Watch this instructional painting video to paint bamboo using sumi-e ink and Chinese rice paper. This fluid method of painting does not allow much room for mistakes. Every brush stroke counts. You should go look at some real bamboo to absorb a real sense of the plant. Spirit and technique are required to paint bamboo in the traditional style.
Instead of trying to fake a crease, Asian girls or anyone with a mono lid, can play up the beautiful natural shape of their eye with the technique demonstrated in this makeup how-to video. The cosmetics used to create this look are The Makeup Store Pencil Eyeliner, Drugstore White Eye Pencil, The Body Shop Liquid Eyeliner, Shu Uemura Eyelash Curler, and Shiseido Lasting Lift Mascara. Watch this video makeup application tutorial and learn how to create a dramatic angled Asian eye look with eye...
This cooking how-to video demonstrates a technique for light and flaky scones with food writer, Julie O'Hara. Scones are type of quick bread. Watch this video cooking lesson to learn the best method for preparing this quick bread recipe for delicious tender flaky scones. Serve your warm scones with tea.
Have you tried working out with a dumbbell chest press? A chest press with a dumbbell is an essential part of lifting weights and strength training. This fitness how-to video tutorial demonstrates do chest presses with dumbbell exercises. Learn tips and techniques for working out the chest, back, shoulders, and arms in this weightlifting video.
Back exercises are an essential part of lifting weights and strength training. This fitness how-to video tutorial demonstrates how to avoid injury and work out the back with cables. Learn tips and techniques for working out the chest, back, shoulders, and arms in this weightlifting video.
Upright barbell rows are an essential part of lifting weights and strength training. This fitness how-to video tutorial demonstrates how to work the trapezius muscle using upright barbell exercises. Learn tips and techniques for working out the chest, back, shoulders, and arms in this weightlifting video.
Cable crossovers are an essential part of lifting weights and strength training. This fitness how-to video tutorial demonstrates how to lift weights with cable crossovers. Learn tips and techniques for working out the chest, back, shoulders, and arms in this weightlifting video.
Flat bench cable flys are an essential part of lifting weights and strength training. This fitness how-to video tutorial demonstrates how to do cable weightlifting on a flat bench. Learn tips and techniques for working out the chest, back, shoulders, and arms in this weightlifting video.
Flat bench dumbbell flys are an essential part of lifting weights and strength training. This fitness how-to video tutorial demonstrates how to strengthen your muscles with dumbbell flys on a flat bench. Learn tips and techniques for working out the chest, back, shoulders, and arms in this weightlifting video.
Flat bench dumbbell presses are an essential part of lifting weights and strength training. This fitness how-to video tutorial demonstrates how to strengthen your chest with dumbbell presses on a flat bench. Learn tips and techniques for working out the chest, back, shoulders, and arms in this weightlifting video.
Incline dumbbell flys are an essential part of lifting weights and strength training. This fitness how-to video tutorial demonstrates how to pump up with dumbbell flys on an inclined bench. Learn tips and techniques for working out the chest, back, shoulders, and arms in this weightlifting video.
Rowing machines are an essential part of lifting weights and strength training. This fitness how-to video tutorial demonstrates the proper way to use a rowing machine. Rowing machines are great for the back. Learn tips and techniques for working out the chest, back, shoulders, and arms in this weightlifting video.
Pec deck butterflies are an essential part of lifting weights and strength training. This fitness how-to video tutorial demonstrates how to do butterfly exercises on a pec deck. Learn tips and techniques for working out the chest, back, shoulders, and arms in this weightlifting video.
Barbell bench presses are an essential part of lifting weights. This fitness how-to video tutorial demonstrates how bench presses with barbells will work out your shoulders. Learn tips and techniques for working out the chest, back, shoulders, and arms in this weightlifting video.
Dumbbell presses are an essential part of lifting weights. This fitness how-to video tutorial demonstrates working out chest muscles with dumbbell presses on a flat bench. Learn tips and techniques for working out the chest, back, shoulders, and arms in this weightlifting video.
Watch this instructional scrapbooking video to make a greeting card with a sparkly window frame. You can use this technique to make a small paper window in your card or make a picture frame. You can use store bought cut outs or use recycled pieces of scraps and ribbon. This unique card is good for thank you cards, holidays, bat mitzvahs and birthdays.
Active Expert Gale Bernhardt provides helpful tips on cornering techniques for cyclists in this instructional cycling video. Depending on the particular situation you're faced with when turning the corner, you may have to turn a corner with a tight radius or a wide radius. See how fast you can go in each situation and learn how to turn the corner the fastest way around a corner in various circumstances with this cycling tutorial video.
Check out this triathlon instructional video that provides a few tips on how to improve your T1 time by mastering Gale Bernhardt's techniques by transitioning from swim to bike faster. Polish your transition by trimming seconds and even minutes to your time by following these steps. A good thing to practice at home is your transitions. Improve your transitions from swim to bike faster with this triathlon tutorial video.
Are you as efficient going uphill as you are going downhill? Learn what to look out for the next time you're riding uphill with this instructional cycling video. There really isn't a right or wrong as far as being seated or standing when approaching a hill. Follow a few simple checks and techniques with this cycling tutorial video.
Check out this instructional swimming video that demonstrates how to improve your swimming abilities by practicing the top three swim drills. Learn how to use "slow arm recovery," "quick catch" and "high swingers" to improve your swim stroke. Swim coaches use a wide variety of techniques to enable a swimmer to swim efficiently. Incorporate these into your work out to make your stroke effective with this swimming tutorial video.
