The Avengers
I’ll cut to the chase – go watch this film. Lately I have become more and more of a film snob. Without a doubt, the recent big-budget offerings from hollywood [more...]
Articles by Daniel Yeow
Yeowie’s Technique Lab
I once read somewhere that if you took a race-ready rally car, and its street-legal equivalent (say a regular Subaru WRX), swapped the tyres, then drove both of them on a [more...]
Inzell with the Danes
Continuing from where the previous post “left off”, the weekend right after Enschede, I found myself in Inzell, Germany coaching and preparing for the ESDP [more...]
Return to Enschede
Recently I have undertaken a new “job” as one of the coaches for the Danish junior ice speed skating team. Those outside of the world of speed skating will [more...]
Fluorinated Compounds
Last Friday I was fortunate enough to be present at my girlfriend's Ph.D. thesis defence at the University of Copenhagen. In case anyone is wondering, it went very well, and all the opponents spoke highly of her work, and now we can all call her "Doctor". [more...]
Square in a Square
For those of you who don’t wish to read 2000-something words of me pontificating about terrorism, here’s a nice little puzzle: The large square has a side length [more...]
Nine Eleven
"A plane just crashed into the World Trade Center" someone said, anticipating my query. I watched the live report for a short while, and as I was about to leave (it was about 11 at night) the second plane crashed into the south tower. [more...]
Technical Discussion: The Difference Between Ice and Inline Speed Skating
In this article, I will try to examine and determine the root causes for these differences, not only as a recreational, observational exercise, but as this examination may hopefully yield useful information for technique development in both ice and inline skating. [more...]
An Inliner’s Guide to Getting Into Ice Part 1: Gear
There are many reasons why an inline speed skater would want to have a go at ice skating. Whatever your reason, in this article I hope to provide some useful tips into making the transition into what may at first seem like a very alien new environment. [more...]
Mid-Life Calculation
It is a fairly well-known truism that time seems to pass at a slower rate for children than it does for adults. One day, not long ago, I was pondering the unusual behaviour [more...]