Favorite Olympic Sport

Monday, 8 March 2010

For some reason i thought that there were way more Winter Olympic sports then just 15. I noticed this a month or so ago when the Winter Olympics were going on. And the Summer Olympics only has 31?? I thought they had at least 60.

So here are my favorite and least favorite Olympic Sports

Winter
Favorite = Biathlon (cross-country skiing and target shooting) cause there's not a whole lot of sports cooler then skiing with a gun on your back
Least Favorite = I would say Snowboard Cross, but i'm still not convinced that it's a real sport. It's some X-Games reject. No, my least favorite is Short Track Speed Skating. Long Track Speed Skating is cool. Short track is pushing and cutting in front of people and the team relay event is just insane.
Summer
Favorite = Diving

Least Favorite = Uuummm ya there's about 20 that should not even be allowed. Sailing? Equestrian? Judo and Taekwondo? Handball? At least Badminton is kind of a sport, i mean i've played it in my backyard during family parties. The others require a boat or a horse.

It reminds me of Will Ferrell from Old School

The 15 Winter Olympic EventsBobsled
Luge
Skeleton
Ice Hockey
Figure Skating (including Ice Dancing)
Speed Skating
Short Track Speed Skating
Curling
Alpine Skiing
Freestyle Skiing (Aerials, Moguls and Ski Cross)
Snowboarding (Parallel Giant Slalom, Halfpipe and Snowboard Cross)
Biathlon (cross-country skiing and target shooting)
Cross-Country Skiing
Ski Jumping
Nordic Combined (ski jumping and cross country skiing)



The 31 Summer Olympic Events
Archery
Athletics
Badminton
Baseball
Basketball
Boxing
Canoeing
Cycling
Diving
Equestrian
Fencing
Field Hockey
Football (Soccer)
Gymnastics
Handball
Judo
Modern Pentathlon
Rowing
Sailing
Shooting
Softball
Swimming
Synchronized Swimming
Table Tennis
Taekwondo
Tennis
Triathlon
Volleyball
Water Polo
Weightlifting
Wrestling

Side note: take a look at what my blog spell-check suggests for Taekwondo

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Ice Fishing

Sunday, 17 January 2010

Also back in December i went up to Onaway to go ice fishing. After getting really excited i started working on my own tip-ups and poles. I had made a few before so i tried getting a little creative this time.

Here's the basic shape, cut out of a piece of 4" PVC

The spool i made by splitting one of the ball pit balls in half and taped to a piece of 1" PVC. Don't worry i still have a few left.

Here's the technical bits. The cantilever spring is attached to the pole (an old wire hanger) which is held in place by the magnet, which is set into foam in the spool.

Final product. The flag is old survey ribbon. And the round flaps on the side are to help prevent the hole from freezing up.

The poles are just aluminum tube connected to a PVC handle. The fishing line runs inside the tube so no need for eyelits. But there's no flex in the pole. Also i did end up painting these black as well.

The reels were made out of the bottom of beer cans and some PVC. They didn't work very well either. I spent most of my time on the tip-ups and these were sort of an after thought.

Now i'd like to tell you that i took these up north and caught some monster 36" pike or something. Unfortunately the gas powered auger we used had something wrong with the motor. There was no torque and it only cut one hole before running out of gas. The view was great though.

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