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i agree with merrick again, only thing i'll add is about ultimate: of course improving SLRVJ will help. skying for a catch or D (and always catch your Ds, of course) is always going to be quicker and easier off one leg, and if you can improve your efficiency at getting up off one it can only help. it's weird to even think about DLRVJ to high-point a disc in a game, outside of a "500" situation on a huck where everyone is slowing down into a clump. that happens, of course, and you're tall so i imagine people go to you deep on the regular, but much more often you're going to be trying to sky one on one, or on a swing that gets away from the throw, or something like that.

also, this is voodoo that i have no scientific basis for so take it with a grain of salt, but improving your SLRVJ will also improve your layouts, which of course are basically always SL because they are almost by definition done out of a full sprint.

if i ever go back to ultimate, i'd switch away from focusing on DLRVJ toward sprints and bounds, agility, and SLRVJ, in that order.

just want to second what merrick said about working outward from a shorter approach, and focusing on accelerating into the plant.

i mean yeah it's obviously useless for athletes, but even if i were fattier than i am at the same height and weight it would be ridiculous to say i was overweight. i'm thin.

FFMI (using 10% bf, which i think is a reasonable guess at the moment) i got 22.1/22.2.

god i'm borderline overweight, 24.4.

there was an op/ed recently in the NYT about how people being overweight doesn't increase morbidity when you look at population-wide data. but then again if i'm almost overweight and chris is overweight by the most widely-accepted metric, then maybe the problem is that the metric is worthless.

That sucks man, our lab passed away this summer at age 15. I use the gym as a retreat, music up and refuse to think anything negative.

thanks chris. i use the gym that way, too, but from time to time whatever is affecting me just has the effect of deadening me or killing motivation. it's always temporary, i'll be back on the horse tonight.

fucking emotional catharsis, this song. maxent, give it a listen if you're not already familiar with LCD Soundsystem.

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOHLeXxfNu0" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOHLeXxfNu0</a>

i wonder if my work capacity is just awful. i never get 30 jumps in because by that point performance has dropped off so much that it doesn't count as ME work anymore.