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How To: Develop a child's motor skills with pop beads

According to Shelley Lovett Pop Beads are a wonderful addition to any early learning environment. In this video Lovett starts by showing all of the different shapes, sizes and colors the Pop Beads come in. She also explains to the viewer where the beads can be purchased. Lovett then demonstrates how the unique construction of the beads makes it somewhat difficult to snap them together. Yet is it the required pinching and grasping that makes playing with Pop Beads so beneficial to developing a...

How To: Steer when rowing

Check out this instructional rowing video that demonstrates how to steer when rowing. Steering is a fundamental rowing skill. It is similar to rowing a canoe or a kayak. Learn facts and skills for competitive rowing in this rowing video.

How To: Pass a hockey puck

Check out this instructional hockey video that demonstrates how to pass a hockey puck. Learn how to do a four hand pass. Passing the puck is a fundamental hockey skill. Learn ice hockey skills and moves in this sports video on how to play hockey.

How To: Master inside outside edges

Check out this instructional hockey video that demonstrates the beginning concepts of skating. Learn how to do inside outside edges. Ice skating for hockey requires skills like mastering inside outside edges. Learn hockey skills and moves in this sports video on how to play hockey.

How To: Coach Fundamental Offensive Skills in Youth Volleyball

Volleyball is very much an offensive sport. Even when you're playing defensive, you're playing offensively, too. So, how do you improve a young girl's offensive skills as a coach? This video talks with Burt Weller, who gives great information for teaching your volleyball team the fundamental offensive skills. Learn some great volleyball drills that will get your players to be scoring, spiking machines.

How To: Deal with social anxiety & improve your social skills

This video tutorial is in the Motivation & Self Help category which will show you how to deal with social anxiety and improve your social skills. In this video Momo answers some questions on social skills and gives a few suggestions on what to do when the panic sets in. The panic sets in either because you have nothing to say or you have expectations. Usually it is expectations. You got expectations from your teachers, your parents, your friends or your peers. When you have expectations when ...

How To: Improve your social skills

In this video, we learn how to improve your social skills. First, you should have a positive attitude and try to change how people think. You want to never tell people that they are wrong, just help guide people through life. Communicate with people and really listen to what they have to say to you. Make sure that you offer you opinion but give it with a positive attitude. People will listen to what you have to say and when you are passionate it will make then believe you more. Good social sk...

How To: Overcome shyness quickly

In this tutorial, Peter Murphy tells us how to overcome shyness. The first step to do this is to build an unstoppable self-confidence in ourselves. The second skill is to develop excellent communication skills. This isn't just being good at talking to other people, it's by learning to improve each and every day. If you put attention on becoming more confident, each day you will find that shyness becomes less of an issue for you. If you practice being more outgoing and meeting new people in di...

How To: Keep yourself from being stripped of the football

Fumbling the ball is the most embarrassing thing that a running back can do on the football field. This video features NFL skills instructors demonstrating one good drill for teaching ball protection skills: having the running back player run through a gauntlet of other players who will all try to strip the ball from them.

How To: Practice Some Volleyball Positions and Skills

Volleyball is a very challenging, fun, and rewarding sport. This video demonstrates some drills that you can do, or have your athletes do, to improve their volleyball skills. It includes an explanation of the different volleyball positions. It follows this with some training techniques including having players play their unnatural positions and how to serve properly.

How To: Warm up in basketball

Get your b-ball game on with this video on how to warm up for basketball! Learn a few great exercises to help perfect your basketball skills on the court! Begin with these warm-up drills to get your muscles warm and your skills even warmer!

How To: Do the I VI II V jazz guitar exercise

Jazz guitar is one of the deepest, most challenging, and most rewarding kinds of playing. This video by Justin teaches us an jazz guitar exercise designed to work on I VI II V I chords. Some skill is definitely required, but if you're an experienced jazz player this exercise should very much help you improve your skills.

How To: Draw a graffiti design with a mustachioed figure

For those among you looking to improve you small-scale pencil-and ink graffiti skills, you could not ask for a better silent teacher than Wizard. His viewer-requested drawings always demonstrate a high degree of skill while being simple and slowly-done enough to allow his fan to emulate him and improve their own art. His trademark well-chosen electrofunk soundtracks are perfect background music for the graffiti creation process.

How To: Draw a graffiti-style clown

Wizard is back, and manages to outdo himself in this virutouso display of graffiti skills. In this video he turns his tremendous skills to drawing a clown head, but ups the ante by eschewing his usual technique of pre-drawing in pencil and going straight to permanent inks (sharpie and fabric pen). Rembrandt would be proud.

How To: Construct a door for a debris hut

If you ever get lost in the wilderness, with no shelter you'll be happy that you watched this video beforehand. From Maine Primitive Skills School instructor Mike Douglas shows how to build a door to a shelter made out of debris as well as troubleshoots common problems. Don't lose to the wilderness... beat it with your own survival skills!

How To: Improve your dexterity for guitar playing w/ exercises

If you are just starting guitar or are trying to improve your skills then this is the video for you. In this video Andrew from Creative Guitar Studio will teach and show you, stretch and dexterity exercises to improve you guitar skills. You will also see left and right hand coordination exercises. The video starts with an add 2 chord and then follows up with 8 other exercises to improve you guitar skills. Some of these include timing, finger independence, chromatic string exercises, and finge...

How To: Speak basic meeting and greeting phrases

Do you need to learn some basic French skills? This great vocabulary tutorial from learnlanguages1.googlepages.com will teach you some essential meeting and greeting phrases that will give you a jump start in speaking quickly and proficiently. It includes comprehensive context and pronunciation information that will save you hours of time and probably help you avoid a great deal of embarrassment. With this excellent series of free videos, you can greatly improve your French language skills qu...

How To: Make a snare for trapping in the wild

Whether you are venturing on a rugged camping trip, or simply want to brush on your outdoor survival skills, this video will come in handy. Learn how to make a snare for trapping animals when out in the wild. While this trap is illegal in some states, the skill can be useful to know in any desperate survival situation.

How To: Save one-on-one shots in soccer

Become a better footballer with Coach King's Skill School from the UK's best-selling football magazine, MATCH. This how-to video shows how to save one-on-one goal attempts. Being a goalie takes a lot of skill, but learn some techniques to prevent the opponents from scoring. Watch this video soccer tutorial and learn how to save one-on-one shots.

How To: Catch soccer penalty kicks

Become a better footballer with Coach King's Skill School from the UK's best-selling soccer magazine, MATCH. This how-to video shows how to save penalties. There's a lot of skill involved in being a good goalie, but this video breaks the basics down into simple steps. Watch this video soccer tutorial and learn how to catch penalty kicks to keep them from getting into the goal.