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hey everyone, I know I haven’t posted a post in a while so here is a small and quick one about PARKOUR!!!!

Parkour is one of the most dangerous and extreme sports there is, anyone can do it, a simple jump over a rail is parkour, but to be good at it you have to have guts and skills. It takes a lot of physical and mental strength. You need really strong upper and lower body strength to do a lot of the skills.

Parkour is about getting to point A to point B as quick as possible, so instead of taking the stairs, you climb/run up the wall, instead of opening the gate, you jump or do a vault over it. It can be really fun but at the same time really dangerous, make sure you warm up and stretch properly before each session.

If you want to learn more about parkour, an easy way is to go onto youtube (when you click on this link it will take you straight to ‘how to do parkour’ on youtube.com). Or you can just ask me what you want to know (I do parkour so it will easy to answer your questions).

Hope you enjoyed this small post and I hope you find parkour to be a fun sport

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Hey everyone, I was on the computer and i was kinda bored, so i thought I might make a post about cheerleading, so here it is……

Cheerleading is a dangerous sport that shouldn’t realy be done without a qualified coach, its a fun sport and keeps you really fit. cheerleading involves dancing, tumbling, stunts, kicks, jumps and ripples/waves, but dancing, tumbling, stunts and jumps are the 4 main and well known movements.

Dancing: dancing is pretty much all different movements one after another, if it is done well as a group and in time, it looks awesome!

Tumbling: tumbling is my favourite, most tumbling needs upper and lower body strength. Tumbling makes a routine looks awesome, the most common tumbling is forward and backward rolls, cartwheels and roundoffs, then front and back flips and handsprings, then you can put afew of them together. For example, do a roundoff then turn your rebound into a back handspring, and that looks cool if you can pull it off.

Stunts: stunts can be dangerous if you aren’t strong or don’t know what you are doing.  There are usually 5 or 4 people in a stunt group, 2 bases, the flyer, back spot and front spot. All of the people in the stunt plays an important roll, the bases, of course, lift the flyer and has to be strong enough to do so, the flyer has to be really really strong as well, ’cause if he/she is all floppy and sloppy, the bases cant lift her and she’ll fall and could get injured, the back spot helps the flyer up and either the waist or legs of the flyer or wrists of the bases (depends on what stunt is being done), the front spot hold the flyer’s ankles or the bases wrist (this too depends on what stunt is being done). But the 1 thing that everyone has to do is to catch the flyer if she falls!

Kicks: kicks are quite easy and can be done in many different positions and ways and can make a routine just that little bit better.

Jumps: jumps can be really easy but at the same time really hard. There are the easy jumps like the tuck jump, strait jump and star jump, and there are the hard jumps like the toe touch, pike and herkie that needs flexibility and a high jump. But any jump done right makes a routine look good.

Ripples/waves: ripples and waves look AWESOME!!! there are sooo many different ways and styles to do them, you can use every arm motion, jump, anything, a classic example is the Mexican wave, even one of those done well looks sweet in a routine. You can make your own ripple or wave or just look them up on google or YouTube or something. But if they are in time and done properly, they could be the winning move for your routine.

So there’s some info about everything that goes in a routine, now here is afew types of routines and what goes in them…

Stunt: there are about 5 people in a stunt routine,  and all you have to do is stunts, i guess name says it all, but it only goes for 1:30 Min’s

Pom: a pom routine involves poms (of course), kicks, jumps and dancing, put them all together and you have a good routine.

Cheer: a cheer routine involves jumps, maybe a few little kicks, tumbling, stunts and the awesome RIPPLES AND WAVES!!!!! love cheer routines.

Combo: maybe even better than cheer is the combo routine, which is the pom and cheer put together! kicks, stunts, jumps, dancing, tumbling and I’m pretty sure you can have RIPPLES AND WAVES!!! combos are good if the squad can pull it off.

Partner: a partner routine only has 2 people in it, a base and a flyer, they have 1:32 mins max to preform partner stunts.

And there you have it, there’s a few different types of routines.

I might edit this post soon, but in the mean time, i hope you liked it, until next time……… CYA!!!

P.S. sorry if the post gets dragged down the page from the add.

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In History, we are doing stuff about the Middle Ages. We played a game called fling the teacher, to finish it, you have to answer 15 questions correctly, if you answer wrong, you have to start again. I learnt a fair bit from it, I wont give too much away, so play it for your self. Its heaps fun and you learn heaps. This mini movie about a rats life will help.

Have fun.

