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    411 on Mike Gaite?

    in The Deli

    Posted

    Ah, Alec Andrews...the memories cum flooding back!!! I hope the man is doing well. (I have @tyro to thank for meeting Alec and I'll always be tremendously grateful to her for that, among so many other things - Thank You, beautiful lady!:))

     

    TruHart1 :cool:

    I did something helpful for once? I'll take your word for it, dear man.

    T

    Ever thought of making a move on a contractor in your home?

    in The Lounge

    Posted

    When I lived in Chicago I hooked up with this beefy, hairy, hung guy. I blew him and he fed me a HUGE load. He mentioned he worked for the phone company, hence he had odd hours sometimes. Fast forward several months to a telephone service call. Who should show up but the dude I blew some months back! When he was finished dealing with the phone problem, he peeled off his uniform and I blew his dick and ate his ass until he fed me a load. He confessed that he saw my address on the repair roster, but it was assigned to a different tech. They traded jobs and there he was. He stopped by for many future visits.

     

    A year or so later, a friend of mine moved and was having trouble getting her phone connected. I mentioned it to him and, wouldn't you know it, he was able to get her phone installed the following week! I gave him an extended blow- and rim-job and he gave me a creamy reward for my services. My friend took me out to dinner. Everyone was happy.

    Well done, sir.

    T

    Nathan Chen

    in The Sports Desk

    Posted

    Yeah yeah yeah...we all know Adam Rippon might crack the top 12 if he really brings it. But...doesn't SOMEBODY have to be eighth? Tenth? Twelfth? The US men haven't had two potential medal contenders at the Olympics for...?

    So...let's let the fiery flamer with the gorgeous hair and perfect teeth have his chance.

    T

    Many skaters do struggle with the triple axel, but of the Big Six (Chan, Chen, Fernandez, Hanyu, Jin, Uno - the top contenders for the Olympic podium according to conventional wisdom, whatever that's worth) only Nathan really struggles with it. When was the last time he landed a perfectly clean 3A in competition? The difference between the triple and double axel is 5.2 points (8.5 vs. 3.3 on the ISU website), so a difference of 10.4 for the two programs. In both the short and free skate, an axel jump is compulsory, but it can be either a double or a triple. If Nathan plays it safe and opts to do doubles in both programs, he can make up the deficit by doing a quad lutz in both programs. I don't know why he opted out of the quad lutz at Nationals considering that it's been a pretty solid jump for him in the past. The problem with ditching the triple axel is that Nathan can probably win a medal without it, but winning gold will be very tough, and of course Nathan wants to go for the gold.

     

    I can't believe how much Nathan has improved his PCS in just a year. The difference between his skating at the 2017 US Nationals and the 2018 Nationals is amazing. He got a decent bump in his scores: 2017 short/free PCS were 44.32/91.00, 2018 short/free PCS were 46.54/94.92. But the scores fall far short of telling the whole story. His improvement in posture, positions, and body lines can't be quantified.

     

    The competition in Pyeongyang will be killer. The men's short is next Thursday, Feb 15, with the free skate the next day. I'm already defecating a brick :eek:

     

    PS: Rippon's chances of winning a medal are about the same as my chances of getting a date with Ricky Martin :rolleyes:

    Nathan Chen

    in The Sports Desk

    Posted

    At Nationals in 2015, Adam did the quad Lutz without falling on his cute bubble butt.

    Hey...it was almost a rhyme... ;)

    T

    Rippon starts his free skate with the most difficult jump in the sport, the quad lutz (no one has landed a quad axel in competition yet), but never ever lands it clean. Maybe he's managed to hold on & stay on his skates somehow (two-foot landing, under-rotation, spin-out), but I've only see him fall in the attempt. I wonder if that's his way of telling himself that he belongs with the big boys ("yeah, I start with a quad lutz"), never mind the eensy-weensy detail that he falls every single time.

     

    I agree that quads are very much a matter of finesse, balance, and strength. No, you don't need huge legs. If anything, huge legs just weigh you down, which handicaps your jumps. I would add that you also need a good ratio of fast-twitch muscle fiber (like sprinters & NBA slam-dunkers) as opposed to the slow-twitch muscles of marathon runners. Of course, a high percentage of fast-twitch doesn't translate to particularly developed or large legs. Novak Djokovic is one of the fastest men in tennis, yet his legs are pretty slim.

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