#BC3

[reefdestro]

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[bocciaraf]

A sporting account… on Tumblr?

Bit of an experiment, this. Hopefully not a mistake.

Hello. I’m Rafael. I play boccia, which is a Paralympic sport (e.g., a sport which is in the Paralympics, like goalball, wheelchair rugby, etc). It’s a cousin of pétanque, lawn bowls, curling, and all those other sports whose ancient ancestor is someone going “I bet I can get my rock closer to that pebble over there than you can get yours”. Boccia is played indoors, in a space almost exactly the same size as a badminton court, as individuals, in pairs, or teams of 3. In the UK the overwhelming emphasis is on individual play, although pairs and teams competition is growing in global significance.

I’m a member of the newly reformed England squad, run by our governing body Boccia England, and I’m classified as a BC3 athlete - that means that instead of throwing or kicking the balls, we roll them down a ramp instead. The ramp is positioned, and balls set up on it for us, by a Ramp Operator - for me, that’s either one of my personal assistants, or increasingly, my partner. The RO isn’t allowed to see what’s going on on the court, they have to keep their back to it at all times during matchplay - they’re only allowed to physically help, not tactically help.

Playing boccia changed my life - I’ve always been a competitive person but until I discovered the sport in 2012, aged 27, had not only no access to participate in sports but no idea that a sport I could meaningfully play even existed. My sporting career is a direct legacy of the 2012 London Paralympics; it was the presentation of the Boccia UK Squad at the opening ceremony which resulted in the penny dropping. I was at my first club session within a few weeks, and attended my first competition a few weeks after that - I won a bronze medal, and was hooked.

My breakout year was the 2018-2019 season; our last complete season before the pandemic brought everything to a screeching halt. That year I zoomed my way through the Heathcoat Cup national finals - our ‘second division’ competition, a precious space for beginner and improving players to learn their trade without getting steamrollered by the pros - which qualified me directly into the BE Cup Finals, which is the de facto England national championship. I won my pool, unbeaten, and ultimately came 4th, which saw me begin the 2019-2020 season ranked 5th in England, behind two international athletes and two England players.

After that came a funny couple of years; half a season and two bronze medals in BE Cup Qualifiers before the pandemic stopped everything, and then a heavily modified “Back to Boccia” season for 2021-2022, at which I won the gold medal at two of the three Back To Boccia Cup events, went and won the qualifying tournament for the German National Boccia Championships in Düsseldorf - broadening my horizons as a dual national - before being selected for my very first Boccia UK Challenger. The Challengers are events run by BUK to provide the UK national squad, and selected others from the home countries, with additional formal competition experience. At the Gloucester Challenger there were 4 Boccia UK-supported athletes; two men from the World Class Programme and two women being supported in their development with coaching and world-class equipment, including Paralympian Scott McCowan, who had come 4th in Tokyo just nine months earlier. I beat all four UK athletes, and ultimately came second to my England colleague Matt Berry. That silver medal is my greatest achievement, to date. Matt and I followed that up with another one-two finish at the special, pandemic-edition competition run within the talent pathway as a substitute for the England national championships, which resulted in my being selected for my very first UK National Championships, where I lost only to the two McCowan brothers, Paralympians both, and ultimately came 6th. Just a fortnight later I was in Berlin, where I won the silver medal in the German National Championships.

I’ve just kicked off the 2022-2023 season with a very solid 5th place at the first BE Cup qualifier competition, and I’m off up to the SMILE Boccia Open tomorrow, to train up a shiny new personal assistant as a ramp operator. Wish us luck!

http://www.rafaelyoung.co.uk

[lonelyroommp3]

they put crack in boccia i s2g. every time the paralympics are on i never think ooh i’m most excited to see the boccia. but then one fateful day i switch it on and end up absolutely glued to my screen more invested than i have ever been in quite possibly anything in my life. i keep making involuntary OOOOOH noises out loud after every single play. i’m experiencing some cocomelon shit

[evapotata]

If anyone is interested I’m selling these BG3 keychains on Etsy! Most of them are customizable where I can put any character or image you want even your custom tav!

Feel free to dm on Etsy if you’re interested!

[kiranerys]

Terrible news everyone

I had to suffer through the Emperor’s romance scene in bg3 because @spockvarietyhour would have been so mad if I didn’t show him tentacle fucking

[wastelandhell]

Male eyelash replacer, with a new hipoly model and it now takes hair tints. I wrote a bunch of shit and accidentally deleted the post so whatever. I included most of it in the readme anyways.

Only affects the vanilla eye colors, you will need to make a patch if you want to use it with eyes added by another mod.

