Crossed Up: Does Crossed Hand/Eye Dominance Affect Basketball Shooting Percentage? Abstract Everyone ’s used to the idea that people are either right-handed or left-handed for particular tasks. That is‚ one hand is preferred (or dominant) over the other for a particular task. Did you know that people also have a dominant eye? This project is designed to look for consequences of having the dominant hand and eye on the same side of the body (uncrossed) vs. having the dominant hand and eye on opposite
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Basketball is a common sport around the nation. It has an offense and a defense like any other sport does. The players have to make the shots to gain the points within the four quarters. It’s not that easy to just make shots‚ there’s certain plays and a way to set up each play to make a basket‚ or also defend your basket. Each position has its own importance on the field and nothing like a little teamwork will get the job done. There are three main positions to make up an offense or defense play
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peeling red walls of the ancient gym. Fluorescent lights blind me as I turn to glance over at the creaky old bleachers. The shuffles and murmurs of parents fill the sticky air while they come in. Clad in itchy mesh jerseys that boasted a large spur on the front hung over the equally uncomfortable shorts that resembled the jet black of my jersey‚ I block out the cheers of the crowd while attempting to perfect my form. Swish! The basketball floats through the air‚ gliding perfectly‚ hurdling through the
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there are many cardiovascular benefits of basketball. Between bouts of running‚ jumping‚ dribbling‚ and bouts of rests‚ kids are participating in total body interval training without even realizing it. Interval training boosts aerobic capacity‚ energy levels‚ and metabolism‚ which in turn helps kids concentrate more in school. The ability to control our limbs in space may come naturally‚ but being able to pass and shoot with precision during a basketball game takes special training and repetitive
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behind my head. I sense that my room is still messed up from the night before after I threw my gym bag down from practice yesterday night. I stretch my arms and legs as I prepare to get out of my warm bed. I was so sore from practice it felt as if my muscles turned of and I couldn’t move for the whole time. I started to get the feeling back into my body and I put my hand against the cold alarm clock as I turn it off but it continues to buzz louder and louder. My knees crack‚ as I rest my feet onto
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Many people have a difficult time letting go of their past. When you can’t let go of your past‚ you can’t move forward into the future. In the “Ex-Basketball Player” by John Updike‚ Flick Webb finds himself holding onto the past and not being able to move on. Flick’s disappointment in the present causes him to try and relive the glory days of life that he had in the past. To explore Flick’s disappointment in the present‚ Updike utilizes setting‚ tone‚ and irony. In the first stanza‚ Updike
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hardest things I have ever done in my life. I have been playing basketball since I was about six years old and I love the sport like I love my family. At my age it is hard to find a job I really love‚ not a career‚ but just a job I enjoy going to. In about May 2013 I was hired at a Nike factory store and I was very excited because Nike is one of my favorite brands ever. It came a time where I was not able to do both‚ play basketball and work. The money was so good and I needed‚ but basketball was my favorite
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Greg "Slam" Harris who loves to play basketball. But one day he has to switch school because his parent couldn’t afford for him to be in the school he was so he had to move. He doesn’t want to move because all the people that he knows are at the other school even his girlfriend. When he gets to the new school he realizes that it was not so bad; the only thing that he doesn’t like is his P.E teacher and his math teacher. One day he decides to join the basketball team‚ his favorite sport‚ and finds
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John Jordan Game #3 Kickball Basketball (modified) In this version of kickball basketball there are 2 teams with about 13 players on each team. The game is still played on a full sized basketball court. In this game the pitcher rolls out the ball to the kicker‚ and the kicker kicks it. After the kick has been made‚ the objective of the offense is for them to run as fast as they can around the basses to get to home plate before the defense makes 5 passes and shoot the ball into the basket
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Per Hindrikes Personal Journal #1 September 9th 2009 Basketball Step 1 The sport we played was basketball and we played it in the Georges-Vanier Park. The warm-up exercise was a simple game called bump. The object of the game is to score a basket before the person behind you scores a basket. If the person behind you gets it in‚ you are out of the game. We did not really cover any technical aspects of the game‚ but we did cover some tactical aspects. First of all there are 5 players on each
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