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CALEB DRESSEL, WHOOOOOOOOOOO!
Sports Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics (7/23/21-8/8/21)
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that horse is hilarious
great performance by jockey and horse and amazing music
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Betting on Aussies to choke is the easiest money you can make at the Olympics.
This 3 on 3 is pretty lame
They play organized ball when street ball skill is required.
Should check ball after each score, it establishes a baseline and even start for both teams.
Their ruleset just isn't great for viewers, it seems rushed...should be a score, some shit talk or flex, then ball up for the other team
Trying to hard to simulate full court fast break when it just isn't possible
Source: used to be a gym and street ball rat and played/watched thousands of hours of diff rulesets and styles
They play organized ball when street ball skill is required.
Should check ball after each score, it establishes a baseline and even start for both teams.
Their ruleset just isn't great for viewers, it seems rushed...should be a score, some shit talk or flex, then ball up for the other team
Trying to hard to simulate full court fast break when it just isn't possible
Source: used to be a gym and street ball rat and played/watched thousands of hours of diff rulesets and styles
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Was the Aussie who got silver favored to win? I thought Dressel was the favorite.
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@Former Maycee Barber Fan nevermind. Just saw that Chalmers won gold in 2016 and was one of the favorites. Damn close this time.Americans are probably the only ones able to watch this, but damn did it get dusty when they show Dressel's family at the end.
View: https://youtu.be/yxkPEFKoe80
Wait wrong lee
I hope she talks mad shit about not being a quitter and finally the team USA has a leader they can rely on.
Then they can have a fight on the undercard of a Jake Paul paperview
Then they can have a fight on the undercard of a Jake Paul paperview
So... I guess Simone knew what she was doing after all?
I didn't really understand why she quit and everybody's talking about her mental health. Then I see these gymnasts talking about "the twisties". Apparently this is a common term in gymnastics for losing the mind muscle connection. Particularly gymnasts talk about having difficulty identifying the ground when doing spinning maneuvers. Which of course is incredibly dangerous and at least one Olympic gymnast has been paralyzed in this setting.
Sure that's kind of a mental health thing but really if you're having difficulty performing, why would you put yourself at career ending risk instead of backing up and fixing the problem?
"The yips" are talked about and golf and pitching and kind of sounds like the same thing. People just sort of lose that mind muscle connection that lets them hit a putt without overly thinking about it.
ever read the stuff on Flow States by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi? he has an entire book on how the "thoughtless execution" state in athletes, how to achieve it and how hard it is to sustain it.
I have not but I've heard the term. I'll check it out.
I took a tactical pistol shooting class after years of shooting at a range with defined rules where you put the gun down on misfires and cold ranges and whatnot. You pick up your brass.
Suddenly I'm drawing from a holster with a shot clock and supposed to drive right through malfunctions.
I could do it in pieces. And I could do it without having the timer going. But the moment I was put on the spot I would revert to old muscle memory. It would take a conscious effort to not have the shot clocks psyche me out and disrupt what I could do easily when no pressure is on. Habit is a crazy thing.
I also can't catch a ball for shit when focused. But someone gives me a think fast I'm like the matrix and Don't even really understand how I did it since any other time I don't think I could.
Flow state is crazy.
it's about balancing the challenge with the confidence in skill. That keeps the frontal lobe and temporal lobe from putting "noise" in the observation/response loop of the sensor/execution parts of the nervous system.
of course, he's very smart and explains it in much more detail and with much more betterocity.
EDIT - here's the first google result, you lazy fucks
Sports Psychology Flow - IResearchNet
Flow is a special psychological state of total absorption in a task. When in flow, athletes are fully focused on what they are doing, and this heightened attention is associated with a number of positive factors. Accompanying a focused mindset are factors such as...
I read the same- she said "I didn't know where I was" coming off one of the apparatus and rather than risk a poor score and/or some kind of mental (or physical) break, she pulled out.
It feels like more and more athletes and other public figures are realizing no one gives a fuck about their health (how long did the US gymnastics team cover up a pedophile doctor?), so they need to be the ones to give a fuck. Combined with the rampant Dunning-Kruger epidemic in America, I can totally understand the outrage. I went on Fox News to see what the narrative would be, and the comments were telling. You get a lot of Uncle Ricos talking about how they understand pressure because they played Jr Varsity Ping Pong or something:
I didn't realize there was so much denialism about mental health on the right.