New Zealand Post II

So my Internet situation is kind of rough here right now. The wireless i was told would be at the school is not working, so I have to find Internet service on the when I am out and about and its not cheap. We have

finished our first week of games and the kids have learned a lot, I have learned a lot and also made several strong connections. I plan I returning here again in the near future. The weather has been pretty wet and rainy during our first week but today was beautiful. We had sunny sky's and took a trip to a few different areas. We went to a ropes course and played around for a while. We then went to one of the Maurie bays that is a big surf spot and spent a little time. Words cant explain the beauty. I have posted a few pictures above just to give you a small glimpse of everything. The first picture is of one of the pools during the opening ceremonies. There is over 100 teams here from all over the world. The second picture is of me driving on the left side of the road, yup... the left. I have also mastered stick shift as well. The third picture is of a cup of coffee I ordered, more like a bowl of coffee. It was the best I have ever had, due to this I have drunken more coffee in the last week than I have in the last few months. I have also eaten more food than ever. I think I have gained at least 10lbs since I have been here. The fourth picture is of a small bay near the national water polo training pool we played a few games at. This was during a break and we needed to kill some time. The last picture is of one of the bays we drove to today. I was awesome. That is a shot from a lookout point on one of the bluffs. I have so many more pictures of all we have been able to see as well as a few short videos. Look up "the Haka" on you tube or the All Blacks, New Zealand national rugby team and find there Haka dance. I have a video if the students performing that at the opening ceremonies. There is to much more to say and to little time. I also have to many pictures to post. I hope all is well and I will update thing when I am able to log on again. See ya soon.

New Zealand Update

I just wanted to update you on my trip. We arrived a few days ago and went straight to the school, Sacred Heart College. When we arrived they had a welcoming ceremony all planned out. We then went right into practice games for the rest of the day. When I finally went to sleep I realized I had been running on three hours of sleep for the last 48 hours, that was the deepest sleep I have had in a long time. We then started our tournament and played one game today and have two games tomorrow.
The food here is amazing and the coffee is some of the best I have had. The people are all very nice and approachable, it makes you feel right at home and comfortable. I have not had a chance to upload any photos yet but I will do so as soon as I can. Check back in a few days and I will have more updates and hopefully pictures. See ya soon.

New Zealand

This is going to be the place I try to update while I am on my trip to New Zealand for the Pan Pacific games in Auckland. I am currently down in Placentia, California where we are training for four days. We have 13 boy and girls from Ukiah in Northern California and we are training with 9 girls from El Dorado High School, and 5 boys from St John Bosco High School in southern California. We leave Tuesday night on our 17 hour flight........ yeah!

It is winter over there so it will be a little cold but the beauty is still breathtaking. The trip will be for 16 days and we will be playing water polo the entire time. There will be a day or two we get free to tour the North end of the island. I will try to visit the Shire and meet some hobbits, HAHA. We plan on staying at Sacred Heart High School which is a private high school their in Auckland. So keep checking every few days and hopefully I will have a few pictures up with updates on our trip.

Librbary Thoughts

I was reading my way through librarything and at first I didn't thing to much on it. Once I I signed up and started adding the recent books I have read I began to feel a little differently about it. I stated to play wit the tags and look up other books similar to those I have read. A lot of them look really good. I will most likely began to search more books to read. I am more into the athletics type books. I really enjoy reading books by other coaches and seeing things from their prospective. There have been many time were I have been in a book store searching for specific books or books on a specific topic and couldn't find anything. Librarything make that search so much more simple. You can also find places to buy your book through this site. So as I said earlier, I was a was not to fond of it in the beginning but as I got used to the site and signed up for it I began to get a diff rent feel. I will probably continue to utilize this site more when the class is over. Here is a link to my catalog. Hope you enjoy.

http://www.librarything.com/catalog/suhovy04

My Image Generator

So I had a chance to play with the image generator and I had a little to much fun. I am actually going to send some of the pictures to my buddies. I think it is great to have access to stuff like that if you don't have something like photo shop on your computer. There is a lot out there you can play with. I plan on spending some more time paying with a lot of the other different sites. I need to load more of my pictures to my computer now. I have included one picture of me and my buddies last summer posted on two different magazine covers, Sweet! The top picture I was able to create my own title. The second picture was putting your picture on a popular magazine that already exists. I have also included the links for both, have fun.

