Marathon chapter 1

  Marathon is the highlight of many outdoor going athletic type of people. It is a testament to the incredible feat a person could strive to achieve in their life. Like many social gathering event the meaning behind marathon is that it brings various people to become productive members of the organized function in making the best with what they can in achieve and that is to finish the marathon race. Today marathon is held everywhere across the globe, with having long distance that can be approximately of 42 km or 26 miles where participants may venture through road race. The city streets will be turn into racing trek and that includes the path for vehicles driving roads which will be used as part of the competition venues. This requires the help from various organizers and institutions where they may have to set the right date as it may be causing traffic problems for other members of society. The marathon events are held all year round and with the measured amount of race of about 800 marathons around the world it is no wonder the event is so popular amongst all age group. It is a healthy type of sports that makes people aware of the benefits of exercising the body and even the mind when it comes to preparing the race. They become in tune with their body and push themselves to levels that they have never known possible and for some people it is a celebration of ones conscious strive to overcome the hardships of training to focus on that one goal. People who competes in the marathon are needed to strengthen their body through various type exercising methods. What type of exercise would depend on the individual but it would be recommended to be a cardio and endurance type of training to keep the body fit with the course that they would undertake.

 The marathon origin dates back to greece where the story of Philippides a greek messenger who raced back to his city Athens to warn them about Persian vessel heading there. It was an important task that led to the saving of greece in those days and today its legacy have spread throughout the world and becomes part of our cultural norms. The marathon we know of today was formed during the Olympic events in 1896 where the global population is introduced to the form of competitive event where people are able to participate and finish for their own respective country. It is such a popular function that it grew massively and became a worldwide sensation. The marathon even have a derived type of version such as triathlon where the stakes are even higher and brutal. Nevertheless, we today enjoy its struggles and share in its glory of successfully participating in the marathon race that is beneficial to all of us from adults to adolescent where it helps to create a better society and a functional community as its based. Marathon is a strong indicator that one have achieve great success in which it shows through the efforts that was put in order to complete the goal which is an honorable thing to achieve in a persons life. 

3 types of knots that is useful for any person to learn

 

 There are times when we encounter a situation where we need to learn to how to tie a proper knot, whether it is for the purpose of work such as tying rope to secure a heavy load of products from falling off to the everyday of outdoor travelling for camping with our children, family and friends. It's a useful knowledge and technique where it can make a literal huge difference about the work that can be accomplish if one knows how to tie a proper knot. Things like tying a rope for setting camps in the outdoors or for the literal work such as sailors who needs to tie their ships for the process of embarking in the harbor. The tying of the knot techniques has developed for thousands of years when people were still constructing materials from trees that they chopped and ties it with a knot or the fisherman that ties their boats for sailing purposes. Here's some popular knots that are found to be commonly used 

1. Square knots

 It is one of the most common type of knot tying, it is widely used for roping packages and bundles making it easier to handle but also quite effective. The tying process is a bit difficult but it has a strong grip, a function that sailors in the past prefer for tying parts of their sails when the winds are blowing high. It can also be used for first aid kit by tying the bandage on the area that is bleeding halting the blood from further gushing out. The process to tie the knot is by running the ends of the two ropes together while pointing opposite direction. Tying the ends from right to right over left afterwards, tying again in reverse direction that is left over right than pull tight.

2.Taut line(this one i could be wrong for the name)

This knot is exactly what a person who likes to do outdoor travel activities needs. It can function to tie a secure net for hoisting or climbing in a brief period to work as a basic snare where it will strengthen as the object is being pulled from the other short end. And the best part is that it is entirely simple to untie just by pulling the other end of rope. Tying method is by using the left hand forming a loop with the cord than strech the right hand inside the loop and pull the stand end of the cord making another loop.

