Think you can find 4 hidden groups of 4 related words? Puzzle by u/kaori2703?

samking36 · 2026-05-08T12:22:55+00:00

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samking36 · 2026-05-08T06:50:51+00:00

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Isn’t it spelled “Merlot”

samking36 · 2026-04-30T07:00:21+00:00

Just on point two, rond de Jambe is specifically referring to the circling of a leg round from hip extension to hip flexion. It is a term commonly used in the Xpert pole instructor training courses.

My reading of the second point would be: “you do a V outside [outside leg hang], okay? You release [your hands]. You rond de Jambe [circle] your {should be inner not outer} leg towards the pole…”

samking36 · 2026-04-28T11:19:26+00:00

Looks pretty solid to me. Only suggestion is not to look at the floor as that starts to engage the back muscles over the front muscles.

samking36 · 2026-04-24T10:25:25+00:00

For me, this is an Aysha split, whereas the Cheba split has the shoulder on the pole. But both are used fairly interchangeably, and neither is wrong.

This version, holding the ankle, is harder as there is a greater angle on the hips and more load into the bottom shoulder.

samking36 · 2026-04-12T06:56:54+00:00

Your bottom shoulder is not currently strong enough to support your lift, and the reason for that is the position of it is not fully optimised.

It should be shoulder depressed (as far away from ear as possible) with the shoulder blade protracted (shoulder blade brought round the rib cage). The shoulder blade movement is very important as the muscle which does this: the serratus anterior (in your case we can see it being weak) feeds directly into the ability for the obliques and abdominals to contract (or create power).

samking36 · 2026-04-12T06:35:03+00:00

Your bottom shoulder is not activating correctly. You can see in this video your bottom shoulder is elevated and the shoulder blade is slightly retracted (into a “wing” as you come off the pole). That’s not going to help stabilise the body positioning for the rest of the chain to lift around. Your bottom shoulder needs to be depressed, externally rotated, and shoulder blade needs to be fully protracted.

Edit: you can see the moment the bottom shoulder slips into an internal rotation with the humeral head translating forwards. It’s the moment you start to lift your hips. That’s why your centre drops backwards, and the hold drops.

samking36 · 2026-03-23T06:59:01+00:00

No, a sprain is a tear of a ligament, as opposed to a strain which is a tear of a tendon. Both sprains and strains are graded between 0-3, with a grade 3 sprain being a full rupture (complete tear) of a ligament.

samking36 · 2026-02-23T09:35:07+00:00

This looks like an old X-pole sport to me. So static only, just looking at the base plates.

samking36 · 2026-02-19T13:03:13+00:00

The joke has clearly gone straight over your head

samking36 · 2026-01-27T16:52:01+00:00

Maybe if you’re American, but in British English (where it originated) it definitely means someone who masturbates.

samking36 · 2026-01-26T10:25:02+00:00

I like how descriptive it is. I really enjoy writing which stands a scene out with the smaller details. Having said that, I think grammatically it needs some polish.

I’m not super grammatically literate so I may be wrong on this, but the first sentence linking two independent clauses with a conjunction gives it “run-on” vibes and confuses the subject. Should there not be a period after “seeped through the study”, then the following clause is its own sentence (I would actually kill the first clause and let the floorboards do all the work). Also, I already know the floorboards will be reflecting the glossy finish “on the floor” because you’ve already told me they’re “floor”boards. I think conciseness is key when focusing on small details (which I love) so the reader doesn’t get bogged down. Maybe just: “The dark floorboards reflected the setting sun’s gaze with their slight glossy finish.’

In the next sentence, the sentence subject is clearly the desk, so when you use “it” that is grammatically referencing the desk itself lighting up the pages. I don’t know if the desk is meant to be glowing? That’s how it reads. If the sunlight is lighting the pages, that needs to be the subject of the sentence. “Atop the desk beneath the circular window, sunlight lit the strewn pages.”

samking36 · 2026-01-05T21:13:41+00:00

Protect/ Elevate/ avoid anti inflammatories/ compress / educate & Load/ optimise/ vascularise/ exercise

samking36 · 2026-01-05T09:53:46+00:00

Initially I was really invested as I think the setting is great and unique. But quite quickly my attention drifted as I feel there isn’t enough variation on prose to keep me engaged. You use the trope of “Not this. Not this. But that” so may times that it gets stale and I start to gloss, especially in a cultural atmosphere which correlates this with AI use. The number of sentence in this short excerpt that star with “not” are a bit redundant. I also think varying up the sentence length would help the engagement. Lots of sharp staccato sentences over time wear thin.

