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Sports
We discuss other sports
in this department, ice and roller skating, fishing and ice fishing,
football, boating, Horseshoe Pitching, bowling, etc. so visit this
department often for another "how to" sports feature.
Scroll
down for Horseshoes and
Ice Fishing Tips info.
Skating
and Clubs Info
Ice
Skating and Roller Blade Skating
 Learn
to Ice Skate in South East Michigan. Join the Ice Box Sports Center
for Children or Adults. You may request a coach for your Child that
they would recommend. When You become a member of this club you
are in a USFSA Club. Which is a big deal. To Learn Basic skills
they are located at 21902 Telegraph Road, Trenton MI. 48183. Tel:
734-676-6429. Mailing address: Ice Box Sports Center, 21902 Telegraph
Road Brownstown Twp, MI 48183. Where founding President is Mr. Gary
Chick. Cost is $60 for 9 (nine) classes. 5:00- 5:30 P.M. 1-2-3 Basic
1. 5:30-6:00 p.m. Basic 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8 F/S 1-2 Registration begins
in June but call to see if you can come watch before then.
New
York Skate Club for
Roller Blade Skating To learn on Tuesday Wednesday and Thursdays
for Kids 3 and up 3:30-5:30 p.m. Getting Started for Adults Loop
Skating in Central Park 10:00a.m. till Noon then Loop Skating Lunch
from Noon till 1:00 p.m. Five Classes and tours $100 join Team Skate
membership $35 a year. Contact them at Tel:212)486-1919 or Tel:
917)257-7648 Fax:212)486-8811 email:nysk@aol.com
LoveYourNeighbor.org will list various state clubs until we cover
every state God willing. So you can get involved.
The
Detroit Skating Club is USFSA in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
are for those looking to be in Competitions for all levels in Ice
Skating as amateur figure skating. Initiation Fee one time $600,
with yearly membership $300. Associate membership for 18 and older
is $200 yearly. Detroit Skating Club 888 Denison Court Bloomfield
Hills, MI 48302 Tel: 248-332-3000 Fax:248)332-9912 email:info@dscclub.com.
Disclaimer:Love Your Neighbor takes no legal responsibility for the actions of independent clubs, groups, or individuals through referral from this website. Their rules of conduct are strictly their own and have no bearing or affiliation with Love Your Neighbor conduct, Policies or procedures. Anyone joining a club or group as a referral from this website does so at their own discretion and risk. Love Your Neighbor cannot be responsible for the conduct of others outside of this ministry. © Love Your Neighbor All Rights Reserved.
Sports feature:
How to Set Up for "Horseshoes " game in your own back
yard: You may call The Gordon"spin-on" Horseshoe at
(513)321-7200 to buy what you need, or if you want the cheaper version
go to any Sports Authority Store, but you may need to put the shorter
stake in a bucket of cement for added safety. Rules of Game below.
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HORSESHOES
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Measure
30 feet between stakes for women and children or you men should
measure off 40 feet. If you think a bad or wild throw of the
horseshoe might damage anything set up some kind of protective
barrier a foot high and the extent of the Pitchers Box to protect
the people or object that might get in the path of a horseshoe. |
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Slant
the 3-4 foot stake towards the opposite stake so the horseshoes
catch and stay on. You need about 15 inches of stake above ground. |
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Set
the game for 40 Points if you have endless time, or set the
game for 40 Shoes with game ending no matter what the point
count when 40 shoes have been tossed. |
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Pitchers
Box should be Six (6) feet by Six (6) feet at each end of the
court. It consists of (a) the Pit (where the shoes land) (b)
the pitching platforms. |
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Decide
what is your foul area and no points made when shoe lands there.
Or Fouled because player moved to far from allowed pitch line
etc. Remove a foul shoe and toss again. |
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Game
consists of Innings. Each inning is 4 pitched shoes - as each
of the 2 players pitch 2 shoes. |
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Two
ways to make a Point. A Ringer will encircle the stake. A
Shoe in Count is not a ringer but comes within 6 inches
of any part of the stake. It doesn't have to touch the stake
but you do need a ruler or measuring tape. It is a point. |
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Shoe Out of Count
is a shoe that is further than 6 inches from the stake. It
has NO POINT value. In doubles play two contestants another
team of two. We talk about other sports in Sports Dept. so
return often to this department.
