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The popularity of an event doesn't make it a game or not. My little comments on VS aren't going to affect anyone's enjoyment of it.>> ^entr0py:

>> ^messenger:
It's not a game either if you have to wear make-up and look pretty to win. Anything with an aesthetics component to the mark isn't a sport or a game. It's an art. Like ballet. And this art is scary and ugly.
You know that would include all figure skating, the most popular event of the Winter Olympics. Let them have their fun, and let us not feel obligated to care about it. That's my attitude to all sports and dancing.

>> ^messenger:

It's not a game either if you have to wear make-up and look pretty to win. Anything with an aesthetics component to the mark isn't a sport or a game. It's an art. Like ballet. And this art is scary and ugly.>> ^SevenFingers:
>> ^VoodooV:
I don't understand how some of these sports are still considered sports.
dressage, synchronized swimming, floor exercises.... It's ridiculous

I thought these were games, not sports... I don't remember it being called Olympic Sports, just Olympic Games



You know that would include all figure skating, the most popular event of the Winter Olympics. Let them have their fun, and let us not feel obligated to care about it. That's my attitude to all sports and dancing.

Ah, very nice. Thanks for the insight!
In reply to this comment by lucky760:
That's because the search engine recognizes that each is a different tense of the same verb. You can also search "skater saving" and it will match.

Skater is semantically related to, but a wholly different noun than skate.


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But why does "saves" work? The title only contains "saved"
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>> ^luxury_pie:

dupeof=http://videosift.com/video/Skater-Saved-By-Backpack
Very weird: "backpack skate" reveals nothing "backpack saves" reveals the original. @<a rel="nofollow" href="http://lucky760.videosift.com" title="member since May 2nd, 2006" class="profilelink"><strong style="color:#0044ff">lucky760 what's up?


To our search engine, "skate" does not match "skater" and "skate" by itself is not used in the post. If you search "backpack skater" it comes up.

That's because the search engine recognizes that each is a different tense of the same verb. You can also search "skater saving" and it will match.

Skater is semantically related to, but a wholly different noun than skate.


In reply to this comment by luxury_pie:
But why does "saves" work? The title only contains "saved"
In reply to this comment by lucky760:
>> ^luxury_pie:

dupeof=http://videosift.com/video/Skater-Saved-By-Backpack
Very weird: "backpack skate" reveals nothing "backpack saves" reveals the original. @<a rel="nofollow" href="http://lucky760.videosift.com" title="member since May 2nd, 2006" class="profilelink"><strong style="color:#0044ff">lucky760 what's up?


To our search engine, "skate" does not match "skater" and "skate" by itself is not used in the post. If you search "backpack skater" it comes up.

But why does "saves" work? The title only contains "saved"
In reply to this comment by lucky760:
>> ^luxury_pie:

dupeof=http://videosift.com/video/Skater-Saved-By-Backpack
Very weird: "backpack skate" reveals nothing "backpack saves" reveals the original. @<a rel="nofollow" href="http://lucky760.videosift.com" title="member since May 2nd, 2006" class="profilelink"><strong style="color:#0044ff">lucky760 what's up?


To our search engine, "skate" does not match "skater" and "skate" by itself is not used in the post. If you search "backpack skater" it comes up.

>> ^luxury_pie:

dupeof=http://videosift.com/video/Skater-Saved-By-Backpack
Very weird: "backpack skate" reveals nothing "backpack saves" reveals the original. @lucky760 what's up?


To our search engine, "skate" does not match "skater" and "skate" by itself is not used in the post. If you search "backpack skater" it comes up.

*dupeof=http://videosift.com/video/Skater-Saved-By-Backpack

Very weird: "backpack skate" reveals nothing "backpack saves" reveals the original. @lucky760 what's up?

Gone. It's athletic, but so is ballet. If it has music, it's out. If it has pretty props, it's out. If the athletes are expected to make delicate hand movements, dance steps, or bow after, it's out. If aesthetics make up any part of the final assessment, it's out.>> ^ant:

>> ^messenger:
Hahah! That sport was the laughing stock of the Olympics. Any sport that requires you to look good doing it isn't a sport. Period. Those aren't athletes. They're dancers. Glad they're gone. Figure skating should be next.

How about gymnastics?

>> ^messenger:

Hahah! That sport was the laughing stock of the Olympics. Any sport that requires you to look good doing it isn't a sport. Period. Those aren't athletes. They're dancers. Glad they're gone. Figure skating should be next.


How about gymnastics?

Hahah! That sport was the laughing stock of the Olympics. Any sport that requires you to look good doing it isn't a sport. Period. Those aren't athletes. They're dancers. Glad they're gone. Figure skating should be next.

So you quote the convo to add something to one of your response lines even after I have been proven he is wearing regular shoes. You're pathetic. In the words of 4chan/b "Kindly, kill yourself."


