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[Assistant] When I see people that have been in the industry forever and they actually support me and like what I'm doing, it's pretty crazy because when I was 10 I would have never thought I am where I am. I just liked skating and it took me very far and I can't wait to see what happens next.


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[Assistant] So when I'm not skating, I'm editing and me and my friend group have like this Instagram page called Curb Cowboy and I just like editing for them, filming, we just have like fun, it's pretty cool.


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[Assistant] My dad's played a very big role in my life. He's a single dad. He takes care of me and my brother. And my brother does have diabetes, so he's had to do that his entire life by himself. So, it's definitely been very difficult, but he's always been there for me and my brother, no matter what. Was there at the skate park, the hot skate park in Florida.


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[Assistant] Really good skaters that are young. But it takes that, it's that special thing that Roman has. It's the power and confidence. And it's like these guys that turn into the best of the best skateboarders, they have that as a kid too. And you just have to be able to pull it out.


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[Assistant] Obviously confident and you can tell he knows he's good and it's great to have that power and that confidence. I mean, that's, that's how you go really far. You just put it on the line and go for it. Ultimately, the goal would be for Roman to have a really fun, fulfilling and lucrative career as a professional skateboarder.


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[Assistant] One day, I think that I am gonna be better than Lionel Messi.


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[Assistant] I've never really felt that I want to stop soccer. I never really felt why am I doing this right now and I could be doing something else. I've always been wanting to train. Keep doing it more, which I think is really important.


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[Assistant] I always find a way to get better. I just like soccer, I like the way its played. I just like everything about it.


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[Assistant] It's cold but it really doesn't bother me. It doesn't slow me down. I keep training, I keep working hard and that's all that matters to me.


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[Assistant] Cause it's keeping me on my toes and it's good conditioning for me.


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[Assistant] These are all pretty much from hockey, soccer,


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[Assistant] This one right here, this was the one from Mundialito from Spain. I was chosen to play on a national team and play against some of the best academies in the world. Someday I want to play in the World Cup for the U.S.


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[Assistant] I know that I'm already ahead of the other kids that I'm playing with right now, and I think that if I keep working hard, I'm gonna be, if not the best, one of the best players in the world.


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[Assistant] That's where he kind of struck some notice with some of the coaches.


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[Assistant] And I saw coach Rolovich and he called me down and you know, said that we think that Titan is special.


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[Assistant] The road to a scholarship's heart. When you get it, you don't pass it up. So, you know, we accepted it.


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[Assistant] I mean, he's right. We gotta, we gotta focus on what's today and what's gonna happen tomorrow. And although it's a, it's a blessing and we cherish everything that's coming out of this, you know, we know that nothing's guaranteed and we're gonna grind like none of this has ever happened.


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[Assistant] Size is good for some things, but everything is speed, man. I graduated from St. Louis High School, located in Wailai. Uh, coached there for over 25 years. That was one of the things that I told the parents. I said, I don't know if I know how to coach.


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[Assistant] At this level, so I'm gonna coach like how I coach in high school and then these guys gotta just kinda like understand.


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[Assistant] You have coaches that would just say, coach, you know, we're coaching this age bracket. They can't do that on this age bracket. They may not be able to run as fast, you know, or hit as hard, but they can do everything.


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[Assistant] That the older guys can do, you know, as far as mental wise.


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[Assistant] Hawaii is a football state, you know, there's, there's no doubt. It's not everybody can afford college. So this is a vessel, football is a vessel for them to get a higher education. And I mean, families are going all in on it.


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[Assistant] So everybody within our organization is not, we're not just teammates, but we're actually family.


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[Assistant] And I tell people this all the time. Football is about that much of your life.


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[Assistant] But it's a blueprint of who you are, who you're gonna be. You get that blueprint so like when football ends, you know, wherever you're gonna be.


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[Assistant] You're gonna work hard. You're gonna constantly work hard. It's a blueprint. Once they're ready to leave the nest, let them fly and hopefully that what we taught, you know, taught them in that short amount of time, sticks with them.


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[Assistant] We just say who wants to be quarterback, who wants to be wide receiver. And you know, some people, some organizations do that and then they end up moving the kids to a position that the kid really doesn't want to play. But I believe that you leave the kid in that position because even if he's not starting, he's going to keep fighting to start.


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[Assistant] You know so it keeps the kid mentally involved.


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[Assistant] It's, it's very physical. It's, it's becoming funness.


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[Assistant] Us being islanders, we had to fight for territory.


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[Assistant] I think it's just, you know, I just think it's within our culture, you know, I mean, this is the closest thing that you can bring to our heritage, I mean, where you...


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[Assistant] Put on gear, and you, you go into combat.


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[Assistant] Hi, I'm Joseph Markey, I'm 17 years old and I'm a ballet dancer with ABT Studio Company.


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[Assistant] A trip. Straining muscle always leads to other problems in the area. So it's been a bit of a journey getting my arm back in shape. You can get the same injuries in dance as you can in any other sport. The simplest wrong step could lead to like so many problems. I would say it's as much of a contact sport as any other sport, just in a different way.


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[Assistant] So my mom put me in dance when I was three, but I didn't really love it at first. You know, I was kind of more into sports.


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[Assistant] He brings a great atmosphere into the room and I feel like he elevates you and it's very personable. So it's something that you can really take from it and keep. It's not just kind of a correction that's dismissed, but he makes it a point to interact with you.


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[Assistant] Because an audience can't necessarily relate to the dance steps always, but they can relate to the meaning behind them. So it's always about that deeper intention and that deeper


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[Assistant] When he turned six is really when we started kind of creating a regiment for him and we've been sticking to it faithfully and it's paid off. Yo. Every morning we up to 5.30.


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[Assistant] They say chess is the game of life, and I'm real big on thinking. My shortcomings came from not thinking, so I don't wait. I pour that wisdom into my kids now. Oh, so-


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[Assistant] Alright, good move. I'm always trying to get every advantage that I can. And I do know as an athlete, nutrition is half the battle. So I'm constantly always making sure that they're eating the top of the line.


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[Assistant] You can't see from that play, it's because his diet was bad. You know, these are not things that are tangible that you can actually see or touch. You can train all day and all you want. But if your diet is terrible, it will hinder your performance.


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[Assistant] This right here is uh, Woods time. Something I've been doing with my kids. I've used it pretty much as a tool to kinda help him challenge his fears. It's something that we look forward to doing. We have a lot of personal intimate conversation back here. It's just a time that we look forward to, to really sit down and get away from the noise, get away from the training.


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[Assistant] Regardless of whatever obstacle you got ahead of you, I know fear won't hold you back. Beyond football, just in life, it's not an ounce of fear in you. And that's how we lead and that's how we march. You know, I want him to excel. I want him to develop well.


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[Assistant] In terms of the next level NFL, that's not what this is all about. Half of the training, if not more than half of this training has nothing to do with sports. My son could not walk on another football field today. My son still be up in the morning training and working out, pushing his body, pushing his mind, still playing chess, still being a leader. All the things that I instill in him. So, yeaah. So he, he's uh,


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[Assistant] I wouldn't say, I wouldn't say so, like there are, there are aspects of it, you know, like us being all from different places in the states, all of us competing for a common goal.


