Team Todd Outdoors

Blog Review

                 A college built basketball player rejuvenates many instances for youth players making it through the ranks and instills useful information onto them that will benefit them prior to achieving a college status. Tyler Peterson is the author behind D3 Basketball Survival Guide, who reverts many posts to help those that speculate what the future could look like through different decisions. Tyler is very much up-to-date on his posts, regarding in class work and his blogs regarding basketball.

A voice well recognized through his posts, Tyler constantly remains a teacher when writing his posts. While proposing his conquests of someday envisioning being a coach, he subsequently resembles that of a leader throughout his blog. As a college athlete, during the same particular season, and a peer of Tyler, reading his blogs do hit home for me as well. Making sense of much of his texts, due to the fact that the “struggle is real” during college. Tyler helps those who speculate athletics during their college run, should find refuge in his blog, because he definitely scripts the course of time throughout his four years in sheer detail.

The style behind this D3 Basketball Survival Guide is simple, inform athletes (basketball players in particular) of the changes that occur playing at a higher level. In many cases, he enacts the sense of sports within his blog. For instance, repetition, repetition, repetition. In his posts, many of the same themes immerse, persisting to the fact that we only learn when a subject matter is continuously practice, just like sports. Here Tyler is seen somewhat coaching us through his blog, perusing the idea of us to engage in his teachings. During his post from, October 14, 2015 How to (Try to) Stay Healthy This Season, he revitalizes the issue of stretching being such a key part of maintaining a successful season, without being so injury prone. While doing this, he is quoted saying, “That’s right! Stretching again. No one likes to hear this, but as Jack once said, a lot of people have trouble hearing what they need to do.” Like I said, Tyler much like a coach, researches how to successful, and with a basketball history, knows how to instill his skills onto others, knowing how to lead.

This blog has many strengths, while subtle like his repetition skills, and his more diverse ways of making his work relevant. Throughout the survival guide, you will find media devised to bring life to his work. In certain cases, its hyperlinks, bringing you to hot spots relating to certain coaches, workouts, and videos that bring comical instances and make you want to further your scroll to the bottom of the blog. Within his images, he doesn’t particularly use images from BB, but memes that collectively pursue in what the subject matter is about. He is consistent with making the blog very balanced, allowing other athletes and students to understand the content in further depth.

While continuing to evaluate this blog, many other strengths that Tyler is kept up on, are the use of tags and categories, keeping his blog very simple and organized. This is a very key feature that is highly looked passed, while others lose focus on this choice of tools, Tyler allows his audience to use his page to the highest capabilities. Some of his tags include, Advice, D1/D3, Health, Interactions, NCAA, Social Media, Drills, and Practice. These being very broad but yet useful because, all of the tags set, are covered throughout the post its tag too.

His categorical sidebar also insists on finding material at a simple click of the mouse or tap of the screen. Located at the top of the page, Tyler incorporates the information you may find on his blog. Setting the tone with a visual sidebar like this gives depth to his blog, keeping readers sustained with a singular page of highly informational knowledge that many readers will find useful. Above this widget, his “Top Posts & Pages” lies above, proclaiming his must reads, fulfilling the scripture of the post that have been commented thoroughly upon and also the upmost respected writings on his blog. With 6 posts sitting within the sidebar keeps his audience nearly overwhelmed with great posts.

How Tyler formulates his blog using the many tools offered by WordPress, this blog is a consistent routine of information. His readers have now become followers after being engulfed within such serious ideas and problems that are overseen while pretending to be ready for stepping into the next level of athletics or life. He sets the tone of the seriousness of the situation, and by bringing to light subtle details of how things can become amplified, his audience wants to know more, and by following him, they’ll get just that.

After making it too the bottom of the blog page, I identified with many cases that Tyler shed light upon. I learned a few new practices that I should regard when continuing on through my senior year of collegiate hockey and also related to his advice in his last blog post, Open Letter to High School Basketball Players Hoping to Play College Basketball, when he states that when he was in High School, he didn’t understand the virtue of competition outside the confines of his own teams. As a starter throughout my years of High School, I rarely decided to work harder, knowingly where I stood on my team. Now knowing the business that occurs quickly after your graduating year, you need to understand that you need to work hard on and off the court, because grades matter just as much as your vertical. As a hockey player, I had no idea that players were even suitable to play Pro ball after turning 18, with
men strutting the court at mature age and size. Through hockey, we are set up a collegiate level and also junior leagues that filter players through
the ranks and allows them to mature so they are able to be a consistent player at the highest rank. While the NHL is becoming younger and younger, I had no idea that this concept was simulating throughout the NBA. Having Tyler not written this post, I would have not known this was occurring. With the help of Tyler,young individuals coming through the ranks can now understand the pros and cons of such decisions.

