to create usable power. Oh... and it's gorgeous. The device is essentially a huge glass sphere filled with water that uses a ball lens to refract light in a way that increases energy efficiency by 35 percent. It's completely weatherproof and has an optical tracking device, meaning that it can be incorporated into architecture. Here's a concept design of how it could be used to power buildings...
No one likes to think about the possibility of natural disasters, but we all know they could happen at any time. Some of us are a little more paranoid than others, but wouldn't it be nice to know that you'd be protected if anything really crazy ever happened? Like the zombie apocalypse?
Dogs make great best friends, but anyone who's had one knows they can be the most high-maintenance friend you've ever had. Bathroom breaks, feeding schedules and walks are only the beginning. Even if you make your dog organic treats and teach it neat tricks, it still needs to play. And after that fifth game of fetch, your arm can get pretty tired.
In this video Jay Golden talks about what the numbers on a golf ball mean. The different numbers do not mean that the ball is a different weight or size or dimple pattern. The major purpose for different numbered balls is so that you know your ball when you are playing golf. If two players have the same numbered ball normally a dot is put on one of the balls with a magic marker so that you can know which ball belongs to each player. If you hit the wrong ball it's a two stroke penalty. If you ...
Going to a masquerade ball where you know everyone is going to be wearing the same old Victorian corsets and top hats? Then stand out from the crowd by wearing a modern (sort of) get-up of Steampunk style gear.
If you need to decorate your house fast for the holidays, then supersized decor is the way to go. Yeah, you could buy those tacky big Christmas ornament balls fastened with big red ribbons at the store, but if you're looking for elegant Christmas decor then making it is the way to go.
When it comes to dressing up your face for the holidays, your LBD of makeup looks is without a doubt the classic neutral eye and red lip combo. Beautiful since the days of Marilyn Monroe, this look is timelessly feminine and sultry.
Learn how to create a custom, multilayer Dragon Ball Z playercard emblem! This COD Emblem Editor tutorial presents a complete, step-by-step walkthrough of the drawing process.
If you have some looming skills when it comes to knitting, then this scarf should be a great project to try out! It's a poodle scarf, called that because of its use of Pomp-a-Doodle yarn from Red Heart. It's an exceptional scarf that you can loom-knit in virtually no time! You can design it any way you want it, with whatever colors you'd like. Mikey used one ball of Pomp-a-Doodle yarn for this scarf.
Need an outrageous and beautiful look for Halloween or attending one of Ke$ha's concerts soon? Then you'll definitely need to amp up your makeup game with lots of color and a Claire's store worth of glitter.
In this video, we learn how to create a marbleized water look with icing. This is a colorful and eye catching way to put icing on a cake to make a memorable piece! First, spoon your icing into a small bowl and then make a rice cereal treat and shape it into a circle. To start to decorate this, you will pipe on green icing to the sides and front of the ball to make it look like a fish. Then, pipe some of the icing onto a flat surface with red confectioner's sugar. Once this is covered and hard...
In this tutorial, we learn how to ollie on a skateboard for beginners. To start, your front foot needs to be right behind the front bolts with the ball of your shoe hanging off. Your back foot needs to be on the end of the skateboard. Now you will try to do the ollie. Put your feet into position and then bend down. From here, you will pop the skateboard gently by pressing your foot back on the lip of the board. Don't try to hit it as hard as you can when popping it. From here, you will finish...
On Halloween lots of revelers go all out with their costumes, donning full body makeup to look like Neytiri from "Avatar" come to life or slipping on a bladed glove like Freddy Krueger.
In this tutorial, we learn how to do a Chinese cupping back massage. Cupping is an old technique that is still practiced in China and eastern Europe. First, set fire to some cotton balls. Now, place them into the cup and pull the air out of the cup. Quickly place the cup on the body and then push it around on the skin. This brings the muscle up to the top of the skin, leaving marks on the body temporarily. As you move them around, it's like you are getting a reverse massage that will make you...
This is a video tutorial in the Education category where you are going to learn how to describe chemical formulas. A chemical formula represents the actual number of atoms of each element within a molecule. Different visual representations of molecules include the ball and stick three dimensional model, a line drawing that represents the structure in two dimensional terms, and a shorthand used by organic chemists. If a molecule has 4 green atoms and 2 orange atoms, the ratio of green to orang...
This is a video tutorial in the Sports category where you are going to learn how to play defense in soccer. Playing good defense in soccer is required to keep the ball out of your own team's goal. Adrian Heath, a professional soccer head coach, teaches you how to do this. The basics are the angle of approach and the speed of approach of the defender. You should not go too quickly or too square. If you are too square, the opponent can go outside or inside. You should be showing the opponent ei...
In this video, we learn how to choose the right club in World Golf Tour. First, judge your distance, check the wind, and pay attention to elevation. To change clubs, click on the club you have selected. Once clicked, a panel will appear with all the clubs in your bag. Click the club that you want and it will appear in the bottom left hand corner of the screen. Scroll through your clubs using the wheel on your mouse. The yards will change when you mouse over each of the different clubs that wi...
In this video we learn how to purchase WGT credits in World Golf Tour. You can purchase credits or you can win them by placing in the top percents of tournaments. You can upgrade your equipment with the credits and out of the crowded free tournaments. In the Pro Shop, you can also buy new golf balls, gear, and clubs. Like in real life, having the right drive or putter can give you the advantage in tournaments. To see how many credits you have, go to the WGT website and go to your account. Fro...
Take it from us: Shimmery makeup is REALLY easy to go overboard with. While fine, minute shimmer flecks are easier to handle, thick, coarse glitter that's evident even when you look in the eyeshadow or blush pan means it's going to make your face light up like Christmas morning...in the tackiest, most blinding way possible.
In this tutorial, we learn how to save music from MySpace as an MP3. First, download and install the Firefox plug-in from: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1843. After this, go to MySpace and search for the artist whose music you want. Then, click on the top of the browser on the "view" button, then click "page source". After this, search "mp3" at the bottom of the page, then scroll through until you see "<PARAN NAME="src"value=themp3linkwearelookingfor" and copy this. Paste thi...
In this video, we learn how to make hearty sausage meatballs. First, grab your ground meat and then add one small red onion chopped up. Next, add in 2 tbsp chopped sage, and some breadcrumbs. Mix this together with your hands to incorporate everything together, then add in 1 beaten egg and continue to mix with your hands. Let this sit in the fridge for 10 minutes, then take it out and form balls out of the meat. Cook these in a large skillet filled with oil. Make sure to cook on all sides, th...
No pain, no gain, guys. Sexy bodies with six packs aren't ever born; they're made. So if you want to look hot for the ladies the next time you're wearing swimming trunks or a bicep broadcasting t-shirt, then check out this supersonic strength training video.
In order to make a claymation puppet, you will need the following: clay in various colors and pipe cleaners. You will need to choose clay colors for clothing and skin and eye and facial features. If you want hats or accessories, you would need to keep that in mind.
Are you a big fan of origami but scared to try it out yourself for fear that your creations will turn out more like balled up pieces of paper than strong, sturdy shapes? We hear you.