http://bighugelabs.com/flickr/magazine.php (Guys Weekly picture)
http://www.comicstripgenerator.com/dvd/anime-character-generator.htm (GQ picture)


Made with free image tools @ TXT2PIC.com

Podcasting

So I recently have been introduced to the world of podcasting. I am still new to the idea of this and how to make it more convenient. As i tried to link my choices to my blog lines account I found it to be a little more difficult than I would like. My brother in law got me using itunes and I like using that much more. I have several podcast I listen to regularly on my itunes player. My next step is to invest in a ipod so can load my podcasts onto that for long trips. Podcasting is great for those who do not have cable television or time to sit and watch all their favorite shows. Or you might miss your favorite radio broadcast one week and want to catch up. Podcasting is limitless. Professors use it to broadcast lectures for the week and make them available to all there students. So for me podcasting is great and look forward to learning more about it, finding more feeds I enjoy and figuring out how to load them up a little more resourcefully.

So You Think You Can Dance Friend

So I posted this video only because i just found out this young girl Kherington is the daughter of a good friend of mine down south. In fact he and I are traveling to New Zealand this summer for a water polo tournament. She made it through to Vegas.... Sweet. He is really proud of her, she's a good girl. Watch for her on some upcoming episodes. We will see how she does. Its makes the show more fun when you actually know someone and want to cheer them on. It adds emotion to the show. If it wasn't for You Tube I would have never seen this video.

You Tube Thought.

So as I continue my journey into the technological world of kinesiology I am beginning to shift my school of thought. I still feel there are a lot of things out there that can be too time consuming and useless. We will still get wrapped up in spending to much time on our computers if we aren't careful. Yet I have had my eyes open to so many things that I never new about. You Tube is not one of those things. This is actually a site I visit on a regular basis. I have so many favorite that I had a hard time deciding which one to put on my blog. This particular video is a Mikasa Water Polo add and is great. If you search mikasa and watch there videos they have some great one's with all sports and athletes. There is even a good one with kids playing in a school yard. You Tube can be used for fun, for knowledge, sharing memories, and so much more. All our support videos for class have been You Tube Videos. You can find news clips, sports clips, commercials, music videos, how too videos and just about anything else you are looking for. There are some videos of people doing some pretty stupid and incriminating things though. There was the group of high school kids that jumped a girl and held her captive in their house for an Internet video. So it has encouraged students to do some dumb things in order to gain there 3 minutes of fame, although it may not be positive attention it is attention. Those are isolated cases and I hope there stupidity doesn't ruin or overshadow the positive of this type of site. I really like all that you tube has to offer and I am beginning to enjoy the web 2.0 world more and more each day. Hope you enjoy the video.

Techno what?

So I just got done looking through and improved blogsphere search tool Technorati. It was a little hard to get around at first because the video I watched about it was a little different than the actual sight. Once I got things figured out I enjoyed looking around. There is a lot of information out there to look at. The one thing I found is that I came up with a lot of internal difficulties. The "im sorry" page kept popping up. It was a Little frustrating. Although I can understand a little if they are really tracking 51 million blogs. I get confused keeping track of the 20 or so blog sites that I look at regularly. As far as the concept goes I really like it because it really gets blogs out there for all to see. It is easy to go through and expands your options. I tried just using Google one day and the search was limited. Technorati was more user friendly to me. I guess it is time to really start thinking about using Del.icio.us now. Or I guess I can utilize my bloglines account now a Little more. At the rate I am going though it will get really big really fast and seem overwhelming. Wait...it already seems that way. There is just to much to read in to little time. All in all I like the new ideas and resources out there for us to utilize. Now it is time to figure out how I can use all this new technology in my program.

