Monthly Archives: March 2018

Getting Started With Fencing

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I am doing the post as a follow up on the post, All About the Sport of Sabre Fencing. I hope the post inspired you to give it a try! If so, this is a post about how to get started with this amazing sport.

To get started with fencing, you need to find a club in your area that offers a beginner’s class. Almost every club does. This class will teach you the basics of fencing and help you figure out whether or not you like the sport. All clubs offer gear to borrow in a beginner’s class.

Here are a few fencing clubs in the area

Midsouth Fencer’s Club (I highly recommend! I am in the Academy class there and will soon be in the youth competitive program. It’s a great club! )

Research  Triangle Fencing School

Once you have found a club and finished the beginner’s program, if you want to continue you can talk to the club for next steps, and even get your own gear! I hope you will like the sport!

 

 

Image Website Review

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In LA class, our class has been reviewing different image websites. These websites provide images with citations. Here are the sites I will be reviewing:

Open Clipart (Public Domain)

Pexels (Public Domain)

Open Getty (Public Domain)

 

First we will start with open clipart. Overall, this was a very non-user friendly website. It was hard to navigate and had really low quality pictures. Most of the pictures were clipart (hence the name) and really wouldn’t fit many people’s needs. It was hard to find pictures with and was overall not very mobile friendly either. I would give it a final grade of a 3/10. It might fit your needs but is not useful to many other needs.

Second, I will be sharing my thoughts on the site Pexels. This website was absolutely amazing. It was super easy to navigate, mobile friendly, and had a great variety of pictures. It was super easy to search for images, find many different images, and even gave categories. It was overall super user friendly and was amazing. I would give it a final grade of a 9/10. Super easy to find images, but could use a tiny bit more variety.

Finally, I will review the site Open Getty images. This site was not very good for most uses. This site would really only be useful for something about history like an essay. It was a pretty low quality site and was very hard to find pictures with. It was kind of user friendly but not super good either. For using it for blogging purposes, I would give it a 1/10. But, for history uses like an essay, I would give it a 7/10. It is good for that purpose but needs a little more variety.

My Recommendation:

Pexels, photo from pexels.com

That’s pretty much it. I really hope you liked this blog and that it will help you with finding good quality pictures!

 

 

My Brand New Avatar!

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For the 2018 March Student Blogging Challenge, I have made my very own avatar! I made this avatar using avatarmaker,  a website to make your own avatar, hence the name. Here is my avatar.

My avatar, made by me using avatarmaker.com

 

Why I Made My Avatar The Way I Did

I made my avatar the way I did to make it sum what look like how I look. I wanted it to represent me. Also, the clothes on the avatar is usually what I wear. A shirt and an over shirt/jacket. I really loved making this avatar to represent me and my blog! I highly recommend you make an avatar for your blog too! It’s really fun!

All About The Sport of Sabre Fencing

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Think of a sport. What comes to mind? Basketball, soccer, football? Probably the sport of fencing does not come to mind. You might not even know what fencing is. I love fencing. I really like out of the ordinary sports. Fencing, is a sword fighting sport involving three different swords. The epee, the foil, and the sabre. I do sabre. Sabre fencing is a sport where the objective is to score a point on the other fencer by hitting them with your sword.

 

A fencer ready to bout, avantgardefencersclub.com

Rules

In fencing, you usually play to 15 points. There are not a ton of rules but there is a right of way rule. That means if both people hit, the one who started to attack first gets the point. Also who ever parries (blocks) last has the priority. There are other rules like you can’t run or cross your feet. You can’t go off the end of the piste (the fencing strip).

The fencing piste, thefencingcoach.org.uk

 

Safety

Fencing is one of the safest sports you can play while folowing your club’s rules and whearing safe safety equipment.

 

Two fencers in about, betterfencer.com

 

I hope you would like to try out this amazing sport. It is very beginner friendly, and almost every club has a beginner program.

They’re Finally Here!!!!

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It took a long time, but the coop is done. We have all the supplies. And we have finally got them. We got the chickens! I know it took a long time making the coop and everything but we now have them!

I put this in my old chickens post, but we have gotten 4 Rhode Island Red chickens. All juevinile, but not yet laying. They will start laying probably in a few weeks. Also, a big question and discussion in my family has been names. Now, I know we won’t be able to tell the difference between them, but we will try to think of a way to distinguish them. I am a StarWars fanatic, so I wanted to give them StarWars names. But, my brother and dad want differnt names. The current names are Sarge (My brothers one. It’s wierd, don’t ask me why he wants to name one that), Henrieta (My mom’s), and the third one I want to be princess, in honor of prince, a horse I used to ride. I made a post about him awile back. Now here are some pictures.

 

A photo of the chickens, taken by me

 

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Here is a hyperlink to a video of them!