GOOGLE DRIVE

[nerdybouquetpeanutworld]

cadeira thunderx3 tgc12 É BOA? | Cadeira gamer thunderx3 tgc12 REVIEW

[saintobio]

quick announcement !

as i’m writing, i realized that the current pacing of bc2 requires me to cut it into two parts, so that means there will be a bc3 (final part). i might be able to post bc2 during the weekend. fingers crossed.

why did i add another chapter? well, you could blame it on these two who will make an appearance >>

[gemsofgreece]

Tribute post for our Paralympic Athletes

who with their 13 medals pushed Greece up in the rankings 19 places compared to Tokyo 2020. It should be noted that with the (awful) system of counting only the golds, Greece is now in the 33th place whereas it is in the 23th place if the total of medals is counted.

Gold medallists:

Nasos Gkavelas (and his guide Yannis Nyfantopoulos) - Men's 100m - T11. With a time of 11.02, it is his second golden medal in a row after the Paralympiad of Tokyo 2020.

Athanasios Konstantinidis - Men's Shot Put - F32. At 54 years of age, this is one of the two medals he won in these Paralympic Games.

Alexandra Stamatopoulou - Women's 50m Backstroke - S4

Silver Medallists:

Athanasios Konstantinidis - Men's Club Throw - F32. Again!

Antonios Tsapatakis - Men's 100m Breaststroke - SB4

Leda Maria Manthopoulou - Women's 100m - T38. She happens to be the daughter of a loved Greek actor who passed away earlier this year.

Bronze Medallists:

Konstantinos Tzounis - Men's Discus Throw - F56

Theodora Paschalidou - Judo Women's -70 kg J1. First time Judo Greek win in the Paralympics!

Lazaros Stefanidis - Men's Shot Put - F32. Men's shot put was a Greek event this year huh

Christina Gkentzou - Taekwondo - Women K44 -65kg. First time Taekwondo Greek win in the Paralympics!

Grigorios Polychronidis (and ramp operator & wife Katerina Patroni) - Boccia - Men's Individual - BC3. This is his seventh (!) medal in Paralympic Games!!!

Emmanouil Stefanoudakis - Men's Javelin Throw - F54. This is his third medal after the bronze in London and the golden in Rio!

Eleni Papastamatopoulou - Taekwondo - Women K44 +65kg. Not only Greece got its first medals in Tawkwondo but it was in both light and heavy categories as well!

[i-dont-know-how-this-site-works]

Jeong Howon from South Korea celebrates his gold medal in Boccia (BC3 men's division) with his ramp operator and coach!

[sims4bradshaw]

UPDATE: FIXED ❤️ TY TO ANON for their suggestions & @itsonlythee-sims for their help 🎉🎉🎉 YAYYY

What the fuck did i doooo 😭😭😭 omg help… somebody.. please.. anybody.. im pretty sure it has to do with dds compression but i just did what sims4studio told me..??? BC3/DXT5 Compression

I kept the video going for a long ass time bcus the outfit it glitches into i swear to god it changed!! I thought it was gonna change again 😭 shes bald and barefoot cus i was hoping (knowing it was this but whatever) it was anything else but no 🙃 i spent like at least 30 minutes just exporting these swatches btw. 😑😑😑 after a breakthrough too ugh . I dont even understand this like the texture that its glitching into is not even one i used as a base for this?? And before that it was doing a strawberry pijama set.. with socks and all!!!!!!!

Also LOL at them telling me she got level 1 singing like. IDGAF 😭😭😭💔 but ig sims gonna sim 🎉

[wheelsgoroundincircles]

1958 Bentley Continental

1958 Bentley Continental S1 Two Door Hardtop Coupe by Park Ward & Co. Chassis BC3 LFM, engine BC3 F

[bwaindead-dogs]

Stalx

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[lonelyroommp3]

if you guys were wondering, which you probably weren't, i am especially obsessed with the BC3 boccia classification which is the one where the athletes require both a ramp to propel the balls onto the court & an assistant to configure the ramp for them. the sports enjoyer reason for this is i think it is fascinating to have such a clear visual aid for the elaborate mental calculations that go into a perfect play. it is like watching people do trigonometry competitively. the rpfhead's reason for this is because the assistant is not allowed to face the court at any time to ensure they're not influencing the player's tactical choices, they just have to follow the player's instructions to the letter, and i have now watched SEVERAL games where the assistant is the player's spouse. this is of course unbearably romantic to me and also brings to mind the beautiful glorious intriguing chicken vs egg question of did the athlete choose their spouse to be their assistant because they love and trust them so much, OR did the hours of staring at each other during training and competition cause them to fall in love. tantalising

[queen-vv]

In other news while sorting through stuff in an old chest of drawers I found my mum’s really old camera so I might try getting into film photography

I’ve only done a bit of photography that I’ve been happy with, but this should be interesting too

It’s an old Pentacon Praktica BC3, if anyone was wondering too :p

[rodolfoparras]

I need senshi to sit on my face

MEEE SUGAR MEE BC3!!34 I genuinely cannot believe these shots are actually part of the show they’re doing this on purpose aren’t they🧎🏻‍♂️