How to choose a pair of basketball shoes?

Basketball shoes is more than a fashionable accessory on court. In stead, basketball shoes is specially designed for handling the specific foot movements in basketball game. Playing basketball in basketball shoes gives you the protection to your foot and legs. Further, a pair of basketball shoes is more durable as compared to playing basketball in an ordinary pair of shoes.

let me share with yalls how to choose a pair so suitable basketball shoes
A pair of good basketball shoes is important to a player, but keep in mind that it wont elevate your performance in basketball.

How Do You Play the Games?
To choose basketball shoes first you need to know the style of your play whether you play center, you rely on your speed or you are an all-around player


Speed Demon

Herring Bone Pattern

if you are a speed demon, you will need excellent ankle flexibility, thus a low top will serve you the best. Besides that, to you traction or grip is crucial for you to pick yourself up and cross over. Therefore you need out sole with good traction, and usually herring bone pattern (MMMout sole is the best for you. For impact absorption, Nike Zoom Air will be the best option to you because it is the thinnest Air which is very responsive and so enhance your agile plays like cut and break.



Power Player
If you are a power player,  you will need heavy protection because you will do a lot of jump an landing where usually these players have a heavier weight. So shoes with good cushioning is suitable for you, therefore nike shoes with Air or Shox or Zig Tech of Reebok will serve you the best where they are good at impact absorption especially the impact caused by a heel strike . And usually ankle support is very important to you since you perform a lots of powerful moves, therefore high top shoes is good for you

(to learn more on  Nike Air and Nike Shox click the link below)
 http://help-us.nike.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/341/~/how-does-nike-shox-technology-work%3F
http://help-us.nike.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/3406/~/what-is-nike-air%3F

All-around player
If you are a swing man who plays front court and back court, you will need a mid top shoes that will give you ankle support as well as the flexibility to your ankle movement. Shoes with impact absorption like Air and Zoom Air is also suitable for you to handle the heel strike. Besides, out sole with good traction is also important for you to perform your speed. For traction, out sole with herring bone pattern is the best option.

Which is the Most Comfortable to You?
After knowing the types of shoes that suits you, the next step is to choose a pair which is the most comfortable to you among all the brands. There are several reputable producer of Basketball shoes they are Nike, Adidas, Reebok, Converse and And1. However the first 3 brands are recommended. I and personally think that Nike has the best functions and most of the Adidas shoes are usually more durable,  and Reebok also produces good shoes.


However when choosing, you should totally forget about the outlook of the shoes. Basically all these basketball shoes giants are doing a good job. Therefore, all you need to consider is whether you are comfortable in a shoes. So you are in a store don't be shy, put on both shoes and try to run, leap and jump in the store. Even though, it looks weird in front of the public but it is worth consider the price of the shoes usually cost few hundred ringgits. And also don't forget to wear your socking when you visit a store trying on shoes without socking is foolish.

The Right Size
After you have make up your mind about which model of which brand you wannna purchase. Now you need to know the actual size of your foots. The right size is a must for basketball shoes, if the shoes are too small to your foot it will cause injury and corns to your foot and shoes that is larger than your foot will be a burden when you play. It is always advisable to ask the store to measure for you because the size will change sometime even after puberty. Stores like Royal Sport House and Al Ikhsan actually have professional tool to measure your foot size, but just the case that you need to request yourself because the salespersons in these stores are usually passive.

Find the Price
Now, you come the stage of bargain hunting.As i said basketball shoes are not cheap and usually cost around RM 250 for a decent one so it wont be wasting time for you to visit you a few store for the price of shoes that
you want and you will see the difference.

And i personally don't advise to buy signature shoes of the Stars like Zoom Kobe and Zoom Lebron, because they charge you more than what the shoes have just because it is a signature shoes of Lebron. I know you understand me. When these shoes are in a sales promotion or discount the stock may be kept for years and the out sole will easily detach, you can often see this happen in Nike shoes. However, i am always wanted  those shoes because I m a big fans of NBA. Lastly, to maintain your shoes please play more often and you will find your shoes more durable it is a magic.

