Well thank you Guys! You have put to words an issue I have been arguing with my son about for 20 years. I have always had an issue with cheat codes and when I challenged him my son just rolled his eyes and cheats in games anyway. I'm sending him this video to explain it for me!
I dont think I have ever accepted someone's offer to spot me. There have been times where someone offered because the bail looks sketchy but I was honestly more comfortable having my own independent plan for the bail than planning to depend on someone else's actions and potentially having to react if they do anything unexpected. There was an experience where I was doing handstands on a slackline and someone doing acro-yoga nearby asked if I could do a handstand with them holding me up. I gave it a try. They were lying on their back with their hands up and I held their hands and hopped up into a handstand for a bit,. Then at the moment that I became slightly imbalanced they were going to make the adjustment to re-balance me, but I was not used to relying on someone else for balance, so I instinctively tossed their hands aside and reached for the ground and landed still in a handstand. It revealed to me that I have trust issues in the realm of athletics or to phrase it more positively, I prefer to be responsible for myself when taking athletic risk. It is why I gravitate towards "extreme sports" that are performed solo and shy away from team or contact sports. On the topic of using mats, I like the comment about Bob Reese. He definitely uses mats a lot to unlock very particular challenges. My perspective is mats make sense when you are trying something where you expect to fall repeatedly and by making the falls more sustainable, you can perform more attempts in a session. I think it makes perfect sense when learning new flippy-twisty disorienting tricks, but I wouldn't recommend using mats just to remove fear for a big stunt.
Algorithm support comment! Also in the idea of clips; I like the idea of longevity in social media, where maybe I don't save clips onto a hard drive or something physical to save aside. Sharing them to IG or wherever is similar to today's photo album. Where down the road looking back I can see using social media to reflect of skills and challenges I've worked on. Saving clips again for longer personal projects and then having the resource to look back after my new phone or whatever where I don't have the space to carry it all with me. Instead it seems similar to saving things on a cloud to use later until the internet crashes and I lose everything that way 😅
The comparison of jumping from the top of the bar doesn't make much sense to me. Firstly, if you're trying to, you can't compare a standing jump vs. a swing because the standing jump has far less built-up kinetic energy behind it, because, well, duh. Secondly, even if you're comparing a running jump to a swing, the height differential is way off. Your center of gravity starts in vastly different positions when disconnecting from the starting structure. I think the closest apples-to-apples comparison would be to find the individual's center of mass at the moment they disconnect from the starting structure and measure the distance from there to the edge of where the person is landing. Use this method to compare a running jump to a lache with the maximum built-up force that the person can get from giants or back swings, and you have your answer. Also, to control for as many variables as possible, I think the landing structure and the center of mass at the point of release need to be at equal heights. That way, you're essentially just comparing which produces the greatest trajectory curve. Also, if anyone has a better solution, I'm open to it.
This my fave episode to date! I can't wait to meet y'all at MoveNYC
Well thank you Guys! You have put to words an issue I have been arguing with my son about for 20 years. I have always had an issue with cheat codes and when I challenged him my son just rolled his eyes and cheats in games anyway. I'm sending him this video to explain it for me!
good stuff
I dont think I have ever accepted someone's offer to spot me. There have been times where someone offered because the bail looks sketchy but I was honestly more comfortable having my own independent plan for the bail than planning to depend on someone else's actions and potentially having to react if they do anything unexpected.
There was an experience where I was doing handstands on a slackline and someone doing acro-yoga nearby asked if I could do a handstand with them holding me up. I gave it a try. They were lying on their back with their hands up and I held their hands and hopped up into a handstand for a bit,. Then at the moment that I became slightly imbalanced they were going to make the adjustment to re-balance me, but I was not used to relying on someone else for balance, so I instinctively tossed their hands aside and reached for the ground and landed still in a handstand. It revealed to me that I have trust issues in the realm of athletics or to phrase it more positively, I prefer to be responsible for myself when taking athletic risk. It is why I gravitate towards "extreme sports" that are performed solo and shy away from team or contact sports.
On the topic of using mats, I like the comment about Bob Reese. He definitely uses mats a lot to unlock very particular challenges. My perspective is mats make sense when you are trying something where you expect to fall repeatedly and by making the falls more sustainable, you can perform more attempts in a session. I think it makes perfect sense when learning new flippy-twisty disorienting tricks, but I wouldn't recommend using mats just to remove fear for a big stunt.
Algorithm support comment!
Also in the idea of clips;
I like the idea of longevity in social media, where maybe I don't save clips onto a hard drive or something physical to save aside. Sharing them to IG or wherever is similar to today's photo album. Where down the road looking back I can see using social media to reflect of skills and challenges I've worked on. Saving clips again for longer personal projects and then having the resource to look back after my new phone or whatever where I don't have the space to carry it all with me. Instead it seems similar to saving things on a cloud to use later until the internet crashes and I lose everything that way 😅
The comparison of jumping from the top of the bar doesn't make much sense to me. Firstly, if you're trying to, you can't compare a standing jump vs. a swing because the standing jump has far less built-up kinetic energy behind it, because, well, duh. Secondly, even if you're comparing a running jump to a swing, the height differential is way off. Your center of gravity starts in vastly different positions when disconnecting from the starting structure.
I think the closest apples-to-apples comparison would be to find the individual's center of mass at the moment they disconnect from the starting structure and measure the distance from there to the edge of where the person is landing. Use this method to compare a running jump to a lache with the maximum built-up force that the person can get from giants or back swings, and you have your answer.
Also, to control for as many variables as possible, I think the landing structure and the center of mass at the point of release need to be at equal heights. That way, you're essentially just comparing which produces the greatest trajectory curve.
Also, if anyone has a better solution, I'm open to it.