Elementary 3.04 “Bella”

Elementary | 1x11 Dirty Laundry

One of my favorite dutch sayings is actually “Alles kan kapot” which translates “Everything can break” and is usually used when you wanna cheer up your friend who has fallen for someone who’s already in a relationship

Americans: Love conquers all ❤️

Dutch:

Dutch 🤝 Polish

They don't let you write linguistic papers like this no more :(

[Screenshot that reads: "This paper brings the reader the following news: Lexicalism is dead, deceased, demised, no more, passed on…. The underlying suspicion was wrong and the leading idea didn’t work out. This failure is not generally known because no one listens to morphologists."]

Guy really has a way with words huh

["I will scream in agony if I read or hear anyone summarizing this paper as, “Marantz argues grammatical theory would be simpler without a lexicon,” or, “the paper shows that-"]

["word-sized domains are morphologists, and when morphologists talk, linguists nap."]

And also very very sad people don't care about morphology :( </3

[3. “Remarks on Nominalization” kills lexicalism to death]

sir, vamo arriba loco

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"Did they show me laughing after I fell?"

i cannot explain it but these all have the same vibes

Things are not normal here

Look, I know it’s no use arguing with Sambo stans. So this isn’t an argument.

Every time yet another Sambo kid ends up with a teenage retirement, I can’t help but think – yes, back injuries are common in this sport. Hell, my coach has back problems occasionally, and he never finished out his triples before he went into dance. But how many coaches can you think of that have had three or four students with such bad backs that they can’t jump anymore before they’re twenty? I sure can’t think of one. The Sambo students are under much more of a microscope than anyone else, so maybe we just hear more about their injuries, but surely if this was happening all over the place, I’d remember it? Injuries happen, but are fractures that common?

Here’s the data I could find comparing the career lengths and injuries in Sambo skaters vs those taught by several other coaching teams.

Czytaj dalej

Fun With Jump Arm Variations

When jumping, different skaters put their arms in different places, but generally they are pressed flat against the torso, especially on higher-revolution jumps. This compressed shape increases the skater’s rotational speed, which is important for attempting triples and quads.

But as anyone who has watched much skating has seen, you can jump with your arms in different positions, too. There are two main arm variations you will see in modern skating programs:

However, there are also other arm variations. These are all rare nowadays, although if you watch older programs, you are more likely to spot a variation that’s not a tano or rippon. Ones I’ve seen include:

Beginning in 2009, ‘varied position in the air’ became a positive GOE bullet point for jumps. This was because they are supposed to add to the difficulty of a jump, although I’ve seen arguments back and forth from skaters about how true that is for some arm positions (and even if which arm is raised makes a difference for tanos). Years later, they exploded in popularity, particularly in the women’s competition. The trend had its beginning around 2014 or so; the previous season, junior World medalists Evgenia Medvedeva and Serafima Sakhanovich were given programs constructed to include raised arms on a couple of jumps, which wasn’t too unusual, but in 2014, their programs contained many more of them. Medvedeva would go on to dominate the senior circuit for several years and notably used raised arms on most of her jumps during that time, which started the trend in earnest among other skaters.

This GOE bullet point was removed for the 2018-2019 season. But if arm variations no longer get that bit of GOE, why do we still see them so often? There are probably a few reasons:

I would also like to shout out arm variations on jump exits that aren’t the standard check-out position. These aren’t as common as mid-air variations nowadays and rarely get talked about as their own thing - probably in part because they were never a GOE bullet - but they can add difficulty to the exit as well as give a nice choreographic touch to a program. You can see a few in the above gifs, but here’s a few more:

(Petra Burka 1965 Worlds FS, Yuzuru Hanyu 2021 “White Nights” EX, Anett Pötzsch 1976 Olympics FS, Hana Mašková 1968 Worlds FS, Claudia Kristofics-Binder 1976 Olympics FS, Brian Boitano 1988 Olympics SP, Vladimir Kovalyov 1976 Olympics SP)

A balletic Mikhail Kolyada skating to The White Crow at the 2022 Russian Nationals.

(Sources: 1, 2 and 3)

F1 Academy will succeed... no, really!

fr, i think it will.

Daria KASATKINA: Fat shaming, self-harm, sex with a girl | (Eng subs)

I'd heard about this interview earlier this year, in the context that Daria Kasatkina is really forthcoming and honest in particular about her financials, and I was curious about it, especially after watching the slickly produced and edited Naomi Osaka documentary on Netflix.

Because Naomi Osaka and Daria Kasatkina are two vastly different career positions and perspectives. Osaka has won a few Slams, has occupied the no. 1 rank, and is an international celebrity powerhouse. Kasatkina, on the other hand, hasn't achieved nearly as much success and outside of tennis circles, who has heard of her? A few years ago, 2017? 2018?, Kasatkina (nickname Dasha) was on the rise in the WTA tour. Her name was often in the mix of candidates who might win tournaments. She reached her career-high ranking of no. 10.

Then her form fell apart. She dropped out of the top 10 into the 30s. She struggled to simply win matches. In fact, when she put up wins in 2021, one podcast commented that it was much needed in order to give Dasha the sense she can win. (In March 2021, Dasha did win a tournament, so her form might be reforming.)

If Osaka is trying to carefully control the public narrative around her, this Daria Kasatkina interview feels like the complete opposite: Dasha is frank, forthcoming, and unfiltered.

She talks about how much she pays her coach, when she dishes out bonuses to her team, estimates how much it cost to be a professional tennis player during her most successful season (€600k including paying her team, training, travel), losing her Nike sponsorship in 2020 after five years, whether or not she had to "tighten the (financial) belt" when she stopped winning matches (surprising answer: no, not really), that if she didn't win a match from here on out that she'd have enough until she retired (I presume she meant from tennis).

She talks frankly about the sacrifice her family made so that she could pursue tennis, how the Russian Federation basically made a crap offer of support and they didn't accept any sponsorship since it basically would have put them in debt, about wanting to quit tennis at 22 years old after harsh words from her coach and how afterwards she sat in a shower for 1-2 hours, about her body type as a professional tennis player and the harsh criticism of people on the internet (though Dasha presents it lightly), and about people (men and women) sending her comments on her instagram about wanting to date her or for her to help them financially, about dating (including a man who tried to date her for status and/or money), about her love for football, her fangirlism around Rafael Nadal.

Dasha talks about the inexplicable weirdness about her serve, how she can't explain why during a match her serve falls apart and she double faults so much. She talks about how she has belief in herself that she can win a Slam and that she wants, she craves it.

And they talk about sexuality, about the degree of acceptance and tolerance and public openness of homosexuality. Dasha talks about how she would date a woman. (No word on whether she has. XD) When asked if it's different to flirt with a woman, Dasha said: "Of course it is. Women know how to dangle the bait properly. ... What am I saying?"

It's a great interview if you're interested in a less glamorous experience of the game. What really struck me is how much money Dasha has made. I once looked at WTA career earnings by ranking and seeing Dasha having done so well having broken into the top 10 at some point is really interesting. Billie Jean King is promoting her new memoir at the moment and it's true that tennis is one of the most lucrative professional sports for women thanks to efforts by the Original 9 and the Williamses and all those women who pushed hard for pay and equal pay. Interesting stuff to think about.

Here's Dasha trying to teach Naomi Osaka how to do a tweener: