There are lots of sports around your community that you can get involved in. There are lots of sports you can play. There are sports like baseball, softball, soccer, basketball. These sports have leagues for a lot of different ages. The age groups rang from kids to adult. Sports are good for you . They help you stay healthy. It is a good way to enjoy the outdoors. Only if the sport is outside of course. Everyone likes sports right? Who doesn't like to go outside and have a little playtime in the sun? Sports teach kids discipline and also respect. It also teaches them how to get along with others and work as a team. The best thing sports teach children is dedication. To be good at anything in life you need dedication. Studies have been proven that children who play sports are much more likely to graduate and do good in school. Sports are an important part of a humans life because they keep you active. It is not good for you if all you do is set on a couch all day and watch tv. I loved sports when I was a little boy because it meant that i could get out of the house and do something. Sports we a thing to look forward to when i was little. I know lots of kids out there would love sports if they would just give it a shot. My favorite sport was baseball. I liked it because you were always involved.
Golf is on of the hardest sports in the world. Golf is a great sport that you can play for the rest of your life. There are five year olds that play golf and there are eighty five year olds that play golf. Right now the best player in the world is Jordan Speith. He won his first PGA tournament at twenty years old. Right now he is the youngest player in the world to be number one in the world. He is known for his putting and chipping. This is the most important part of the game. Just this year he took the number one spot from Rory Macilroy. Then he lost it but managed to get it back in the last tournament of the year. He has broken a lot of PGA tour records that haven't been broken for a long time. In 2015 he had five total wins and fifteen top tens. Two of his wins were majors. He was the rookie of the year in 2013. The high school golf season is in the Spring. The best time to play is in the Fall and Spring. The Summer is alright to but it gets very hot then. There are lots of golf courses all around the world. Golf is an expensive sport that takes lots of time and effort to get good at. It is a fun sport to play and a good hobby. You can meet lots of good people that play golf. I love the game and i hope to continue playing for lots of years to come.
Skiing is loads of fun for some people that is. Some people just get hurt every time they go. Skiing is a "down hill thrill." Skiing is a great sport for people that like the cold weather. Some people like to do tricks on skis while others just ski for fun. Skiing is a rather expensive sport because people travel all across the world to go skiing. There are different slopes for different skill levels of skiers. In our area we have two ski slopes. We have Bryce and we have Massanutten. Bryce resort is in Basye, Virginia. It has eight different trails to ski on. They also have five lifts to help you get back to the top. Bryce also has lodging for longer ski trips. Massanutten has fourteen different trails that you can ski on. Massanutten also has cabins that you can rent for longer stay. You can go skiing with your whole family as a vacation. You can ski for a long time some skiers have been doing what they love for over six decades. Thats a long time! Skiing is also a good way to stay in shape and burn calories. You can burn up to seven hundred calories an hour while skiing. While skiing you can get some great views. You get some fresh air while skiing. There is no speed limit when you are skiing. You can go as fast as you want on the slopes. Sking is a great sport to do in the winter.
Kayaking is a fun thing to do in the outdoors. It is best in the summer when it is hot. If you get hit you can even jump in and cool off. You might be wondering what the difference between kayaking and canoeing. One of the differences is that Kayakers use a two sided paddle but a person that canoes use a one sided paddle. Kayaking is fun because you can see animals, see great scenery and have fun all at the same time. It is also a great upper body work out. Kayaking is a great way to spend time with friends and family. You can spend time with all of your family members because it is for all ages. While kayaking you can explore new things that you have never seen before. WHile kayaking you can fish as well. Lots of people will just go float the river and take a fishing pole. Kayaking is a good way to get to good fishing hole that are hard to access over land. What is more relaxing than sitting in a kayak and floating down a creek or a river. The Indians used the kayak to sneak up on animals to hunt. But the kayaks they used are nothing like the kayaks we think of. their kayaks were rafts made of skins and bone or sticks. There are different kayaks for different waters. There is a sea kayak that is wider than a kayak that you would use to float down a creek or river.
Hiking is another fun activity to do outdoors. There are lots of different places you can go hiking in the area. I think the best time of year to hike is in the early Fall when the leaves are changing colors. Some people like to hike in the spring to see all of the new buds and new growth. Some people hike for fun, some people hike for exercise, and some people hike to sight see. Some people hike to see the new animals that have been born. I like to hike through the woods to scout for deer sign and to scout for their food. If you scout for the animals food you will eventually see the animals. Another good place to see animals is near creeks or ponds. Some hikers like to hike into the woods so that they can forage for wild berries, nuts and roots that they like to eat. Some hikers also hike up into the woods so that they can get good views for pictures. Hiking is a popular activity for families all over the world. I think it is a popular family thing to do because it is cheap, fun and easy. You can just go out and walk through the woods and get free exercise. I know lots of people that go hiking to stay in shape. You can go hiking just about anywhere. There are lots of hiking trails in Virginia that are free to hike on. You can hike for hours or even camp and hike for days.
Camping is another fun thing you can do outdoors. You can go camping in a camper or you could go camping in a tent. There are lots of camp grounds around here that you can go camping at. You can go to KOA, Endless Caverns or you could just go to a camp site on National Forest. It is also fun to go into the middle of the woods and go camping. It is especially fun to go camping in the Fall when the leaves are changing colors. This summer me and one of my friends went camping right next to Smith Creek for a few days. We know a lot of the people that own land next to it. We had a hard time getting the tent up because it was old and we had no directions. We took our fishing poles and every morning we would get up and go fishing. We waded up and down that creek lots of times. We caught lots of Perch, Bass, and fallfish. We had a blast. We built a campfire and roasted hotdogs and marshmallows. During hunting season me, my dad and a couple other people go back to our cabin to camp. We like to stay back there so we can get up and go hunting immediately. We don't have to drive and hour to get there. We usually go back to the cabin and camp on friday night and go hunting in the morning. Sometimes we will even stay Saturday night to.
There are a few different types of fishing you can do in Virginia. You can fish for Bass, Trout, Perch, or you can just fish for whatever you can catch. There is no real "season for trout but the fishing is best in the spring and fall. However you can only catch six per day and they have to be seven inches long to keep. The state record for a brown trout is 14 pounds and 12 ounces. Adult brown trout are usually between seven and fourteen inches long. Rainbow trout are pretty similar to brown trout. The only thing that is different is the color of them (as you could probably tell from the name). You can catch bass any time of the year. The record in Virginia for a largemouth bass is sixteen pounds and four ounces. the state record for a smallmouth bass is eight pounds one ounce. There are a couple of different ways to fish. Some people fly fish and some people use a spinning rod. Fly rods are very difficult to use and take lots of practice to get the hang of. Fly rods take lots of space to cast. I just use a spinning rod because I fish in a place where there are lots of trees so it is hard to cast. I usually fish with a lure called a Mepps spinner. The lure looks like a fly and it spins and is shiny so the bass really like to bite it .
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