just like with my advice for your squat, i think it'd help if you get more air into your before each of those lunge reps. look like your just not as "postured up" going back into the lunge as you could be. i mean that always helped my posture descending into lunges/squat etc.
acole you really go by the book. applying the book verbatim to subjective/discretionary rules, as if Serena is thinking about the rule book word for word in an extremely competitive/passionate grand slam tennis final.
if a ball is out, it's out. if there's a foot fault, it's a foot fault. if there's the appearance of coaching....... ??? just call it? if someone is going off, losing composure, just hold back and give them a penalty when you feel they've crossed the line?
the last two deserve warnings or at least some effort to get the situation under control without altering the course of the match.
the fans/sponsors pay big money to see the athletes perform, not the ump. The ump could have given clear warnings in this situation. Had he done that, and had Serena continued, everyone would be on his side. But he didn't do that. He made two calls apparently "by the book". The first call threw gasoline onto a good match, and then also lit it on fire. The last call was him just flexing his power. Sure Serena was out of line, but let her know she's out of line and about to get a game penalty. Instead he flexed his muscle and took a game away, because he's read the rule book 1,000 times and Serena is out there competing passionately.
He handled the situation like absolute garbage IMHO. He abused his power. Instead of trying to get what he found was coaching under control, he just gave a violation. Instead of being very direct with Serena and telling her, as a matter of fact, that she will lose a game if she continues, he just took the game.
He made himself bigger than the match & the athletes. He's not there for that.
IMHO, he deserves even more blame than he's getting.
Obviously boxing is a different sport, but look at how those refs handle matches. I'm sure there's alot in the rule book, word for word, that a ref could leverage to DQ/deduct points against a fighter. Instead, they often give them tons of warnings. Sometimes they stop the match temporarily just to address a fighter, giving them a very hard warning. In basketball, refs T up athletes to get the game under control. But, that happens alot in basketball. What refs don't do, is give them a 2nd T too easily. Refs hold back, especially in playoff/final settings, from giving that 2nd T or that 6th foul. They try really hard (usually) to let the athletes decide it, not themselves. Anyway, bad reffing can happen in any sport. I guess it usually happens when critical calls are missed, incorrect calls are made, when a ref exerts too much power over an event, when a ref lets an event get out of control / doesn't exert enough influence. I didn't see any critical calls missed in this match, I did see the middle latter two. In a way, I also saw the last one: not using enough influence prior to giving penalties.
Refs are there to ensure fair play, not to become part of the outcome of the match. They should avoid the latter as much as possible.
That's why I hate this idea of just executing the rule book as if there's no other option.
For the coaching violation, the goal was to get Serena's coach to stop providing signals. He could have achieved that without applying the rule book. I doubt Osaka would have cared if Serena's coach was simply warned instead of receiving a violation.
For the verbal abuse violation, the goal was to get Serena to stop verbally abusing him, OR to flex his power on her (what I saw). For the former, he could have done that with a hard warning of what will come if she continued. I doubt Osaka would have complained about Serena not getting a game penalty, she'd have been fine if Serena had been given a warning instead.
The ump did what power tripping control freaks love to do. He injected himself in to a great match and made himself part of the eventual result.
He did not try to get control of the situation without punishing Serena. He punished first, then let her react, repeat. That's why I find him at most fault.
Andrew Darqui won second place overall for men. “I came and second last year and I liked being a part of this race. I was hoping to win first place,” he said. on
"I came AND second" ->
it was a weak interview. I said:
"I came in 2nd last year, and 2nd this year."
"I love Coral Springs races."
"Hopefully next year i'll try again, to get first."
The reason why I bring it up, is it's just odd to me.. guy didn't have a recorder/etc, and he basically built quotes from memory to write that short article.
Apparently two people said "I liked being a part of this <>", me (I didn't) and this girl:
"Sally Fowler said, “I liked being a part of this run."
lol.
I mean it's cool whatever but I find it odd that people would do such a job.
bw = 143 bw before bed last night = ? soreness = glutes/hams slight to heavy as the day progressed, quads slightly aches/injuries = right ear deaf, left ear kinda taxed too aches upon getting out of bed: none calves painful to touch/massage = ? cramping = none morning quad flexibility = loose morning hamstring flexibility = loose, less clicky morning calf flexibility = loose morning adductor flexibility = loose lateral hamstring tendons = fine toenails: 2 left/2 right, but they've improved alot feel = good hours sleep: ~8 wakeup = 08:45 AM
sub5 mile or sub3 km splits in 2018: 4 (mi) + 1 (km) = 5 of 50 - sub5's: ..., 2018/07/14 - sub3's: ...
to me, the 2nd/3rd violations were justified.. but, it's all based on that first violation (coaching instructions), which was absolute bullshit.
first, the chair should have simply warned both sides (& perhaps coaches as well). To give Serena a violation like that at such a critical time, without warning, is absolute garbage. That caused Serena to "lose it". ie, "here we go again".
very unfortunate, especially for Osaka.. she played incredible. She looked really distraught over how it turned out :/
never saw anything like that in tennis.. other than maybe serena being ejected after the "threat".. but this was pretty unique, especially because of the fan/crowd reactions.
was painful to watch.
It was painful to watch. I agree the chair should have gave a warning like it is used to doing, I believe her if she says she didn't receive coaching instructions. I think this may have been the reason to cause her to act out of character and throwing the racket.
Also the warning should help if there is any ambiguity in any violation such as advising no communication be made so as to avoid any future doubtful violations.
x2 ^^
also, this seems to be the opinion of most current/former pros i've seen interviewed. For a subjective rule like that, and the verbal abuse one he levied later, warn first.
