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	YourArt.com >> Encyclopedia >> choke (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Choke (horse), a condition in horses in which the esophagus is blocked
		Choke valve, a valve used in the carburetor of internal combustion engines to enrich the fuel-air mixture during startup
		A choke in a shotgun is a restriction or narrowing of the barrel, intended to tighten the shot pattern
	www.yourart.com /research/encyclopedia.cgi?subject=/choke (291 words)

	Choke (sports) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The opposite of choking is being "Clutch," or rising to the occasion under pressure rather than collapsing under it.
		Use of the term "choke" in this context is most frequently encountered in the United States, and appears to be of relatively recent origin, not becoming reasonably widespread until well into the 1960s.
		Manning's reputation for choking was added to due to the Colts loss to the Pittsburgh Steelers in the Colts' first game of the playoffs in 2006, along with his record against the New England Patriots (1-7, 0-2 in postseason) in the playoffs and his 0-3 record against Florida in college.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Choke_(sports) (927 words)

	[ Sports Central ] Sports >> Tennis >> Choke Jobs: A Necessary Evil
		After all, only the harshest choke job of the modern era would make a player sob to tears on the shoulders of Duchess of Kent during the trophy presentation of Wimbledon.
		Choking does not occur when your opponent is erasing you of the court in straight sets.
		Rather than representing the downfall or the ending of a career, it is a helpful mental tool in reaching the next stage of mental toughness on the way to becoming a champion.
	www.sports-central.org /sports/tennis/articles/article163.shtml (1726 words)

	Choke - Sports Store (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Chuck Palahniuk shows Victor as someone who is choking on food for money to pay off his debts he owes on account of his ailing mother who is on her death bed.
		Palahniuk clouds Victor, justifying his actions of choking by stating that everyone wants to be a hero, leaving Victor to play the victim, the helpless boy that cannot survive well enough on his own.
		Choke and more importantly the character Victor is filled with the usage of double entendre, everything is more than the surface and Palahniuk gives subtle hints to the two lives of Victor Mancini; the person Victor is fighting and the person he would be if he stopped fighting.
	www.easyclicksports.com /product/0385720920-Choke.html (1446 words)

	One Hand Clapping » Sports
		Trap is a shotgun sport in which you fire at clay targets launched on rising trajectories at random angles (within left and right limits).
		Chokes form the size (diameter) of the pattern of the shot pellets as they leave the barrel.
		In fact, that claim for choke porting is even more absurd than for barrel porting because the choke is at the very end of the barrel.
	www.donaldsensing.com /index.php/category/entertainment/sports (3732 words)

	Sports Psychology: Choking in Big Competitions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		High anxiety is typically the major cause of choking and it leads directly to a decrease in performance.
		Choking usually occurs when an athlete is overly concerned about what others (coach, teammates, or audience) might think about their performance.
		Since each athlete has a different potential to choke and it depends on the athlete and the situation, it is not easy to prevent choking.
	www.shpm.com /articles/sports/choking.html (572 words)

	Choke
		CHOKE: To fail to perform effectively because of nervous agitation or tension, especially in an athletic contest.
		The 2004 Yankees COLLAPSE against the Red Sox in the second round of the playoff is the greatest CHOKE by any baseball team in the playoffs, but it is far from the greatest collapse or choke in baseball history.
		Both teams choked, but the consequences of the San Francisco choke were not comparable to the consequences of the 2004 Yankees choke simply because there was more pressure on San Francisco since the prize was bigger.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/644/111827 (447 words)

	ESPN.com - Page2 - Readers' List: Worst choke artists
		Mickelson chokes because he spends his entire time on the golf course trying to show the world that you can win by hitting a 320-yard drive and an 80-yard pitch shot on a 400-yard par-4 dogleg right.
		Because they invented the art of choking and continue to create new and intriguing ways to choke almost every year, including firing their manager at midseason, when he's got a winning record.
		As a die-hard fan, I hate to say it, but the worst and most underrated choke artists of all-time are the 2000 Portland Trail Blazers for their infamous fourth quarter bout with hypochondria during Game 7 of the Western Conference finals against the Lakers.
	espn.go.com /page2/s/list/readers/chokes.html (1237 words)

	Chokehold - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Chokeholds are practiced and used in martial arts, combat sports, self-defense, law-enforcement and in military hand to hand combat application.
		Anaconda choke — Choke starting from the north-south position using a role and a similar approach as in the guillotine choke except that a roll is involved.
		In most martial arts, the term 'chokehold' or 'choke' is used for all types of grappling holds that strangle.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chokehold (1076 words)

