1) Perform a Business Sizeup Spike’s Indoor Beach Volleyball and Rock Climbing Inc. caters to a niche market in the Canadian sports industry. As there were no indoor beach volleyball courts in Canada‚ Spikes faced little competition. The volleyball crazed locality of London‚ Ontario provided the perfect geographical location for the operations of Spikes. In addition to indoor beach volleyball courts‚ Spikes had also added an indoor rock climbing wall‚ a small restaurant with a bar‚ and had also
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Beach Volleyball Beach Volleyball has been played for many years‚ and organizations such as the California Beach Volleyball Association have helped in furthering the sport. Beach Volleyball is now available to everyone and it is even played in the Olympics. In the early twenty ’s‚ " in Santa Monica‚ California‚ the first Volleyball courts were put up on the beach at the Playground [in Santa Monica]" ("History of Beach Volleyball"). Most games consisted of families playing six on six ("History
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Rock Climbing 101 Increase your fitness level by learning basic rock climbing using the new Laurel College Gymnasium rock climbing wall. The Physical Education Department is offering Rock Climbing 101 as part of its Recreational Fitness Program. You will participate in a challenging class that will help you burn calories and increase your strength. Rock climbing results in an exciting and sometimes strenuous workout. The class will help you relieve stress‚ and you may notice increased
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The History of Indoor Volleyball Yuanyuan Lian University of Iowa 22S:077:SCP Sara Mouw 01/29/2013 Indoor volleyball is from Untied States. In 1895‚ a man called William G. Morgan invented the indoor volleyball in the Massachusetts YMCA after he watched a basketball game. One year later‚ which is in 1986‚ Morgan made the first volleyball rules in the world: The net is 1.98 meter high and the court is 7.6x15.2 meters‚ and unlimited players can join in the game. Also‚ the players can contact
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many of these athletes are rock climbers‚ and there is a reason for this. If you are not an outdoor enthusiast and don’t find the idea of hanging off large mountains and rocks appealing you can still enjoy rock climbing and its benefits‚ using an indoor or outdoor rock wall can be a great way to get the workout without the danger element. Rock climbing is a great physical activity because it works so many muscles in your body including your brain. Yep‚ rock climbing can help not only combine your
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Rock climbing involves strength‚ control and finesse. Using the muscles in your arms and legs to pull yourself up a sheer rock face takes strength and control. Using your brain to place your hands and feet so that your muscles can do their job -- that’s finesse. Rock climbing is a little like skydiving. Both rock climbing and skydiving have an element of risk. But who doesn’t take a risk in life...i mean‚ you’ll never get anywhere without taking risks! So‚ what you waiting for? Rock climbing‚
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“Saturday Climbing” by W.D. Valgardson Study Questions Before reading the story and working on the study questions‚ read the handout entitled “An Introduction to Rock Climbing.” 1. Valgardson opens the story by placing one of the main characters‚ Barry‚ in a predicament. Why is he in that predicament? Find all of the words/phrases that describe how Barry feels in this first section. He got himself into that predicament because he was looking for an activity to do with his daughter that
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Components that are correlated to the velocity of a volleyball spike Christina Atwood‚ Derek Tortorich Belhaven University Introduction In most sports played by athletes today‚ ball velocity and velocity of the human anatomy both have an exceptionally high correlation with the effectiveness in that sport. Athletes who can perform at a fairly high velocity‚ or that can put objects in high velocity‚ tend to excel in their sport‚ especially power sports. Due to the importance of velocity in most
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in fuelling the conventional thinking that is the source of gender inequities ever-present in our culture. Of these agents‚ mass media is the chief culprit. The connection between sport‚ gender and media is blatant‚ especially in the sport of beach volleyball. In fact it is one of few unisex sports where the female athletes are dominating the arena in terms popularity and media attention. But for what reasons? This is a question that will be answered in this report. Throughout this analysis‚ the influence
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view of a long way to fall‚ rocks far below me and no firm wall between me and the edge. There are no guardrails for me to hold onto‚ just the ones I can imagine in my mind. It was a hot‚ humid day in the middle of June. The air was warm and steamy. My boyfriend and I were on our way to Seneca Rocks. We stopped and parked at the start of the mountain. Although the rocks seemed quite stable‚ it looked like it would just snap off at any moment. My boyfriend‚ Mark‚ rock climbed before but this was
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