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Have the confidence to go for what you want with online learning

Have the confidence to go for what you want with online learning

Article by Sarah Maple

Well it’s my last year of university and I am looking forward to completing my degree with good grades, a wealth of knowledge behind me and a good outlook on the future. After I get my results I am going to meet my fellow students where we will celebrate with a few drinks and a celebratory meal.

The only difference between us and the thousands of other students who will receive their degrees this year is that we are students taking our degrees online rather than in classrooms. In fact this will only be the third time that I and my fellow students have met each other face to face.

I have been doing my online degree with Kaplan open learning. As a mum with a full time job I didn’t think that I would ever have the opportunity to go back to university. There was so much that I wanted to do with my life but as I lacked a degree I also found that I lacked the confidence to apply for the jobs that I really wanted.

That all changed when my daughter came home from college one day and told me that she was thinking of doing an online degree after she finished her final exams in June. At first I didn’t like the idea but the more I looked into it the more I started thinking that it might be something I would like to do myself. In the end my daughter decided to go away to university to meet more people and experience a bit more independence but I was still hooked on the idea of home learning.

I finally decided on the best accredited online degree for my and applied. More and more UK Universities are posting their resources online for the benefit of students by putting up resources such as podcasts, notes and powerpoint presentations to help students catch up when they are busy with assignments. Putting a whole course online is just taking it one step further and seems to make perfect sense. A quality resource is Kaplan Distance Learning.

I would feel out of place in lecture halls full of bright young students and the idea that I would have to commute and take time off work to attend hourly lessons was ludicrous. This coupled with the huge amount of money it would have taken to send my daughter and myself to university gave me confidence that I was doing the right thing by learning at home and in my own time.

I chose a course in Business Management as It was something I was interested in and believed would help take me to a higher level in my current job as a sales team coordinator. The course exceeded my expectations and the joy of learning an interesting subject in an innovative atmosphere gave me a huge sense of achievement.

I honed my internet skills navigating round a ‘virtual’ classroom where you could compare notes and chat to other students which was not hard as there were only 24 of us in the class. I felt as though I received a huge amount of support from tutors and at no point did I feel like I was doing anything less than a worth while and beneficial degree.

Thanks to my online university I now have the confidence to always go for what I want.

About the Author

Sarah Maple writes about Adult Education and Online Courses.

Want a Better Mount for MMA and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Now?

Want a Better Mount for MMA and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Now?

Article by Brian Deusenberry

We have all watched Mixed Martial Arts Competitions, seen a fighter get the mounted position and hear the crowd roar only to find the top fighter to get rolled or not be able to finish the fight. Even in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu tournaments you receive four points just for mounting your opponent. Is the mount more of a moral victory than an effective position?

The mount can be the most effective position in fighting, but you have to keep it and not get reversed. First off let’s divide the mount in two categories, a high mount and a low mount. The high mount is more for striking and the low mount is more for looking for a submission.

There is a documentary called “Gracie in Action” it’s about showing the effectiveness of Jiu-Jitsu. Time and time again the Gracie representative would close the distance, take his opponent down, mount them, and begin to strike them to get them to turn their back where they would apply a choke winning the fight. The fighters in the video were mainly using a high mount.

So originally in street fighting the mount was used to strike a person to encourage him to roll over exposing his back ready to be choked. How do you keep this mount? When you’re mounted to strike you sit straight up with good posture and keep your knees high in their arm pits while reigning down punches. You keep your knees high in their armpits as opposed to over their stomach so when they bridge or buck their hips you’re not affected. Keep in mind this high is more of a striking guard so use your punches to distract him from escaping and feeling like his only choice is to turn his back.

The second mount is more of a low mount riding your opponent wearing him out maintaining your position while looking for submissions. Let’s look at a way to be in the low mount and make it virtually impossible to get rolled. The first thing is too put one of your arms behind their head that keeps him from bench pressing you off. The second thing is put your head down on the opposite side of his head. The third is to keep your other arm out to the side as a post to keep him from rolling you that way. The fourth thing is too keep your knees wide with big toes touching each other so if he bucks you have him hooked with your feet. While in this position your opponent will try to push on your knees trying to recover guard. When he does this on the side where that you are posting your arm out, use this had to reach down and pluck his hand from your knee. If your opponent does this on the side where your arm is behind his head move your arm away from the knee he is pushing on, stretching him out.

When you start implementing these strategies into your mount game pay attention to how your training partner reacts, especially in the low mount, is he protecting his neck? What does he do with his arms? Does he turn to his side? In jiu-jitsu each reaction causes a predictable reaction, use this knowledge to your advantage. Good luck training!

About the Author

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Want to Know More About Long Putters?

Want to Know More About Long Putters?

If you are looking for an opportunity to choose from some of the best putters that is out there in the market you should check out one of the sales that display putters. The range, style and size found here include everything that one needs for in a putter. In fact with better variety of greens the short putters are out; most people are opting for the long putters nowadays.

The long putters are better than the shorter ones mainly because they help to control wrist movement by concentrating the force on the stomach or the chest. These long ones are provided with what is known as a split grip for better support. Therefore, the wrist does not interfere with the swings. There are three main kinds of putters normally found these days:

Regular- These are around 36 inches long

Long- The length of this variety ranges between 38 to 45 inches

Extra Long- These are of course the longest at 52 inches

Long putters focus the grip and the swing on a single central point so that it relieves the fine motor muscles of the hand and prevents it from being de emphasized. It is best to indulge in trial sessions with these putters on the green to get the hang of it. These putters allow one to swing the shoulders freely like a pendulum which is prevented by short putters which only allow average quality handsy strokes.

