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Dave Pineau knew after two season's he had found a winner with Digital Scouting Video Sharing database. Having tried a popular Game Tape exchange service, and then sharing games using thumb drives, he had little hope of finding a system that everyone could be happy with.

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At the end of every season athletes talk about how next season will be better. When you ask them how, they often talk about how hard they are going to train. Well, if everyone is saying and doing the same thing, what is going to be the difference? The two that come to mind is summer training and the intensity in which you train. As an athlete you can't wait for things to happen, you have to make it happen.

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The embedded video below shows the x-ankle Freestyle Wrestling turn in detail, both the offense and defense.

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Improvements in technology and iPhone Apps is making it very easy to capture, edit and share videos. Techsmith's Coach's Eye is an iPhone App coaches can use to help them take their athletes to the next level.

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This is a follow up to an earlier post What is match fixing in wrestling?. I didn't intend to have a follow up post, but when I read a news paper article that indicated Peter Forsberg played a hockey game with the intent to lose in order to get a better draw in the play off round.

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Is giving up a round in wrestling the same as fixing a match? Or is the problem with deciding on how a certain match will go by deciding the winner of a round or two before it starts? How about if wrestlers from the same club decide to split the first two rounds and wrestle the third for real, does that make it legitimate? To tell you the truth, I don't know but think it is worth talking about.

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In 1979 the Canadian National Wrestling team competed in a wrestling tournament in Cuba. Many of the matches were video recorded and these recordings were brought back to Canada were they sat in storage for over 30 years.

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Canada Senior Women's Wrestling Team just placed second in the World finishing ahead of over 40 countries entered in the tournament. This is an outstanding performance.

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In recent weeks I have read of a view situations where teachers have been sending friend invitations to students. It is also happening in the sport world were coaches and inviting their athletes and athletes are inviting their coaches to be friends.

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Online video viewing seems to be more common TV Viewing these days.  I am asking 5 questions  I would like you to answer, short and sweet yes and no answers only.

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What Lynyrd Skynyrd taught me about coaching wrestling.

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The Digitalscouting Video Sharing System was developed to increase access and portability of your video library. As each day goes by more and more mobile phone subscribers are using their phones to view videos. According to Nielson mobile video viewing went up 43 percent from 2009 to 2010.

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A simple and affordable way to convert your old VHS and Beta tapes to DVD, or other digital video formats.

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With video recording advancing the older formats are becoming extinct. Converting these older video formats into a newer digital format is an important first step in preserving history. Learn how to convert, store and share your old videos. This is part 1 of a 3 part series.

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The Sony HD camcorder PJ10 has a built-in projector which can come in handy for coaches that want to show a video clip on a larger surface what the camera provides. The goal of this post is to provide information to coaches on new video camera technology. This is not a review, just information.

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