I think my post is pretty clear if you read it fully
In any case, moving on. I am about to go work out and considering I have been reading this thread, I am now hoping I don't fall off the treadmill.
That's the trouble with communication. Like pairs skating it takes two. No matter how clear the speaker is, if the listener doesn't hold up his end it all collapses in a heap. I will try harder to hold up my end in the future.I think my post is pretty clear if you read it fully
I knew that's what you meant. When I started UBC, I thought of a degree in singing but couldn't pass the physical. Music Performance and PE were the only faculties then that required a pre-registration health exam, and I was deemed too prone to colds and bronchitis. I was just remembering being taught about Lully's death from stabbing himself in the foot with his conducting staff as being "the ultimate music injury".
Or as my partner said to me one day when I was being about as much use as a shopping cart with a wobbly wheel, "Look, if I wanted to just carry somebody around while I practised, I'd have brought my little niece as a treat! Are you going to skate your part today, or did you just feel like getting towed around by the hand?"
Never heard about health exams to enter music school. I guess I am a couple generations younger. But, if you did have a chronic bronchitis history, it was a good move to eliminate that career choice.
Another common singing woe : fainting while singing. The variation in blood pressure can cause it. It's relatively frequent.
I managed a part-time career, but it was with Toronto Conservatory training rather than a university degree. UBC's reasoning at the time was that you needed good health and stamina to sustain a travelling career and be responsible about honouring your commitments.
Didn't know about the blood pressure connection. Never fainted myself, but the one time I sang Papagena in The Magic Flute, my baritone Papageno did while we were rattling our way through the patter-song duet. I just figured he'd tightened up on his breathing concentrating on his lyrics, and run out of oxygen
One sport that has had a great deal of success, at least in the United States, in forestalling medical problems caused by too many repitions is Little League baseball. It is well established (but not without dissenting opinions) that children should not be training curve balls until age 12-14. Evidently applying torque to the ball while throwing ut hard as possible causes, amping other things, "Tommy John Elbow" (UCL injury -- also common in other throwing sports such as javelin).
You need to take into account the cumulative effect on muscles, bones, joints, of years of strength training which is not possible to achieve for a 20 year old. When determining peak strength for men it will be close to 30 not 20. For jumping the calculation is likely different Ilia won't jump better at 30 than 20 even though he will be overall stronger if he has engaged in strength training. Height is a definite impediment. He will be the greatest of all time long before this anyway.
Just a note, although it's a little sideways from competition, where it is true that the obsession with quadding (like as many as possible in 4 minutes) is looking to shorten the careers and drive down the age of the men at the very top as it has women. But let's note that Yuzuru is still doing multiple quads and other jumps, just spacing them out a bit more given he's doing a one-and-a-half to two hour solo show... in his recent RE_PRAY it's been noted he did six quads, five triple Axels, and 28 jumps in total, of top quality. He's eased off on the ones hardest on the problem ankle, but still can do them beautifully, we've seen the practice; but being as he is now 29, it's a testament to how pristine technique can bring longevity even in quads.
I forgot Morisi Kvitelashvili - born in March 1995 - he landed clean quad salchow and toeloop in FP at World Championships 2023 (28 years old)
