Soccer cleats

So I have researched a lot about soccer cleats and today I will tell you about what I have learned. I have mostly researched about the Nike 2016 soccer cleats.

So the first one is the Nike Mercurial Super fly. It is mostly for sprinters because of the stud pattern. It is worn by players like Cristiano Ronaldo and Alexis Sanchez. Some people have problems with the stiff heel but if you don't they are good soccer cleats. Next is the Magista Obra soccer cleats. They are for midfielders and are worn by players like Mario Gotze, David Luiz and Paul Pogba. They have very good touch but also have a stiff heel, but as I said if it doesn't bother you then they are very good soccer cleats. Then there is the Hypervenom Phantom 2. They are for attacking midfielders and strikers. Their stud pattern is very close to the Magista Obra. They have good touch and are very responsive because of the material called Nike Skin. They are worn by players like Neymar Da Silva and Robert Lewandolski. They do not have a stiff heel which is good.

Thor and the giant king

So one day Thor and other of his friends were feasting. But then they ran out of mead. So they said "Oh the mead ran out so we must go to bed now." 

But Thor wanted to get more mead for them so he set off in his chariot pulled be goats. He found a house and the people in the house were hungry so he let them kill one of his goats. But he told them that they had to leave him the skin and the bones because he needed those. So the mother and father ate all they could and they left the bones and the skins for Thor. But when Thor went to go to sleep the oldest son of the father and the mother was hungry and couldn't go to sleep because of Thors snoring so he got one of the bones and he broke it in half and sucked on the marrow. When Thor woke up he was ready to head off but then he found out that one of the bones were broken. He said "Who broke my goats thigh bone?" 

"I did." said the oldest son boldly.

"Then you will become my servant." said Thor. 

So the oldest son went with Thor as a servant in the chariot of goats. 

When they landed Thor was tired so he asked the oldest some to go find a place to rest for the night. So the oldest son went and after a while came back and told Thor "There is a cave with five rooms and it is dry." So they set off to the cave but then they heard some snoring and Thor got mad and said "Only I make the sounds like that." and went to go see what was making that sound. It was a giant snoring. He was very mad and brought his hammer and hit it as hard as he could between the snorers eyes. That blow would've knocked a tree right into the ground like a matchstick but the snorer snorted and flicked at his forehead and said "Oh stupid flies."He opened his eyes and saw Thor. "Oh who is this little man."

"I am Thor." said Thor "Well won't you invite me to dinner?"

"Oh of course." said The giant. So Thor went to eat and he saw the mead

"May I have some mead?" he asked. 

"Yes of course." said the giant. So he drank as much as he could and he felt like he was going to explode but barely any of the cup had been drunken. 

"Are you ok?" asked the giant. "Maybe you should play with my cat for a while." So when the cat pawed at him and pinned him down he pushed it over. And then the giant asked "Would you like to wrestle my grandma?" and when he tried to attack her she pinned him down to the ground. 

"Well do you think you can steal my kettle now?" asked the giant

Thor shook his head.

"Then let me tell you what you have done. When you swung down your hammer you hit the ground so hard that you cracked it three miles wide and a mile deep. When you drank the mead you were drinking from the sea and you drank so much it lowered a lot that I was scared that you would empty the sea. And when you lifted my cat you lifted the Midgard Serpent so high that it reached the sky, you should not have been able to budge it though. But when you faced the old woman you couldn't beat her because she is Old Age and no one can defeat Old Age even the strongest men can not beat Old Age. Thor was furious and went to attack them but everything disappeared  into the air and he was swinging his hammer into the air. 

Charles the hammer

So after the Muslims conquered the Visigoths in Spain. But they wanted more than that so they went into the Franks and went to attack them. They were very proud and said they were like a wind that could not be stopped. But then they got stopped. The Franks in France asked there king to stop the Muslims. He said be of good cheer and went with a countless army of soldiers and went to attack the Muslims. The Muslims had gathered a lot of gold and other precious stuff and settled outside of the big city of the Franks. They wanted to conquer this city and get all of it's riches. The general of the Muslims saw that Charles was coming and was going to tell his men to drop all of their riches and go attack the Franks. But then he thought that they would rebel against him so he didn't do anything. So once they came close his army went to attack them and they fought all day and couldn't fight in the night because it was to dark. So they wanted until the first light of dawn and started fighting again but then they thought about their riches and went to protect them. The general tried to make them stay but they wouldn't. So the general got killed and once he was dead the other Muslims fled. Charles was then nicknamed Martel which means hammer in Latin. So Charles the Hammer because he stopped the Muslims.

Islamic invasion

So do you remember when Allah made people Islamic? Well he conquered a lot of places and made them Islamic some of those places were like North Africa, some of the Byzantine empire, Medina, and Mecca. But in Spain there were some people called Visigoths that were barbarians but now they were ex-barbarians. But there king died so they needed another king. The kings advisers said that a general or soldier named Rodrigo would be a good king, but the kings sons complained about this because they wanted to be king. But the advisers forced the people to have Rodrigo as their king. So the kings sons sent a message to the great fighter Tariq bin Ziyad. He was just a slave at first but then he became Islamic and became a soldier. Then he fought with such bravery that he was pushed up again and again until he became a famous general. So he took his army and went into Spain and took it over. But he did not make the dead kings sons king but he made himself king over Spain.

