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    Basketball Training

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    for 20 minutes each. This will help in stamina and jumping will help when shooting in basketball. STEP 3 – PRE EXERCISES (60 minutes) This is the most important exercise. In this‚ we will have to run. Run at least at speed 6km/hr. for fast runners‚ this should be increased. This will build your stamina if done continuously. Also‚ it will build your leg muscles which is very important whilst playing basketball as we need speed to tackle and attack. STEP 4 – THE FIGURE 8 DRILL (30 minutes) Bend

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    The History of Basketball

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    The history of basketball On December 21 of 1891‚ James Naismith published 13 rules for a new game using five base ideas. Originally‚ there was no set rule on the number of players. After experimenting with teams up to 50 players‚ early games were played by nine players on each side. The reason was that 18 students showed up for Naismith’s class on that day. He asked his class to play a match in the Armory Street court‚ 9 versus 9 using a soccer ball and two fruit baskets. Naismith was the inventor

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    Basketball History

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    to do the history of basketball because basketball has always been one of my favorite sports and basketball is an entertaining game to watch and to play. The game of basketball was invented by Dr. James Naismith in 1839. The objective of the game back then was to throw the basketball into fruit baskets nailed to the lower railing gym balcony. Every time a point was scored‚ the game was halted so the janitor could bring out a ladder and retrieve the ball. The game of basketball has developed over time

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    The history of basketball

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    Basketball is the most popular indoor sport in the world. It is also one of the few sports whose year of birth and originator can be traced back to 100% correctly‚ a man by the name of Dr. James A. Naismith in the year of 1891. Even though the game was started and grew in the United States‚ it is now played and watched in more than 150 countries. When Dr. Naismith invented the game basketball‚ he was a physical education teacher at the International Training School of the Young Men’s Christian Association

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    Effusion In Basketball

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    Does the temperature outside affect how fast molecules move inside objects? Charles Law helps us understand how molecules move in different temperatures. It states that increasing the temperature of a constant pressure volume of gas causes individual gas molecules to move faster (Andrew Staroscik Staroscik 9/19/16)‚ and the volume is proportional to the absolute temperature of a gas at (Todd Helmenstine 10/16/16). Therefore‚ as the temperature increases‚ so does the speed of the molecules‚ and when

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    Change Your Lens and Change Your World The book starts with the story of the writer Faiez Seyal himself. The story concludes how a boy of sixteen years started supporting himself by teaching the primary classes and after getting married at the age of just 17 with nothing in his hand to support him‚ he struggles very hard to fulfill his promise. Then he moves abroad for higher education for his family and come back after completing his education to serve his country. Still he was feeling something

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    History of Basketball

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    History of Basketball Basketball was invented in December 1891 by the Canadian clergyman‚ educator‚ and physician James Naismith. Naismith introduced the game when we was an instructor at the Young Men’s Christian Association Training School (now Springfield College) in Springfield‚ Massachusetts. At the request of his superior‚ Dr. Luther H. Gulick‚ he organized a vigorous recreation suitable for indoor winter play. The game involved elements of American football‚ soccer‚ and hockey‚ and the first

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    The History Of Basketball

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    Since its beginning over a century ago‚ basketball has evolved from a simple form of exercise with only a few rules to a highly competitive and complex national sport. Basketball was invented by James Naismith at a YMCA in Springfield‚ Massachusetts‚ in 1891 (Fox 11-13). It began as an activity for the “‘ball-game’ void” months of winter (Hanson 65)‚ and Naismith had five standards for the game. He wanted a ball that could be handled by a player’s hands; no one was to run with the ball‚ and anyone

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    extraordinary amount of dire and both fortunate and unfortunate events have happened causing life-changing results in both the past and in modern society. In the 20th century‚ events such as these have had both a devastating and a great impact in the world. One event in particular that happened in the 20th century is the signing of the Treaty of Versailles. This treaty was signed as a peace making process at the end of WWI even though absolutely no peace would come as a result of it. The treaty was

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    explorers who went around the world for different reasons. The only thing they had in common was who they served and when they served. A few of these men made the world what it is today and changed the course of history forever. The men who most drastically changed

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