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[Assistant] Having to get along with one another is definitely part of the military, uh, but the big difference between sports and the military is it's a game and going to war is not a game.


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[Assistant] It's not like the video games where you respawn. That's not the way it works.


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[Assistant] We were, I want to say about six months into the appointment at the time.


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[Assistant] I was in Sadr al Yusufiyah, this is my third tour to Iraq. After running this vehicle checkpoint, I decided to be the lead vehicle back to the patrol base. We all loaded up and up armored from these bulletproof doors, bulletproof windows and big diesel engine like super loud. You got to yell at the driver. I was in the front passenger seat.


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[Assistant] Sometimes you see the road dug up. Sometimes there's nobody outside. None of those signs were there and my vehicle struck the ID. Flipped my vehicle on the passenger side and my legs felt heavy.


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[Assistant] And so I started to drag myself out of the top of the vehicle. I was just really fortunate that they had a medevac chopper come at the right time sometimes. You know, you don't get lucky and I was really lucky and they took me to the green zone and eventually on to D.C.


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[Assistant] Plates and screws in my leg and eventually started walking and with a cane and...


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[Assistant] Uhm, but it was just really painful, so that's what ultimately made me start thinking and weighing the decision of amputating my leg.


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[Assistant] You know, it was, it was, it was my quality of life at that moment. Like I was, I felt like I was going the wrong direction. And I really was. I was, I was on heavy medication. So I'm not myself. I'm really loopy. I'm not me. And, or I was like super mean and angry and grumpy because I was in a lot of pain from my leg.


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[Assistant] Uh, so I went and spoke with other veterans. I went and, uh, spoke with my family, said a bunch of prayers and then transferred to Brook Army Medical Center and had my leg amputated there. Uh, I remember being in the bed and my kids came.


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[Assistant] To the bed and I just didn't have the nerves or the guts, you know, here I'm this big infantry guy, tough as nail, whatever, not tough enough to tell my kids I'm about to cut my leg off because I did a year of saving it and I just, I just didn't have the nerve to tell them I was going to amputate it. So when they came to the hospital bed, I had the sheet over me. My daughter goes,


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[Assistant] You know, probably where's your leg at? And I was like, uh, you know, we amputated it and she was like,


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[Assistant] Is he gonna go back? And I was like, nooo. And then right there my son was like,


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[Assistant] And started all over again, learning how to just, what we take for granted every day, just standing, how to learn and trust that my leg wouldn't fail me or a face plant.


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[Assistant] Eventually walking a little bit and then running.


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[Assistant] But uhm, I would go in like early for physical training, sleep, my lunch, cause it takes so much energy to walk. I mean, it's not easy. And it's too easy to just give up and just, you know, say, hey, I can't do this.


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[Assistant] I wanted to get better and that was the mindset I had and so I would sleep during lunch, come back in the afternoon for more physical training so I would, I would just work my tail off to try to get out of there.


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[Assistant] There's always a teasing that goes around with different branches in the military, whether you're Air Force, Army, Marines. We all kind of tease and heckle each other, but at the end of the day we all respect that, you know, we all serve.


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[Assistant] I know we got to see a documentary on one of the Russian players. It was all in Russian, so we...


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[Assistant] And I don't speak his language. He doesn't speak my language. I don't know his religion. He doesn't know my religion. We have different views on everything.


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[Assistant] There's a, there's a sense of respect there and I went back out center ice and I took my glove off and I shook his hand and I told him good game soldier as well and I'll never forget having that moment with him.


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[Assistant] It's being understanding, passionate, and just having that mutual respect for everyone.


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[Assistant] Being in a total different environment that you're not used to, that's the way you learn how to interact with people, instead of being just one way, like, I'm only gonna eat this, I'm never gonna go over there, I'm never talking to those people, like, you're limiting yourself as to, you know, how great other people can be.


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[Assistant] Some of the best advice would be, uh, to appreciate things, you know, uh, be happy with the little things, you know, it's not all about, you know,


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[Assistant] The newest this or the newest that or the flashiest coat or the new shoes. You know, at the end of the day, that doesn't really matter. You know, like sometimes just a good laugh and having fun and a good meal and being around people that care and love you. That's, that to me is number one and to appreciate it and let them know you love them because you never know.


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[Assistant] Do what you can today that you shouldn't, that you know, that you couldn't do tomorrow, you know. Maybe you're not here tomorrow, you know, and today's the day to do it.


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[Assistant] I'm just trying to think about winning and just trying to get the dough.


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[Assistant] You're the coach that can make me better, take me to anywhere I want to go.


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[Assistant] As you can see in my room, it's only basketball, nothing else. My cover is basketball. My laundry, hoody hook is basketball. Shoes are typically basketball shoes. My trash can is basketball. Here is all my favorite trophies.


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[Assistant] This was the game when I dropped almost 25, 30. This is the 5 foot trophy I won that, uh, Kyrie Ross Strickland tournament.


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[Assistant] I'm not telling you, I've got way too many noodles.


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[Assistant] We're run by Lee Church. We won his championship because we were just good.


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[Assistant] Because you never know, somebody can come, somebody can be working while you sleep.


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[Assistant] I'm the head coach of Miami Gardens Express. You know, I'm a firm believer that at this age we really don't need no weights. We can get all our strength on God's green earth. We make sure we do our first initial warm-up lap and I'ma have her pick it up like the last maybe 200 meters, 300 meters.


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[Assistant] Alright, pick it up, pick it up. Warm that body, warm that body. Keep your mouth closed. Breathing in and out. Your nose. Ten jumps. Right away. One, two.


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[Assistant] Now we get to the hard part. We do this every day.


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[Assistant] No, ain't no, see, you can't catch your breath in the race. I don't want to do no adapting to anything I got. It's kind of tough to make her mad, but you know, I try to. Now this is the part where I say I like to build character. Concentrate on the core again. This is when the mind shows the body that it can do anything.


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[Assistant] And this is the reason why I believe she won the 1500 last year. How you feeling?


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[Assistant] Remember, we got, we building the mind right now. I know you tired, I know, but I don't want you to be tired in the track meet. Again, 10 toe touches, go. Making sure the core is 110. Just making sure we building our speed and endurance right now. And making sure we using our arms to carry our legs. Tied. It's in your mind.


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[Assistant] Seeing mine. Her mind is so much stronger than everybody else's.


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[Assistant] And I understand in this sport, we're not gonna like each other all the time, but I love her always.


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[Assistant] And the goal is to get that scholarship. I don't want her parents paying anything for school. These are our TTPG bands, trained to be great.


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[Assistant] Shael, probably the hardest worker that I've ever coached.


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[Assistant] Like, she would tell me straight up, I don't want to practice with the girls, I want to practice with the boys because I want to be better, I want to be great. She would whisper in my ear sometimes, make it harder, make it harder. Now this is really one of those kids that just, that just want everybody to be great. It's never by herself, it's always, let's make everybody great. Alright Shaya, great job today.


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[Assistant] She's 13 years old. She's gonna make mistakes. She's not gonna be perfect, but she wants to strive to be great.


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[Assistant] Someone in Tyler's position, the importance of discipline is the matter of making it and not making it.


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[Assistant] He has well over a hundred thousand followers and even got the attention of the king himself. Yes, LeBron James.


