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I can golf with a dislocated thumb right? It's bruised and swollen and I can't really grip anything right now but I bet golf will be no sweat.

All too many times. The interesting thing here, at least the others are clearly listening to the "expert". In my experience, the lights are on but nobody is home:

When I practice, one of the "games" I play is taking a number of balls and lining them up on the green. I putt the first to a short distance, 2-3 feet. Aim a little to the right (so as not to hit the first) then putt the second to around a foot past the first. Putt the third a foot past the second, and so on and so forth. Work outward as far as you need, pulling back any of the shorter ones to re-use for farther distances if you don't have enough balls. Then gather up, find a new spot and repeat. It helps me get a fine feel for distance control. In a pinch, I do the same thing but work outward faster. So start at 2-3 feet, then aim for 5-6, then aim for 8-9 and so on. Or I will do similar but with the actual cut holes on the practice green, trying to find a circuit around the practice green that will test me around those distances. I played my first full round on Tuesday afternoon and shot an 88. It's not the longest course and pretty fantastic weather conditions but I had forgotten how much of a grind walking 18 holes can be, and I used to walk 36-ish holes everyday during the summer in high school. I played 13 of the first 15 holes really well for me, then my energy faded pretty hard in the last 3. Dropping 5 strokes on 2 holes by playing stupid is killer. Only had two penalties but thats another couple strokes. Add in a few missed scrambling par conversions, or bad shot that lead to that scrambling and I can easily hit 78-79. Just gotta work harder on playing smarter to not waste those strokes and put a complete round together. Wasn't so worried about hitting all fairways and that only bit me on two holes. Otherwise I was just off the fairway. Need work on the GIR category though. Yikes. Here is what my card looked like (Hole 19 app): I have been tracking scores on 3 apps (Hole 19, Swing by Swing, and Nike) and will run a few more rounds through them before I post my reviews.

My sister and twin nieces came up to the Twins Cities to visit and go to a couple of baseball games. For some reason when we are walking around, they only want to hold hands with my wife. Uncle Me? Nope. Mom or dad? Nope. Auntie Mae Mae? YES! Then they only want to ride in our car wherever we go so they can be with Auntie Mae Mae. As they sit in the backseat and ramble, I can't help but think of Kid Snippets, the hilarious youtube channel where adults make videos out of audio of the kids playing out scenarios. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wa89RIAdcus

Awesome project to spend some quality time with your son and also get your kid into woodworking and then maybe birding and down the line nature photography. Interesting to see how those hobby/career avenues can open up at an early age. Are you a birder? I'm not, but I did a little birding a couple weeks ago. I saw an odd looking chickadee drinking out of our fish pond. Black and white, with two white, sort of jagged, stripes running front to back on its head. I looked it up and I think it was a mountain chickadee. Since I live in Illinois, that would be fairly unusual. I am not but ever since I got into photography I have met a ton of people who do photography and birding and shoot photos of birds. I dont really get it (birding) but I get how it can be more than just a hobby for people.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDIpGz_eN2g

Awesome project to spend some quality time with your son and also get your kid into woodworking and then maybe birding and down the line nature photography. Interesting to see how those hobby/career avenues can open up at an early age.

Many of you likely know better than I do but for football players, isn't one of the big helping critiques something along the lines of keep your head down and driving forward until you reach top speed? I swear I heard some form of that when watching some of those pre-combine shows that follows a player during their training for the combine. You can definitely see it in both videos. In the first when your son is going head to head as soon as he leaves the start he is spotting the finish, whereas the other kid is at the first set of cones (what, 20 yards?) before he looks up. The video of the olympians shows the same thing in the last 35s of the video, they are 20 - 30 meters down the track before even looking up. If i remember right, this keeps the driving posture of the acceleration motion, allowing you to get deeper into those (relatively) shorter acceleration steps for a greater push. I am sure someone would say there is some aerodynamic advantage to that too.

Check out the Hole 19 app. Mobile scorecard/yardage book/shot tracker/stat taker/etc. And it is $FREE.99. They have tons of courses and apparently if you don't a simple email to them and they will add it. I don't mind paper and pencil cards but it's nice to have the all in one option. At least now I can be constantly reminded about how much work i need to do on my horrible golf game is every time I unlock my phone and see the app icon on the screen. Is it the best out there? Idk, i just started looking. Anyone have better suggestions for scorecard apps? UPDATE: I just downloaded Swing by Swing ($Free) and the Nike Golf app ($Free). Will test those out and see how it goes.

