#hyperflexibility

[ratbastarddotfuck]

I saw tiktoks of people saying they cried from relief when they first tried on their body braid and I remember thinking "there's no way it's that good", but fuck, I get it now. I didn't even realise my shoulders were in pain until the relief just started flooding through me. Fuck. I feel like I'm breathing for the first time.

[mewos-laptop]

Being hyperflexible is funny as shit, bc my ass can put my arms into the most deranged positions like I'm fucking slenderman.

Alas, since my arm hyperflexibility was diagnosed my parents forbid me from actually hyperextending my shoulders.

But the point still stands. The one downside is uhhh my arms feel like they will fall out of their sockets if I ever relax them (and also that one time I sublocated my shoulder at pride to impress a lesbian but that's a whole other story).

(I do not have Ehlers Danlos Syndrome btw, pls do not tag this post as such bc I do not want ppl to assume I am physically disabled when I am not (not bc being physically disabled is a bad thing, but bc uhh I don't wanna be like... disabled-baiting /silly))

[eddieheart]

Went to the chiropractor the other day, apparently I’m stretchier than previously believed. He asked if I’d ever done gymnastics before, then said I have a ‘secret talent’ and I should try gymnastics because I’d ‘be a natural’. Every time I moved/he moved me he went ‘wow you really are flexible’.

(which isn’t really what you want to hear while a grown man leans over your body, puts his hands on your face and snaps your neck)

I’ve also learned it’s not normal for people to be able to lay face down on their stomach, then move only their upper body to lay on their back while keeping their lower body facing downward.

[cousinsam]

oh you're so flexible wow that's amazing i bet you could turn yourself into a pretzel yeah,,,,,, and I have to nearly dislocate every joint just to feel a stretch

please note i have garden variety hyperflexibilty not Ehrlos-Danlos both are a curse not a blessing

[loonarmuunar]

Ough my elbow got dislocated again. Ack.

[andisupreme]

I just realized I never crosspost anything from twitter anymore so have a stupid doodle from a while ago about one of those Realizations (tm) I keep having about myself

[ratbastarddotfuck]

Uuuuughhh i have to go back to sleeping in wrist splints, I keep hyperextending in my sleep. Can't even turn on the kitchen tap bc my wrists are too weak today 🙃

[10001gecs]

i want huge legs but my knees are so bad doing half of all leg exercises fucks me up

[sporesgalaxy]

wait i lied . i need to tell you that the funniest symptom of ehlers danlos syndrome is "velvety skin." my joints are weird as hell but my skin is so soft. but in a weird way so watch out!

[sergeifyodorov]

is valieva actually terrible at skating? i'm a fake figure skating fan and only really pay attention during olympics seasons... i remember the doping scandal and her disappointing free skate but that's all i know...

ok i'm not some kind of Technical Expert and this is a question much better suited for @tofumilanesa than me (sorry for the tag!) but... yeah. and it's on purpose too

before we talk about Skating though we have to talk about Silly Little ISU Politics, which is always a dreadful chore and just a real slog. the ISU (international skating union)(figure skating governing/judging body) is the one that determines the rules for how fs is judged over the years. in essence there's 2 parts of a figure skater's score: the TES (technical score) and the PCS (program component score). the TES measures the value/quality of each individual element (jumps etc) and the PCS measures "skating skills, performance and composition, and transitions." see how little skating skills is part of that? less than half of half of the whole score.

if you've also noticed how little of this is objective, correct! shmoozing to the ISU can get you... generous judgments on your more borderline calls -- bad technique can get glossed over way more easily. especially by larger federations, and especially, in ladies' singles, by The big federation (Rusfed.)

All that to say is that the Russian girls are being judged. pretty kindly. So if you're coaching them, you don't really have to do things like "ensure they're good enough skaters not to get their asses torn to shreds by the PCS panel" and you can focus more on getting that fourth rotation out of that underfed teenager.

so all these girls (and it's not just Valieva -- Shcherbakova, Trusova, Kostornaya to some extent, and the newer generation of Petrosian and Usacheva and Tikhonova and the like, as well as the older girls like Medvedeva and Zagitova) come out of the same camp (all trained by Eteri Tutberidze, who you can immediately recognize at the edge of every rink by her bleach blond it's-gonna-be-may hair and sour expression) and they learn how to spin in the air and that's it. bad initial technique is not trained out of them, because dedicating the time to learning how to jump more safely (ex. EVERYONE has a flutz. except trusova but it's not like her tech is great either) is time you are taking away from getting that stable quad. this training is intensive enough that there's a phrase -- the "Eteri expiration date" where these girls retire at 17 sharp, from injury or anorexia or both.