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[Assistant] I tend to get a little aggressive and when people are all over the sidewalk, especially on the Centennial Trail, not giving space to anybody else but their little gang,


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[Assistant] I feel if I'm on my bike like I'd love to ram it. I really do. And then I have to apologize for my feeling.


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[Assistant] I don't know. There is something in all of us that gets stirred up.


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[Assistant] I'm not going to name them. I have no idea. These...


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[Assistant] Uh, to get in to do the Boston Marathon, but to qualify in those days was very stringent. Any woman 40 and over had to qualify by doing a 3 hour 30 minute marathon. I was 12 years older than 40.


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[Assistant] Nobody ever did it as a nun, you know, and at that age, two things are wrong with being a nun.


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[Assistant] That isn't, you're usually on your knees, not out there running on the streets. And then fifty? No, that's time to retire or do something different. Well, I was doing something different alright.


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[Assistant] Maybe around nine years old, my grandmother, a very insightful woman, opened the door and said, darling, what's the matter?


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[Assistant] She said, Darling, let's look at it this way. The past is dead and gone. The future is not the future until it gets here. And then it's the present moment. That is the only thing that you are responsible for.


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[Assistant] That made so much sense to me that just took all the burden off my back. I have to remind myself that


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[Assistant] Any kind of anxiety is developed by worrying about the future.


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[Assistant] Of which none of us really have control over. So that brings me back to


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[Assistant] Living in the present. I'll make the most of the here and now, right now.


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[Assistant] This is the county jail, Spokane County Jail, uh, where I come and anybody that wants to pray or talk, I'm available to them.


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[Assistant] It's not that I don't belong there occasionally, but. There's such a thing as a comfort zone and being confined. First of all, you're confined in a family that you know and have everything done for you. People in jail have the same thing.


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[Assistant] So when I started running for the marathon part, I would be out there in nature.


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[Assistant] And all of a sudden, that was my world.


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[Assistant] Not this little cloistered group of sisters. It just expanded me in so that my little problems seemed so minimal by comparison that I was able to take it.


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[Assistant] I realize that I've lost my balance that you need when you run.


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[Assistant] I don't know if it is the result of being compromised.


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[Assistant] By all these accidents I've acquired are, whether it's age, and you know what? I'm never gonna find out. When you're ready to quit, that takes your will.


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[Assistant] By calling on it. This is where the element of hope comes in. Hope is endurance, it's faith, a never giving up attitude.


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[Assistant] And I thought I believe you. Do you remember the shoes that you wore?


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[Assistant] Hey, one thing too is like, it's okay to think right center, but if it leaks inside, just turn and burn.


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[Assistant] It was pretty much a useless start. Even though I had fractured my thumb and I had torn a lot of the ligaments in my thumb and it was pretty much useless, I was still able to continue that 12-day competition in total and win two medals.


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[Assistant] Obviously there are times in training or in competitions that, you know, I don't perform the way I expect and I can be disappointed, but my determination to pursue the sport and to be the best that I can be is never wavered, even since day one.


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[Assistant] This is a sport for everyone. Calming is not only just an innate part of human nature, but it's also just an activity that whether you're four years old or whether you're 65 years old, there's something for you.


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[Assistant] Right now, my biggest goal is to go to the Olympics in 2020 and achieve as much as I can in the process.


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[Assistant] Typical day, I probably wake up at 6.30, get ready for school. About from 3.30 to 6.30, seven-ish, I practice diving. I just...


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[Assistant] Forget about me being tired. I just do what I have to and try to do the best that I can. For me, academics is number one. So, school is always first and then diving. So...


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[Assistant] Both my parents are Russian so I can speak Russian and I take Chinese at school for three years. And right now the Chinese are dominating in the business world. So I think that Chinese is very important and that's why I chose Chinese. My name is Danny and I like to dive. My name is Danny and I like to dive.


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[Assistant] Even if I don't have a good competition, they'll always support me and say, we know you can do it, try to focus more, work harder.


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[Assistant] It was more convenient because it was at school so my parents could pick both me and my sister up at the same time. So they didn't have to drive like an hour. Over the times I just kinda liked sport more.


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[Assistant] He's a really good coach. Helps motivate and support everyone. He thinks more of the team.


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[Assistant] And there's a lot of conditioning outside of diving that I do, like pull-ups, push-ups, crunches.


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[Assistant] Springboard and jumping off into the lifeguard, I was so terrified.


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[Assistant] I'm pretty good at platform, which is 10 meters, because...


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[Assistant] It's more of like a really rough surface because you're jumping from so high.


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[Assistant] The thing that drives me to do this every day is just the thought of being successful in life and...


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[Assistant] You know, having a good job. I don't really think about the Olympics, I think.


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[Assistant] In diving, I have two national titles, both on platform. This one was, uh,


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[Assistant] My first national title in 2015. So because of this, uh,


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[Assistant] Later on I went to Cuba to represent the U.S. at the 2015 Junior Pan-American Games. That was my first international competition there.


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[Assistant] This was 2016 Nationals. I was at the bottom of my age group. I was 12 when most were like 13. And I won by .1.


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[Assistant] So it's probably like the best detail, like the biggest medal I have. It's pretty nice. It's a good memory.


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[Assistant] My name is Jaleen Manuel, I am 90 years old and I'm a basketball player.


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[Assistant] It's pretty amazing that your dad is your coach. He'll always be there for you.


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[Assistant] He's always gonna tell you the right thing, he's never gonna, he's never gonna tell you the wrong thing. He tells me, Leah don't get frustrated, it's fine, just move on. And that kind of helps me.


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[Assistant] Most kids, they wanna shoot out of here. I mean like, they have to know their range.


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[Assistant] What I hope to achieve in basketball is first of all to go to the WNBA. Second of all to also play in the NBA.


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[Assistant] Some people want it, some people wish it, others just make it happen. I feel like, to other kids I'm a model. Like knowing that people...


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[Assistant] Joining this new softball team feels kind of good. Like, you know their skills, how they play. I'm learning from them.


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[Assistant] I think playing softball helps with hang-eyed coordination.


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[Assistant] Like sometimes I don't take breaks, I have to strive through it.


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[Assistant] I ran outside and I asked my dad, Hey dad, I want to start playing basketball.


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[Assistant] I wanna play the real game, just like Lebron James. And he said, okay, let's go.


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[Assistant] Meeting my idols shows me, or makes me.


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[Assistant] Just drive harder and push harder to my dreams. Never give up. Brian James gave me that one.


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[Assistant] Like just seeing your idol in front of you design your shirt, and then you have it for years and years. It's pretty cool.


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[Assistant] Kids, mothers, fathers, and other people in the world should never give up on their dreams. Do whatever you want to do in life.


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[Assistant] Great. Okay, so just turn the stand around. Alright. When I first met Jeevan, we met basically online.


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[Assistant] But a young student, you need a one on one. So then I said, you know, it'd be so great if you were in New York.


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[Assistant] And then circumstances changed for her. Her husband got a job here in New York and they moved.


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[Assistant] I try to really make sure the students know what it is to play the cello well, what good technique is. It's not just business, uh, play the cello and goodbye, it's really a personal relationship


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[Assistant] And isn't that what music is about? You know, we learn music to be able to share something which we realize the depth of human experience through it.