With such an active Twitter account: @thaipeas, mainly focuses on a mainstream basketball theme. He talks stats, team biases, blog posts, and keeping you connected to those at the front lines, NBA all-stars themselves. As seen in this Storify, you can read Tyler’s twitter history, showing how he has a strong voice through his tweets, asking questions and pushing priceless analytical information prior/post game. When advising about his blog posts, he gives the ‘Twitterspehere’ a full layout of what he poses to accomplish by reading it.

His most effective tweets if I were to narrow them down, are these two about his blog posts, letting the youth ballers know whether or not they are truly prepped for college and level of skill that comes with it. By using hyperlinks, you are easily navigated to his blog post, whilst having the actual post being dragged to your screen. This is highly helpful to those who are new to a blog, but his advertising is very useful as many sporadic people find themselves commenting on posts.

This next tweet gives you a more in-depth outlook of Tyler Peterson and his knowledge of the game he loves. As for myself, I couldn’t call stats on many of the players that I watch at the highest level, yet Tyler feels comfortable in stating who he feels needs the ball for the outcome he’s hoping for. For Tyler’s blog, this does wonders, as when his Twitter audience can fully trust that he isn’t simply trying to catfish readers into his writing, but actually collaborating with others, utilizing his full range of knowledge on the subject of basketball.

Knowing Tyler and his regiment for basketball, we typically talk about what we have to endure doing the preseason, and the during the season. Other than that, we both know the struggles of living off campus and knowing the different lifestyle it brings to our time at college. From a senior standpoint, Tyler and I can identify how these changes should be handled and how, because in hindsight, it changes your studying, eating, athletic and social habits. As a leader and using a coaching mentality in his blog, I believe this is a topic that Tyler should try to incorporate into his blog, because those looking to get out of the dorms may not find the comforts of a home and roommates so satisfying while others may love the information granted by Mr. Peterson himself.

As a very serious publisher, Tyler continues to spew the helpful incentives of making players more suitable for the next level. Amongst his progression of influencing more of an audience, Tyler must incorporate more posts, regarding his life and how certain influences from his life may have sculpted certain skills of his. In partition, how did he become such an icon viewed by teammates, and how he still helps his team on the right track of winning. It would be fun to see photos of himself, the man behind the mask in the setting of school work and on the court. Learning of him, is just as important as the script he writes for us. I would try to persuade him into a deep bio with media filled with stats and information regarding his own skills and team, here @ Northland College.

D3 Basketball Survival Guide is a truly remarkable blog that entails much of what to expect, other than a few minor detail changes to posts, Tyler could definitely see a major change in followers and blog hits. By using a very serious voice, this blog is easy to read and while his posts are categorized very well, jumping from post to post is as simple as any pdf file.

I hope to see Tyler continue his blog, as his senior year is yet to be finished. Maybe use his last year to write it off, and compile the most informative blogs, informing what goals he has hopes to fulfill as a team and after his career at Northland College. Knowing Tyler, his life in basketball is far from over, knowing what he has in store will be great read, and influentially may change the way others perceive this lifestyle, and may follow his path to becoming not just a better basketball player, but as a stronger individual off the court.

 

This blog, from Team Todd Outdoors was created in thought to allow readers a better understanding of what hunting and fishing can offer and the right ways to go about doing so. My blog has been best kept up to date with the different hunting and fishing that I have been involved with since this fall semester began. From scouring rubs and scrapes to hunting in South Dakota, this blog was directed at the Midwestern Outdoorsman.  From beginning to end, I have tried to keep this blog personal, using lessons and media from my own hunts. Throughout this semester long blog of TTOD, I found myself being more in-tuned to everything around me, this aloud me to give a better description of how to interact with different situations that even the reader might find themselves in.

I approached this blog like a research paper, because truly, this kept me involved with more research in maintaining a better harvest this fall through all the different hunts that Minnesota and the Midwest has to offer. While living in Wisconsin, and hunting exclusively in Minnesota, I was intertwined with different seasons as much as different tales of others experiences whether learning of it at local tavern or at work. Knowing how many people pride themselves as hunters and truly enjoying the blessings of the outdoors, it kept me motivated to learn more from them, allowing me to my own field research. From there, whether I’d been had, or whether my new tactics worked, I tried to portray them throughout this blog to help any old stranger from making a mistake and to produce a great day out in the wilderness.

