Can I also talk about how cool pole vaulters are? How they are my athletic ideal.... you have to be good at lots of different body areas to be a pole vaulter. And insane.
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Kat - Aug 18, 2008 6:52:47 pm PDT #4196 of 10003
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Alibelle - Aug 18, 2008 6:54:13 pm PDT #4197 of 10003
Apart from sports, "my secret favorite thing on earth is ketchup. I will put ketchup on anything. But it has to be Heinz." - my husband, Michael Vartan
Actually, in further analyzing my Olympics obsession, the only sports I have zero interest in are the ones that I can see all the time that I have no interest in, like basketball and baseball. And then I have little to no interest in the ones that basically do nothing different for a long time, like the long distance running and cycling.
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Is it that the element is particularly tricky and they're ready to break a fall?
This one.
I don't know anything about trampoline. We'll have to ask the L.E.G.S. gymnast.
Trudy Booth - Aug 18, 2008 6:57:34 pm PDT #4198 of 10003
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Actually, in further analyzing my Olympics obsession, the only sports I have zero interest in are the ones that I can see all the time that I have no interest in, like basketball and baseball. And then I have little to no interest in the ones that basically do nothing different for a long time, like the long distance running and cycling.
Yes!
I get very bored with qualifying heats if it isn't a sprint. WIth long events, I'm very happy that I can make my DVR go fast and watch them in quick time.
billytea - Aug 18, 2008 6:59:42 pm PDT #4199 of 10003
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Can I also talk about how cool pole vaulters are? How they are my athletic ideal.... you have to be good at lots of different body areas to be a pole vaulter. And insane.
The one moment from the Sydney Olympics that I will never till my dying day forget: [link]
Trudy Booth - Aug 18, 2008 6:59:53 pm PDT #4200 of 10003
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
So, with fall-breaking... do you sort of half-catch and fall with them?
msbelle - Aug 18, 2008 7:00:06 pm PDT #4201 of 10003
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gah, I am still catching up on Olympics - watching some of tonight's and then some from last week. women's 10000 - LOVED. Women's shotput - surprisingly cutiehead.
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tiggy - Aug 18, 2008 7:01:53 pm PDT #4202 of 10003
I do believe in killing the messenger, you know why? Because it sends a message. ~ Damon Salvatore
Is it that the element is particularly tricky and they're ready to break a fall?
this. you'll notice they only come out when it's a tricky release skill.
And in trampoline, why does the coach (I guess) stand at the side with a big mat?
i'm no trampoline expert, but i would assume that it would be to break the gymnasts fall if she started coming in that direction.
Trudy Booth - Aug 18, 2008 7:03:47 pm PDT #4203 of 10003
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
i'm no trampoline expert, but i would assume that it would be to break the gymnasts fall if she started coming in that direction.
I thought that at first, but what about the other direction?
Sophia Brooks - Aug 18, 2008 7:07:04 pm PDT #4204 of 10003
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It is a good thing I am not a coach, because I would be running in there to breqak everyones fall! I do the mom hand out on the passenger seat when I stop short, and I am not even a mom, nor do I normally have passengers!!
tiggy - Aug 18, 2008 7:07:07 pm PDT #4205 of 10003
I do believe in killing the messenger, you know why? Because it sends a message. ~ Damon Salvatore
I thought that at first, but what about the other direction?
they're screwed? hee! i have no idea!