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[Assistant] I'm Richard Woodruff and I'm with Raw Tennis Performance. We work a lot on her mobility or flexibility, making sure she's activated properly. Our focus with her is keeping her healthy and keeping her on the court.


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[Assistant] We start with a passive range of motion, and then we go to an active range of motion. Then we went to the bands, which is her glute activation.


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[Assistant] That controls the knees, especially for female tennis players. They're really susceptible to ACL to knee injuries because of the way they're built. The most difficult part of tennis is there's not much of an off season.


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[Assistant] So you come out of one event, one big event, and you're already going back to the next thing. Anytime you're talking about 14, 15 year old headed for a long career, we do worry about burnout. What we're doing is keeping her healthy and staying on the court.


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[Assistant] I don't wanna try to be anybody in like the NFL.


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[Assistant] I just wanna be like my own fire. Like I just wanna be Tyler.


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[Assistant] I was huge for my grade back then. I started football and I instantly fell in love with it. This was second grade. I rocked the mohawk when I was younger just cause I felt like it made me tougher on the football field.


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[Assistant] Football started to take off for me. It's my sixth grade Massachusetts All-Star team MVP trophy for the best players in Massachusetts. It was my first year playing on like a national level of football.


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[Assistant] I play inside linebacker on defense and then I play sort of a tight end H back on offense. So half running back, half tight end. I love playing against other people. It brings up the better in me. Two more wins, two more wins.


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[Assistant] A lot of blocking and catching balls, but defense is definitely my favorite, just cause I get to hit people more.


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[Assistant] So they sort of know what I'm going through. Having my sister Molly is huge for me because she pushes me to be the best athlete that I can be.


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[Assistant] People are always saying that, oh, is Molly a better athlete? And I always want to say no, but in reality it's probably pretty close because she's a beast.


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[Assistant] She doesn't think about size, age, strength, speed.


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[Assistant] And I feel like she brought that out in me, especially playing varsity as an 8th grader.


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[Assistant] Since second grade when I started football, I was one of the biggest kids on the team.


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[Assistant] Like, I know that there's always gonna be kids better than me, but if I can always be like the best leader on the team, like I feel like I care a lot more about that than being the best player.


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[Assistant] My dad had breakfast for me and a couple of my friends, and then Coach Brown and Coach Whaley walk out. And then he comes down, knocks on the window, I roll it down, he's like,


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[Assistant] Whoa. So it was like, I was kind of speechless. I was like, really? Like I kind of thought he was like joking.


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[Assistant] I'm doing really well in the classroom at a really tough school and I'm doing really well in the football field. My hope is to just, like, make the most of it.


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[Assistant] 60 hours a week we play volleyball. I love the game. I really do. It's definitely a very competitive sport. So I just kinda use the skills I have as like my smack talk.


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[Assistant] Control than anybody I've seen at his age. I'm just starting high school and so like I'm playing like adults and the adults are helping me play against kids and the kids are just like they're helping me grow in the sport.


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[Assistant] He's rough, but he's a good coach. I think I need it.


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[Assistant] He started coaching me, started pushing me to where I am and now I'm in a good spot. I'm getting better. He's not just babying me and he's just actually like being real with me.


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[Assistant] I has to play indoor to get a scholarship because they don't have scholarships for boys on beach, which is kind of the hard part about it.


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[Assistant] I get very competitive with my brother Bobby, just because I want him to get better, but I don't want him to be better than me, so we smack talk each other, and we just like play around.


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[Assistant] Now we're about to go on our way and we're going to be going to coach some kids and then after that we're going to play some scrimmages against some other adults indoor.


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[Assistant] Just the better the people I verse, the better I get. It's just knowing where you stand is just a big part of volleyball.


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[Assistant] My family is definitely a volleyball family. I loved to play in high school. And it got to a point where I needed a fourth on the court.


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[Assistant] Now Ron is strong enough to take over the court.


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[Assistant] He's the only freshman going in for varsity right now. Down here, that's very rare, especially with the stack team. They have so many players right now that are competing for that position.


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[Assistant] He's more than a coach. He's become like my brother. He's been my best friend for years, but he's been there to push him.


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[Assistant] His life has revolved around it. He's reached nationals. He's gone overseas. He's gone so many places to go play and compete. But there's something called Title IX. Title IX is a law that makes it even for male and female athletes to get athletic scholarships.


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[Assistant] They bicker, they fight, but he still tries to make his brother better.


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[Assistant] Everyone thinks they have to focus on themselves to get better and you don't. The opposite's true. So to see Ron help someone get better, ultimately he gets better.


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[Assistant] It's amazing seeing them grow. They love the sport. They love the atmosphere. They love the strategy. We can just pick up one more player.


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[Assistant] Of the two boys, I think Sid is the more disciplined. He'd wake up in the morning, go down to the basement and do serve practice where he practices serves for a half an hour. Then they're off to school. Three o'clock, they do homework, then we jump in the car, come to the club, and then they have their lessons.


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[Assistant] Your body is loose, Nandan. After the lessons, they gotta come back home and you know, it's physical training that they need to work on.


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[Assistant] Table tennis isn't like other sports where you can actually sustain


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[Assistant] When Sid is down doing his surf practice, Nandan is still in bed under the sheets waiting to be woken up.


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[Assistant] Cable tennis at that point wasn't even on our radar and then came out, came out strong. So it's been a tremendous journey from the NICU to actually being a hopeful for the Olympics.


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[Assistant] Both boys are naturally gifted. They can pick up any sport and do pretty well. And luckily for them, they both have found their passion in table tennis.


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[Assistant] His origin story was probably at three years old. He jumped on a girl's bike and he just took off. No training wheels.


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[Assistant] We adopted him from Chicago. We brought him home on his fourth day. We knew that he was coming and then we were just waiting by the phone for that day.


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[Assistant] I started racing at four and made it to the expert class by five. I went to the national championships at five years old and there were only three five year old expert racers in the country.


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[Assistant] We went to a big national race and all of a sudden he's competing with six, seven year old expert and he is right on their tail and I think he's got a talent for this.


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[Assistant] That fall I started Googling, because I'm like, eh, maybe there's some sport competition he can do with this, he really likes it. And then I found the Waukegan BMX track.


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[Assistant] We're here at Waukegan BMX in Waukegan, Illinois. It's our home track. It would be fair to say that Marshall got his start here at this track.


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[Assistant] And Marshall and his first BMX instructor, Elijah Juan Davis, are going to try to return the favor and do a little clinic for some of our beginner riders. Kind of do the same thing that Elijah Juan did for Marshall. Marshall is going to help him do for the next generation of riders.


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[Assistant] Mike, I want to tell you about a kicker who held the record for the longest field goal in NFL history for over 40 years, who had only half of his kicking foot. Would you like to hear about that story?


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[Assistant] Great, so his name is Tom Dempsey and he started his kicking career for the New Orleans Saints in 1969 and what's special about him is he actually was born without his


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[Assistant] Before he started playing in the NFL, he played in the AFL for the Chargers and that's where he got this special boot made for his foot.