Even though, I have read many written mistakes throughout this WordPress, I find it hard to edit, as it shows how excited I was to post. To keep the reader instilled while reading jumbled up words, I kept the screen vibrant with some photos and videos that are kept from my own moments in the blind. In my mind, this gave the blogs more depth as to what I had been referring too, as I show photos of scrapes and ducks lined up and a caption in regards to the photo. I felt this was just as necessary as my words. I found myself running through my phone and GoPro, trying to find the best suited moments to portray. Using this kind of style, made it much easier to find my own voice through my trials and tribulations, making Team Todd sound much more personal, as well it should stay.

In much respect to my audience, I hope this blog has been very easy to locate certain blogs and categories. It is hard to believe a man from my generation is much incapable to computers, but with such a busy schedule and trying to endure what mother nature has to offer, you somewhat lose touch to the modern world. With this, it made it hard to understand many of the changes a blogger can do to make his/her blog much easier to maneuver through. Still trying, I picked a theme that seemed enough for any computer illiterate outdoorsmen like myself to navigate through. As much as appearance, I had hoped the many photos, such as the home screen would welcome migrators into my waters, as these were my main decoys to visitors. Using Team Todd Outdoor as an Instagram link at the bottom, I wanted many to find our other photos that aren’t published onto this blog, giving the reader a more in depth understanding of who is writing.

 

As a rookie blogger, I had no idea what to think or how about going about doing this. After finding a subject that I am very passionate, I pretty much took off from there. I had much to discuss, but with my schedule, it was hard to determine what I should post. In many circumstances, I wanted to portray what I had been more involved in. As the beginning of a schools fall semesters starts, so does the hunting season, and without a motor for my fishing boat, it was going to be hard to go out a fish Lake Superior, and well, for the summer fishing, I felt it hard to retain what moments took place and how to voice here on this blog. As for the hunting, I was breathing it every weekend when I went home to old Minnesota. This is where I was reunited with my family, friends, and my killing stick. With this blog always in the back of my mind, I tried to retain each moment on my GoPro and relive it on here through my own words, while trying to incorporate the footage amidst the text.

 

While I was much in favor for hunting, since November, I had really gotten away from the fields and slews, and found myself in the woods, alone, without many deer to gaze upon. It was cold, slow and to say the least, not much has happened other than spotting does consistently without much of buck presence. It was hard then to voice my everyday weekend of poor weather conditions and photos of does galore, what the people and what I wanted was something with a little bone stemming from the old noggin’. With only a buck tag, I wouldn’t be able to harvest a doe, and blog about it here, unfortunately I have been still engaged in tracking down Gordie and some other deer that give me the chills that I’ve been missing out on. But you as a reader and me wanting to post a photo of an arrow blanketed in red, this blog has felt quiet in regards of hunting, as I’ve been trying to hunt down a story…literally.

Being instilled within Social Media this semester, I have engulfed just as much information as I have goose this season. To better realization, this has been a great way to gather all the information I have learned this year and document it for the reader, and just as much for myself. Through twitter, and even Instagram, I have reached out and have gained more readers through the last few weeks. Asking much of them to comment on the blogs and give me their take, I also wanted to keep my accounts outside of this blog to be instilled with the same common values, and information that I wanted to write about. I found myself following anything that introduced me into another sense of hunting. I brought this information everywhere, reading tips and packing my phone with many software’s that can give me a better insight of how to be the top predator

Social Media has very much changed since I had begun my first Myspace in the early days, then I took to Facebook and followed suit with the rest of the social applications were identified as being “in”. Soon I had found myself on the other side of the fence, once it had overtaken too much of my life. After reinstalling the applications back on my devices for this semester course, all I knew much of was Instagram. As for the other platforms, things had changed, even blogging, was rough from the start. Learning the new elements of each program had really made me feel illiterate with the major changes that had come for since their debuts. Coming to terms with how our modernized these applications have become with our community, I knew it was time to get back on the horse. Within the fact of joining different communities that involve the outdoors, I had to start to find the path I wanted to take while keeping strong values to my accounts as many are inked with bad subscriptions and can deter you from what you can obtain through social media, even though a laugh is very healthy from time to time.