A Told Lesson

Last night I have learned my lesson
A lesson that I have been told before
But I did not take note of it seriously

I couldn't start my car last night
And the cause was because of the battery was dry
And it was dry because I did not take good care of them

Driving a car is definitely not as simple as filling up the tank
There are things like engine oil, water level of the coolant and battery, etc

When problems come
they are really troublesome
It is even worse if it were your first encounter

Maintaining a car car be very easy
It just needs a tiny bit of your time

Growing of "Love"

As I am getting elder, I am becoming more concerned to my parents and my family

Honsetly
I was a wild kid last time
Just like an ordinary teenager, looking for freedom
I was always out for basket ball, badminton and cyber cafe when I was a teenager
Even when I enrolled into University, seldom I will travel back home
And in my sophmore year I had made up my mind to stay in Penang after graduation
I was thinking that it was impossible that they will leave me one day

But now things have changed
I missed them more now
I travel back more often now

Because I guess this might be the last quarter of their life
If lucky enough, it might be the second half
But I can sense that it are not so long
not quite enough

I have to show my love to them
before it is too late
If I didn't,
I guarantee that I would regret for the rest of my life

When I was a kid and a teenager
At that time,
they were young too,
they had their dreams too
and things that they would prefer to chase after,
if there weren't me and my siblings

But they opted to raised us up first
They burned their adolescence energy to bring us up
They had chosen to enjoy their life after we can fly by ourself

Now they have succeeded

I have grown up
My wings are strong now, no more depending on them
They have fulfilled their "mission" to raise me up

Now should the time they get their rewards
They deserve to have a fruitful harvest now

However
they find out that things that nourish and cheerish their life are no more luxurious travelling or fancy cars any more
They are becoming used to be with us
Their children have occupied their world
Now their true joy is the time they are having around with us

As their children
I am one of the key to their joy in the rest of their life
It is so simple
Just have more good time with them
sincerely
Let them feel my affection

I could opt to act selfishly
My wings are strong now, I have the strength to fly freely and explore my life and my future
But I wont put my entire focus on it
I am making the right choice =)

I am so glad that I understand this before it is too late

Uninteresting Post Season Games

Without Kobe now
The playoff seems not interesting to me at all
 I miss the feeling of cheering for lakers in the last few seasons playoff

May be it is a time for me to change
change to Wade and Heat

But I seem to find Kevin Durrant's plays is so fascinating
And just like the younger Kobe
He is cold blooded
Make big shot

Thanks to the advancement in information technology and Internet.

Accessing to internet is becoming easier and more convenient

However I guess sometimes the internet does teem with million, billion or trillion of info

The state of information overload when we are searching for a single piece of information

Because they are flooded and most of them are ambiguous

If you are not patient enough 

you will easily got upset 

because most of the time the link that you click is not what exactly you want

I think we should learn more about the behavior of your search engine and with better patience, you will get the information you are looking for.

 

My Desire

Pulau Redang + Pulau Perhentian + Pulau Lang Tengah

and

Sipadan + Mabul + Kepalai

Good Life

Realm of Relaxation - Pantai Keracut

I have occupied my weekend with bundles of activities.
Basket ball with colleagues and the best part of the weekend, camping in Pantai Keracut of Penang National Park, with her.
The trip was suggested by me
And what drove me to this trip was to relax our mind.
Actually, in the beginning, I just felt like listening to wave.
This idea was inspired by a coincident in esplanade, where I accidentally found that it is very relaxing to have my mind empty, only with the sound of the waves in my brain.  
And I guess recently I am in some kind of soul searching
Yeah something like finding the reason of being a human and living in this world as me.

As we reached there, it was 5 something pm, we registered ourselves at the counter and begun the journey immediately, because we wanna catch the sunset, so we have to reached there by 7 pm.
The trekking was easy at the beginning, even when going up hill. But later on, it was so tough and exhausted because of the heavy package that we carried with us. It was actually trekking in a jungle, so frequently we went up and down hill, and it became challenging to us when it came to a very steep passage.
Along the trekking, we kept on chatting and talking endlessly and joyfully.

On the way heading to Pantai Keracut, there was an incident happened, in around 6:45 pm, we felt that we were not in the right track, we felt like missing in the jungle when the sky started to turn dark. We were silent in the moment, and after a some discussion, we decided to take her suggestion, going back to the last junction we passed. and take the other route. And fortunately, her instinct was correct, she could recognize the route later on, she has been here for a few times before.

For about 20 minutes I guess, we reached.when we saw the bridge we were so glad because we have reached our destiny, and we were so lucky that the sun were not so far above the horizon, yeah I still made it to witness the sunset, which I cheated to her that I did research that sunset it spectacular here, which I actually didn't. ( chuckle). Without wasting a moment, we open up our tent and lied on it to enjoy the sunset. The sky near to the horizon was red and orange in color. The sun was in a total red, the school of cloud covering the sun was in full red, lighter than the sun, the group of could farther away from the sun was orange   and a golden layer of could was above them. The scene was tremendously charming and romantic, and certainly it was even better with the endless sound of the wave. The sunset was brief, real fast, and later on darkness has totally cover the sky and the beach.

