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⚓ #Live3D #Live2D #Live2DWIP ⚓ I designed a “Bracket System.” It lets the character’s pivot switch between hips, left foot, right foot, or both feet evenly. Toes stay grounded so they won’t drift while dancing!

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The Spurs crowd wanted a travel, so I went back to check what happened. SGA did something very impressive: he gathers with right foot down, steps on to left foot (consider it the pivot), then balances on right with left foot off the floor until he releases it as a pass. LEGAL

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Luka demonstrates what we've been trying to impress upon folks: that it's perfectly legal at ALL levels to lift the pivot foot in order to shoot it before it comes back down. And all he does is step on to the non pivot foot, it doesn't matter if there's 4 frames of video where both feet are off the floor in between steps. You can disagree because anecdotally you saw a ref make a terrible call once when you were a freshman in HS, but I can assure you, it's been legal for 100 years and I have all the proof you'd ever need

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This key bucket by Melo has a lot going on. First, you can take as much time as u like executing the legal 2 steps (as long as you're not in the lane for >3 secs). You can also drag the back foot, not considered a step. His left foot can also pivot on floor while balancing. I don't even think it moved, just pivoted. Maybe half an inch. Not enough for a ref to be *certain* so they cannot call that, even though I don't really know if it moved anyway.

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This home lunge superset isn't for the faint of heart. The burning heat in your legs will beg you to stop, but the strength and growth you'll reap make it all worth it. 4 sets of 12 forward lunges, then 12 Reverse right away. Build a lower body that stands the test of time: Lunge Form Cues Set-Up: Stand tall with feet hip-width apart, hands on hips or at your sides. Alignment: Keep your chest up and shoulders back. Step: Take a big step forward, lowering your hips until both knees are bent at 90 degrees. Brace: Engage your core and maintain balance as your front foot lands to stabilize the movement. Push: Drive through your front heel to return to the starting position. Breathing: Inhale as you lower into the lunge, exhale as you push back up. 5 Lunge mistakes and how to avoid them 1. Taking Too Small a Step - What Happens: A short step limits the range of motion, reducing muscle activation in the glutes and quads. - Fix: Step far enough forward to allow both knees to bend at 90 degrees. 2. Rising Onto the Front Toes - What Happens: Lifting the heel shifts balance and reduces engagement of the glutes and hamstrings. - Fix: Keep your front foot flat, pressing firmly through the heel. 3. Poor Hip Alignment - What Happens: Tilting or rotating the hips reduces balance and proper muscle engagement. - Fix: Keep your hips square and aligned with your torso throughout the movement. 4. Feet Too Narrow or Wide - What Happens: Misaligned foot placement reduces stability and increases the chance of losing balance. - Fix: Keep your feet hip-width apart to maintain balance and proper alignment during the lunge. 5. Not Engaging the Core - What Happens: A weak core reduces balance and stability, increasing the risk of wobbling. - Fix: Brace your core upon landing to absorb the impact and keep your torso steady and aligned. Reverse Lunge Form Cues Set-Up: Stand tall with feet hip-width apart, hands on hips or at your sides. Alignment: Keep your chest lifted, core engaged, and shoulders back. Step: Step one leg back, lowering your hips until both knees are bent at 90 degrees. Land: Land on the top of your back foot with the toes pointed to stretch the ankle and prevent assistance from the toes. Push: Drive through your front heel to return to the starting position. Breathing: Inhale as you lower into the lunge, exhale as you push back up. 5 Reverse Lunge Mistakes and how to avoid them: 1. Using the Toes for Support on the Back Foot - What Happens: Relying on the back toes reduces the stretch in the ankle and shifts focus away from the front leg. - Fix: Land on the top of your back foot with the toes pointed to stretch the ankle and isolate the front leg fully. 2. Leaning Forward - What Happens: Leaning forward places unnecessary strain on the lower back and reduces engagement of the glutes and quads. -Fix: Keep your chest up and shoulders back to maintain an upright posture.Letting the Front Knee 3. Collapse Inward - What Happens: Knee valgus increases stress on the knee joint and reduces stability. - Fix: Ensure the front knee tracks over the middle of your foot throughout the movement. 4. Letting the Front Knee Collapse Inward - What Happens: Knee valgus increases stress on the knee joint and reduces stability. - Fix: Ensure the front knee tracks over the middle of your foot throughout the movement. 5. Pushing Off the Back Foot - What Happens: Using the back foot to assist reduces the workload on the front leg. - Fix: Focus on driving through the heel of the front foot to return to the starting position.