My favorite blog post that I have written to date are definitely Pheasant Jealousy & Why Am I Beating Myself Up? These are justly favorites because during the Pheasant Jealousy, I had a lot too write about as for my cousins consistently inform me what South Dakota has to offer, and while my northern Wisconsin residency, I was again unable to join up with the great time. This provided me to inform the others that might have chance to indulge in the party, because well, everyone is invited to this time of a life experience. The images were also hard not to post, as my cousins love to entice me to a visit to their hunting spots and with roosters that beautiful, they had to be shared. This blog needed to be written, and to write it froma stand point of drooling over the idea, I had fun writing it, but jealous it did make me. Why Am I Beating Myself Up?, was another I very much enjoying publishing. When it comes to duck hunting and my very late reappearance to the sport, I had forgotten much of what the sport incorporates. For example, the pure exhaustion of what the slew can bring, really brought me to terms of how much I need to become wiser and more prepared if I wanted to truly call myself a hunter, because hurting and animal and harvesting an animal, separates hunters from amateurs. Within that mindset, I produced this piece to really prove how much I had forgotten and the bare necessities that one only needs to be involved in a great hunt.

Informing outside of this blog was very helpful as to get readers and the community involved in outdoor relations. I kept my twitter active while sitting in the stand, justly reminding others to keep those on their toes for new gear or as to what the weather was looking like, as hunting is very much based upon this element. The ones that did the most apparent informing, involved retweets that brought users to other accounts. As this doesn’t bring much to my account, if what I repost and pass on, helps certain users, they will listen to more of what I have to say. These other accounts have actually helped me getter a stronger voice through other social media programs as they tell others to what I have to say, much like a thank you for doing the same to them.

Looking on past this semester, I have thought if I were to continue this blog; and my answer is most likely, as it is a free source of publishing information and staying connected to such a broad community. Alongside other accounts on Twitter, and Instagram, this blog can better summarize hunts and the perception of the great outdoors through our eyes.

In future posts, I intend to go very in depth about ice fishing and the mechanics of fishing for either walleye or crappies. These posts will be much for media filled as it much easier to keep the camera ready and also with the different technology that we are able to use, I plan to go more in depth with certain brands, gizmos and whether its valuable to finding the fish. Besides ice fishing is one of the mostfavorite pastime amongst my hometown, with friends already looking to go north and find fish that will barely squeeze out of the ice holes. This time of the year is very much anticipated, with new ice houses, secret honey holes, and fishing partners that will definitely go the full nine yards to be successful, its hard not get antsy to get on the ice.

Alongside, the tundra fishing, I want to conclude previous posts, including, finding and harvesting my 2015 buck, and also bringing to light my fathers just recent South Dakota Pheasant hunt with his buddies; getting their limit each day within only a few hours. While, I will not be able to make the pheasant hunt this year, I am trying to piece together a trip down to that region for a snow goose hunt with a teammate and our fathers, being guided by his uncle. Only a history with Canadians, I am eager to see what major fly way looks like, with hundreds of flocking birds circling the skies. A bucket list sort of hunt that I would love to publish a story on.

Unfortunately, I did not publish many stories that I intended to do. For example, I wanted to make a write up on grouse hunting, as my cabin is littered with these little trail riders. With not having ever hunted them on our property, they have gotten very mature and actually quite approachable, making it actually hard to go after. As they have become more of an attraction to our cabin rather than wanting to go after them there. This prohibited me from continuing on from writing a blog about, but in hindsight, they lost my attraction after finding numerous turkey feathers and hearing calls during my deer season, making them a highly sought out prey for this guy.

I would like to thank those who have found them reading my blog posts, and for those who have incorporated a subject matter in which I can publish better stories and allow readers better links and subjects to allow them to understand in further manner than prior to finding this blog page. Again, thank you and I hope you enjoy what is to come later to date.

Today is the first of December, and to surprise, Northern Wisconsin woke up to the first blanket of snow this year. A little late, but nonetheless it is here. For me, it brought many contradicting thoughts to my mind. Its winter, and with that, the many possibilities for the outdoorsmen is about to unfold. From Ice fishing, to hunting coyotes the list of activities for us goes on and on. But with all these great day filled journeys we might take, we also need to make sure that we are prepared to battle the elements that come with winter.