3. Bowline knot 

 The function of bowline is that it is simple and easy to adjust in case there is a need of tying the load in a secure way and fast pull out. It is an effective knot for the purpose of hanging out hammock where the ants can't approach the campers from above grounds. It's also useful as a self-rescue knot one can tie around self and functions well in the case of pulling a heavy load higher. The method to tie the knot is simple, by twisting the rope making a small loop that allows for the intended loop size of the knot on the running end. Passing the end of the running rope through the loop and than circles around the fixed end of the rope and back to the small loop 

 

Bushcraft chapter 1

 

 Bushcraft is a survival theme subject that teaches people about how to live off in the environment of nature. Like the old world where people have to work hard hunting animals everyday in order to just go on living. This is a form of discipline that people are trained in the arts of identifying and foraging the scattered resources that can be hard to find by normal means and circumstances. In order to successfully become a man that is one with the environment and lived with what mother nature has naturally grown the person needs to learn how to live by providing for him/herself the basic needs to continue living. The person would have to find tools, food and shelter to survive in a world that can become a hostile grounds if the person is not prepared. They need to learn the importance of survival in nature or as one would say the term bushcraft is where the knowledge and practicality of nature's basic resource are transformed into real tools and continue to develop the art of surviving in any possible case of scenario. The knowledge of basic physiological security from the scarcity of wildlife for a human to live off is an important part of this knowledge. There are types of subjects that is within the study of bushcraft  namely hunting, fishing, foraging, tracking and trapping for the people who wants capture animal for food. There is also the matter of producing water that is suitable for drinking through water purification process natural method or with modern equipment. It cannot be completed without the building of shelters for the intention of staying warm and safe from the elements and wildlife that can come and attack the person if they do not set up a proper nature housing. Of course, fire making becomes an important task that one must learn in order to ensure food and warmth are safely build. There can also be special parts of bushcraft skills to adapted where the learner can improve on such as rope knots and lashings, campcraft, medicine/health, tools for weapon making, twine making and natural navigation of environment. 

 Buschraft can be a good pastime hobby, for those outgoing people it can be fun and also intuitive to learn. The activity that is associated with the topic is for the people who seeks the thrills of exploring nature and wants to be exposed to the possibility of what they can experience through building survival camps and crafting tools. People who love to enter nature and go trekking in it will find the subject to be very useful. It is comfort that the idea when people have the skills to survive in case they were to  incur in a situation that demands their basic instinct against the hardships of nature's cruel fate. It can be said that the growing love for the subject of surviving nature is because of a prideful natural instinct or natures calling which man are taught to train and master the process of defending themselves against what nature brought. It's just like in the  primitive days where it was only man, nature and beast. The function of bushcraft can also be an inspiring notion where people can draw similarities of people and nature with modern times which we know can be devious at times causing insecurity for people living in cities. The subject teaches people how to take care of themselves when exploring the wilderness which prove to be dangerous and even fatal if wrongly acted. Hence, the subject bushcraft will always be an important discipline that will help to train the preparedness of people towards a safer and more better living style when they do try to enter natures world.

Mobile gaming chapter 1 Clash of clans

 

From one of the mega hit recorded of today's mobile android gaming industry, Clash of clan becomes one of the few top contender for the crown in today's competitive digital market. It is a great strategy game that brings both fun and hardcore gamers into the mix of competing for the dominion within the games universe. To play the game is absolutely free but does contain in game purchase which strengthens the player further. It is quite easy to start for people to become involve with the game only requires user to merely have a working smartphone to begin downloading and playing the game. This game is different from other games of the same genre where it has its own unique ideas of how the game is played and story line that are define by the players own interpretation. It sets up players to build their resourced economy and use them to clash with other rival clans making it a strongly pvp based world. COC or clash of clans game is released on August 2, 2012 by ios and on android at october 7, 2013. It is one of those free to play mobile strategy video game which is growing in popularity method to capture audience in the market to allow as many people to participate in playing the game. It is developed and published by Finnish game developer known as Supercell making it one of the most successful game company that have come from that part of country. Essentially, the game is centered in a fantasy like environment where players are called chief of a village and they have to build their villages economy and building infrastructures that would later be use for the preparation of battle with other factions. It is one of the many games that is produced in the design to make players to compete and gain achievements from either individuality or through joining an allliance. The game's focus is towards making players to join up with other gamers to form a clan that will allow them to participate in a clan competitions called Clan Wars. Inside the alliance members can supply resources, donate and receive troops and view each other city and sent troops to defend their villages.