Australia & New Zealand

So when I say Australia do you think of a giant country that is as big as a continent. Well that might seem strange but Australia is called a continent just like Europe, North America, South America, Asia, Africa and Australia. They say that people lived on Australia from the start. Here is a story about the people that lived there.

So there was this boy names Rulu. He lived a tribe called the nomad's. There are a lot of nomad tribes, nomads are people that travel to hunt and do not stay in the same place and build a civilization. Once they were near the sea and Rulu went fishing with his fathers. All of the men and women were called fathers and mothers. So Rulu went fishing and he caught a big fish. But then they had to move away from the sea into the inland part of Australia. Then they got hungry and food was scarce. So Rulu and two of the fathers went with him. They wanted to catch a kangaroo. They found a little pool that the kangaroos were but the water was almost all gone. Rulu was really thirsty so he dug underground until he found a water toad. It was wet and cold it had sucked up a lot of water in its body and Rulu squeezed it all out into his own mouth. He had quenched his thirst now. Then they went and they found the kangaroos. They caught one and they brought it back to camp. The Mothers had caught some snakes and they roasted those with the kangaroo. It was a delicious meal and they slept good that night.

That was a story about Australia but here is another one that is about New Zealand.

So there was a boy that was born into a big family with a lot of brothers that were older than him. His name was Maui."Let me go hunting with you" he would plead "No you are to little" his brothers would say."Let me go swimming with you" "No you are too little" "Let me go fishing with you" No you are too little". So one day he was getting tired of this and he jumped up and hid in his brothers canoe. When they came and they went out to fish he popped out of his hiding spot and said "Here I am, now you have to fish with me, give me some bait". "No you are not fishing with us". But he threw his hook into the water anyway. His brothers caught a few little useless fish when all of a sudden he caught some fish that was gigantic. He pulled it up and his brothers started hacking at it with their sharp sticks and soon they started making mountains and hills and started making a new country. It was the second island of new Zealand. They named it after him. Te Ika-a-Maui was the name of the island that Maui made.

Of course that is not how the island was made but it did rise out of the sea because of volcanoes that erupted and the lava touched the water and it solidified and soon it made an island.

Story of Susano

So Japan was broken up into a lot of different pieces. But on of the ones in the middle of Japan was called the Yamato dynasty. It conquered all of the other dynasty's and everyone followed the Yamato dynasty. Here is a story about Susano.

So Susano got the water and his sister Amaterasu. Got the sky. He didn't like this because the sky was bigger than the water. So he got mad and tried to fight Amaterasu but he failed. Then when he got down to the water he heard someone weeping. He asked the man why are you weeping. He said because my daughter is going to get eaten by the monster that killed my other daughters. Every day he comes and eats another one, and today he will eat my youngest one. Susano thought about it and then he got eight bowls of wine and then he changed the girl into a comb and put it in his hair. He loved her and wanted her to be safe. He asked her dad if he could marry her after killed the monster. Her dad said yes he could. So when the beast came and drank the wine he went to sleep and Susano cut him up into eighty pieces. Then he found a sword in the center of him and he sent it to Amaterasu as a sign of peace. Then he married the mans daughter and they had eighty sons. But in the land everyone was fighting so Amaterasu sent the Sword that Susano had got when he killed the eight headed beast, a string of beads that she wore in her hair and a mirror that she looked at herself with she also sent her favorite grandson to go. When her favorite grandson went then he kicked Susano out and sent him to the moon and he ruled over the earth.

Spread of Islam

So Muhammad ruled Mecca and also some of the Arabian peninsula. But one day he felt tired and he layed down to rest and he never woke up! He was dead! The Islamic people were afraid, who would be their prophet and tell them the desires of Allah. But then Abu Bakr the friend of Muhammad said that he could be the prophet and the people relaxed a bit but not all the way. Abu Bakr was a good leader but he was not as strong as Muhammad he was thin and wore ragged clothes. He still sent armies to conquer other places and spread Islamic to those places. He was the first Caphir of the Islamic people. There were many other Caphirs and they conquered other places and they also conquered some of the Byzantine empire. That is how they spread Islamic by force do you think that is a good way to spread a religion, it's kind of like forcing people to do it when they don't want to I don't like that. The Caliphs had built a new capital for the Islamic empire. It's name was Baghdad. It was a good capital and it was a good trading place. They traded gems gold and food.

Muhammad

Muhammad was a poor person and he lived with his uncle and his grandfather. They worked hard and Muhammad helped them in their work. But sometimes he went around the city of Mecca and saw a lot of people gambling with their money and drinking a lot. He didn't like this they wouldn't use their money for their children's food but they would gamble with it. Muhammad sometimes went into the dessert and he found a cave and thought about stuff. Now I will tell you a story about him going into a cave and finding something out.