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It is really important to have a positive digital footprint. If you are trying to get a job, employers can go on your website, blog or anything that has you mentioned on it and can find out all different things about you. If you have a positive digital footprint, you are more likely to get a job but if you have a negative digital footprint, you have a bad chance of getting one.

To keep, maintain or have a positive digital footprint, you shouldn’t put bad photos, videos or writing on the net, such as videos with you drunk or doing bad or illegal things. With a positive digital footprint, people will like you more and think that you are a good person, you will have a better chance of getting a job and who knows, someone important might see you and you might become a STAR!!!

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hi everyone, this is my first little cartoon thingy, it’s about not littering, litter kills all animals. Animals in the sea, air and land, and also the environment, so please don’t litter.

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hi everyone, Ben again, for everyone that has a trampoline but doesn’t know how to do any tricks, i will tell you how to do some. I’ll tell you the ways i learnt how to do a front flip, back flip and a half twist front flip, here you go.

1. Front flip

The front flip is quite simple, the hardest bit about it would have to be keeping strait while you’re in the air, a lot of people do like a barrel roll kind of thing. A good way to start is to do a few forward rolls, then bounce while you do them, so you do the rolls in the air, if you can’t do that, bounce really high (you need good height). Once you get the height, bounce with both feet, swing your arms (only if you need to), lean forward a little, bring your legs into your chest and tuck your head in, make sure you get the momentum so you can get the rotation and don’t land on your head. When you think the top of your head is facing the sky, release your legs, untuck your body and land on your feet. If all else fails,  just bounce, keep your body kind of strait and land on your back, keep doing that until you feel that you can go all the way.

2. Back flip
Some people say the back flip is easier than the front flip, so do I. It only took me about 5 minutes to learn how to do a back flip. Just get 1 or 2 people to help you, get them to put their hands on your back and behind your leg(s), they will help you by supporting your back and helping you flick your legs over, they can also count for you, so on 1, you everyone bends their legs, on 2, you jump up and swing your arms up and over your head, try to look behind your self aswell (this will give you momentum), the people on the side of you can slightly lift your back to give you more height or they can just swing your legs around, its up to you. Make sure you keep in a ball kind of shape. Once you feel confident enough, the side people can leave and you can do it on your own, it’s simple if you do it right.

3. Half twist front flip

Once you have nailed the front flip, all you need to do is add a twist while you are in the air, there are a few ways of doing it,

1. Kick your legs side ways when you are nearly upside down
2. Keep your body strait, look at the ground and try to twist
3. Any other ways you think you can do it

I may be a little tricky to start off with, but you should  get the hang of it.

I hope you enjoyed this post and learned something from it, if you need anymore help, just ask, now go out on your tramp and do some tricks.

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Hi everyone, in history, we have to select five things that people have to try and triumph over adversity ( it also means win over a problem), if you know what I mean. I chose these:
• Drug addict
• Prisoner of war
• Returned soldier
• Unemployed person
• City after a disaster
Once we chose the five we want to do, we had to write about how someone could overcome that problem, this is what i did.

drug addict

If someone is a drug addict, there is a few ways to ‘give up’ drugs. First off, you could simply go see a docter, but that would be difficult for a lot of people because he/she could be very dangerous to him/her self and others. If a drug addict is trying to stop using a drug, they will need a good mental strength. it will be a really hard recovery if they are trying to quit.

prisoner of war

if someone was a prisoner of war, they will need to be strong minded, courageous, and determined. The people that captured the prisoners starved them and made them work heaps. At the end of the war, the prisoner is just skin and bone, is would be extremely difficult to be a prisoner of war.

returned soldier

If someone is a returned soldier, they will have flash backs of the war and can cause damage to him self and to others. he will need to have good mental health, be brave, be strong minded and will need good friends and family to help him out with everything. It would be hard to triumph over this problem.

unemployed person

if you are an unemployed person, all you will need to put up with is not getting any money for a while, but if you don’t get a job for a ages, you wont get any money, loose you’re house, and will be living on the streets. if that happens, you will need to be brave and never give up. it would be very hard if you are an unemployed person and have been for a long time.

community after a disaster

it would be so hard to recover if the community you are in has a disaster like a cyclone or tsunami. take Darwin for example, my Auntie was near the cyclone that hit, she was lucky to not be in it. But if you were in a community after a disaster, you will need to be courageous, there for others, others should be there for you, think good thoughts of the future and try to not think about the past. it would be very difficult to triumph over this problem.

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2. students only need half an hour excercise a day, doing it for an hour a day is a little bit too much for one person.

personally, i oppose because we will be doing half an hour more exercise more than what we need to do in a day. do you  approve, or do you oppose?

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