#stunt study

[michaeljjcc]

***THIS VIDEO IS BRAIN-ROT; FOR REFERENCE ONLY***

There's a lot wasted bandwidth floating around the web and as someone with a blog about doing tricks I think I'm a pro on the matter. I can say that this thirty minute video (which could have been five) has helped me get closer to describing what I mean by a trick. In this excuse for content they pin some youtube math nerds against a pool nerd chick and for some reason a generic man that has an environmental youtube channel? I'm glad I made it past the rollie to get a better glimpse into why I feel the trick needs to be studied and explained. In the video the math guys are going up against a high level professional billiards player. If the entire plot of the video and the reason I feel it should have been five minutes isn't glaringly obvious, Matt and Grant are going to use math to solve billiard drills.

They use a vaguely explained mirroring method which I assume was a vector calculation? Anyway they missed the mark for a few reasons. A pool shot, A kickflip. A tailwhip, a horse trick ( I don't know any but you know what I mean) All may be calculated. You can, down to the particles, measure how to do the perfect kickflip. The right force of pop, the proper friction for flip, the flip timing, the apogy of the catch; all calculable but the question anyone who has had a skateboard at school gets asked still remains...

Can you do a kickflip?

Probably not, NERD! No matter how you count up the coordinates on the pool table your arm and stance and understanding of hitting a ball with the correct force will never match those that actually do it. I've learned to love math but there is a physical intelligence that goes into any and all tricks. Is this force analyzed in psych? Calculated in mathematics? Found in a connection with god or the oneness?

I'll waste no more webspace so that individuals who never grew up around cameras can film each other pretending to be friends.

I'll continue to waste webspace in the light of grace and forgive those who anger me online!

[michaeljjcc]

JENKEM bringing some more heat, Like always. Seeing the rapid progression of a very young sport is crazy! Knowing the dangers and learning the engineering of XPogo is some seriously next level shit.

The injury rate is something that would have made the show Scarred seem like Jackass. Major props to the Pogo guys!

[michaeljjcc]

Am I researching tricks? Or stunts?

I constantly run into this problem when I start to research this subject and I'm beginning to wonder if I am moving from the right direction? When you preform an internet search for tricks you get flooded with magic, which is cool but not what I want. When you preform a search for stunts you get flooded with hollywood stunts, which is cool but not what I want.

How then should I define the human action that I am looking for? What is a kickflip? What is a trapeze? What is flipping a stick in your hand with control we achieve because of our fine motor skills? If a trick is a manipulation of an interaction to mislead someone and a stunt is an action preformed by a person to amaze others and neither of these bring me anywhere near what I'm looking for then what is it?

Object manipulation? Performance art? Neo-Fluxus?

I only get farther at each search but I also find a lot of interesting reads on toys and "Sensation seeking and aggressive behavior."

I have either met my research match or I need to get back into phonics. Whichever the case I feel I have a foundation for something that hasn't really been explored.

[michaeljjcc]

Why male adolescent bicyclists perform risky stunts? A qualitative study

Stunts are one of the main reasons for traffic accidents, particularly among male adolescent bicyclists (ABs). Nonetheless, there are limite

"This study provides a new classification of the facilitators to risky stunts among male ABs and reveals new facilitators to these stunts, namely perceived superiority and police non-deterrent reactions to stunts. Therefore, programs on the improvement of safe bicycling should focus not only on perceptual and emotional factors and correction of false perceived superiority through education, but also on social norms and beliefs, regulations, and environmental factors."

The author of this paper wished they could hit a risky bike stunt so bad! All you had to do was practice, homie! lmao-ing @ your life!!!

[michaeljjcc]

I was watching pogo videos for no particular reason (the algorithm of course) and I was amazed and enthralled. Their trick vocabulary has evolved allowing for a lot of spots and trick variations. In this video you can witness lines and flow-y combos.

More so than the collar pop pogo-ing has allowed I was thinking about how a good amount of toys and play things have evolved to being sub-communities in the greater cloud of trick culture. I was recently comparing yo-yo-ings evolution to scootering in the realm of materials. As aluminum became easier and cheaper to manufacture both yo-yos and scooters had an extreme/street boom beckoning players and riders to think in a new light. I see this in even smaller or less talked about props like hula hoops and drones. Hula hooping especially since it has a long history alongside juggling and dancing; with a modern boom of bespoke and small shops catering to niche interests even small interests like Astrojax can evolve and develop a language with which we can communicate with our environment.

I see the pogo-ers slide on a skate stopped bench and hop each stop as if it was an obstacle made for them. The same way a million skaters saw the bench which inevitably lead to the stops. As the environment changes so to does our interpenetration of it and pogo is filling a lot of gaps that skaters, BMX, bladers, and scooters could not. They can bounce and stall back and forth while doing barspins and grabs within the inside corner where two ledges meet. As they feel the need they can hop into a slide and then end the line.

There is a clear beginning, middle, and end, to any trick or line and seeing that realized with a pogo stick is actually kinda dope! There's potential to do this on a stage or in a competitive setting which always helps push the materials and engineering side of things along, thus furthering the tricks.