Outdoor Activities // Air // Base Jumping // Rules of the Air

Learn from the mistakes of others. You won"t live long enough to make all of them yourself.
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Outdoor Activities // Earth // Billiards // Pool School // Bridges

The difference between a good and an average pool player can often be traced to their respective hand bridges. When it comes to accuracy, nothing is more important than the firmness and steadiness of a player"s bridge.
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Outdoor Activities // Mountains // Mountaineering // Training For Mountaineering // Climbing-gym exercises

"To be a good climber, or to improve, you have to climb more than once a week," they say. These moves aren"t meant to be performed sequentially. Instead, incorporate one of them-with the noted exception-into each of your warm-ups.
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Unusual hobbies // The history of contemporary body piercing // Nose Piercings: Healing and Aftercare

One of the most common "old World" piercings to become popular in the Western world is the nose piercing. Most often, this is a piercing made somewhere along the curve of the nostril rim on either the left or right side as the wearer chooses. Nose piercings can take from between six and twelve weeks to heal.
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Outdoor Activities // Water // Boats and Yachts // What is a Sport boat?

If you can ask a room full of sailors the question "What is a Sport boat", you will get a different answer from each one...It can become a pretty emotional issue for some people, depending on whether you own a sport boat or are racing against one.
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Outdoor Activities // Earth // Billiards

We are unable even to state when or where the game was born. The French word "Bille", meaning a ball, could provide the first syllable of the word "Billiards". Charles Cotton, author of "The Complete Gamester" in 1674 suggests both Spain and Italy.
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Outdoor Activities // Mountains // Biking // A few assorted "Heath Robinson" tips & tricks

Expensive transparent protection stickers catch dirt around the edges, and unless you fit them direct to a new frame, you can still see the paint damage through them! Stones can chip right through insulation tape and it falls off at the merest hint of WD40. The best anti-stone chip protection is black "cloth" tape.
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