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Our research team just released Flex-Forcing: a video generation method that lets a single model switch between generation methods at inference time. Right now there are two main approaches to video generation. Bidirectional diffusion models attend to every frame at once, holding structure well at the cost of speed. Autoregressive models generate frame by frame, so they stream fast and scale to long clips, but accumulate error and drift over time. Flex-Forcing trains a single model to do both, letting you choose from the range at inference based on your compute budget.

NVIDIA AI

31,412 views • 2 months ago

❓if you’re holding a fan’s hand and they trip and accidentally pull down your pants while falling, would you help up the fan first or pull up your pants first? 🐧 definitely the fan. the members pull down my pants a lot so i’m just really used to it now 🧸 i have great reflexes so if they were to pull down my pants…the moment they grab it, i’d go 🏋️…if i do that right away, they won’t go down so i’d do that (and help them up) 🧸 i absolutely never want my pants to be pulled down by someone’s hands that aren’t mine. i won’t let that happen ✋ 👤 wow…so cool…

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❓if you’re holding a fan’s hand and they trip and accidentally pull down your pants while falling, would you help up the fan first or pull up your pants first? 🐧 definitely the fan. the members pull down my pants a lot so i’m just really used to it now 🧸 i have great reflexes so if they were to pull down my pants…the moment they grab it, i’d go 🏋️…if i do that right away, they won’t go down so i’d do that (and help them up) 🧸 i absolutely never want my pants to be pulled down by someone’s hands that aren’t mine. i won’t let that happen ✋ 👤 wow…so cool…

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221,523 views • 4 months ago

The difference in the way Drew threw in HS/college and what we saw in the videos from the Steelers rookie camp is extremely subtle (basically a slight adjustment w/ the front leg and zero change to his upper half or arm path/slot) and most wouldn’t be able to pick up on it. I disagree that he was early with his external rotation during college. The video below (from 2024) shows his typical approach over the past 7 years…staying loaded and coiled on the back leg until the front foot makes contact with the ground. The drill is designed to keep him loaded in his back glute, and maintain the discipline to not fire his hips early, until his front foot gets down. His front foot and hip slightly clear (while staying coiled in the core) to allow the hips to come through cleanly. That slight opening of the front hip, along with the slight closure-internal rotation-of the front shoulder is how hip-shoulder separation is created. Getting the hips to come through first (while the shoulders and arms stay back), then the torso, then the shoulders, is how hip-shoulder separation (power) is maximized. Learned that from Chris Hess and it’s been a fantastic tool.

The difference in the way Drew threw in HS/college and what we saw in the videos from the Steelers rookie camp is extremely subtle (basically a slight adjustment w/ the front leg and zero change to his upper half or arm path/slot) and most wouldn’t be able to pick up on it. I disagree that he was early with his external rotation during college. The video below (from 2024) shows his typical approach over the past 7 years…staying loaded and coiled on the back leg until the front foot makes contact with the ground. The drill is designed to keep him loaded in his back glute, and maintain the discipline to not fire his hips early, until his front foot gets down. His front foot and hip slightly clear (while staying coiled in the core) to allow the hips to come through cleanly. That slight opening of the front hip, along with the slight closure-internal rotation-of the front shoulder is how hip-shoulder separation is created. Getting the hips to come through first (while the shoulders and arms stay back), then the torso, then the shoulders, is how hip-shoulder separation (power) is maximized. Learned that from Chris Hess and it’s been a fantastic tool.