	Zoomers Magazine Athletics Article
		To choke refers to the competitor who is managing a potentially winning performance, then manages to get in his or her own way resulting in their own demise.
		Quite frankly because the uncontrolled physiological reaction to pressure manifests first in the neck and strongly resembles a constrictive choking action.
		This disruption of muscle tone and balance results in a constriction of the neck that often resembles a self imposed choking.
	www.thorn.home.sonic.net /zoomersmagazine/article_choke.html (653 words)

	Stanford Blames It on the White Boy -- Outsports.com
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		That was the year that Mark “Mad Dog” Madsen scored a last-minute lay-up to come from behind and beat Jim Harrick’s University of Rhode Island Rams in the round of eight.
	www.outsports.com /columns/cyd/20040301stanford.htm (701 words)

	Biggest Choke Jobs \| Sports Trivia \| Phil Mickelson \| Boston Red Sox \| New York Yankees \| Lindsey Jacobellis \| Chicago ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		It's one thing to be the first team in baseball history to blow a 3-0 series lead when you have a lineup stacked with stars like Derek Jeter and Alex Rodriguez.
		With a 3-2 lead in the Series and a 3-0 lead at Wrigley Field in the eighth inning of Game 6, the Cubs were just five outs away from returning to their first World Series in nearly sixty years.
		Lindsey Jacobelis was just a few feet away from a gold medal in boardercross at the 2006 Winter Olympics when she pulled off a choke job of Olympic proportions.
	www.kidzworld.com /site/p6867.htm (628 words)

	Briley's Unique Turkey Choke Guns Magazine - Find Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The increasingly popular specialized turkey choke is designed to provide the hunter with a turkey-killing pattern out to 35 or 40 yards.
		That is a stretch when you consider the small target offered by the head and neck of a turkey and the need to place enough #4, #5 or #6 shot pellets in the area of the brain or spine to be immediately fatal.
		The Briley "Turkey Super Full" choke tube is available for all popular shotguns, and it even comes packaged together with a informative video that explains the performance of this unique choke.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0BQY/is_2000_Jan/ai_57886788 (532 words)

	SI.com - Writers - Taylor: Did Yankees choke, or did they just get beat? - Monday October 25, 2004 12:19PM
		We need to get something straight about choking, which is merely the most misunderstood concept in all of sports.
		Choking is a mostly mental phenomenon that affects physical performance.
		Suggesting that the Yankees choked, for instance, diminishes the accomplishment of the Red Sox.
	sportsillustrated.cnn.com /2004/writers/phil_taylor/10/25/chokers.alcs/index.html (716 words)

	'Choking' athletes may try too hard - workopolis.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The phenomenon among top athletes is so common that sports fans have a name for it: choking.
		Beilock are also examining what occurs when someone chokes during an intellectual task, instead of a physical one.
		Those results are not complete, but the duo's theory is that this kind of choking comes not from trying too hard but from being distracted.
	globeandmail.workopolis.com /servlet/News/fasttrack/20011217/UCHOKM (579 words)

	Zoomers Magazine Health Article
		So no matter what sport, no matter what part of your body is being challenged, it all comes from that core.
		They are able to return to their sports activities in an improved state.
		The centering-physical and mental- required for Pilates exercise, translates to your sports activities enhancing the performance and enjoyment.
	www.sonic.net /thorn/zoomersmagazine/article_pilatesandsports.html (387 words)

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		This was the biggest choke in team sports, since the Braves’ silly collapse against Jim Leyritz and the New York Yankees during the 1996 World Series.
		The greatest choke job “in the history of team sports” as you say, was the Yankee’s massive choke job in the 2004 ALCS when they were up three games on the Boston Red Sox.
		the yankees choke in 04 was worse but the yankees have also won 4 world series titles in the last decade.
	www.ajc.com /blogs/content/shared-blogs/ajc/sportscolumns/entries/2006/06/21/mavs_choke_job.html (1531 words)

	AskMen.com - Choke jobs
		The video -- tracking a ground ball rolling too slowly to dent Saran Wrap as it ambles meekly underneath a short-armed glove and through a hobbling pair of bowlegged, 36-year old legs -- is so familiar and mesmerizing that it almost qualifies as a national treasure.
		While we gleefully mock those on this list, it's important to remember a key point: Spectacular failure is open only to those athletes who play well enough to reach a high-pressure setting where their performance really matters.
		Such failure is part of every sport, and afflicts even the greatest of athletes.
	www.askmen.com /sports/fitness_top_ten/43d_fitness_list.html (905 words)

	Newswise
		The results also support the "explicit monitoring" theory of "choking," that paying too much attention to well-learned skill execution may be detrimental to performance.
		Understanding the cognitive mechanisms leading to poor performance under pressure, as shown in these experiments, can lead to prevention, says Beilock, in "real-world tasks in which serious consequences depend on good or poor performance in relatively public or consequential circumstances." For example, many aspects of public speaking may ordinarily be automatic.
		Training under conditions that have individuals attend to their performance, or, conversely, purposely taking one's mind off well-learned skill performance under pressure (for example, by repeating a key word or singing a song), may help.
	www.newswise.com /articles/view/?id=CHOKE2.PSY (809 words)