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[Assistant] This is an actual photo. They have not been photoshopped out. And in fact, before this, he was playing barefoot, cause regular kicking shoes were like, not working out for his foot.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's pretty badass. And in fact, he did become the best because in 1970, during a game against the Detroit Lions, he kicks this insane, game-winning, record-breaking 63-yard field goal. Do you want to see it? I'm gonna take it as a yes.


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[Assistant] So he was kicking it with the flat front of this special shoe, and people were like, that's basically like a sledgehammer he's using. There's no way he's not getting some sort of an advantage.


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[Assistant] I got all this crap in the way on the front part of my foot. The NFL created a rule.


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[Assistant] Must have a kicking surface that conforms to that of a normal kicking toe. So you can have a prosthetic, but it's gotta match what a quote unquote normal foot looks like.


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[Assistant] I think essentially, I think what they're looking for is not some sort of like big metal sledgehammer or rocket boosted device that is going to help put this thing into the stands or something like that.


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[Assistant] Uh, in fact you cannot because the next rule in the rule book has a list of other prohibited equipment and apparel and item three with really no further explanation it just says detachable kicking toe.


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[Assistant] It says item 3 detachable kicking towel. All of this came to be because...


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[Assistant] Dallas Cowboys president and GM Tech Schramm, who was also the head of the NFL's competition committee, flat out said, I think this record should have an asterisk on it.


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[Assistant] Tom Dempsey was still playing at the time. They called it the Tom Dempsey Rule. And so he got a little upset.


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[Assistant] And according to this author, Rob Sneddon, who talked to Tom Dempsey,


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[Assistant] Tom Dempsey went to then Commissioner Pete Rosell and was like,


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[Assistant] And Pete Roselle was like, you know what man, don't worry about it. Your grandfather didn't.


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[Assistant] A sympathetic commissioner helming the National Football League.


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[Assistant] So it was tied in 1998 and then Matt Prater broke it in 2013 in Denver.


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[Assistant] It's a tie game, you've got a minute left, but you need to win by at least 11 points.


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[Assistant] Well, a similar situation happened in the Euroleague a couple years ago. It's December 2015.


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[Assistant] It's the final regular season game of EuroLeague.


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[Assistant] Derashafika vs. Maccabi. Maccabi is an Israeli team, Derashafika is the Turkish team.


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[Assistant] They played once earlier in the season, and Derisafika, the Turkish team, won by 11 points.


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[Assistant] And Euroleague works on like a point differential system. So if the Israeli team, Maccabi, wins, then they'll have a tie record. Which means they go head to head on point differential. So because of that earlier game, Maccabi needs to win this game by 11 points.


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[Assistant] It's tied at 65 with like a minute to go at the end of the game. And what Maccabi is thinking is like, well we have a minute, like that's enough time to win the game.


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[Assistant] So staying tied for those last 60 seconds to take it into overtime where they would have the time to win by that amount was like super important. So the first thing they do is just start dribbling out the shot clock. They're like, we're just gonna take it into overtime. Just not even care. Just not even care. Then...


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[Assistant] Darashafika is like, okay, we need to like mess up this plan because if this thing goes in overtime, they could conceivably come back by more than 11 points and knock us out of the tournament.


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[Assistant] So they start fouling intentionally, and Makabe is like, well, we're just gonna start brickin' these free throws. Because they realize if they score even just one point, it's gonna be a lot tougher.


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[Assistant] To tie it up again, they brick like four, five, six free throws in a row, which, if you've ever seen professionals,


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[Assistant] They just keep breaking these free throws to keep it tied, and then, Maccabi, the Israeli team, they commit a foul, by accident.


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[Assistant] But then they purposefully brick their next free throw to keep it at one, because that's like an impossible situation for Maccabi to like, tie it up to take it into overtime. So now Darashafi goes up one point, and they just basically give up playing.


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[Assistant] Because they're like, well, if you go ahead and score, and you win, then that's fine, because we'll still get to move on. As long as it's not tied, and they don't give the other team the time to make up those 11 points, they don't give a shit. So there's even a play where they're just standing there, not defending their half of the court, and they're like, yeah, go for it. Go nuts dude, whatever.


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[Assistant] Joe, excellent question, dude. FIBA rules actually explicitly state that you can't intentionally score on your own basket to manipulate the score for exactly this scenario. It's rule 16.


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[Assistant] If a player deliberately scores a field goal in his team's basket, it is a violation and the goal doesn't count.


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[Assistant] And there's a reason that rule exists, because in 1962, in another Euroleague game,


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[Assistant] A kind of like opposite situation happened because of all this like point differential shit. So Real Madrid is playing this Italian team, Ignis Varese. My favorite team. I know you're a huge fan. They are down a bunch of guys. They're not in great shape. They lose a bunch of guys to like injuries and fouling out and stuff like that. It's also a tie game.


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[Assistant] What the hell? FIBA immediately was like, yeah, you can't ever do that again. Like the next day they made a rule and they were like, no you can't do that. So no more auto baskets? No more auto baskets. No. Wow. I'm sorry to say. What a shame. I know. So what I was thinking was, how do they know it's intentional?


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[Assistant] And, is there a way that you could intentionally score on your own basket, but make it look like an accident?


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[Assistant] Can we, can I go, uhm, just give me one second? I'm just gonna go get one thing. YES! I was wondering if you could show me...


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[Assistant] Your strategy of what it would look like to accidentally but secretly intentionally score a basket.


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[Assistant] So yea, that's how you would deliberately score by making it look like an accident. But like you said at the beginning, it's way easier to just score a bunch of points. Reggie Miller scored 8 points in 9 seconds in 1995. Tracy McGrady scored 13 points in 35 seconds in 2004. Like you could do it.


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[Assistant] It's old. It's older than dirt. It's really old. And you would think that in that time, they would have ironed out all the wrinkles in the rule book a little bit better.


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[Assistant] Sure, I guess those are good benchmarks. What if I told you that despite being around for so long, there are still changes being made to the rule book.


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[Assistant] One in particular being made by a player so historic that he did something that had not been done in over a hundred years and got his own rule in the rule book. And that man's name is Pat Van Diddy.


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[Assistant] Yeah, neither did I until very recently. Cool. But it's true because he did do something that had not been done in over a hundred years and now he's got the Pat Van Diddy rule in the MLB rule book. What he did was just be born ambidextrous. He was an ambidextrous pitcher which makes him a switch pitcher.


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[Assistant] So you can switch between being a righty or a lefty. Okay, so things could get weird. Right.


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[Assistant] Because now there's two choices to be made. Who goes first? Who picks first? Who gets the benefit? And this came to be in the middle of the game once. So you can actually see the umpires and the officiating crew try and figure out a rule for baseball in real time.


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[Assistant] What's happening must be astronomical. Yeah, and they didn't have to worry about it until 2008.


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[Assistant] So, then, Pat Venditti goes, well, I'm just pitched with my own hand now.


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[Assistant] No joke, six minutes. Six solid minutes on the field trying to figure out how to deal with this situation that Pat Venditti's very specific physiology has introduced into this game.


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[Assistant] Uh, this was, this ended up being the final at bat of the game.


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[Assistant] The Brooklyn Cyclones were behind by five runs and they had two outs already. So very meaningful. So very meaningful, yes. Put an asterisk on this game big time.