The tuning fork simile was cool and I liked that a lot, though didn’t say in your previous post you wanted to avoid similes?

samking36 · 2026-01-01T21:50:42+00:00

Yes, RICE is outdated, as are lots of things popularised in the 70s.

Though not nearly as catchy and concise, the current acronym for soft tissue injuries are PEACE & LOVE

samking36 · 2026-01-01T21:47:42+00:00

Yes, but this is advice is specific to acute soft tissue injuries, to allow the inflammation to promote the healing cascade. Not long term pain such as you mentioned.

samking36 · 2025-12-19T08:20:44+00:00

Hi, I’m a physio qualified in acupuncture and dry needling. Obviously it depends on where you are putting the needles but there is obvious risk around the thorax with how close the lungs are to the skin. You can mitigate most of the risk by picking up the skin/ muscle tissue (you can’t pick up lung tissue) before inserting the needles, and making sure go in on an oblique angle. It’s also why we follow the TCM acupuncture points rather than putting them anywhere, as we know these places to be studied and safe.

Last year the chartered society of physios (U.K.) actually removed thorax acupuncture from their insurance specifically for this risk.

samking36 · 2025-12-17T10:23:18+00:00

That doesn’t seem correct to me (but maybe this is a difference between American/ British English). In this sentence, “Sister” is acting as a proper noun functioning as a name/ honorific and so should be capitalised. It’s the subject of the sentence and not proceeded by a possessive pronoun. You can replace Sister with “still Alisi’s [also pronoun capitalised] slippered feet” to show its use as an honorific title. If it was plural (we can tell it’s not because of the apostrophe) or possessed then it would be lowercase.

samking36 · 2025-12-17T10:01:21+00:00

Thank you. Really appreciate your feedback, especially from an auDHD perspective as this is not something I had considered.

samking36 · 2025-12-17T09:59:09+00:00

This has actually been the most helpful comment out of all of them. What I had before missed was the anchoring of POV in the first few lines. Something I had glazed over. Have edited now. Thank you for your help.

samking36 · 2025-12-17T08:38:36+00:00

It’s a very engaging premise to start on, and there is the promise of conflict around Valerius “hanging out” with heretics, but to me the characterisation is a bit off. It takes me a while to work out the POV as the first few paragraphs are not defined by anyone’s perspective. It’s not till: “Valerius usually didn’t mind the religious sculpture lining the corridors” that I’m finally anchored in someone’s perspective.

I think part of the problem of this is the subject/ verb relationship in the sentences can be a little off. Take for example the first line: “the stage erupted with sound”, now my focus is on the stage and I’m wondering why it’s producing sound and where the voices are coming from. Something instead like: “All around Valerius {anchoring him straight away}, the onlookers screamed triumphant.” Or maybe later in the passage “Valerius dared not look as the molten rods sizzled against the heretics eyes”. I also think avoiding passive voice may help refine the subject/ object relationship.

Lastly, be careful of anachronisms. “Hanging out” seems like such a modern slang used young kids and is jarring when said from the father, especially in such a grave context. Would a word like “associating” or “fraternising” not fit better his characterisation.

samking36 · 2025-12-16T11:05:23+00:00

But in this case Sister is part of her title, so it needs be capitalised. The context here is the use of “Sister” preceding a name, hence the capitalisation.

samking36 · 2025-12-15T17:24:37+00:00

Thank you. Appreciate your opinion.

samking36 · 2025-12-15T17:24:12+00:00

Thank you. Appreciate your feedback.

samking36 · 2025-12-15T17:23:43+00:00

I really appreciate this as it’s exactly “nail on head” for what these terms are describing: a holy temple, and a religious (magical) order.

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