	Amazon.ca: Rickson Gracie: Choke: DVD: Rickson Gracie,Robert Raphael Goodman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Done in documentary style, Choke takes an introspective look at the men--their goals, their dreams, and their families--who become the ultimate fighting machines in the ring at the 1995 Vale Tudo World Fighting Championship in Tokyo.
		I found Choke interesting to watch simply because of the subject matter, but this is a pretty crappy movie.
		It is shot and edited in a way that is usually bland and sometimes sloppy, and the transitions from segment to segment are unnatural and forced.
	www.amazon.ca /Rickson-Gracie-Choke/dp/6305870748 (1067 words)

	ESPNMAG.com - El Foldo
		If a dictionary described "choke artist" as "anybody who, expected to perform as a professional in a huge moment with a nation watching, lets a barely batted ball a fifth-grader could catch roll through his legs to lose a game and, ultimately, a world championship..." you could paste Billy Buck's photo right there.
		Yet Van De Velde's collapse is a choke of legendary proportions (and if you know to whom he handed the Jug, you win a year's supply of that astringent fruit, genus Aronia, the chokeberry).
		The choke champ of the modern era may well be a tennis player: Jana Novotna.
	espn.go.com /magazine/vol4no11elfoldo.html (1476 words)

	CNNSI.com - Olympic Sports - Softball - SI's Brian Cazeneuve: What's Aussie for 'choke'? - Thursday ...
		The U.S. softball players are every bit the pioneers the U.S. women's soccer players have been, and this is an important time for the growth of their sport at an elite level.
		Sports Illustrated writer-reporter Brian Cazeneuve is in Sydney covering the Games for the magazine and CNNSI.com.
		Sports Illustrated and CNN have combined to form a 24 hour sports news and information channel.
	sportsillustrated.cnn.com /olympics/2000/softball/news/2000/09/21/softball (910 words)

	Salon.com News \| "We all choke"
		And, of course, that's one of the reasons we're drawn to sports: to watch people who have achieved a rare mastery of their craft and themselves.
		We need the universe of sports to be a parallel one, brighter and clearer than ours, filled with waving pennants instead of half-truths and smudged bus schedules, inhabited by people who have the sharp outlines and implacable assurance of characters in novels.
		And the very fact that even the greatest athletes choke means that their achievements, far from diminishing our less spotlighted lives, illuminate the million human victories that go unnoticed every day.
	dir.salon.com /story/news/sports/bounds/2000/07/13/bounds (888 words)

	Self-Belief in Sport using NLP
		Peter and Michael are currently running training courses for sporting participants of all levels that want to learn how to be better than their best applying the strategies and techniques used by the elite athletes.
		Sport Psychology has failed to have the impact that many believed it originally would as most of the current information is mainly in books which are often too theoretical and technical and thus not really appropriate.
		One particular world champion we worked with a few years ago explained that if he had told his team mates that he was training to improve his mental attitude so that he could have more control over his emotional state he would have been the laughing stock of his peers.
	www.positivehealth.com /permit/Articles/NLP/cohen39.htm (3353 words)

	LOCK & CHOKE - the mission is submission
		The Competitioners are allowed to use jointlocks to every joint of the human body and any kind of choke or even painful techniques that make the oponent tap out.
		The LOCK AND CHOKE (LAC) is an open european submission wrestling tournament, organized until 2002 by the European Luta Livre Organization (ELLO) in cooperation with the German Sportsuniversity of Cologne.
		Andreas Schmidt “the Andyconda” (ELLO Headcoach and scientst of sports)
	www.lock-and-choke.com (287 words)

	Choke hold not ruled out (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Dr. Daniel L. Schultz, a staff pathologist with the Hamilton County Coroner's office, testified in the trial of Cincinnati Police Officer Robert “Blaine” Jorg, who is accused of felony involuntary manslaughter and misdemeanor assault in the Nov. 7 death of Mr.
		Officer Jorg is the first Cincinnati police officer to be charged with a felony in the death of a suspect.
		Owensby in a choke hold that caused his death.
	www.enquirer.com /editions/2001/10/25/loc_choke_hold_not_ruled.html (601 words)

	choke - Definitions from Dictionary.com
		choke off, to stop or obstruct by or as by choking: to choke off a nation's fuel supply.
		A slight narrowing of the barrel of a shotgun serving to concentrate the shot.
		To bring to an end as if by choking: “Treasury borrowing of existing savings would drive up the interest rate and choke off economic activity” (Paul Craig Roberts).
	dictionary.reference.com /search?q=choke (741 words)

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