After talking to the ranger over there and showing our camping permit, we has started setting up our tent, and went for shower. There is toilet and bathroom over there, and in the campsite the is a place like a kitchen under a shelter. The facility is good over there, all basic necessity are available. And we have company also, there 2 more groups of campers there.

After the rejuvenating shower, we filled up our hungry stomach with the instant food that we brought. Instead of setting a fire, which to me is not environmental, we cooked with a portable stove, which was pretty convenient to use. After the refreshment, for sure we wanted to go for a stroll along the beach.

Next, a big surprise was brought to us by our luck, that night the sky was starry. I really didn't expect it, because the sky was cloudy during the sunset, and I told her there might not be stars tonight. I was always told by my mum that the stars is obvious when the place is totally dark. But I never had an opportunity to witness it until tonight I can prove that it was so true. I can't recall that whether there was moon in the night, because the stars were so wonderful, there fully occupied the sky. The stars were the brightest that I have ever seen, they really non-stop twinkling if you check on them intently. I knew that the light of the star that we can see is the reflection of the sunlight, because each star is like some kind of sun, in far far far away. By understanding this fact, it made me felt that the universe and this world is too big, and me myself was like nothing as compared to it, recalled back all the problems and emotions that I had in the past, they were actually nothing, there had actually no value for me to mind. we were too small and micro. With the sound of the wave, it made it even relaxing and relieving, and for some moment, my mind was really in a state of empty, and that kind of feeling is really rarely I can experience. We just let our mind indulged in the emptiness of some moment, focus on the stars and the wave. The wave is really hardworking that it beats the beach restlessly. Funny description right and this was what I told her.

We woke up early in the next morning, and snapping lots of pictures and playing with a flying plate, I don't know what is the name. It was really fun to play with it, for guys i guess. When you throw it, it will fly slowly and land slowly, and you can't quite predict where it will land. Perhaps it was too tiring for a female, so she stop after a moment and had her focus on the beautiful scene. And I continued playing that by myself for a while, it was ok, because if you throw it high it will fly back to your direction. After strolling for a while, we back to the camp site for break first, instant food again. Perhaps next time, we should bring some healthier food. After taking bath and packing up out stuff, we were ready to end this beautiful trip. In fact we didn't interact much with other campers last night and they were sleeping in morning when we were up. We eventually waved at them and talk to them. We learnt that they were here for fishing and they often went here for fishing.

After that it was time for jungle trekking, again and it meant the trip had really came to an end. I miss that starry so much, I am really looking forward to go for camping in seaside next time.

Courage on the stage

I m not protecting myself.

that i think there is no one on earth is born to be a good speaker

and to be so honest when someone faces a group of people

you will really get nervous

i guess because in our daily life there are not much chance for us to speak publicly in front of a crowd

ya try to imagine there are hundred pairs of eyes are watching at you

Just like a normal undergraduate, I also wish myself wont shiver on the stage and be confident in front of the public

but the reality tell me that i m not

tonight is 2012 aquatic night

from being the committee member, i have learnt a lots

just forget about the flaws that i notice in myself

what i wanna stress on today is about public speaking

I was the Emcee of the night

I can really tell you all that i have prepared well for it

and i must says that i memorize almost all the sentences

but still i crumbled when i waiting for my chance to speak for the first time

And I m so sure that i have made a mistake in my first saying, I pronounce "Dinner" wrongly

And while waiting for my chance to talking i was damn nervous

I was worried that would i forget some sentence of pronounce wrongly again

But tonight i m so glad that I will rate myself a better than moderate

I found out that when you are nervous, there is a helpful way

you should start you first saying with a very short sentence

out loud

may  be it can be

"Good evening to everyone"

you know my heart was beating damn fast during the wait

but thing totally changed as i spoke the first saying

a short one

then my heart relieve just like from a maximum stress to a maximum relax state

you know

at this moment i just skip for a short while for around 2 seconds

just acting that i was observing the audience of waiting for all attention

then the miracle happen in the next moment

My second saying was yelled in a complete relieved state of mind

and these is how confidence comes i guess

=)

stresss and passion

Working hard for something that we dont care is called stress; working hard for something you love is called passion

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