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[Assistant] Uh, no, it meant nothing. It meant nothing. It was just a bunch of dudes having a pissing match over a very specific rule that had not yet been written. And as a matter of fact, Major League Baseball watched this happen and said, we need to get a rule on the books as soon as possible. Oh boy. So that this never happens again. Sir?


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[Assistant] So MLB puts a rule on the books, and they ended up not needing it for another seven years, which is how long it took Pat Venditti to get called up. Oh, okay. And then he did pitch his, uh, MLB debut in 2015.


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[Assistant] So he can switch in between batters if he wants to, but as soon as he goes up to the pitcher's plate with that ball in his hand, he's got to pitch with that hand for the rest of the appearance. That's pretty cool. I think it's cool that


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[Assistant] Your weird physiology literally changes the rules of a game. I'm not, like, I don't know.


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[Assistant] But then to also become a professional...


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[Assistant] I think it would be fun if you could figure out a way to use this strategic advantage in the middle of a pitch and have like some sort of neutral. Like a universal windup. Yeah.


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[Assistant] A neutral windup that you get, you pull the ball over your head with both hands, just directly over your head. As you're pitching, you choose what arm you're gonna pitch with and then just follow through with that arm. So like, so what you're doing is like, you do this and then, uh, pitch with the right hand.


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[Assistant] I also picture like some sort of maybe, maybe he jukes? If the pitcher can choose mid-pitch, then the batter should also get to choose mid-pitch if he wants to scoot over to the other box or not.


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[Assistant] This is what baseball's gonna look like in 60 years. Terrible. Just really bad. It's really- It's really, really worse than now. Love it. Oof. Weird. Rules.


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[Assistant] Yeah. That seems unfair. It's not legal anymore. They had to make a rule for it in the NFL rule book.


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[Assistant] Which I happen to have a real actual copy of, right here. Right there. Right here. You've done your whole research. Yes, I've printed out 200 pages of the NFL rule book, and if we open it up to the first page, there's the rule, conveniently, right there. Perfect. Isn't that incredible? I love it. It's rule 5, section 4, article 4.


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[Assistant] Item 8. And it basically just says, adhesive and slippery substances are banned from the game.


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[Assistant] That is because there was a guy named Lester Hayes who played for the Oakland Raiders who just slathered himself.


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[Assistant] So there is a scene in that movie where one of the kids has the stickum and he sticks his hands to his chest, and if you remember he keeps doing this, that stickum, that's what that was.


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[Assistant] Right, yea, exactly. I tried to find some actual, uh, stickum, but I could not.


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[Assistant] But I found an alternative and I wanted to know, are you down to give this a try to see if it works? I'm very down. Okay, I have this. This is, uh, not stick em, but hair wax. Okay. And then I've got this guy here. So, uh, you know what, maybe let's just both.


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[Assistant] And the good news is this is hair product. Okay. So we could probably just, I don't know if I'm going to do two handed, but this is. Go for it.


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[Assistant] They never used stickum as, uh, hair stuff, as far as I know. As far as we know. I think if you, if they switch to this, then, you know, you've got...


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[Assistant] It doesn't stick. It doesn't help you. It's not cheating. In fact, it makes it harder to catch.


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[Assistant] A sporting match would start with a score of zero to zero. Would you agree with that? Feels like a trick. Uh, but yes. Yes. That is generally true. Hey. However, there is a rule in the NCAA basketball rule book. Okay.


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[Assistant] That could potentially lead to points being scored before the actual tip-off of the game.


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[Assistant] That doesn't sound broken at all. Indeed, my good man, it was broken. Hey! You know that 20 minute warm-up period before a basketball game? Yea, for like, layup lines and...


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[Assistant] You couldn't dunk in that time, because that's technically dead ball time. Okay. And if you do, you get a technical foul, and the other team will get free throws before the game has even started.


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[Assistant] A technical foul should be assessed to a player or a substitute for the following infractions and then one of them was a team member dunking or attempting to dunk a dead ball before or during the game or any intermission. So that like 20 minutes of warm up time was technically dead ball time and you couldn't dunk.


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[Assistant] Presumably the rules because they thought it was just like unsportsmanlike. Cause you can dunk in a game, it's not like a safety thing.


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[Assistant] Uh, this actually happened in the NCAA tournament in 2014. In the first round. In the very first round. Why not? Stupid rule, big stage. This guy named Brian Rolader, he was this sophomore walk-on for Kansas State. Fake name. Fake name, fake news, fake name. 30 year old. No, the sophomore walk-on,


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[Assistant] Uh, is in a layup line, just practicing layups. And the timer starts.


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[Assistant] For the pregame warmups, and he's at 19 minutes and 58 seconds, so he gets two seconds in, and just absentmindedly kinda goes up and dunks a ball, and an official comes up to him and goes, uh, hey listen, that's uh, that's a technical foul.


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[Assistant] He was not, actually. He played a collective 30 minutes-ish, uh, the whole season before this game.


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[Assistant] And this is March Madness, so it's the end of the season. So, Kentucky got two foul shots before the game.


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[Assistant] The guy missed one, so they started the game 1-0. Kentucky was up 1-0 with 20 minutes to go in the first half. I hope that was a pity miss. Kentucky ended up winning by 7, so it didn't matter in terms of the tournament, but the spread was 6.5 points.


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[Assistant] Tennessee Tech nailed the two shots, and then they won by two.


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[Assistant] So that was a huge bummer for them at the time, I'm sure. If you're a ref or an NCA official in that scenario and you decide to like, call that penalty, you're a cop.


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[Assistant] You shouldn't be allowed to go home. You should just become a cop. Yea, you should not be able to go home. Just go to this police station and become a cop. They should at least give some, like, a warning first.


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[Assistant] Right. And I think the goal was to prevent like, showboating or like unsportsmanlike conduct. But who is sitting there 20 minutes before a basketball game that you were showboating to? Right. The assistant athletic staff? And like the dude selling hot dogs? Nice dunk dude!


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[Assistant] Where did Shaq go to school? LSU. LSU. Maybe he just had broken so many LSU backboards before the game even started where they were like, dude, you can't do that anymore.


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[Assistant] He's like 80, right? Shaq is 82 years old. He's three years younger than Ruth Bader Ginsburg.


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[Assistant] After that 2014-2015 season, they got rid of the rule. I don't know if you can dunk in intermission or whatever, but that pregame, like 20 minutes, you can dunk.


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[Assistant] A little bit. If you're a big dunking before a college basketball fan, you have Brian to thank for exposing this issue and being the person to give up a point before the game even started because of his love of dunking. He died so we could dunk. He died so that we all could dunk.


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[Assistant] Rebecca, you're a former hockey player. I am. And figure skater.


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[Assistant] Hockey fights are a big deal. Did you ever get into one yourself?


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[Assistant] The things they can say scare, that scares me now. It should. As an adult man. They will, they know they can analyze you in like a computer and find your worst insecurity and just boom, right to the center, like a laser beam.


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[Assistant] In, in men's hockey, removing someone else's jersey or removing your own jersey is like a strategy.


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[Assistant] A player who engages in a fight and whose jersey is not properly tied down.


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[Assistant] Yeah, because what happens is if you take off your own shirt, you are harder to fight. Because A, you're like a sweaty, slimy boy to begin with, and you're just like hard to get a grip on.


