Not to mention that absorbing eccentric overload is just as important for jumping and that just doesn’t happen with a box jump. Its a BS exercise. For every 10 people that can do 36+” box jump, I’ll show you 9 that only have good hip mobility and maybe 1 that has a decent vertical.
I agree with this too. Box jumps for speed (bouncing down and up) is a recipe for injuring, or even tearing, an Achilles tendon.
All you sad little people in the greys who just respond with insults will be just dismissed since a reply would validate you and take you out of the greys.
So, please don’t think your words have deeply upset me to the extent that I can’t even think of a reply. I simply don’t want to un-grey your sorry asses.
If you feel I’m being deliberately obtuse, you’re incorrect. I understand your point.
Agreed. In 2018 I hate to still turn a lot of workout discussions into dumping on Crossfit, but these are still valid criticisms.
Because it reeks of overzealous “white ally.”
I preface this statement by saying I am so Caucasian I am practically translucent...But this is absolutely some full on White People Shit.
Article says the kid’s father is a longtime stunt performer, also on set. If I had to guess, I’d say the dad is friends with someone and they tried to throw the kid some work as a favor to Dad/family. Just a guess though.
Yeah, me too RWC, I’ve worked for film/TV productions for years, and this is completely normal behavior.
TMZ! TMZ, of all places, included a line that the child’s father was on set and didn’t have a problem with what was happening because he also worked in the film industry and understood this to be standard.
So they should use swatches of color at the audition, and stop the actors when the come in, and hold up the color, and if they’re too light, send them packing?
The article also ended with this part that Jezebel conveniently left out...
Jezebel should be embarrassed by this click-bait garbage.
A stand in isn’t an actor, it’s just a body double. They need someone who is roughly the same size, build, and skin tone as the actor playing the part. The most likely scenario is that they could not find someone who checked all 3 boxes. While there are understandably really touchy feelings about taking a white or…
I guarantee you that the person who filed a complaint about this was a white woman. GUARANTEE.
IT’S NOT BLACKFACE. Blackface is something used to mock. This kid will never be seen on the screen. This is a perfectly normal case where the stand-in needed make-up to match the actor’s skin tone. Look people, proper stage lighting is different for light and dark skin. That’s not racism, that’s just physics. And…
Yeah, sorry, the way it’s described (rather than the headline) shows it to be a non-issue. Slow news day?
Oh fuck right off! This wasn’t “blackface” this was nothing more than makeup for the sake of lighting. I know you have to make your daily offerings to the altar of outrage but you are going to fucking pull something with the stretching you are doing here. Seriously, if you are actually offended by this then do the…