Ha ha! Yeah, not really an executive course, but I played a local par 3 last week for grins. It's next to the driving range where I go. The greens were terribly slow, and none of the yardages were close to what was listed on the scorecard. It cost $6 to play nine, and it wasn't really even worth that much. I guess that's why most the people you see playing the place are high school students out goofing around. For a while I really looked down upon par 3 courses (maybe because the ones I looked into were rough) but as I have gotten smarter with my game, i have realized how much they can help build confidence back into my game. I have always been fairly hit or miss on par 3s, even when I would practice hundreds upon hundreds of wedge shots a day in high school (where I peaked at like an 8 HDCP). I wasn't always the smartest player either but as I have played less, it really made me focus on different parts of my game (mental/execution mostly) and as a result my whole practice routines and play routines have changed such that I hit way more greens now, even though I practice/play less. It helps to have all that muscle memory from hitting a gagillion balls in high school. I would always stall out at that 81-82 score with typically a solid 9 and a blown 9. I now feel like if I even put in a 1/3 of the time that I did in high school, with this new kind of focus on the mental/execution game, I can really take my game to the next level and be in the mid 70s regularly.

Played my first 9 of the year yesterday at an executive muni with big slow greens. Compared to the course I normally practice, it felt like I was pounding the ball with my putter just to get it close. Nothing like messing with your head regarding touch around the greens. For the most part, even though the greens were on the bigger side, I was hitting them pretty tight with solid distance and spin. Three bogeys, a stupid double and finished with a solid birdie. One of those bogeys was a stupid three putt too. Sigh. The game is there. So close, yet so far.

You know Roy Michael Bell has this capped on his phone and is constantly showing up his friends "SEE I TOLD YOU!!!"

Bed between 10-10:30pm usually, alarm at 6:53am, walk across the hall and punch in by 7. Then 30-45 minutes of Huskerboard, ESPN and social media while I get my desktop applications logged in/running and "work".

I dont recall anything in my life. But i saw this today, which is fantastic. http://grantland.com/features/30-for-30-shorts-unhittable-sidd-finch-and-the-tibetan-fastball/

Not college or Pro but this deserves mention. Some of the great plays from the MN Boys state hockey tournament last weekend. I am trying to find the highlight clip that the broadcast team put together. Will post when i find it again. And of course the all hockey hair team.

The 2015 All Hockey Hair Team was sponsored by Warrior this year. Warrior said if the video got 100k views they would give $15k to the Hendrickson Foundation, which directly benefits the disabled hockey teams of minnesota, including the org I volunteer for Minnesota Special Hockey. 1 day later the video has nearly 850k views, a lot of questions from out of staters about whether this is serious or sarcasm but also a lot of generosity to help a great cause. And yes, it is true, the flow is serious business around here. There are some pretty funny comments about it on Reddit. And there was an audible gasp/whoa/cheer from the crowd when the Lakeville kid let his hair out and I was just watching through the TV. I know I "whoa'd" while laughing hysterically and a few of my friends confirmed they did the same. You just knew that clip was gonna make the All Hockey Hair team, just surprised it didn't make #1. LOL

My cousin is working on his degree in music on the guitar. I shared that first video i posted with him asking if he has done any of it. He says he can but he's not that good, then he sent me this link. I have seen some really outstanding ones and this one is up there for sure. Just when you think you have heard all the possible sounds a guitar can make, then you click that next video and it blows your mind.

Mavric just posted this in the Random Video thread. You guys do any percussive stuff with your guitars? I am not good enough even regularly but it's fun to mess around with. Some good ones I have heard sound like there are so many layers and multiple guitars, really cool.

Don't hate, but I picked up the Rocksmith on Playstation and have been learning to play via Rocksmith and Rocksmith 2014. Played it a bunch (starting from absolute scratch) on an Epiphone Les Paul Special that I picked up off ebay but my photography/videography started picking up at the same time so I put the guitar down for a bit to ride the photo/video wave. Got to the point where I could play from sight off the game at about an intermediate level and could dabble a bit outside of the game. Can't read music for the life of me and only really scraped the surface learning from tabs. I play every couple of months now and can jump back in and pick it up pretty quick but just can't get back into it seriously yet.

That noise you hear is the gummy bear screaming bloody murder. Poor, poor gummy bear.

It was so cool and probably super dangerous...we only did it a few times. I am sure that if it was done today some crazy parent would have the schools shut down. Dangerous? Nah, not at all, except for the kid who didn't participate and got drilled in the face...cuz we all know that one kid...who's mother today would definitely get that game shut down. The kids in my school loved the game and our PE teacher obliged so we played a lot. We played the mat-ball too. Dang we had some fun games. Anyone want to get a HB mat-ball or bombardment game going?