So He went into the cave and he built a fire. But then he heard a voice that said "Read". He didn't know where it came from but then he said "I don't know how to read". But then he heard the voice again and it said "Read the fire". And he looked into the fire. He couldn't read but right now magically he could it said "I am the angel Gabriel and I need you to tell the people that they should follow Allah". So after this Muhammad went out of  the cave and he went back to his home. He explained to his grandfather and his uncle and to the servant and they believed him and told him that he was a prophet. The religion that he taught the people was called Muslim.  So he went to tell the other people some stuff like you shouldn't drink anymore because it will kill you. You should now gamble with your money but you should feed your family with it. The rich should give to the poor. You should not worship idols but you should worship Allah. But after this the rich did now like it because they wanted to keep their money so they did not obey his teachings. They wanted to get rid of all of the Muslims that had followed Muhammad. So they ran out of the city and went into the city right by them called Medina. But Muhammad and his friend Abu Bakr stayed in Mecca in the house. But then while they were eating dinner they heard someone knocking hard on the door. "Open up quickly". So Muhammad opened up and he said "You must run away quickly before they come and kill you. So they ran out into the mountains and found a cave. The soldiers passed by but one of them found a spiders web and said "If they had gone in here they would've destroyed the spiders web" so they went away and looked somewhere else.

St.Nicholas

So here is a story of someone called Nicholas. 

So shortly after Nicholas was born his parents died so he had no mom or dad. But they did leave him a lot of money. But in his town a woman couldn't marry unless their dad gave the person who she wanted to marry a gift. But in Nicholas's town there were three woman who really wanted to get married but their dad didn't have enough money. So on day he was walking by the house and he heard one of the woman weeping and saying "I will never get married to the man that I love." He couldn't stand it, so he went back to his home and got out a pack of gold coins. But he didn't want her to see who gave her the gold coins so he threw them in through the chimney. She looked up and said "Oh look there is a sack of gold coins but then she realized "What about her two other sisters." So Nicholas went back to his home the next day and he threw another sack of coins for another of the woman's weddings. Then he did the same thing once more for the last woman. Then they all got married and they danced and were happy. Then Nicholas got called St. Nicholas and some people know him as Santa Claus. He gives gifts on the 25 of December.

Justinian

So if you have heard of the powerful emperor Justinian of the Byzantine empire his parents were not the rulers and they were just farmers working in the fields. But Justinian didn't want to work in the fields he wanted to be a great emperor. He was always learning and studying about math reading and writing. He pleaded his parents to let him go the capital Constantinople. After some time they let him go and his mother made some meat and bread for the long, long, long, journey to Constantinople. It was about one hundred miles from where he was. But when he got there he was amazed at how big it was. It was harder for him to learn though but he did it. Then he joined the army. He helped the general with the supplies and the battle tactics. The people liked him and they agreed that he would be a good leader. So after the king died he became king. But it was hard because there were a lot of laws in different parts of the empire like in one part a thief could steal and then be killed and then in the other part a thief would only have to pay for it. So he made his own rules. Here are some of the laws.

• The beach is everyone's, and no one can say that this mine and get off
• The rivers belong to everyone, everyone can fish in it without being told this is mine not yours.
• If you find a treasure on the beach then you can keep it and no one can take it away from you.
• you are allowed to have slaves, but you can not mistreat them or beat unless they are disobedient.
• A thief who steals something must pay the owner four times what the thing he stole is worth. 

But Justinian had a wife of course, her name was Theodora. When she was younger her father was a head of a circus. She liked it and when she got older she became a clown and painted her face and mad the people laugh. The people like her a lot. But then she heard of Christianity and she wanted to become a Christian. Then she stopped the circus stuff and she became a woman who made clothes out of sheep wool and sold it to people. Then when Justinian was still in the army she saw him walking by and thought he was very handsome. Justinian saw her and thought she was very beautiful and wanted to find out where she lived. After some time he found out where she lived and fell in love with her and got married. Then he became the emperor and she became the empress. He never mad a decision without asking her her thought. But then the people wanted him to get rid of two of his advisers but when he refused they began to tear up the city and they even put the Hagia Sophia to fire. He was afraid that they would destroy the palace and kill him and Theodora. But Theodora told him that he had to stay otherwise they would take his throne. After some time of arguing Theodora got him to stay and send an army to go attack the people. Justinian's men won the battle. He made his workers rebuild the Hagia Sophia and he made it even more beautiful then it was before. 

Drills

So my soccer coach has made this thing to get better at soccer and my dad thought it was cool but it was very expensive. So my dad wanted me to think of a routine and I could do it every day instead of there thing. And he would pay me for it. He would give me $150. So I thought it was awesome. I haven't thought of everything yet but when I do get everything and paid then that could help with getting the Magista Obra soccer cleats. I think I remember that my dad told me that Magista means beautiful in Latin and Obra means work in Latin. I thought that was cool. It is a snow day today so I can't do drills because inside we are fixing the floor. Me and my brother want to play soccer in the snow after the snow stops.