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Ice Fishing - Safety Tips
Here are some tips on safety - on floating ice sheets - I picked
up from the U. S. Army Cold Regions Research & Engineering Laboratory
…verbatim these tips are listed below from their free handout. These
tips are so important that I am listing them here instead of hoping
you will go to the website for this handout material. But if you
have time, go to the website, as there was a graph I could not quickly
duplicate for you. C. Sims
Safety On Floating Ice Sheets
For many of us in northern climates, working or playing on the
frozen surface of a river or lake is part of winter. Knowing how
to do so safely can be a matter of life or death. This handout presents
general, common-sense precautionary measures that should be followed
when you plan to be on a floating freshwater ice cover. Since it
cannot cover every ice condition you may encounter, your judgement
is critical. Remember: Only you are responsible
for your own safety!
PREPARATION
There are four things to focus on when planning an outing on the
ice: your Physical Condition, your Clothing, your equipment, and
your Procedures.
Physical condition
Anyone who goes out on the ice should be in reasonably good condition
and be able to sustain periods of intense exertion if an emergency
arises-either falling through the ice themselves or rescuing someone
who does. Being able to swim, or at least being comfortable staying
afloat, is important in an emergency and can reduce the chances
for panic.
CLOTHING
Naturally you should choose clothing that provides protection from
air temperatures, wind, and precipitation while at the same time allowing
you mobility. But in addition, when you select clothing, keep in mind
the possibility of falling through the ice. Clothing that would severely
restrict your ability to swim or to stay afloat is not a good choice.
Hip boots or waders should never be worn, as they can fill with water
and restrict movement while adding weight. A personal flotation device
(PED) should be worn. This can be a vest or jacket, either inflatable
or naturally buoyant.
Equipment
Include items for testing and measuring the ice thickness, as well
as items for rescue or self-rescue. In the first category are a heavy
ice chisel, an ice drill or auger (manual or powered), a measuring
tape or stick that can be hooked under the bottom edge of the ice
in an auger hole, and possibly a perforated ladle for cleaning ice
out of the auger holes. In addition to the PFD, bring a rope or rescue
throw bag containing a rope that floats. Ice rescue picks sold for
ice fishermen are an excellent idea. They thread through your jacket
sleeves like children's mittens and are immediately available in a
n emergency for pulling yourself out of the water onto the ice.
Procedures
- Never go out on an ice cover alone, and never go out on the
ice if there is any question of its safety.
- While you are planning the outing, obtain the record of air
temperature for the past several days and continue observing air
temperatures while the ice will be used to support loads.
- Always let someone know of your plans and when you will return.
- When you arrive at the water's edge, visually survey the ice.
Look for open water areas, and look for signs of recent changes
in water levels: ice slopping down from the bank because the water
dropped, or wet areas on the ice because the water rose and flooded
areas of the ice that couldn't float because it was frozen to
the bottom or the banks. (If the ice is snow-covered, look for
wet areas in the snow.)
- Listen for loud cracks or booms coming from the ice. In a river
this can mean the ice is about to break up or move, on a lake
larger than several acres such noises may be harmless responses
to thermal expansion and contraction.
- Look for an easy point of access to the ice, free of cracks
or piled, broken ice.
- If you are taking a vehicle or other equipment on the ice, go
out on foot first. Vigorously probe ahead of yourself with the
ice chisel. If the chisel ever goes through, carefully turn around
and retrace your steps back to shore, and try again some other
day.
- Near shore, listen for hollow sounds while probing. Ice sloping
down from the bank may have air space underneath. This is not
safe, ice must be floating on the water to support loads.
- After getting on the ice, others in the group should follow
I the leader's steps, but stay at least 10 feet apart.
- Only after you have learned the characteristics of the ice cover
should any vehicle be taken on the ice.
WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE ICE
Once on the ice it is time to begin more systematic observations
of the ice sheet you want to use to support a load. There may be
many variations in the structure, thickness, temperature, and strength
of a floating freshwater ice sheet.
How thick is the ice?
This is determined by drilling holes with the drill or ice auger.
The technique is to drill a hole and check the ice thickness every
150 feet or so along the intended path. This should be done more
frequently if the ice thickness is quite variable. Note whether
the ice in each hole is clear (sometimes called black ice) or white
(due to air bubbles-sometimes called snow ice). Measure the thickness
of both kinds.