MMM.....Del.icio.us

I recently have been introduced to del.icio.us the social networking bookmarking website and I don't quite know what to think. I really like the concept of it. I find myself looking through my personal bookmarks on my computer and there are so many it takes time. There not always in alphabetical order and not listed under the name I remembered. Del.icio.us is designed to help organize your links and have access to them anywhere. Which brings me to another point. There have been times I have been away form my computer working on someone Else's and needed to find a particular site but couldn't remember where it was. This site is accessible from any computer with Internet access. That to me something I like. My only concern right now is in the last few weeks I have been introduced to so many new web based resources I feel overwhelmed and confused more that anything. It seems like it will take me longer to get all these new things organized and set up that it will to just keep doing what I have been doing. As far as del.icio.us goes though, it is one I think I might try using for while. I can say that I like it a lot more than twitter. For now though my taste buds are burnt out and I don't think I am able to experience the full flavor of del.icio.us. It will be one that I keep trying for while to see if I like it.

New Technology

Technology has been evolving rapidly for the past several years. I remember when the internet was just being introduced to me as a high school student. The fact that we were able to send an email was amazing. Now we have things like Facebook, Myspace, Twitter, flicker available to us at no expense. I am still a weary of the amount of time these things will consume in our lives, also the idea of losing that face to face social interaction. These things I talked about in a recent blog so I am not going to beat a dead horse. Though thru my assigments from a class i am taking these past few weeks I have been required to explore several new places on the internet and sign up for a lot of new sites. There is a lot of great new resources available to us through this teachnology (web 2.0). The web is evolving everyday and becoming more and more user friendly. Which brings me to this question, How do I feel about it? Well, I dont think I can fully answer that question yet. I know there are many great ways I can utilize these things to help me in the future but I have to make sure to prioritize my use. You can easily get swept up into the www. and never get out, but you can also harnis its power for the greater good. I sound like a comic book character. Speeking of comic book characters all thise new web 2.0 technology makes me feel like Neo from the Matrix. You know its out there and we are trying to understand it every day but you cant quit figure it out. We spends hours on the computer digging and learning, evolving yet I still dont fully understand it. Well with all that said I enjoy learning all this new technology but still feel very overwhelmend. I hope to fully understand it soon and learn even more how to use it to benifit me. Until then I will continue to reaserch and learn until I take to red pill and have my opend to the truth and fully understand all this new technology.

Microblogging or Mindboggling

So as I read everyones (my classmates) experiences and reactions to microblogging I find myself with mixed feelings. Reading articles provided by our instructor really opend my eyes to how all this new technology could be used. At the same time though it can have a big down side. You lose the one on one and group social interaction. People crave that social interaction, its how we as humans were designed. I am reading a book by Donald Miller, Blue Like Jazz and there is a chapter called "Alone". As I read that chapter then read all the www. services out there I started to picture all these students and young adults stairing at their computer screens all day long with no real social intereaction. I my self have fallen into the myspace trance at times and wasted away a good five hours. Its what I am doing right now as I write this blog. If we spend all our time social networking on the computer we will lose the ability to interact with people face to face. On the upside though there is a world of information out there that we can get our minds rapped around that ten years ago would have taken a week just to receive or even find. Reserch for papers can be done by typing a simple word or two. There are opportunities to meet new people from around the world with just a simple click of the mouse button. Or keep n touch with family members and friends miles away very easily. So there are up sides and down sides. Have I made a final judgment on where I stand? No, but I do have some stong feelings on how far I think we should allow this to go. We dont want to lose that social contact we all crave and need. Its what helps mold us as individuals. I just dont want to become a drone that stares at a computer screen all day.

Training trip to Twin Lakes

Training trip to Twin Lakes, originally uploaded by suhovy04.

Recently I have taken on the task of begining a new Water Polo program at the college level. It has been a busy year full of suprises. To try and desribe this past year in one post would be really tough. One of the things I enjoy a lot are the mountains. I spend a lot of time backpacking and mountain biking. Starting tis new program made it difficult to do those things so I try to include them in our training. The picture above was taken at Twin Lakes above Shaver Lake. We take taining trip up there and I hope to turn this into a tradition. This particular run was about four miles one way. We started at 8,200 ft. in elevation and climed to about 9,500 ft. The team was pretty worn out after a 1,300ft elevation climb in four miles. When we reached the lakes we jumped in for a quick swim. The water was a littel cold but well worth it. The team is awsome and worked hard this season. We hope to continue trips like this one in the future seasons.

My First Post

So this is my first posting and I am new to the world of blogging. I hope in the future I am able to provide with my thoughts on coaching, life and love in a fashionable manner.