(this is not necessarily an all-of-Russia problem -- Elizaveta Tuktamysheva is 25 and still going. That being said, no Russians who are competitive on the world stage besides her come out of anywhere except Eteri's camp, so it might as well be.)

anyway, back to skating technique and kamila: figure skating doesn't place nearly as much an emphasis on forward speed as hockey does, but it places a lot More emphasis on efficiency, depth of edges, and smoothness.

probably the best example of this is crossovers -- if you watch a program like, say, valieva's bolero (she skates it clean at GP Rostelecom), whenever she does crossovers, she's doing three or four and putting her whole back into it. You can watch her shoulders bob up and down as she's stroking -- meanwhile, watch bronze medalist Kaori Sakamoto go, and she needs barely two and all her power is coming from her legs.

actually, sakamoto vs valieva is a pretty easy comparison re skating skills: when sakamoto skates, she leans very hard into her inside or outside edges, while valieva doesn't really do that at all. sakamoto's crossovers are a lot more powerful, and she has a much easier and more fluid transition from forward to backwards skating. she's also a lot faster -- and i know we said there's less emphasis on that, but speed with little effort is a really good measure of technical ability, and valieva is basically crawling compared to sakamoto (for an even better example of effortless speed, go watch old yuna kim programs!)

but valieva is 6 years younger, didn't medal, and will have quads for the next year or two before she retires from hip or back injury, while kaori might even show up at the next olympic cycle, so who's to say who's winning that game

[shalom-iamcominghome]

I'm curious, are you a pencil or knife grip crocheter? I personally switch between the two based on how my hands/fingers/wrists are feeling at any time

For those who may not know the difference:

I'm actually a knife holder! The funny thing is my index finger likes to shoot up randomly when I crochet, so I guess I kind of also do a pencil grip?

[spider-man-2o99]

hey btw. flat little fuckinf freak :}

[andgogames]

Hyperflex

Hyperflex is a dynamic arcade game in the spirit of Super Hexagon and Impossible Game! Dodge deadly obstacles by changing gravity and reach the goal of 1000 to unlock new levels. Follow us!

[stealthkills]

next vector update: He Bounces Now

[stressedjester]

Being fat is all cool and sexy till you get the dreaded Itchy Back

[7grandmel]

Todays rip: 08/05/2024

weird hyperflex but ok

Season 3 Featured on: SiIvaGunner's Highest Quality Rips: Volume L [Side A]

Ripped by Krizis

Requested by Fezaki! (Request Form)

Y'know, I've mentioned it before, but big medley rips like weird hyperflex but ok can at times feel a bit messy. There's a lot of appeal to that messiness, I talked a lot about that in Man, why does every Bleck actor gotta rap some, but it also gives me a lot less to actually talk about, yknow? A lot of rippers approach things with the simple mentality of making something that purely sounds good, which is fantastic - but I can only say "its fantastic!" to a rip so many times before it becomes uninteresting to read. Not every rip is fit for this kind of coverage, and I was at first apprehensive to cover this one for that very reason - but, like I described with Bramble Blast Collab, these sorts of rips have the ability to tell narratives of sorts through what sources are used in them - meaning within all of the madness. weird hyperflex but ok is comparatively more reserved, but as submitted Fezaki points out, ends up feeling like a big celebration of the whole of Season 3, representing all the big hits and overall throughline to one of the most underrated seasons under the channel's belt.

After an introduction that repeats the infamous opening notes to Megalovania, the rip shows its hand by the chorus - throughout most of its runtime, weird hyperflex but ok is a Grand Dad rip, primarily carried by the tune of The Flintstones from beginning to end. As the channel's most used and over-used joke, its easy to have grown well too tired of the meme at this point, its undergone so many stages of ironic and post-ironic appreciation at this point that its hard to say what the opinion on the meme even is these days - but in my eyes, it was in a great place during Season 3 in particular. Back then, two years after the channel initially started, people were beginning to grow a bit nostalgic for those early days, for that very unique feel that the channel had in its growing pains-days of early Season 1. That feeling was what led to the Nostalgia Critic takeover in the middle of the season, the one discussed in Fragile Snowman (Remastered): After having spent the better part of Season 2 focused on far bigger things than a stupid Flintstones meme, it was really nice to take some time to remember just how much that tune all united us. With Season 3 bringing that nostalgia to the forefront, and like I mentioned in CG Man HD Remastered Edition, the emotions of Season 1 in tow - it makes all the sense in the world for weird hyperflex but ok to headline itself with the funny Flintstone - yet the melodyswap is so natural, it almost feels like a completely original EDM Chiptune arrangement celebrating the channel. Or, well, maybe that's just my unfamiliarity with Hyperflex speaking.

Of course, like I said, its the Season 3 hits that make this rip what it is - its lovely to see Paralyzer be celebrated here so shortly after the Unregistered Hypercam 2 takeover, helping further cement just how much of a legacy the entire King for a Day tournament was going to have way ahead of its sequel being announced. We got Undertale, we got Calamari Inkantation (Off the Hook in KFAD1 reference?), and most importantly - we got SEAN KINGSTON, the legend of Crazy Noisy Beautiful Girls fame himself. It getting an extended 30 second verse all to itself feels special in a way I really can't articulate - as I said back in Take You To The Desert, the Sean Kingston takeover was something purely spurred on by Chaze the Chat's bizarrely high enthusiasm for the guy, and yet all those months after the takeover its STILL being remembered by completely unrelated rippers - that just warms my heart, yknow? It's a lot of the same feelings that Return to Collision Clouds instilled in me, the idea that SiIvaGunner's team members latch onto and care for these small little nuggets of one another's works.

At this point, I do have to fall back to the thing I said at the very beginning of the post and just re-emphasize - weird hyperflex but ok is just plainly fantastic! It is, for a lack of a better word, bumpin', a really celebratory yet fun-loving sound to a rip that is mostly Flintstones - but it EARNS that Flintstones melody through just how befitting its reappearance is to Season 3 in general. Its the kind of rip that exudes genuine love for the channel, and feels like a trip down memory lane on every listen.