On rivers the ice thickness and quality can change a lot in a short
distance, be particularly alert to variations in ice thickness due
to bends, riffles, or shallows, junctions with tributaries, etc.
For both rivers and lakes, warm inflows from springs can create
areas of thinner ice. The ice near shores can either be thinner
(due to warm ground water inflow or the insulating effect of drifted
snow) or thicker (due to the candle-dipping effect of variable water
levels).
Measure the snow cover thickness on the ice cover, significant
variations in thickness may mean highly variable ice thicknesses.
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How thick does it need to be?
A simple formula to estimate the minimum ice thickness required
to support a load is:
Where h is the ice thickness in inches and P is the load,
or gross weight, in tons. The table will help you determine
the minimum thickness.
Remember that the load
is the total load in tons
(not a vehicle's load capacity).
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Minimum ice thickness required to support a load.
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Load
(tons) |
Required ice thickness
(inches) |
Distance between loads
(feet) |
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2 |
17 |
| 2 |
6 |
48 |
| 3 |
7 |
58 |
| 4 |
8 |
67 |
| 5 |
9 |
75 |
| 10 |
13 |
106 |
| 20 |
18 |
149 |
| 30 |
22 |
183 |
| 40 |
26 |
211 |
The table is valid when the load (such as a person on foot, or
a wheeled or tracked vehicle) is distributed over a reasonable area
of a continuous ice sheet. The larger the load, the greater the
area it should cover for the calculation to remain valid.
Neither large loads that are concentrated in relatively smaller
area, nor loads that ar at or near the edge of a large opening in
the ice, are safely described by the table. In such cases, seek
more advice.
The table assumes clear, sound ice. If white, bubble-filled ice
makes up part of all of the ice thickness, count it as only half
as much clear ice.
Any recent large snowstorm creates a new load on the ice. If the
new snow is heavy enough, the ice sheet will sag and its top surface
will be submerged below the water level. Then water will flood the
top of the ice sheet through cracks, saturating the lower layers
of the snow. Until this slush is completely frozen, stay off the
ice sheet. When the saturated snow becomes frozen, it is an added
thickness of white ice.
Contrary to what you would expect, a rapid, large air temperature
drop makes an ice sheet brittle, and the ice may not be safe to
use for 24 hours or more.
If the air temperature has been above freezing for at least 6 of
the past 24 hours, multiply the load by 1.3 before you use the equation
of h for thickness of the lce and P for the load, obtaining a larger
minimum ice thickness to account for any possible weakening. If
the air temperature stays above freezing for 24 hours or more, the
ice starts losing strength, and the equation and table no longer
represent safe conditions. Stay off the ice.
You are likely to encounter cracks in the ice. Cracks are either
wet or dry. If they are dry, they do not penetrate the ice sheet
and are not a concern. If they are wet, multiply the load by 2,
before you use the equation to obtain the required minimum ice thickness.
If you plan to leave a load on the ice for extended periods, usually
more than two hours, multiply the load by 2 before you use the equation
to find the required minimum ice thickness.
SAFE OPERATIONS ON THE ICE COVER
If using an enclosed vehicle, always drive with the windows or a door
open for quick escape.
If you drive across wet cracks, your path should be as close to
perpendicular to them as possible, instead of parallel to them.
A load deflects the ice slightly into a bowl shape. When you drive
on floating ice, this moving bowl generates waves in the water.
If the speed of the waves equals the vehicle speed, the ice-sheet
deflection is increased and the ice is much more likely to break.
The problem is more serious for thin ice and shallow water. In general
you avoid this danger by driving below 15 mph.
When there are two loads on the ice, the safe distance between
them is about 100 times the ice thickness at the required minimum
thickness. This is show in the third column of the table. When the
two loads are different, choose the spacing shown for the larger
load. At ice thicknesses greater than the required minimum, this
spacing can be reduced.
A loaded ice sheet will creep, or deform, over a long period of
time, without any additional load. If the water begins to flood
the ice through the hole, move the load immediately. Remember
this if your vehicle ever becomes disabled: if left for a few days,
it may break through the ice as a result of long-term creep.
IN CONCLUSION…
Be sure you understand this information. Don't hesitate to seek
the advice of others whose experience you trust. Be safe out on
the ice!
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