Now i had everything against me Non running shoes, shitty track, 50 degrees, lots of clothes, shitty diet yesterday etc. I figured with all that this can my worst possible scenario so I figured better do it now.
solid fight. very close. but i'd give that to Porter, he just worked more/harder.
Lol when I read solid fight I was thinking it was mcgregor vs khabib fight then I see porter, then I knew you accidentally posted in the wrong section lol.
OMG WHAT a fu**ing amazing fight. Any close rounds which I doubted I gave to danny garcia and I had it 7 rounds to 5 shawn porter. Garcia during the middle rounds didn't really know how to handle the pressure shawn was coming with and would wait and pick his shots, some very good left counter hooks but shawn porter just going in to the body and some interesting counter punches. First few rounds I saw shawn won the majority danny waiting and picking his shots, porter did miss a lot of shots to when swinging but he putting the pressure to garcia, who just freezes. In the middle round it was going both ways, garcia starting to put the pressure but when he gets hit he starts to back off the pedal a bit and counter. I think he gave those rounds away and the last round I gave to garcia and round 11 to shawn porter.
I don't like when shawn goes messy but in this fight I liked it because it wasn't too messy a lot of targeted aggression just chasing him with some mess in there. Shawn got tired a little but he knew that if he put on the pressure he was going to win. some carelessness from porter with wild hits especially when he hits comes low and his head unguarded and giving garcia opportunity, there was one time where it was open a lot that garcia targetted it late and porter leaned back.
great fight of the year candidate.
Highlights of kovalev vs alvarez, I'm sure you saw the garcia vs porter fight.
first, the chair should have simply warned both sides (& perhaps coaches as well). To give Serena a violation like that at such a critical time, without warning, is absolute garbage. That caused Serena to "lose it". ie, "here we go again".
I feel that's excusing Serena's subsequent behaviour,
it's not excusing it at all. but that call set things in motion.
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to blame the umpire for not warning her about a very well-known violation in the game.
well known? that's never called.
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I disagree with 'warnings' for offences in general. What's the point of the rule if it's arbitrarily enforced depending on context?
tennis is all about concrete rules. how do you apply one of the few subjective rules without giving a warning? I've watched tons of tennis, i've rarely seen that rule enforced. Also, i've seen chair umps give warnings more than i've seen an actual violation.
you can only enforce a subjective rule arbitrarily.
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It's a weird rule anyway (coaches are paid to coach IMO) but I understand that tennis has a gladiatorial spirit where the players should be battling their opponent with no outside influence. If she should be mad at anyone, it should be the coach, not the umpire.
coaches often "instruct" during the match, doesn't mean the athlete is actually looking at them receiving the instructions. coaches coach, even if the athlete isn't looking at them.
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Then compounding it by racket-smashing and abusing the ump is just bad situational awareness/brain fade, like not knowing how many fouls you have.
imho the racquet smashing isn't even a problem. she never even mentioned it. she knew she'd probably get a violation for it. men smash their racquets all the time, especially guys like Djoko / Murray / Kyrgios / Roddick etc.
I don't like racquet smashing but it shouldn't really be a "bad sign" of anything. It's just a rare sign of extreme frustration. Plenty of the greatest tennis players smash their racquets on occasion. Here's a Djoko racquet smash compilation:
Her worst offense (to me) was calling the chair a "thief". That was stupid. But again, i've seen people chew out chair umps all the time and not get violations. Here's Federer dropping F bombs:
She lost her composure, that's all on her. However, that first coaching violation was still bullshit.
Serena is probably already on "edge" with some of the treatment of female athletes vs men. She's not someone who can just ignore it. Some of the stuff that happened in this US Open adds context to her meltdown - I mean she even mentioned this incident. Here's a woman receiving a violation for turning her shirt inside out:
Tennis has historically been a "boys club", that shit drives Serena crazy. I think it factors in to some of her blowups.. Boys club & "race" issues are always on her mind, she deals with alot of it.
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This is the third US Open final where Serena has completely overshadowed the effort of the eventual winner with meltdowns (Clijsters 2009 and Stosur 2011). I think it really sucks to put an asterisk on someone's title like that, i.e. "if the other player hadn't melted down and given a game away, maybe they would have won, but I'll never know etc". This was the worst of the three by a mile though.
Some people might be saying "if she didn't melt down you never know", but Osaka was on fire, I doubt Serena wins that match without the melt down. Though, Serena was up 3-1 in the 2nd set when that coaching violation call happened. She went directly to the chair and states she didn't receive instructions and she's not a cheater. That call really messed her up, the idea that she was "cheating". A warning would have been a good idea. A warning would have also been a good idea before taking a game from her, ie: "Serena if you continue I will have to take away a game".
IMHO the foot fault reaction/threat is the worst. This was the biggest meltdown because it played out over several games.. but that foot fault/"threat"/DQ on match point (to her opponent) was the worst IMHO.
Finally. From what i've seen:, most everyone seems to be coming out AGAINST that coaching call violation. Former/current pros, analysts etc, everyone saying that was pure bullshit. Most people don't seem to think the thief comment is a violation either, given that men get away with worse.
This is some AMAZING running. 26:46 10k by Rhonex Kipruto, 3s off the WR.
he's 18...
man he is flying.. looks like 0% vertical oscillation. upper body/head look completely still. short arm swing. great lean. high turnover. blistering pace.
also if you want to relax.. listen to these announcers. lmfao. they are so relaxing, it's funny.
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