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[Assistant] And also they got rid of it because they were worried about guys getting caught up in their jerseys as it's being pulled over.


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[Assistant] Yeah. They named it the Rob Ray rule because this guy, Rob Ray, who played for the Buffalo Sabres was like, well fuck it, if I just...


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[Assistant] That's hockey. That's hockey, really, when it comes down to it. So they were like, yeah, no, you can't do that anymore, and they made the, the robbery rule. Here's what they call an enforcer, which, you know what that is, I'm sure, right?


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[Assistant] Oh, just absolutely despondent. Yeah, he was, no. He was actually like, he told someone in an interview like, I never planned on this. It just sort of evolved that way. So over years of fighting, he was like,


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[Assistant] Yeah, so he would not tie it down, which is what the rule is, but then also, allegedly, he would either keep his pads, like, kinda loose, or sometimes, again, allegedly, he would, like, sew the pads directly into the jersey, so that in one, like, whoop, he's just, nakey boy, fighting with his nips out and every, on the whole nine,


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[Assistant] Yeah, besides the one that we all know about. The one.


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[Assistant] Oh, so no actual, like it didn't manifest into any sort of like physical altercation.


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[Assistant] I don't ma- I don't know, maybe there's some like hair pulling or- I've seen- I've seen girls and women fight and it is brutal. It can get pretty brutal.


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[Assistant] We talk a lot about the 70s on this show. It seems like a good era rife for material for this thing. There's a lot of people


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[Assistant] But particularly I think in the NFL. This rule we're gonna talk about today is like a great encapsulation of that. Okay. It's based off of a play called The Holy Roller. It's another one of those plays that spawned a rule because the NFL was like, nah, you can't...


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[Assistant] Okay, no, you can't also do that. In 1978, John Madden's Oakland Raiders are playing the Chargers in San Diego. The Raiders are down 6 points, they have the ball with 10 seconds left to go.


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[Assistant] And in short, what happens is the quarterback intentionally fumbles the ball, and then in a little bit of backyard football foolery, the Raiders just kind of kick and muff the ball down the field as much as they can until it ends up in the end zone and sure enough they recover it.


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[Assistant] A pretty clear illegal move that they got away with. But then the rest of it is in question, right? How can you fumble forward and keep that ball moving without ending the play? Knowing you need to cover ground. You need to cover ground, right? The running back, his name is Pete Bonazac. There are more fake names in this.


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[Assistant] You come up with a rule after this to keep this from happening, which the rule still exists today. It's known unofficially as the Ken Stabler rule. But basically it says if the offense fumbles the ball and it's a fourth down or you're within the last two minutes of the half,


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[Assistant] Only the player who fumbled the ball can recover it and advance it.


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[Assistant] If another player recovers the ball, play is blown dead and then they spot the ball at the spot of the recovery. Or at the spot of the fumble if it has moved forward.


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[Assistant] So, Ken Stabler maintained for decades that it was just a genuine fumble, and then in one of his most recent interviews from like 10 years ago, he was like, nah, I just pitched it.


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[Assistant] This has in fact come up. 2014 it happened to the Green Bay Packers. Aaron Rodgers had a ball swatted out of his hand as he was going for a pass. It was a fumble. It rolled into the end zone. Eddie Lacey went to pick it up, but because


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[Assistant] He was not Aaron Rodgers and it was within the last two minutes when he touched it.


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[Assistant] So that would have been the spot, but because he's in the end zone, it's a safety. So they got dinged, they lost that game. Boohoo, right?


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[Assistant] When it was like, no boys, you can't, you can't do that.


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[Assistant] You gotta make it to the end. You've been here literally for four minutes.


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[Assistant] From the Lakers, he just laid down on the bench in the middle of the game. He is the only one on the bench because the rest of the team is on the court. Now normally you would be joined with other people who don't happen to be playing at the moment, but the rest of his team was out with injuries. All of the Lakers were like completely wiped out. So they were down to literally their last five dudes on the court.


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[Assistant] And they got to continue playing, even after a whole mess of fouls. Would you like to hear the rule that spawned this story? I happen to have the NBA Association, the National Basketball Association official rule book. Wow. It's rule three. Section one, it says each team


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[Assistant] Well, you need your entire bench to be injured or ejected.


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[Assistant] I mean it would be fun to just go ham in a sporting event and have no repercussions at all. A guy in 1949 kinda did that.


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[Assistant] He has the record for the most personal fouls in a regular season game.


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[Assistant] Same deal, they just, he hit six fouls and they were like, I guess keep playing, Dan. Have at it.


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[Assistant] It'd be like watching someone on your team throwing a perfect game. Like, go get em, Dan!


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[Assistant] You could go down in history as a meme and a record holder.


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[Assistant] In general, the rider who crosses the finish line first wins. Shortest video ever. Goodbye.


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[Assistant] No two tracks are the same, and tracks can vary in length depending on the location.


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[Assistant] They are given a 5 second warning before the gates are released.


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[Assistant] Once the gates open, they must try and skate as fast as they can to the finish line.


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[Assistant] Contestants, wear lightweight versions of ice hockey equipment on skates.


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[Assistant] Skaters have to negotiate a myriad of obstacles, turns, dips and gaps and are allowed to make shoulder to shoulder contact or bump into the sides of their opponents.


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[Assistant] If this happens, a photo finish will be used to determine the winner.


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[Assistant] Tracks vary in speed, elevation and difficulty, depending on the track design and implement temperature. They can be in the middle of the city, in a forest, on a baseball field, virtually anywhere.


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[Assistant] A lot of scaffolding and plywood is used to shape the track, with cooling brine pipes installed all along the length of the track, just like an ice rink.


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[Assistant] Once layers of water have been sprayed on, they freeze in place and, hey presto, you have an ice trap.


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[Assistant] The longest so far has been 630 metres in length, but that could easily change.


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[Assistant] As mentioned earlier, no two tracks are the same, so contestants will be given time to practice on the track before the actual race.


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[Assistant] But not much. They'll have to plan their route fairly quickly because everyone else will be doing the same. Racecraft.


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[Assistant] Not only do contestants have to read and judge the track, they also have to do that with their opponents.


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[Assistant] There's a lot more to it than just racing from A to B, and skaters will have already predicted who will be better or worse at any given part of a track. It's up to them to race accordingly. This is known as Racecraft. Deterioration


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[Assistant] From off ice tracks through forests, to using adapted indoor skateparks, skaters have to train not only just to be fast,


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[Assistant] But to be balanced from tight turns, and be comfortable in the air.


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[Assistant] Ice hockey players and figure skaters aren't automatic shoe ins for this event. These skaters are different animals. Red Bull crashed ice.


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[Assistant] The winner receives the trophy, the prize and a set of points.


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[Assistant] The higher you finish during this tournament, the more points you receive.


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[Assistant] I think they've done a pretty good job. You do? You think so? Yea, they've gotten to a point you can play it, watch it, or sleep through it.


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[Assistant] For once it's nice that, like, yeaah, it would have been unnecessary for them to spell this out before seeing it actually happen.


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[Assistant] Wait, so what else, like, was this the start of an ending so they could kinda just like...


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[Assistant] Something is happening in Brooklyn right now. You need to see this.