Six-time Ironman Champion Dave Scott teaches proper biomechanics for endurance runners. Check out this instructional cross country video that demonstrates a few techniques that can improve your running form. Just follow these biomechanics tips: head looking straight forward, shoulders relaxed and low, elbow flexion of 80-90 degrees, hands come up to lower breastbone, pelvis tucked under hips, avoid heel strike, foot lands aligned with chest.
Watch this Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu tutorial video with Kurt Osiander and the Move of the Week as he illustrates this simple choke. It's all dependent on the force you apply to your opponent. Practice this simple choke technique with this instructional video and improve your Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu skills!
Watch this Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu tutorial video with Kurt Osiander and the Move of the Week as he illustrates a very simple sweep from the guard. This is a pretty basic move that you can easily perform. Practice your sweep from the guard technique with this instructional video and improve your Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu skills!
Watch this Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu tutorial video with Kurt Osiander and the Move of the Week as he illustrates his version of the Crucifix Choke. Learn a few tips to perform this move effectively. Practice your Crucifix Choke technique with this instructional video and improve your Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu skills!
Watch this Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu tutorial video with Kurt Osiander and the Move of the Week as he illustrates his very own Guillotine from Butterfly Guard, and the switches to maintain the choke if the opponent tries to be slick. Practice your Guillotine from Butterfly guard technique with this instructional video and improve your Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu skills!
Watch this Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu tutorial video with Kurt Osiander and the Move of the Week as he illustrates the choke arm bar combo. You will also learn what NOT to do with your feet when your hooks are in. Practice your choke arm bar combo technique with this instructional video and improve your Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu skills!
Watch this Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu tutorial video with Kurt Osiander and the Move of the Week as he illustrates the Loop Choke on Dmitri McKay. Learn a few very important details to perform this move effectively. Practice your Loop Choke technique with this instructional video and improve your Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu skills!
Watch this Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu tutorial video with Kurt Osiander and the Move of the Week as he illustrates the rear jump to the arm bar attack. It's all dependent on the force you apply to the back of your opponent's neck. Practice your rear jump to arm bar attack technique with this instructional video and improve your Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu skills!
Watch this Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu tutorial video with Kurt Osiander and the Move of the Week as he illustrates the double under takedown on Nick. It's a very simple way of taking someone straight to the floor without much effort. Practice your double under takekedown technique with this instructional video and improve your Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu skills!
Watch this Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu tutorial video with Kurt Osiander and the Move of the Week as he illustrates the proper Spin Choke (also known as the Baseball choke) on Jeremy. It's important to have stable side control with this move. Practice your Spin Choke technique with this instructional video and improve your Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu skills!
If you are looking to begin playing the guitar then this how to video is the place to start. Here's a simple accompaniment for "You Are My Sunshine" using three chords and some basic fingerpicking. You will learn the chords for this song and some easy fingerpicking techniques. With this tutorial you will learn how to play and sing along to "You Are My Sunshine."
If you are looking to begin playing the bass then this how to video is the place to start. This is a short demonstration lesson detailing the basic principles of walking bass lines. You will learn some easy scales and how to play a walking bass line for whatever song you are playing. With this tutorial you will learn tips to improve your walking bass technique.
As a follow-up video to inference locking, this Google SketchUp tutorial shows how to combine a series of roof forms together using inference locking. You will also use arrays and copying to create dormers. Please keep in mind, this isn't a video on roofs, but an example of various inference locking techniques and how they work in Google SketchUp.
Inference locking is the ability to draw or move in only one locked direction in SketchUp. This SketchUp tutorial will teach you how to use the inference lock technique and show a few examples of inference locking in use and the advantages it has for modeling and navigating the SketchUp viewport.
Learn how to knit in the round using a fixed circular needle. Use this technique to knit sweater sleeves, hats, socks, and scarves. There are many way to knit in the round, but this video demonstrates how to knit a hat shaped form with a fixed circular knitting needle.
The full sit up is the second event of the Army Physical Fitness Test (APFT) or Physical Readiness Test (PRT). Use this clip to better understand the rules, breathing techniques, and overall strategies to achieve best results. In this fitness tutorial, SSG Ken Weichert, Army Master fitness trainer, teaches you how to do sit ups properly.
The ukulele is a beautiful and unique stringed instrument that is perfect for the traveling musician because it is so portable and relatively inexpensive. The ukelele is a version of a small guitar that originated in Hawaii. In this tutorial you will learn how to play the ska strum on your ukulele. Once you get a hang of this technique you will be able to play some easy songs on the uke.
So you're weaving a narrow band. How do you keep the edges nice and straight? Here's a technique that combines weft insertion, beat, and selvedge control. It's useful for inkle weaving, tabletweaving, rigid heddle weaving, backstrap weaving... or even weaving small bands on a big loom. Try it!
It's difficult to maintain a sense of perspective when drawing smaller forms. Watch this instructional drawing video to draw using a technique called landmarking. Draw marks on the surface of a three-dimensional objects to note how an "X" will change as it moves along the surface of a sphere. This will help you to give form to an object even when drawing small shape.
The ukulele is a beautiful and unique stringed instrument that is perfect for the traveling musician because it is so portable and relatively inexpensive. The ukelele is a version of a small guitar that originated in Hawaii. In this tutorial you will learn how to play slides on the ukulele. Once you get a hang of this technique you will be able to play some easy songs on the uke.
