Some cute Alina moments in the Shibutani sibs' vlog recorded in Kanazawa.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJtJlLBVGSA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJtJlLBVGSA
there's 100% a correlation, notice how Alina has been growing her hair =)
I assume it helps with getting an additional rotation
Is she going to put the quad flip in her fp this season?
Ok, now we are moving into the very difficult area of hairodynamics*. What's better - long tail, top-knot, bun, cheburashka buns?
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* - I think I'll trademark this, and then make tons of money traveling around the world with lectures on effects of pony-tails on 4F, etc (after in-depth study, of course)
This is going to the new Wiki page on the subject asap!hairodynamics - the effect of increasing the stability of the skater to the precession of the axis of rotation (both at spins and jumps) by increasing the weight of hair.
One shouldn't forget about the Noreg16 constant that is vital for determining the forces applied to the "bottom area" of the skater.As with the Rippon effect, the decrease in the deviation of the axis of rotation from the vertical axis of the body center is associated with the redistribution of body mass relative to the axis of the body center.
Now I'll just have to recall all the formulae from maths and physics I studied quite a while ago to work out the functional connection between ponytails and quads. And if the way I studied in college is any indicator, I'll need a lot (A LOT!!!) of beer. Oh, the sacrifices one's ready to make for the sake of science...The most important thing is - this two effects (hairodynamics and Rippon) are summarized!
These photos are amazing!
When I first saw the photos, one of the thoughts was: well, while the fans & the h8ters are obsessing about the 'scandal', Alina's just being Alina - a happy, sincere and kind girl, that knows what's really important in life.
We've reached 900 pages
hairodynamics - the effect of increasing the stability of the skater to the precession of the axis of rotation (both at spins and jumps)
There is one common misconception about hair. The most important thing is that your hair allows you to change your principal axes of intertia and thus avoid the Dzhanibekov effect (which would obviously be ruinous for your GOE), but all this only matters once you get to the orbit. This is why very few girls like Trusova and Shcherbakova find it useful to grow a long hair. For many others it's nothing but a cargo cult.
There is one common misconception about hair. The most important thing is that your hair allows you to change your principal axes of intertia and thus avoid the Dzhanibekov effect (which would obviously be ruinous for your GOE), but all this only matters once you get to the orbit. This is why very few girls like Trusova and Shcherbakova find it useful to grow a long hair. For many others it's nothing but a cargo cult.