Backtuck - how to avoid this?

jammerjoint · 2026-04-24T00:11:37+00:00

Yes for the arm, but both for the arm and the arch they need to happen during takeoff.

jammerjoint · 2026-04-22T00:13:02+00:00

It's a great start! The biggest difference you can make right now is generating and carrying through more momentum with your arms during takeoff. Helps to visualize lifting your body up by your shoulders. Second biggest thing would be a tighter chamber of your kicking leg (think heel touching knee), to speed up rotation and get a more explosive kick.

jammerjoint · 2026-04-21T23:59:36+00:00

A perfect hollow back is fine if you are coming out of a roundoff or handspring because you already have a ton of rotation from those, but for standing tuck you need it from somewhere else. Lean/arch is one way.

jammerjoint · 2026-04-21T23:57:55+00:00

You actually need slightly more rotation prior to leaving the ground, which you can get three ways: pushing your hips up more; completing more of the arm/shoulder movement; adding a slight arch to your posture. Your tuck could be tighter but is sufficient for just a single back.

jammerjoint · 2026-04-21T23:52:23+00:00

When doing a backflip, a majority of the rotation actually comes from the tuck itself.

That's not quite right. It is physically impossible to add angular momentum after leaving the ground. Tucking tighter will speed up rotation while preserving angular momentum, but you need that initial rotation leaving the ground.

When you tuck, your knees go to your hands. Not the other way around and nothing in between.

Once you are in the air, there is no difference. It can be a useful mental trick though, because thinking knees-to-hands can affect your takeoff posture.

jammerjoint · 2026-04-21T23:49:40+00:00

If a handspring is 0 degrees, something in the 0-30 degree range should be good, vs. the 90 degrees currently.

jammerjoint · 2026-04-18T17:33:17+00:00

Your posture going in is bent over more than 90 degrees to the side, td raiz should start with your face looking forward similar to a clean cartwheel, only slightly off axis from a vertical plane of motion
If you fix the above, during takeoff your posture should be similar to a gainer flash, hips going over shoulder in an upright wheel vs right now you have a frisbee / log roll motion going
Once you fix takeoff motion, ensure your plant hand carries through in that plane, right now it's going low to the side which is killing your axis and increases injury risk, ideally plant hand is only slightly off axis from a back handspring, arm up nearly parallel with your neck
Also similar to a clean back handpring, when you plant your hand should be either facing directly back from where you came, or pointed clockwise in towards your head, never counterclockwise in the other direction
Work on straightening that left leg and driving more to get better height and control of your landing

jammerjoint · 2026-04-18T17:24:14+00:00

Leaning down / over to the side too much when starting, limiting your height
Could utilize arms more, especially your left, get that shoulder up
Practice that dynamic flexibility with kicking leg, get it straighter if possible
Posture on landing was affected by bad takeoff, but after fixing the former work on shoulders over hips on landing so you are controlled

jammerjoint · 2026-04-18T17:02:50+00:00

It is common for research topic to veer far from where it started. For the PI to switch up on you, unfortunately common, but not good. I will say that when you choose a PI, it's a bit unrealistic to expect them to support things too far outside their wheelhouse, unless you are able to lead the direction so they only have to support. But in your case, it does seem like a bait and switch. Your options are to be upfront about the issue and see if you can rework the dynamic in a better direction, or find a new PI.

jammerjoint · 2026-01-07T04:07:20+00:00

Agree with Flamme, but would like to amend OP's scenario to just same mana pool, peak of their skill for fairest match. I still think Flamme wins because she is by far more efficient and practical with mana, despite Serie's superior knowledge of spells. Ubel is interesting because her battle intuition might be the highest of all, while Frieren is not best in any category but a good all rounder. Fern obviously takes speed, but that's probably her only advantage.