I, like most people from the northland, love ice fishing. But preparing to head out on the lakes and making sure everything is sorted and ready, isn’t nearly as invigorating. Personally, I have a Clam, with all of my accessories bundled inside hanging from the rafters. With it being well over a hundred pounds and hung up. This is where I begin, with a little help from pa, and some sweat, getting it down is not too much of a problem, but opening the bundled up ice shack, and pulling everything out for revision isn’t as easy. Augers need to be taken a look at, as gas and oil are probably very old and useless. My fishing reels very seldom have enough line on them, after hunkering down on the Great Lakes and fishing in depths of 100+ ft. for those big lunkers. Shovels that are cracked, need to be replaced, and the list goes on.

Furbearers beware, it is time to take the fur off the backs of ‘yotes, wolfs, rabbits and ‘coons. It’s the time that these animals are filling out, coats more luscious and for us, it’s the perfect time to take advantage and partake in the hunt. But, in hindsight, our tools to fulfill these hunts need to be just as ready as your trigger finger. Guns need to be oiled up with the increase in precipitation, electronic game calls charged and ready, traps to be put in remote areas where they can be easily accessed and blinds that are dignified for your hunt.

Some of us northlanders also just like to get out, without the sense of a hunt (hard to believe), but yes, snowmobiles and snowshoes, skates and cross country skis are also a much sought out way of enjoying the great outdoors. But again, each needs to be located and distinguished as what is ready to be used. Snowmobiles need most of the work, with reigniting the life of the old beast, sending the smell of new gas and oil through the air, revving up the new winter. As for snowshoes and cross country, these don’t typically need much work, unless straps are broken or don’t fit the new boots you bought two months ago.

Here is a handheld map for you mobile device to follow trails throughout the State of Minnesota:

A map for Snowmobilers:

Winter is upon us and for those of you who don’t dread snow and the cold, then make sure you’re ready to dive in, because when a few more droppings come, we will be fully engulfed by the many different aspects that we can take advantage of for living in the north.

 

The blogosphere is very comparable, and after reading “The Uncharted Dragon“, I noticed many similarities, and many strategies to use for my own blog. The author, Meg can be found on Twitter & Instagram where she helps collaborate with her blog. Her voice characterizes the “all-most senior-graduated” looking to help those coming through the ranks of college. Starting with how to promote better academic progress, she also covers in how to overcome the hard times and how our generation typically reacts to different variables of life.

Her categories list are about Growing Up, a laughing section, and lastly College, this allows the reader to navigate not just on topic sentences but on the emotion the reader has. Going further into depth, her hyperlinks address many very on point sites that can have direct impact on how you are behaving and forces the reader to change or adapt to the college life in a positive way. For example, one hyperlink allows you drop off emotional baggage, while another can take you to the Forbes website, indicating where most millennials will end up.  And then there are gifs, with Meg, she uses comedy to push her readers further down her page, but with her GIF’s, don’t expect to move too fast as her images are funny and very relevant to her topics.

Her page is very slick, with her blog posts reading from most recent to the oldest, widgets and categories are captured in her sidebar, making navigation throughout her page very easy. Meg’s future posts that she intends to write about are also important, giving her audience an idea of what to expect. This bucket list page, entails, detailed topics that make the readers come back ready to be confronted with more information regarding life as a college rook. When looking even deeper throughout her blog, you consistently notice the “millennial” feel, as most GIF’s are based upon our lives growing up through the 90’s and throughout the millennium, making her topics and comedy feel more relative to us.

Comparing ours, I have learned that this blog may need some finer tuning, like preparing my bow. To further produce knowledge on topics, and teach readers about how to properly hunt and to show research, my posts need to almost convey the same ideas as Meg’s. Pushing hyperlinks to my stats, and other sources that can really develop an understanding on what I’m writing. And even finding a stronger voice, so the readers understand who is talking and from what point of view, as each post doesn’t have a constant voice. This could include more photos, GIFs, and even more tweets and Instagram posts.

Through the same lens, Meg and I could possibly conduct a post about how to understand the pros and cons of using social media throughout our topics, as both are a constant evil for both to our topics. For example, college and hunting can be directly impacted with social media, because staying focused is the name of the game. This post can altered to make sure it still comes out as her voice and communicate through different aspects maintain her image on her posts, while mine can do the same, and they will overall cover the topic of how the two must be aware of how the outcomes of the modern world and social media.

The Uncharted Dragon is a must read blog, if you are starting your own or looking for help in a college basis. She helps capture and motivate her audience with research and background in living the lifestyle. Stay up to date with her posts, and look forward to reading what she plans to bring to the table…