Article: Don't push off too hard; it will be easier to practice the trick if you're going a little slower. It should feel like you're jumping up. You want to propel yourself from the crouched position on the scooter. Keep your feet planted on the deck. You want to pull up on the handle bars so the front wheel on the scooter lifts up about one foot (.3 meters) off the ground. At this point both wheels should be about one foot (.3 meters) in the air. Make sure both your feet are still planted on the deck. Both wheels should hit the ground at the same time. Continue riding forward with both your feet on the deck.
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Push off with your back foot so you’re moving on the scooter. Bend your knees and then push up with your legs. Pull up with your arms while' pushing up with your legs. Let the back wheel lift off the ground as you’re pushing and pulling up. Let the scooter drop back to the ground.
Article: You don’t need to oil a leather bridle as often as you clean it. New bridles or bridles with very dry leather need to be conditioned and oiled more frequently than others. Unbuckle every latch and lay all of the parts out in front of you. Inspect the leather and all of the stitching to make sure that it is all in good condition.  For an English bridle, the parts you should have are a noseband, 2 cheek pieces, a throat latch, a headstall, a browband, and reins. For a Western bridle, you should have 2 cheek pieces, a headstall, reins, and potentially a throat latch depending on the bridle. The noseband goes across the nose, the cheek pieces go down the cheeks, the throat latch goes around the throat, the browband goes just below the ears, the reins connect to the bit, and the headstall goes above the ears and holds the whole bridle together. All of the parts are connected to the headstall. Place the leather soap onto a sponge and work up a lather on every part of the bridle. Ensure that you clean all of the crevices in the bridle with the leather soap. Then use a clean cloth to remove the lather.  If you are using tinned leather soap, place the soap onto a sponge and then dip the sponge into warm water. Squeeze out the sponge so that it is only slightly damp and then create a lather with the soap. If you are using liquid leather soap, you will not need to add water. Never use products that are not specially designed for leather as a substitute for leather soap. Bleach, vinegar, vegetable oil, and motor oil are all ineffective and may damage the bridle. Use a sponge to apply the saddle soap to the bridle and to work up a lather. If it is difficult to get the saddle soap into the stitching and crevices on the bridle, apply it with a toothbrush rather than a sponge. Use a clean and slightly damp sponge to wipe every part of the bridle. Check that there is no residue remaining. Apply the neatsfoot oil to a clean sponge and rub it into all parts of the bridle. Every part of the leather should have a thin coating of neatsfoot oil. Remove any excess oil using a sponge.  The thin layer of oil that remains on the bridle will slowly soak into the leather, to keep it soft and supple. Neatsfoot oil is a type of leather polish that is made from cattle bones. Place the browband back onto the headstall and the throat latch. Then feed the noseband straps back into the headstall. Buckle the cheek pieces to the straps on the headstall and place the reins onto the bit. Gently flex the leather as you put the bridle back together to help it become more supple. After you oil a leather bridle, the oil will need time to soak into the leather and to make it soft. Wait until the bridle is completely dry and check that it doesn’t feel oily or greasy before you use it again. If the leather still feels brittle or hard after it has dried, condition and oil the bridle again.
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Oil the bridle once per month. Take the bridle apart fully. Use leather soap on all of the bridle parts and then wipe away the lather. Clean all of the bridle parts with saddle soap. Wipe away the excess soap and lather with a sponge. Oil all of the bridle parts with neatsfoot oil. Reassemble the bridle. Let the bridle dry for 1-2 days.
Article: The first half of any journal response should involve a concise summary and analysis of the book and any main points the author seems to make. The summary section of your journal should be thorough enough that you could read through your journal response and be able to write a short paper on the book.  Address what the main thesis is for the reading. What is the reading about, and why did the author write the text? Acknowledge any conclusions or commentary/arguments the author arrives at. If the book is about something, like the social and political happenings of the author's time, what does the author ultimately think and how do you know this? Incorporate one or two important quotes that are representative of the rest of the text. The second half of a journal response should be your commentary on the text. This part of the journal is your subjective opinion of the book and any arguments or conclusions you believe are present in the text. While the summary focuses on the "what" of the reading, your commentary should focus on the "why."  Don't be afraid to make connections between the book and your own life; if there is a theme or character that speaks to you, write about why. Address and evaluate the author's arguments and conclusions, which should have been detailed in the summary part of your journal. Think of the commentary as either supporting or rejecting (what you consider) the author's main points. Justify your opinions in the commentary. Agreeing or disagreeing is only the first step; for a thorough response, you'll need to analyze your own opinions and arrive at a reason why you had that reaction. The goal of a reading response journal is to give yourself a semi-private space to reflect on the text and develop your thoughts and opinions. You don't need to have it all figured out right from the start, but your journal should help you figure it out along the way.  Allow yourself to explore a topic covered in the summary. Think about why you believe the author addressed certain subjects, as well as what you think about those subjects and the author's depiction. Analyze your opinions. Don't just write that you liked or disliked something, or that you agreed or disagreed with it - dig deeper and figure out why. Ask yourself: How far can I run with a given idea, and how can I make sense of it? Think of your journal as a place to make sense of both the academic and personal experience of reading a given book.  As your journal progresses over the course of the semester or school year, your responses should become longer and more complex. You should be able to chart the development of your thoughts within each individual response and across the journal as a whole. At the very least, your journal entries should be dated. You may also want to use headings and titles so that you can easily identify a given response to a particular text. Remember, the point of a response journal is to be able to track your own progress with that book and to better understand your experience of reading it.  Consider using clear and descriptive headings in your journal. It will help you more easily find your thoughts and insights as you read through your journal at a later date.  It's okay if the actual journal entries wander a bit while exploring the subject - in fact, this can be very helpful. The goal is to organize your journal as a whole so that you can make sense of your entries and track your progress.
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Summarize the reading. Respond to the reading with your own commentary. Develop your ideas over time. Organize your response journal.