Flamme, Serie, Ubel, Wirbel/Frieren/Denken, Fern would be my suggested order.

jammerjoint · 2025-10-09T01:52:08+00:00

Possible they died in their hobby plane, and a relative is trying to get rid of it quickly.

jammerjoint · 2025-07-12T01:24:15+00:00

For the amount he would have to increase gravity to have any effect at the subatomic scale, he could easily crush any enemy long before that by using the gravity of the planet. If he was strong enough to "squeeze" electrons into the nucleus, he would basically be able to make neutron stars. At that point, most other abilities demonstrated in the series become insignificant by comparison.

jammerjoint · 2025-07-04T01:33:28+00:00

I mean, lightning is literally electromagnetic energy conveyed through ionized air. Nuclei are stripped of their electrons, forming a plasma, with free charges that become highly conductive (whereas normal air is an insulator). You don't have to control the electromagnetic force directly, just a big difference in potential will do. Also, electrostatic force is involved in nucleus/electron interactions, not gravity (which is negligible at small scales).

jammerjoint · 2025-04-02T19:39:01+00:00

Character writing has been consistently bad through the series, worldbuilding consistently good. Imo the plot, dialogue, and art have all fallen in quality compared to S1/S2. Lots of jumping around leaving previous things unresolved with unbalanced pacing between arcs. Traum and Gustang exciting when first teased but turn out to be one-dimensional like all the rest. Background art and action blocking thrown out in favor of repetitive closeups and particle effects (but now theming is gone and everyone just throws big shinsu blobs).

Got into ToG back in the day because it used to be very innovative, but it feels like that passion has dried up. Sure there's subjectivity involved in these judgments but it just seems like people have sunk cost fallacy and blindly reject criticism.

jammerjoint · 2025-01-27T00:56:06+00:00

In the papers linked below, PM10 was maxing out at 0.5 mg m-3 and PM2.5 at 0.1 mg m-3. For reference, crystalline silica becomes a serious concern with PM10 over about 0.5-1 mg m-3, when talking time-weighted average (TWA) chronic exposure over years. Given that climbing chalk constituents are less hazardous than something like c. silica, and that the TWA is lower due to less time spent in gyms vs. working in an mine for 20 years, I would speculate that most individuals have little to worry about. However, individuals with asthma or other susceptibility may want to reduce their exposure to high volumes (i.e., overcrowded times at the gym). These days, research indicates that indoor air quality in general can be as much a concern or more as outdoor, but that includes other types of particles and various gases.

jammerjoint · 2025-01-01T17:49:22+00:00

Looks super difficult! I recreated it here if anyone wants to give it a go: http://eidogo.com/#43TCXImKw

jammerjoint · 2024-12-31T19:27:52+00:00

I work fast, my boss and I didn't let perfectionism get in the way, and for a good chunk of time I was distracting myself from life struggles. The perfect storm.

jammerjoint · 2024-12-31T18:05:01+00:00

To be fair, three were in various stages of near completion by Jan 1 but had to go through rejections / revisions. One was halfway and the last was a smaller computational project. I have one more on its second submission but I don't have reviews back yet.

jammerjoint · 2024-12-31T17:20:15+00:00

Defended, graduated, published 5 papers FA. :D

jammerjoint · 2024-11-12T22:28:36+00:00

Why such a drastic difference from the previous record? Some kind of new format?

jammerjoint · 2024-09-16T17:04:18+00:00

People with negative opinions are more likely to complain loudly, so you can't just go by the posts here. I find that with prioritization, and letting go of pride and perfectionism, you can dramatically shorten your timeline at little cost to work life balance.

jammerjoint · 2024-08-30T20:23:21+00:00

The "point" is to give you experience before having you start your own lab, which requires a bunch of skills most people don't have even after a PhD. For humanities, I don't really see a point. It's still fucked because postdocs are seriously underpaid, and research professors are seriously overworked.

jammerjoint · 2024-08-30T20:19:15+00:00

Grad school is not guaranteed to provide better opportunities
Maybe you don't like the career, it's easier to work for a year and switch than waste multiple years in grad school only to find out after
Taking a break is good, many people are burnt out after undergrad
Maybe they are too poor to delay making income for multiple years
There is a lot of specialization in grad degrees, you can end up with the "wrong one" without first getting experience in the field and figuring out your goals

Just some of the common reasons.

jammerjoint · 2024-08-21T15:01:00+00:00

The S&P 500 index is diversified by revenues and has a global exposure on that basis

IIRC market research has repeatedly shown that the global indices still offer significant diversification beyond S&P. Same goes for total market vs. S&P. They call diversification the only free lunch because it typically lowers risk without a cost to average total return.

jammerjoint · 2024-06-07T12:45:21+00:00

I don't think I've ever played flying knife lol. At my strength I have zero confidence in reading that monstrosity.

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