>> ^A10anis:

>> ^Bloodscourge:
You're obviously not familiar with things like momentum and weight shifting on your feet, no matter how I break it down to you. I guess you can't teach stupid people new things.
>> ^A10anis:
>> ^Bloodscourge:
Um, not really. I don't know what kind of skates you have ever used, but you don't "wind up" skate wheels. What he is doing at the beginning is getting his step right before he launches backward. Like I said, it's a controlled fall. The end with him stumbling is due to his aforementioned backward momentum, slick shoes and a slick wet surface. Also, if they were wheels, you wouldn't hear the scraping of shoe tread on the ground as he did this either. By you'r logic, when I do my foot glides (and I stumble), then I'm wearing wheels. There actually is an art to doing this right, and it's supposed to look like you're on wheels when done correctly; otherwise, it's not a glide. This is just an extremely exaggerated glide.
>> ^A10anis:
>> ^Bloodscourge:
As a person who has a lot of footwork focus when I dance, I can explain this.
From a stand he leans forward and slings one leg back very quickly. While the momentum is still carrying him backwards, he has to immediately bring the back leg forward, and the front leg back to keep himself moving. From that point he is pretty much in a constant falling state where the foot coming forward catching himself since the other foot must be thrown back to maintain momentum. Notice his back foot is barely getting underneath in time while the other foot has already started to be flung out. His timing is just cray good. This is also why you see him stumble at the end. His foot-speed countered momentum stopped so he ended up falling forward from his counter balance.
Hope this helps the blown brains.

Definitely wheels...You can even see him winding them up at the start before suddenly taking off. And watch again, because his "stumble" at the end is not just his momentum, you can clearly see him skating. I'm surprised people cannot see it.


"There are none so blind as those who will not see." What you claim he is doing with just shoes is, literally, impossible. As i stated, my kids have these wheeled shoes. Never mind though, I give up trying to make you open your eyes. Oh, and btw, I have a few card tricks you will believe are magic too.
Clearly you can, because you have taught yourself that physics can be denied. I'm done.

You're obviously not familiar with things like momentum and weight shifting on your feet, no matter how I break it down to you. I guess you can't teach stupid people new things.

>> ^A10anis:

>> ^Bloodscourge:
Um, not really. I don't know what kind of skates you have ever used, but you don't "wind up" skate wheels. What he is doing at the beginning is getting his step right before he launches backward. Like I said, it's a controlled fall. The end with him stumbling is due to his aforementioned backward momentum, slick shoes and a slick wet surface. Also, if they were wheels, you wouldn't hear the scraping of shoe tread on the ground as he did this either. By you'r logic, when I do my foot glides (and I stumble), then I'm wearing wheels. There actually is an art to doing this right, and it's supposed to look like you're on wheels when done correctly; otherwise, it's not a glide. This is just an extremely exaggerated glide.
>> ^A10anis:
>> ^Bloodscourge:
As a person who has a lot of footwork focus when I dance, I can explain this.
From a stand he leans forward and slings one leg back very quickly. While the momentum is still carrying him backwards, he has to immediately bring the back leg forward, and the front leg back to keep himself moving. From that point he is pretty much in a constant falling state where the foot coming forward catching himself since the other foot must be thrown back to maintain momentum. Notice his back foot is barely getting underneath in time while the other foot has already started to be flung out. His timing is just cray good. This is also why you see him stumble at the end. His foot-speed countered momentum stopped so he ended up falling forward from his counter balance.
Hope this helps the blown brains.

Definitely wheels...You can even see him winding them up at the start before suddenly taking off. And watch again, because his "stumble" at the end is not just his momentum, you can clearly see him skating. I'm surprised people cannot see it.


"There are none so blind as those who will not see." What you claim he is doing with just shoes is, literally, impossible. As i stated, my kids have these wheeled shoes. Never mind though, I give up trying to make you open your eyes. Oh, and btw, I have a few card tricks you will believe are magic too.

>> ^Bloodscourge:

Um, not really. I don't know what kind of skates you have ever used, but you don't "wind up" skate wheels. What he is doing at the beginning is getting his step right before he launches backward. Like I said, it's a controlled fall. The end with him stumbling is due to his aforementioned backward momentum, slick shoes and a slick wet surface. Also, if they were wheels, you wouldn't hear the scraping of shoe tread on the ground as he did this either. By you'r logic, when I do my foot glides (and I stumble), then I'm wearing wheels. There actually is an art to doing this right, and it's supposed to look like you're on wheels when done correctly; otherwise, it's not a glide. This is just an extremely exaggerated glide.
>> ^A10anis:
>> ^Bloodscourge:
As a person who has a lot of footwork focus when I dance, I can explain this.
From a stand he leans forward and slings one leg back very quickly. While the momentum is still carrying him backwards, he has to immediately bring the back leg forward, and the front leg back to keep himself moving. From that point he is pretty much in a constant falling state where the foot coming forward catching himself since the other foot must be thrown back to maintain momentum. Notice his back foot is barely getting underneath in time while the other foot has already started to be flung out. His timing is just cray good. This is also why you see him stumble at the end. His foot-speed countered momentum stopped so he ended up falling forward from his counter balance.
Hope this helps the blown brains.

Definitely wheels...You can even see him winding them up at the start before suddenly taking off. And watch again, because his "stumble" at the end is not just his momentum, you can clearly see him skating. I'm surprised people cannot see it.


"There are none so blind as those who will not see." What you claim he is doing with just shoes is, literally, impossible. As i stated, my kids have these wheeled shoes. Never mind though, I give up trying to make you open your eyes. Oh, and btw, I have a few card tricks you will believe are magic too.