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411,689 views • 3 months ago

Tottenham's Left Wing Problem STILL NOT FIXED!? How did a club which gave us that magical Bale v Maicon performance be so clueless in terms of giving us left foot mastery down their left flank? how many right footers do they want to put down that flank... We had 3 of them in the NLD. Spurs fans, this was a big issue under Frank... I hope Tudor fixes it sooner rather than later? Full Breakdown: #THFC

Tottenham's Left Wing Problem STILL NOT FIXED!? How did a club which gave us that magical Bale v Maicon performance be so clueless in terms of giving us left foot mastery down their left flank? how many right footers do they want to put down that flank... We had 3 of them in the NLD. Spurs fans, this was a big issue under Frank... I hope Tudor fixes it sooner rather than later? Full Breakdown: #THFC

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56,322 views • 6 months ago

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Mount & Blade

11,048 views • 10 months ago

The floor hears them first From up here the dance is almost only feet. Faces arrive late. Hands arrive as decoration. What keeps the circle alive is a quieter thing: one foot staying honest while the other one talks. This is not couple Lindy. It is solo jazz, Charleston in the blood. Weight lives on the ball of the foot. The heel comes down only to underline a beat, then leaves again. That is why the steps look light without being empty. Somebody is always home on the floor. The traveling foot is allowed to show off because the standing foot has agreed to pay the rent. The basic sentence is old. Charleston, 1920s: one leg flicks forward, the other answers back, knees soft, hips unlocked. When the band pushes, the sentence gets compressed. Three sounds fall into two beats. Dancers call that a triple step. The caption calls it fast feet. Both are true. It is not running. It is packing more speech into the same bar of music. Then the feet stop traveling and start shivering in place. Happy feet. Tiny stamps, knees buzzing, almost no distance covered. It looks like nerves. It is timekeeping. The people who can do this do not need a big path across the wood. They can hold the pocket while the room gets greedy. Every so often a body tips as if it might fall through the floor and then comes back. Fall off the log, in the old language. The trick is not the tip. The trick is the recovery landing on the count, not after it. That is control dressed up as accident. The circle loves it because the danger is real and the landing is polite. Turns here are rarely full displays. More often a swivel: the toe anchors, the heel draws a short curve, the skirt becomes a drum. Thin soles on wood. Enough grip to cut. Not enough to slide for the camera. The woman in the white sneakers is the technical argument I cannot drop. Her steps are small. She does not leave the time. While other feet make speeches, hers keep the grammar. In a jam, that is the rarer skill. Anyone can enter. Fewer people know how to stay useful at the edge. So the craft is not speed. It is knowing which foot is allowed to be loud, and which foot has to give the beat back to the floor — and to the next pair of shoes already waiting.

The floor hears them first From up here the dance is almost only feet. Faces arrive late. Hands arrive as decoration. What keeps the circle alive is a quieter thing: one foot staying honest while the other one talks. This is not couple Lindy. It is solo jazz, Charleston in the blood. Weight lives on the ball of the foot. The heel comes down only to underline a beat, then leaves again. That is why the steps look light without being empty. Somebody is always home on the floor. The traveling foot is allowed to show off because the standing foot has agreed to pay the rent. The basic sentence is old. Charleston, 1920s: one leg flicks forward, the other answers back, knees soft, hips unlocked. When the band pushes, the sentence gets compressed. Three sounds fall into two beats. Dancers call that a triple step. The caption calls it fast feet. Both are true. It is not running. It is packing more speech into the same bar of music. Then the feet stop traveling and start shivering in place. Happy feet. Tiny stamps, knees buzzing, almost no distance covered. It looks like nerves. It is timekeeping. The people who can do this do not need a big path across the wood. They can hold the pocket while the room gets greedy. Every so often a body tips as if it might fall through the floor and then comes back. Fall off the log, in the old language. The trick is not the tip. The trick is the recovery landing on the count, not after it. That is control dressed up as accident. The circle loves it because the danger is real and the landing is polite. Turns here are rarely full displays. More often a swivel: the toe anchors, the heel draws a short curve, the skirt becomes a drum. Thin soles on wood. Enough grip to cut. Not enough to slide for the camera. The woman in the white sneakers is the technical argument I cannot drop. Her steps are small. She does not leave the time. While other feet make speeches, hers keep the grammar. In a jam, that is the rarer skill. Anyone can enter. Fewer people know how to stay useful at the edge. So the craft is not speed. It is knowing which foot is allowed to be loud, and which foot has to give the beat back to the floor — and to the next pair of shoes already waiting.

Emotion & Music

56,525 views • 8 days ago