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QuoteI am a black belt, and can easily kick someone's bottom from here to next week should the need ever arise
Remind me not to piss you off if I make it out to the Perris Memorial Day boogie.
Try not to worry about the things you have no control over
wmw999 2,447
Michele, you'll never convince some folks that it's OK to be shaped differently. Fuck 'em if they can't take a joke. On the other hand, there are students who probably aren't in good enough shape to jump, and the instructor needs to figure this out.
So maybe the thing to do is to help USPA come up with some guidelines to be used in determining physical fitness?
Wendy W.
So maybe the thing to do is to help USPA come up with some guidelines to be used in determining physical fitness?
Wendy W.
There is nothing more dangerous than breaking a basic safety rule and getting away with it. It removes fear of the consequences and builds false confidence. (tbrown)
Michele 1
QuoteRemind me not to piss you off if I make it out to the Perris Memorial Day boogie.
There are two things you should know....
1. Tournement record: 22 fights, 1 second, 20 firsts, and one where no-one was willing to fight me, including the men's division...(and yes, I did all this chubby)...
2. I never hit first, and I always hit back.
Ciels-
Michele
~Do Angels keep the dreams we seek
While our hearts lie bleeding?~
Cajones 0
If this were "Talk Back" I'd say "I can take you."
Since this' General Skydiving, I'll leave it alone.
j/k - I don't hit girls. I might toss one down and wrassle with her a little, though.
The laws of physics are strictly enforced.
Since this' General Skydiving, I'll leave it alone.
j/k - I don't hit girls. I might toss one down and wrassle with her a little, though.
The laws of physics are strictly enforced.
Michele 1
Quoteyou'll never convince some folks that it's OK to be shaped differently. Fuck 'em if they can't take a joke.
Yep. It's been discussed many times here and elsewhere...and if someone isn't willing to look at the situation from another perspective, then there is nothing I can do except make it plain to those who are willing to see it from other perspectives that appearances aren't everything.
QuoteOn the other hand, there are students who probably aren't in good enough shape to jump, and the instructor needs to figure this out.
Agreed. As noted in my post, instructors need to determine if someone is a danger to themselves/the instructors, but flippantly and arbitrarily stating what was said is what I object to.
It's just my opinion, but covers and books and things oft times get people into trouble....
As to the blackbelt comments, I didn't mean to hijack the thread, or allow it to go flippant...it was made to demonstrate the concept that looks are deceiving, and individual assessment should be made...
Ciels-
Michele
~Do Angels keep the dreams we seek
While our hearts lie bleeding?~
How do you tell, though?
I look like I'm "soft", but can easily (while smiling and laughing) lift your 200 pound self right off your feet (I've done it to someone who weighs that much about 3 weeks ago...). I am a black belt, and can easily kick someone's bottom from here to next week should the need ever arise (which it hasn't, thank god). I have thrown myself onto the ground innumerable times, and walked away (perhaps that's not something I should "brag" about). I have strength, and I have body fat.
I am, according to one friend, "lush"...I have boobs, bottom, and I am decidedly rounder. It could easily be said that I am "fat bottomed"...I am nowhere near "heroin chic", and absolutely have never been. Not even close. Not even at 10 years old...
So how do you tell? Really, is it simply what the scale says? If anyone is over 200 lbs, do you refuse to train them? If anyone is under 100 lbs, do you refuse to train them? When I lost my instructor during a dive, the school didn't refuse to continue to train me...they just made sure I got with someone who could keep up with a fat, flexible chick...and *I* learned how to do fall rate control. On my belly, I can go 146 (fastest ever), and also go 122 (slowest ever). I generally average about 126, because I was trained and taught how to handle it. And, my boobs are too big for me to actually see my handles, especially during an arch..but I know where the handles are.
I'd venture to say that an inflexible man, 220, musclebound, is likely to get into far more trouble than I. If there is no hip flexibility, how does one arch very hard and very quickly to get stable? That's not about strength... And yet he demonstrates the muscle strength to save himself...yet, soft "overweight" me, during my cutaway, had absolutely NO problem getting handles out in the correct order (even though I couldn't see them)...so exactly where does muscle strength get assessed?
I have no problem with an instructor checking things out, or refusing to teach someone who is a danger to themselves and/or to others. I do have a serious problem with someone looking at someone else, not knowing them in the least, and arbitrarily deciding that she is "bone density" "bowling material"...
Your comment did, indeed, offend me.
Ciels-
Michele
~Do Angels keep the dreams we seek
While our hearts lie bleeding?~
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