Note: Note the cover. Then click the cover story in this Web page.
(2) Eric Olson, The Fall Guy; From DeNuzio Pool to the big screen, Kent de Mond '07 has carved out a career as a stunt performer and brought his sister, Michelle '07, along for the ride. at page 33.
(b) "De Mond, a diver recruited to Princeton from the suburbs of Washington, DC, had just competed in St Louis at the US Olympic Trials [which took only five best], finishing seventh on the synchronized 10-meter platform * * * On one of his reverse takeoffs that summer [in 2004] — jumping forward, flipping backward — De Mond crouched too low and smacked his backside on the 20-meter tower."
(i) diving (sport) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diving_(sport)
(section 2 Competitive diving, section 2.1 Synchronized diving)
, in which PRC has excelled.
Section 2.1 states, "It used to be possible to dive opposites, also known as a pinwheel, but this is no longer part of competitive synchronised diving. For example, one diver would perform a forward dive and the other an inward dive in the same position, or one would do a reverse and the other a back movement." This is a photo of what is no longer permitted (photo attached at the bottom).
(ii) To understand forward or inward dive, see, in this Wiki page, section 5 Dive groups for definitions.
Recognized by United States Olympic Committee, USA Diving says in its Web page titled "Types of Dives": "There are six groups of dives” whose definitions are similar to those in the Wiki page. Here is a graphic illustration of the six.
Learn more about diving. Aquatics GB (GB for Great Britain), undated. https://www.britishswimming.org/ ... -more-about-diving/
(iii) Return to section 2 Competitive diving, which indicates: "Most diving competitions consist of three disciplines: 1 m and 3 m springboards, and the platform. Competitive athletes are divided by gender, and often by age group. In platform events, competitors are allowed to perform their dives on either the five, seven and a half (generally just called seven), nine, or ten meter towers. In major diving meets, including the Olympic Games and the World Championships, platform diving is from the 10 meter height."
(iv)
(A) diving platform https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diving_platform
(or diving tower)
(B) springboard https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Springboard
(section 4 Heights of springboards)
Olympic Games do not have 1-meter springboard synchronized diving -- 3-meter only -- for both men and women.
(c) () "Twelve years later, with manufactured fear in his eyes, De Mond is fiddling with the control unit on an overheating quantum research machine when it self-destructs, bursting into technicolor shrapnel. Or rather, Marvel's CGI [computer-generated imagery] team will add the shrapnel in postproduction."
(d) " 'And right away my bursa sac broke.' Bursa sacs are liquid pouches that shield vulnerable body parts like the knees and elbows. Their integrity runs short at concrete collisions. 'My elbow is filling with fluid,' De Mond remembers."
That is a boast. Both synovial bursa and synovial joint are lined with synovial membrane which secret little fluid that in the latter lubricates a joint. Synovial bursa is found around big joint. Search images.gooogle.com with (knee joint synovial bursa) or (elbow joint synovial bursa) -- there are a handful in the former. A synovial bursa contains little fluid, one can not feel it (bursa) with one's hand. If it ever broken, one can not feel it. Like broken synovial joint, a burst synovial bursa (if it ever happens) heals itself without intervention. A synovial bursa makes its presence known only in bursitis.
(e) "After winning the 2011 Red Bull competition at Acapulco, De Mond was hired by General Electric to film a commercial featuring the famous Mexican plunge. He flew down for the shoot but finished the harness and green screen work in LA. This earned him a SAG [Screen Actors Guild, a labor union] card along with a measly $1,000 payout. 'I didn’t negotiate rates for myself. I just assumed they would pay me more.' But then, the unexpected happened. 'A few months later, I started getting random checks for $5,000, $6,000, $10,000, from residuals of the commercial.' "
(i) residual (entertainment industry) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Residual_(entertainment_industry)
("The word is typically used in the plural form")
is royalty that one receives from reruns.
(iii) Etymoline.com says, "Residuals 'royalties for repeated performance or broadcast' is attested by 1960."
