Hot Sports How-Tos
How To: Skip to warm up for cross country
Check out this how-to video to prepare for a marathon or cross country running. Just skip the right way. Always relax.
How To: Practice a crossover warm up for cross country
With tips from this how-to video, learn how to do a crossover warm up for cross country. Remember to keep your back straight. Also, remember when you are sitting and watching this video to keep your back straight.
How To: Practice a running backward drill to improve your form
Do a running backward drill to improve your biomechanical form. This drill works your glutes and hamstrings. Check out this how-to video for advice on improving your marathon and cross country performance.
How To: Practice a grapevine drill to improve your form
Do a grapevine running drill to improve your form. Watch this how-to video to improve the biomechanics of your body. This is good for marathons and cross country.
How To: Practice a paw back running drill to improve your form
Do a paw back running drill to improve your biomechanical form. This drill works your hip flexors and quadriceps.
How To: Practice a high knees drill for form improvement
Do a high knees running drill for form improvement. This drill works hip flexers and stabilizers. Watch this how-to video for tips on improving your biomechanical form.
How To: Use a skateboard on a trampoline
Check out this instructional tutorial to learn how to trabop board, or use a skateboard on a trampoline. Get advice from this how-to video on how to mix two of your favorite activities: skateboarding and jumping on your trampoline!
How To: Bowl like a pro
Straight from the professionals at AMF, get the skinny on our favorite... ummm sport. Is bowling a sport? Well here's a retro tutorial on how to strike all the pins and leave the lanes clean. Get your 300 tongiht!
How To: Tie your obi belt for aikido training
This is how you tie your belt for an aikido training. It is demonstrated by an aikido club member from Wimbledon, London, UK.
How To: Do a backflip on a field
Watch this video to learn the correct way of how to do a backflip. This easy-to-follow video tutorial will have you back flipping like a ninja in no time.
How To: Keep score in tennis
Watch this video to learn how to keep score in a game of tennis. This sports video is great for a beginning tennis player who wants to learn the rules.
How To: Adjust a Rear Mech on your bicycle
Bicycle maintenance doesn't have to be a hassle. This cycling video from Weldtech will teach you how you can adjust a rear mech on your bicycle.
How To: Do the sleeper hold without damaging the throat
This video will teach you how to properly use the sleeper hold in order to subdue an attacker, but not damage their larynx. This is a real way to protect others and yourself. It is meant to help Police Officers from choking people and avoid law suits from performing the wrong maneuver.
How To: Break a choke hold
This martial arts video is for those of you who are not able to use the pressure point way to break a choke hold. I am doing this in slow motion to allow you to see what I am doing. Once you have the moves, do them faster and they will work for you.
How To: Perform the sleeper hold on a taller person
Some martial arts enthusiasts might say it's harder to defend yourself when you are short. This martial arts tutorial video shows that size doesn't matter when the sleeper hold is applied correctly.
How To: Do a back tuck aka a standing backflip
This gymnastics video will show you how you can do a back tuck, also known as a standing backflip.
How To: Do a standing back tuck
This is a gymnastics tutorial video on how you can do a standing back tuck.
How To: Execute a back handspring
This is a quick video tutorial on how you can execute the back handspring gymnastics move. The back handspring is a relatively easy gymnastics move.
How To: Do a front headflip & headspring
This is a video that will teach you how you can do a front headflip and headspring.
How To: Do a back tuck
This video will teach you how to do a backflip and possibly fix any problems you may be having doing it.
How To: Do a back headflip and headspring
The back headflip and headspring are two relatively advanced gymnastics moves. This tutorial video will teach you how to do both the back headflip and the headspring.
How To: Do a standing backflip like a pro
Let's face it. Backflips are extremely cool. And you want to learn how to do one. Well, this video will teach you how you can do a standing backflip.
How To: Position arms during a backflip
Many people have seen backflip tutorials, but some might be unsure of how to move their arms while flipping. This video will teach you how to move your arms properly while doing a backflip.
How To: Race a go-kart at Need2Speed in Redding, CA
In this video tutorial, Melissa takes you on a quick tour of Need2Speed in downtown Redding, California and provides some useful tips on how to get the most out of your go-kart visit. Need2Speed is Northern California's only electric, high-speed public indoor kart racing facility. Race a go-kart at Need2Speed in Redding, CA.
How To: Do cheerleading chants and cheers
Watch this video to learn how to do an interesting cheerleading chants and cheers. This is a detailed instructional video to teach you how to do a routine.
How To: Do the gainer
This is a Gainer Tutorial by Flying Trickster. This video shows how to do the easy yet amazing looking trick, the gainer.
How To: Do a backflip easily
Backflip tutorial by Flying Trickster. How to do the backflip stunt in steps. This video shows, with an easy explanation, how to do a backflip.
How To: Repair a dented ping pong ball
Quickly bring a dented Ping Pong Ball back to life on the fly. Also, watch to the end if you just want to see how to make a pong ball shoot flames. This is a very helpful and effective martial arts technique.
How To: Do the straight jacket technique
This is the set up I use for the straight jacket submission when someone defends the gogoplata. This submission attacks the shoulders depending on how flexible you are. There are a couple of ways to set this up.
How To: Perform the Peruvian Necktie takedown
There are several ways and grips to set up the Peruvian Necktie. You can't have your hands too tight or they will pop off when you sit back and throw the leg over. This is a very tight choke which comes on in less than 3 seconds.
How To: Do the compressor arm lock and break
Here is one way to get the hands free when someone is grabbing around your waist as you go for the gangsta lean position. This is a very helpful and effective martial arts technique.
How To: Do a turning wrist lock
This lock is found in many different styles and known by different names. Here we give a basic idea on how it is done from a shoulder grab.
How To: Do the Mir Lock
Here is a shoulder lock from the open guard (basically an ude garami or maki hiji lock) that Frank Mir pulled of against Pete Williams. This is a very helpful and effective martial arts technique.
How To: Arm break in the arm bar position
The silverado is an arm crush and usually one of the last moves to go for when all the others have been blocked. This is a very helpful and effective martial arts technique.
How To: Repair your Gi pants
Often, the double draw string in gi pants tend to "un thread". Here is a quick way to fix and re thread them.
How To: Do a backward roll
Here is a brief how to on the backward roll in jiu jitsu. This is often neglected in the martial arts community, but it is very helpful to know.
How To: Do a forward roll
Here is a brief video on how to start doing the forward roll in Jiu Jitsu. Ukemi (rolling and falling) are very important in the martial arts and often neglected.
How To: Do a Jiu Jitsu chess drill
This video shows how to do a Jiu Jitsu chess drill. This is an excellent way to develop skill and technique.
How To: Do a clock choke from the mount
This video shows how to do the clock choke from the mount. This is a very helpful and effective martial arts technique.
How To: Do the guillotine choke from mount
The guillotine from mount is a crank and a choke. This martial arts technique can be very tight and hard to do.