Psycho-Babble Politics Thread 1111035

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things are shifting in nz

Posted by alexandra_k on June 26, 2020, at 21:24:16

we are part of the australian bid to host the women's world cup football (soccer) 2023. the projected $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ is in considerable excess of what we get for events like the world cup mens rugby.

they are trying to get basketball going. there have been a few people from NZ to get sports scholarships to US universities for basketball. in the whole 'and now the people come home' thing we are having a... draft? i don't know how that works... but it will be higher quality / calibre basketball than we are used to, i think. we have not invested very much in basketball.

but... the surplus merchandise was shipped to this part of the world. i remember Starter Jackets when I was near the end of High School / start of Uni. 90's, I guess. And the hats, too. I was a fan of Charlotte Hornets because of the Hornet. Some crazy designs...

Anyway... We have a bunch of hats, now. Not the 'event' ones (associated with particular seasons)... But I guess it's a way of moving surplus... Baseball, too. Some of the merchandise... Not much... We don't play baseball... But some. Everybody knows the NY logo for the... I don't even know who... I don't think anybody knows who or what sport it is, even. The mets? I dunno...

Some of our artists who fled to California... Coming back. It makes the whole 'we don't have any skilled people here' the obvious crap that it is. It is just that good people cannot function, here.

A US couple is suing a tour company (apparently with a NZ branch or similar) so that NZ is required to be part of the defence... For taking them out to a volcano when it was under level 2 activity alert (highest alert) without informing them of risk of explosion... It did explode. They were pelted with firey rocks and spent months in our crappy hospitals having skin grafts and... They are suing in the state of Miami... I guess there are US tour businesses that form business arrangements with local guides and the like in the attempt to produce a higher quality, culturally appropriate tourist experience. So some sort of insurance on the part of the people who book the tour. To think that the business is accountable for safety of tourist activities, yeah. Not to hide behind a 'you can't sue us in this country because we have ACC (free hospital 'care') in exchange for your right to sue'.

Because, you know, we don't want to develop a health system or a law system either. Just do whatever you want whenever you want because you want and, uh, American Tourists will hear about it and nobody will want to come here, anymore...

We are getting people deported from Australia, too. Patched gang members of international gangs. They return to New Zealand. They have things like cocaine and semi-automatic guns. They have imprisoned a bunch of them. So that will throw things up a bit in the prison hierarchy etc etc. The local gangs are used to having control of that...

 

gateway sports

Posted by alexandra_k on June 27, 2020, at 2:53:13

In reply to things are shifting in nz, posted by alexandra_k on June 26, 2020, at 21:24:16

i think the point of the vertical jump test for something like basketball is for the selectors not to care so very very much about the height of the jump (so very many people have so very much height to spare) -- but more to see about how they land from their jumps. automatically. when they are not thinking about how they land from their jumps because they are focused on their jump...

when you watch them land you see how many seasons of play (how many landings) they are likely to have in them -- before something implodes.

you see if they land light or if they land heavy. if they jolt through hyper-extended knee (knee surgery just waiting to happen) or if they land softly such that they will live to jump another day.

it's hard to know what women can do... and what they can't. because it's tied up in social things about 'try' and also social things about 'allowed'.

but netball is kind of a gateway sport to basketball because the netball girls land from jumps on one leg over and over and over and over and over and over and over throughout the course of the game.

in the early days of netball there was a lot of knee taping and a lot of knee support braces and a lot of knee injuries. but there are not so much of those anymore. the girls learned to land lightly with flexed knees and they lived to land another day. and they got pretty good at landing.

so now the sport is evolving a bit for shots from further away (but there is no backboard and there are ususally busy-ads right behind the line of sight of the hoop). but there is a new line to be drawn closer to the outer portion of the circle and for part of the game (to start with) they get 2 points for landing a shot from the outer ring.

i know there is supposed to be title 15 in the US. Equality or parity in sports. But it is hard to know how that can play out so that it is true equality or parity -- because there are obvious differences and you can't just say 'well half the team gotta be girls, then' and get equality or parity that way.

And first division female athletes don't appear athletic a lot of the time. Because not much has been invested in development and selection and so on... But it is also true that it isn't entertaining when it is cringe-worthy becuase you can sort of tell that they aren't playing to be able to play another day.

I think netball is a good gateway to basketball. What we have learned from netball our female netballers look a lot more athletic and land their jumps a lot better than many of the top female basketballers in the US.

It's a good gateway to basketball.

Cricket allows females to throw overarm. It's a gateway to baseball.

 

Re: gateway sports

Posted by alexandra_k on June 27, 2020, at 3:09:02

In reply to gateway sports, posted by alexandra_k on June 27, 2020, at 2:53:13

Yankees. We get Yankees stuff. Not mets. None of that. Does that mean all their supporter gear gets brought up??


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