KinesioloGENE

Great shooting will drive the opponents nuts. Yes, it is extremely threatening.

Side step 3-point shot, spot shooting, elbow to elbow, bank shot, pivot shot, wire catch shooting...

See no hope to master ball driving, so gotta get the shooting drills started. Thank $hooter for training me on it ;)

B A B E L

Director: Alejandro González Iñárritu
Starring: Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, Gael García Bernal, Kôji Yakusho
Release date: in select theaters October 27

In the remote sands of the Moroccan desert, a rifle shot rings out – detonating a chain of events that will link an American tourist couple’s frantic struggle to survive, two Moroccan boys involved in an accidental crime, a nanny illegally crossing into Mexico with two American children and a Japanese teen rebel whose father is sought by the police in Tokyo. Separated by clashing cultures and sprawling distances, each of these four disparate groups of people are nevertheless hurtling towards a shared destiny of isolation and grief.

In the course of just a few days, they will each face the dizzying sensation of becoming profoundly lost – lost in the desert, lost to the world, lost to themselves – as they are pushed to the farthest edges of confusion and fear as well as to the very depths of connection and love.

In this mesmerizing and emotional film, acclaimed director Alejandro González Iñárritu (21 Grams, Amores Perros) achieves a range never before seen in his films, in which by making himself invisible, he penetrates the different cultures, shot in three continents, directing actors and non-actors in four languages and making the hyper-realistic world co-habitate with the vision of the world of the imaginary, where sound and music are the emotional narrators. This film brings back the ancient concept of BABEL and questions its modern day implications: the mistaken identities, misunderstandings and missed chances for communication that, though often unseen, drive our modern lives. Babel explores the nature of the barriers and misunderstandings that seem to separate mankind.

Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, Gael García Bernal, and Kôji Yakusho lead an international ensemble of actors and non-professional actors from Morocco, Tijuana and Tokyo, who enrich Babel’s take on cultural diversity and enhance its powerful remarks on cultural links and frontiers.

Reinschmidt C, Nigg BM.   Human Performance Laboratory, University of Calgary, Canada.

This review paper focuses on the three most important functional design factors for sport shoes: injury prevention, performance and comfort. Concepts for these design factors are discussed for running and court shoes. For running shoes, pronation control and cushioning are still considered to be the key concepts for injury prevention despite the fact that conclusive clinical and epidemiological evidence is missing to show the efficacy of these design strategies. Several design features have been proposed to be effective in controlling the amount of pronation. However, the kinematic effects of such features seem to be subject-specific and rather small especially when looking at the actual skeletal motion. Recent running shoe research suggests that cushioning may not or only marginally be related to injuries and that cushioning during the impact phase of running may be more related to aspects such as comfort, muscle tuning or fatigue. For court shoes, lateral stability, torsional flexibility, cushioning and traction control appear to be important design strategies to decrease the risk of injury. With respect to running performance, the shoe concepts of weight reduction, efficiency and energy return are discussed. The concept of energy return does not seem to be a feasible concept whereas concepts which aim to minimize energy loss appear to be more promising and successful, e.g. weight reduction, reduction of muscle energy required for stabilization. For court shoes, optimal traction seems to be the key factor for performance. Research in the area of shoe comfort is still sparse. Cushioning, fitting and climate concepts appear to improve the comfort of both running and court shoes. Many investigations in the area of sport shoe research have shown that subject-specific responses can be expected. Different groups of athletes may require different types of shoes. The definition of these grouping characteristics and their design needs seem to be the most important challenge for the sport shoe researchers and manufacturers for the near future.

篮球蔫成了橄榄状。于是我把它pump圆。

老多球鞋却没一双在后备箱里。于是我放双。

Kinesiology的学生却天天趴电脑前。于是，我决定，洗心革面。

恩，我狠命洗。

Okay, if you are thinking of buying a pair of new kicks, do it now, online.

Why? Basically the recent currancy exchange rate btw the US and Canadian dollars kept fluctuating not far from 1:1. HOWEVER, most of the stuff selling here are not marked down according to that. No, not yet. To give an example, the AJ XXI at most retail stores here in Canada is priced at $279, but $175 down there in the states. My recent buy, the AJ XIV low, was marked down from $209 to $179 at SportChek. Not bad, eh? BUT, hold a sec, check the price in US..Guess what, ahm...$99....

Yeah including the shipping fee you could still save more than 60 bucks on average by ordering them online from US. So, I mean, why not?

Here are some websites at which you could find the good deals (well, I'm pretty sure they're selling authentic stuff):

Eastbay, Foot Locker, Champs (pretty much the same as FL), Pick Your Shoes, Finish Line.

B-to-C era is coming..