Short players might not be able to dunk, pull down rebounds and block shots, but they can develop other basketball skills that give them a leg up on the competition. Short players are typically faster than tall players, and the speed edge helps neutralize the size disadvantage. While taller players typically set up close to the basket and wait for passes before shooting and scoring, short players have an easier time handling the basketball and taking shots from longer range. Much like tall players, short basketball players need to identify...
Like most sports, volleyball requires skill and athleticism, with two teams of six players competing to score points by hitting a ball over a tall net. Yet despite the basic similarities to other sports, volleyball has a number...
Bodyboarding is an ocean sport, using a board shorter and wider than a typical surfboard. Bodyboards, made from foam instead of fiberglass, are lighter and more maneuverable than surfboards, which makes it less difficult --- bu...
Bodyboarding, also known as boogie-boarding, is a water sport that is similar to surfing except you do it lying on the board. Most bodyboards are wider than common surfboards, and most of the time you wear flippers on your feet...
Although bodyboarding looks much like surfing, it has some differences that give it an identity of its own. The sport started as a simple alternative to surfing, since it remains much easier to lie on your stomach than to stand...
Bodyboarding is a prominent offshoot of ocean surfing that involves high-speed maneuvers and aerial tricks. Compared to the elongated design of the conventional surfboard, the bodyboard features a compact length and extended wi...
Balance boards --- which go by several other names, such as "wobble boards" --- function similar to see-saws in terms of their unsettling, wobbly movement that suspends a flat, horizontal standing area atop a single lever poin...
Riding a Boogie board, or bodyboard, is a water sport similar to surfing except that you do it lying down on the board. The Boogie board is usually wider than a typical surfboard, and you wear flippers to help you maneuver. One...
The term has been associated with golf, auto racing, poker and paintball, among others. Sometimes, sandbagging is incorrectly used to describe strategic maneuvers. A person who "slow plays" a great poker hand to encourage other...
The sport of stand up paddling may have its roots in Polynesian culture, but its popularity has grown in the 21st century. Surfers and nonsurfers alike are being drawn to the water and getting to their feet.
It's fun; it's g...
While bodyboarding is often considered surfing's simpler counterpart, the sport has advanced considerably since its creation in 1971 by surfer Tom Morey. Since then, bodyboarding has evolved to contain all the elements that mak...
history was Ernestine "Ernie" Bayer, who fought for decades to make female rowing an accepted sport. Bayer, who died in 2006 at the age of 97, is known as the mother of women's rowing in the United States. Rowing, along with ot...
You don't have to be a professional basketball analyst to spot a hoops team in an airport -- they're the really tall guys. While many other sports rely more on skill and athleticism than size, basketball is unusual in that its ...
The original Nerf ball was a round, all-purpose squishy ball, but its popularity led to the development of the Nerf football, as well as balls for other sports and polyurethane foam projectiles. "Time" magazine named the Nerf b...
One of the characteristics of basketball that makes it such an accessible game to so many people is the relatively small amount of equipment the sport requires. Other than a basketball hoop and basketball, the game requires lit...
A skim board is a short, typically wooden board used to ride the receding waves at the beach. Successfully riding the skim board requires good balance and timing, both of which you learn after a bit of practice. A flat beach wi...
Skimboarding is a popular beach water sport that uses a small board, similar to a surfboard, to glide over the water. Unlike surfers, skimboarders ride on the water into the ocean, instead of waiting for waves to carry them to ...
A one-punch knockout is more a matter of luck than of applied skill, says Albuquerque, New Mexico-based boxing and kickboxing coach Bill Packer. Most often a knockout in the ring is the result of not one punch, but a series of ...
A Ripstik is a caster board, which is a board with two wheels that resembles a skateboard in appearance and function. A Ripstik consists of of two platforms that are joined together by a short beam containing a spring. Each pla...
To balance on an Indo Board, you rock back and forth, using your arms, legs and body to maintain your balance. The Indo Board is designed to train your core muscles and legs and to improve your balance control. Surfers, skatebo...
Skimboarding, a sport similar to surfing, involves riding a board out away from the shore into oncoming waves in an attempt to catch them and turn back toward the shore while performing tricks and other stunts, according to Ski...
As with surfing and skateboarding, early pioneers learned how shapes, sizes and materials could push the sport to new heights. "Today, skimboarding is one of the most high-tech water sports anywhere, while continuing to be one ...
Balance boards are excellent exercise devices. They can help to improve your balance, stability and core strength as well as exercise and tone leg muscles. Commercially available boards can be quite expensive, but in a few hou...
Along with finger (phalanx) fractures and scaphoid fractures, boxer's (fifth metacarpal) fractures are the most common hand fractures. This is the bone leading up to the pinkie finger. The other metacarpals are more cushioned b...
What's behind this and does it lead to arthritis or other joint problems?
Watching great athletes like Steve Nash or Tiger Woods (who embodies the process-oriented peak performance approach with his enduring goal of trying to hit each shot perfectly with total focus) provides a refreshing and empower...
Sailing is a sport, one in which you get better with practice just like any other sport. Unlike a powerboat, you can't just turn on a key and go. Beginners learn to sail beside an experienced sailor or by taking lessons. In ad...
A shuttlecock is a cone shaped object that is used in badminton and other similar sports. The cone has a rounded, cork base and 16 feathers that overlap and are attached to the cork base. The cork is then covered with a piece ...
Besides surfing, windsurfing (also called sailboarding), bodyboarding, wakeboarding and knee boarding take place on the water. Some board sports, like windsurfing, use a sail, while others, like knee boarding, incorporate a tow...
