*quality athlete right here, gotta *promote
Was going to post this a few days ago but couldn't find anything better than a facebook embed. Beautiful routine, so much so that watching this inspired me to go indoor skydiving this past weekend (highly recommend it if you can find a tunnel near you). Let me tell you, shit's hard... she makes it look effortless. life goals.

Mr. Plinckett is right as usual. I watched it in IMAX 3D yesterday, but didn't feel immersed into the story all that much. While watching it I couldn't help but think that a panel of Disney marketing geniuses meticulously thought out what we wanted to see, to guess our expectations, more than the brain child of someone with a vision, with a true story to tell. The girl-that-every-girl-wants-to-be with great athletic prowess and wit as the main character to try and get women to go and see it. The two popular Chinese actors were obviously there to appeal to the ever more important Chinese market. Nostalgic re-enactment (or pre-enactment?) of the ROTJ final battle. Darth Vader! Tarkin! The Death Star! There's someone and/or something for everybody in this movie. Maximum appeal to go and see it.

I think all characters did have potential, but there wasn't any time for them to really come alive, as we were introduced to too many locations and too many people. On the topic of coming alive, resurrected Peter Cushing was very clearly stuck deep into uncanny valley, and watching him was a little... morbid I think.

Like with the Force Awakens, I left the cinema not really unsatisfied, but not really happy either. Just kind of... okay. That was something all pre-Disney SW films did way better for me.

Yeah, I can't imagine we would be offended if the situation were reversed, like if the Japanese film industry cast Japanese actors in an adaptation of Shakespeare, that would be expected.

Plus, it's difficult to make the case that Motoko even has a race any more. She is the brain of a Japanese woman in a prosthetic body. One she didn't choose to look Japanese, rather a sort of ostentatious athlete/sex doll look with red eyes and blue hair. Basically no one looks like that, but Scarlet Johnson pulls it off as well as anyone could.

Now if they had gone with the ARISE timeline, an Asian actress would embody that incarnation perfectly.

Got ya.

I agree.

Another interesting phenomenon is the sexualisation of female athletes. I.e. to be taken "seriously" in a sporting magazine a female will be pressured to do a scantily clad photo shoot, whilst the men will not be be.

Quite surprised they allowed that. Don't think you can even share water with another athlete in the Olympics.

"Following an appeal by the Spanish Triathlon Federation to disqualify Jonathan Brownlee for accepting assistance from Alistair Brownlee to finish the 2016 ITU World Triathlon Grand Final Cozumel, during which Jonathan struggled with heat exhaustion in the final portion of the run, the ITU competition jury unanimously ruled against disqualifying Jonathan. The ITU Competition Jury made this decision in accordance to Appendix K, Rule 7, which states that athletes can receive help from another athlete, Technical Official or Race Official."
http://wts.triathlon.org/news/article/mola_named_the_2016_world_champion

I have to say the Mongolian athlete had class. This is all on the coaches alone.

True.

I just wanted to know. What I would next propose is that groups of "women in general" amongst themselves consider themselves to be girls. Like "native americans" consider themselves indians and "african americans" consider themselves black or niggers.

So its not about the word count, but who and how uses the words. So if an old white man uses the word "girl" condescendingly, it is different to athletes calling themselves girls within their group. So counting words is generally a bad idea and misuse of statistics.

Similarly reporting on this and trying to do the same in reverse by using a poisonous tone and attitude doesnt really work, it is counterproductive to the effective presentation of the content.

Now the sports commentators in the video are extreme, but generally sports commentating is difficult because the level of familiarity within a sporting community tends to be much greater than in the general public or given by TV standards. Resulting in awkwardness and miscommunication and hilarity.

And Eugenie is a joke.

Good lord that was just pure athletic grace.

Athlete in training?

How much TV did the kid watch to get to that point?

More like obese couch potato in training.

Athletes are stupid...they make millions and are broke retired. :-)

Puts paid to the notion that athletes are stupid.

Good lord.

HIITS is fantastic. 10 minutes of proper HIITS is as good for your cardiovascular system as 1hr regular cardio. It makes sense too - think about what humans would have done in the past. Short intense periods of hunting, or running from predators, fighting other humans etc intertwined with cooling off exercises like walking and picking things off trees.

But either way it's not possible to out exercise a bad diet.

Athletes are lean because they eat mostly carbs. Which, despite the fitness industry's best efforts to demonize, do not make people fat.(So they can sell protein powder, AKA dairy waste product).

This video and the one linked above both ignore HIIT training which has been tested and proven to burn significantly more fat than traditional steady cardio. You need to look no further than the fact that some lean olympic level athletes eat 14000+ calories a day and stay lean... it's because of how they train.