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Dr. Underwood works with adolescents and their families in a rural town. While treating one adolescent male, the parents, Mr. and Mrs. Hawk, expressed frustration with their son Tony’s lack of involvement with sports. The Hawks detailed how Tony enjoyed team sports in the past, but has not enjoyed participating due to anxiety and constantly comparing himself to others. To bond and connect with the family, Dr. Underwood explains that from his experience with teens, some male teens function…

The feeling of landing the perfect triple axel, the feeling of falling on a horrid triple loop, the feeling of the ghost cold air pushing against my face as I soar across the ice. The best of all though is the feeling of being on the open ice with no one else on it but you and the judges staring at you and an arena full of people chanting your name and screaming. That is what I thought my life was going to be like, but boy was I wrong, although that is exactly my life on the ice. My life on the…

“Depression causes feelings of sadness and loss of interest in activities. It can lead to a variety of emotional and physical problems and can decrease a person's ability to function at work and home.(American Psychiatric Association)” In the book, The Catcher in The Rye By J.D Salinger uses the theme of depression to express the idea that one of the main characters Holden Caulfield faces is depression, and that depression is not an enjoyable valuable or subject for a book. In the Book Holden…

be accomplished. At the end of my Renbrook career I had been a two time captain and had won two awards one for leadership and one . Hockey was the sport I had to work the hardest for, this was because when I signed up in sixth grade I could barely skate. However I worked as hard as I could and eventually it came to me and I was skating with my other teammates. After sixth grade I had to…

It all happened in an instant, I was at one of my favorite places to be, The Incline Club. I am a young skateboarder, but quite good. I can flip, twist, turn or anything really. I love the mini bowl. That is where I learn all of my tricks like stalls, rocks, or even gaps. I especially love the foam pit. My favorite thing to do is drop in on the ten footer and then with all my speed fly right off of my board and flip and turn. My main trick is I will leap off of my speeding board in mid air then…

Weidman 2003) As skating is not defined by the standards of an organized sport, the ability to skate almost anywhere and make decisions are an important part of skater’s values. Skateboarding has a high chance of injury and little parental…

Skating had always been your passion. As much as you liked showing off tricks in the skate park during the day, nightfall had always been your favorite time to pull out your wheels. There was something about the tranquil gloom of the evening, the radiance of the stars and moon, and the eerie silence of empty streets that gave you the utmost satisfaction of just being alone with your skateboard. You wrapped yourself in a hoodie as you walked towards the front door. You sat on the floor and…

suggests that games similar to hockey, using a stick and ball and progressing toward some end goal or target, have been played somewhere in the world since the Middle Ages. Ice Hockey is a team sport played on a large surface of ice. Players wear ice skates with sharp blades that glide smoothly along the ice surface. Each team has anywhere from 12 to 30 or more players with at least one goalie. Players are designed to have three forwards, a center, a right and left wing, two defensive players…

Sometimes, we are scared to do things or just don’t like the essence of the object. Once we try or do it, we realize it’s not as bad as we think. In “Learning to Skate,” Linda’s mother made her go ice skating even though she didn’t want to and she liked it. In “Brown Onions”, Erika’s father loved onions, she despised onions so she made a deal with her father and tried the onions. Erika loved them all. In both texts, the knowledge a person has of something can make the person unaware of the great…

Stunt Scooter Riding is quickly becoming the new rage among young people at skate parks all across the world. This is probably because it is so much fun, relatively easy to learn, and the list of stunts and tricks seems endless. This fantastic emerging sport is definitely one to watch. In this article, we'll I will talk about the sport and the type of scooter you'll need. An Emerging Sport Some of you may remember the rising skateboard movement of the 70's, right? Well, probably most of you…