The correct way to take grip of a long putter is to use your left hand to control the grip and your right hand to hold the handle as you normally would with any other club. Ideally the putter height should be till the chest pocket of your golf t shirt while you are standing at a slightly bent posture. You should also go ahead with any other kind of grip that you are comfortable with, with the putter. A lot of people hold it like they would hold a pencil.

There are two ways of pressurizing the head of the putter:

You can either pull or push you right arm holding the handle of the club at all times while doing this in order to strike the ball.

You can also use your shoulder in a rocking motion to do the same.

The idea is to keep the torso of your body unmoving so that it can act as a pivot for your swing. Using the shoulders to rock the motion and hit the ball keeps the right hand rigid. Both techniques ultimately provide the same result: to keep the upper body unmoving and using the limbs or the shoulders for the swing.

You can use the long putters instead of the short ones so that the wrist movement is restricted to the minimum. Extra long putters also serve the same purpose; both using a particular center point of the sternum or the stomach. However, one needs to practice regularly in order to get a hang of this new technique of taking a shot. Without practice it is quite a task to get rid of one’s golf handicap.

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Want to Know More About Long Putters?

Want to Know More About Long Putters?

Article by Paul Hobart

* Regular- These are around 36 inches long

* Long- The length of this variety ranges between 38 to 45 inches

* Extra Long- These are of course the longest at 52 inches

There are two ways of pressurizing the head of the putter:

* You can either pull or push you right arm holding the handle of the club at all times while doing this in order to strike the ball.

* You can also use your shoulder in a rocking motion to do the same.

About the Author

Visit http://bananaputting.com to learn how to improve your golf game today with Banana Putting!

I Could Play Golf Like Tiger Woods I Just Don’t Want To

I Could Play Golf Like Tiger Woods I Just Don’t Want To

There have been many talented and disciplined people over the years that climbed to fame by performing consistently at the top levels of professional sports but Tiger Woods has succeeded in dominating his sport totally, joining the ranks of legends like Michael Jordan and Wayne Gretsky. This article attempts to study the motivations of the superstar as he chose golf as a profession and went on to rack up astronomical statistics.

Golf is a sport that should be started as young as possible so that a natural swing can develop and become a smooth body motion, and Eldrick Tont Woods, known as Tiger Woods, was playing since he could stand upright. He was born in California so there was year-round warm weather to make serious golfing possible. His family was well-off enough to join the golfing class. Golf courses aren’t accessible to everyone so the children from the more affluent middle class have the advantage of being able to own golf equipment and maintain a club membership where dad takes his hacks at the golf balls and loses them in the rough regularly. There are special clothes to wear at the country club and a number of golf accessories to buy, such as golf shoes, jackets, golf bags, and carts to wheel the golf clubs from hole to hole. It’s not an easy game to master; it’s more associated with frustration, anger, and divot-digging missed shots where colorful language turns to a more vulgar type of cursing at the unfairness of life on the fairways and five-putt greens.

Duffers the world over use to cringe at the under-par scores of their heroes like Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus, and Gary Player back in the 1960s when golfers tossed their cigarettes on the green while they putted out. Overall health wasn’t stressed in those days, in fact the cigarette companies were major sponsors and golf professionals could pick up some advertisement money by pitching a favorite brand of cancer stick that makes them play better. Tournament money was an attraction to lure some golfers into the gym to get the edge on the competition but there are still some top golfers who are out of shape and overweight. A good swing is a good swing and the rest is gravy.

Tiger Woods was ready to mop up all the gravy by being in tremendous shape; he can also play a better game asleep than most of us can while awake. A score for eighteen holes from Tiger is lower than the average person’s score for nine holes. Not surprisingly, Woods had appeared on national TV before the age of three where he putted against Bob Hope on the Mike Douglas show. He was raised in Cypress California and scored a 48 over nine holes at the Cypress Navy golf course, also before the age of three. Adults would be happy to have such a low score; many of us can’t break 100 over eighteen holes. At the age of fifteen in 1991, Tiger became the youngest ever junior champion and he was uniformly dynamic in his college and amateur career.

After his 1999 Memorial Tournament win on the pro tour he began the longest winning streak since 1974 and the following year he won three majors, nine PGA tour events, and he set or tied twenty-seven Tour records. He continued winning until Vijay Singh finally halted the streak and beat Tiger to become the number one ranked player in the world. The two traded the number one spot back and forth for a while but Woods prevailed over and over to become the highest money-winner in golfing history.

Tiger scored even better with the ladies; many of us envy the money and endorsements that come with super-stardom but it comes at a terrible cost to the essential bodily fluids when slinky cocktail waitresses keep seeking to sap your energy and pollute your purity of essence with their admiring lust. Being draped with beautiful women is just one of those sacrifices that a true professional like Tiger Woods takes onto himself; no doubt extra conditioning is needed to help him get through the exhausting nights that would slay the average man. However, life is tough getting out of the rough when word of his other record-setting activities gets back to the wife.

SEO consultant Pat Boardman presents this information in respect to Tiger Cub Junior Golf Clubs, manufacturers of golf equipment and makers of golf club sets and who manufacture golf balls and golf accessories.