COC is a game that is extremely well known by mobile gamers. The critical review for this game is very high with an average score favoring towards a 4.5 stars from fans of the game. The game is so popular that it is one of the few mobile games that reaches 500 millions downloads in google play store. That makes it one of the highest game to ever reach the level of global phenomena that is set by gaming communities. It generates a massive amount of revenues in 2021 passing the mark of 1 billion us dollars. The game became a trend setter where other games emerge and copies its strategical system and be made to finish a new designed of games that throughout the years have become not a generic clones but a rival worthy to the original. The game is a milestone for gaming community as well as for google play store that due to the great success of COC have made them put harder efforts to promote a greater plan in securing a greater solid ground on the use of mobile games on their platform for people to spend money on the games hosted by google company. Clash of clans also have several spin off games that is within the same game universe call Clash Royale, Clash Quest, Clash Mini and Clash Heroes. The mobile game is one of the biggest strategy game in the market currently and gamers actively login to play everyday by the millions. It is not hard to see the massive hit that the game has achieve and possibly will become a setting stone for new type of games that will come in the future. The game is solid fun with an exciting gameplay progression making it a perfect game for anyone who wants to spend a couple of minutes to even hours to be entertained

    

Tv animated series Dota Dragon's blood chapter 1

 The epic show that was created by netflix in partnering with Dota 2 creator Valve, attempts to bring a story surrounded by a possible scenario about the MOBA fantasy world. It is a strong indicator that netflix have diversify its targeted segment to be introduced into the world of modern gaming. This certifies them as a solid media platform that has a powerful grip into the context of gaming and its idea about giving form to the game through stories that progresses following set of rules and lores that is told by the perspective of its game maker themselves. The show was produced by Studio Mir that works alongside the company Kaiju Boulevard where the two studio have already produce a commendable set of past works such as the Legend of Korra and Young justice, which they all too familiar in knowing how to deliver a high quality product of show. It was premiered on Netflix on March 25 2021 at the height of the pandemic where the show receives influx of viewers and reviews which is critically acclaimed largely positive. Since people were confine back to their personal homes because of covid in order to pass the time, they would open up their tv's and log in to their devices to stream their favorite show. Dota Dragon blood being a strong contender amongst the list of shows to watch and being popularized by the same gaming company Valve makes it very attractive for people especially young adults to binge watch. 

 The story starts out with the introduction of the Dragon knight Davion who is sworn to protect the people from the powerful yet destructive creatures that are dragons. Being in the order of dragon knights he hunts down these beast and earns coins for a living a fair exchange to keep the world safer despite having to risk his and his immediate allies lives on the line. His journey took a rather peculiar turn when he met the princess of the moon Mirana, where he further embroils into the task of vanquishing an elder dragon known as Slyrak. However, before he could finish the task the dragon fuses his soul with Davion and he later became a real knight that is also a dragon that can be summon into form.On his journey with princess Mirana, they found themselves into conflicts with the moon elves, its goddess and the hidden mage invoker. The plot also took a surprise turn when the demon Terrorblade comes into fray and starts to destroy everything for his own personal conquest. The story is written by Ashley Edward Miller and Bryan Konietzko, the directors are as follows : Park So Young, Kim Eui Jeong (season 1), Han Seung Woo (season 2–3), Han Cheong Il (season 2), Kim Sun Min (season 3), and Mio Del Rosario (season 3). Art director is by Kim II kwang with composer Dino Meneghin. The voice actor are Yuri Lowenthal, Lara Pulver, Tony Todd and Troy Baker. It is a dramatic set of show and i would recommend people to watch it as it contains an interesting fantasy story but also great in art styles and music reaching the expectation of fans of the game and new.