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[Assistant] Wait, so what did the, what was the actual rule that they decided?


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[Assistant] Being ambidextrous, whatever, you can train for that. You're not impressed by that?


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[Assistant] The mound has also been backed up by another like 100 feet to give the batter more time to decide which side to switch. I agree. That's only fair.


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[Assistant] In high school, we would go to games early, because there was one team in our district that had a guy who would dunk. And we would go early, and it would be awesome, and we would watch him dunk, and then they would blow us out, and we would go drink in the Whataburger parking lot.


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[Assistant] I think I have a feeling based on his name, was he like a star of the team?


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[Assistant] If he does it again, or like, if they, without warning, if it's five minutes before tip, then yeaah, tee em up.


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[Assistant] Brian's sitting there, he's like, this is the one game my parents came to all year. I don't believe I'm on the team. So what do you think, like,


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[Assistant] Led to this. Who do you think the first Brian was?


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[Assistant] They were, they're old war buddies. They served together. Okay, so one game, it affected the point spread.


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[Assistant] Right. One game, it literally affected the outcome.


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[Assistant] They fixed that. And they just go bananas now. Oh, it's just nuts. So, Brian, I'm not even gonna pretend to remember his last name.


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[Assistant] And I have to call it right. Yep. Yeah, absolutely. Or I just want to give a shit.


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[Assistant] Holy rolling my way up there. I understand the stipulations they essentially added with this rule of like fourth down and in the last two minutes of a half. Because like outside of those situations the team's not going to


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[Assistant] Because it was behind where the fumble. Right. Originally occurred. So that would have been the spot.


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[Assistant] The object of the game is for your team to score more goals than the opposing team.


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[Assistant] Is a variation of the sport of hockey that is played indoors on a dry land surface.


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[Assistant] Rather confusingly, different countries have different names for these two sports, so double check which sport it actually is before you start playing.


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[Assistant] The idea is to set up in good position to be able to shoot the ball towards the goal. The opposing team will try and stop you by tackling.


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[Assistant] They are allowed to try and take the ball away from you and move the ball in the opposing direction so that they can score themselves.


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[Assistant] One major rule difference between ice hockey and rink hockey is that intentional forceful contact between players is not allowed.


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[Assistant] Or a red car, similar to soccer and results in the player being ejected from the game.


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[Assistant] This also results in the offending team serving a 4 minute time penalty or until the opposing team scores, whichever comes first.


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[Assistant] Another rule difference is that in rink hockey, you are only allowed to move the ball with your stick. You cannot deflect the ball off your skate or body, or kick the ball in any direction. Doing so results in a foul. The only exception to this is the goalkeeper.


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[Assistant] Should he leave his goal area, he becomes a skater just like the others.


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[Assistant] If there is a tie, up to two 5 minute periods can be played to determine the winner.


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[Assistant] If the scores are still tied, the game goes to a penalty shootout.


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[Assistant] That's basically the gist of it, but there's a few other things you'll need to know before playing or going to a game. For example, Substitution.


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[Assistant] There are unlimited substitutions in Rink Hockey and they can be made at any time.


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[Assistant] All substitutions must be made within the gate that is directly in front of their team's benches. Timeout. A team is allowed one 1 minute timeout and one 30 second timeout per half.


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[Assistant] Timeouts are not permitted during extra periods or penalty shootouts. Face off.


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[Assistant] Similar to a shot lock in basketball, you only have 45 seconds in order to shoot the ball at the opposing goal.


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[Assistant] Failure to do this results in the ball being awarded to the other team. Anti-play.


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[Assistant] If a team is making zero effort to shoot at goal, i.e. hauling the ball to make the clock run down, the referee will blow their whistle to stop the game immediately.


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[Assistant] A face-off is awarded at centre circle, and should they commit the same infraction again, this results in yellow and red cards. Fouls. There are many things you cannot do in Rick Hockey. For example. Obstruction. You cannot impede the forward progress of any player.


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[Assistant] High stick – you cannot raise your stick above shoulder height. Displacing the goal – you cannot move the goals at any time.


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[Assistant] A free hit is awarded to the other team if a player breaks one of the rules, usually after a foul.


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[Assistant] The ball is placed at the penalty spot and the attacking player has 5 seconds in order to shoot the ball directly against the opposing goalkeeper. Any goal scored counts towards the overall score. Penalty shootout.


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[Assistant] Check out my other videos on the other hockey related sports, and if you have found this video at all helpful, please like, share and subscribe.


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[Assistant] If you're also on Reddit, you can post this video and discuss it there. But in the meantime, Enjoy Rink Hockey!


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[Assistant] The object of the game is for your team to score more goals than the opposing team.


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[Assistant] Shinty is a gameplay predominantly in Scotland between two teams of 12 plays for men and 10 plays for women.


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[Assistant] To score a goal, a player must use their stick, known as a cammon, to hit the ball into the goal. The ball must completely cross the goal line for a goal to count.


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[Assistant] The field is a maximum of 170 yards by 80 yards, with a centre circle and penalty spots marked onto the field.


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[Assistant] Goals are 12 feet wide and 10 feet high, and surrounding the goals is the 10 yard area, which is a 10 yard radius around the goal.


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[Assistant] The game starts with a throw up, where the referee throws the ball between two opposing players, and they must play for the ball in the air.


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[Assistant] Unique to Shinty, you are allowed to play the ball with your chest, or stop the ball with both feet together.


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[Assistant] The idea is to set up in good field position to be able to shoot the ball into the goal. The opposing team will try and stop you by tackling. They are allowed to block with the stick, use the stick to take the ball away from you, and make shoulder to shoulder contact with the ball carrier.


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[Assistant] However, they cannot swing their stick into the stick of their opponent. This is known as hacking and is considered a foul.


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[Assistant] They will try and take the ball away from you so that they can score themselves.


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[Assistant] The game is played in two 45 minute halves for a combined playing time of 90 minutes, plus added time for injuries and stoppages. High score at the end of time, wins.


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[Assistant] A team wishing to make a change of player can do this at any time so long as the player being substituted comes off first. Foul.


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[Assistant] If you break one of the rules, most commonly for hacking, the referee will blow the whistle and indicate a foul.


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[Assistant] A free hit is awarded to the other team, usually after a foul has occurred.


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[Assistant] The player must strike or lift the ball from the spot of the foul, and all other players must be at least 5 yards away from the ball before it is struck. Caution and sending off.


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[Assistant] Dangerous play is punishable by either a yellow card, which is a warning.


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[Assistant] Or a red card where you are sent off the pitch without a substitute replacement. Hit in.


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[Assistant] If a ball leaves the sidelines, the ball is awarded to the team who did not touch it last.


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[Assistant] They must play the ball back onto the field by striking it vertically in the air above their heads. Failure to do this results in the ball being awarded to the other team. Corner hit. If a defending team hits the ball out of their own byline, a corner hit is awarded to the attacking team. The attacking team places the ball at the nearest quarter circle and restarts play by hitting the ball from the ground. Penalty hit. Any infringement made by a defending player in the 10 yard area


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[Assistant] In the event of a draw for games where a winner must be determined, a penalty playoff is used to determine the winner.


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[Assistant] There are five shooters on each team, and each one alternates taking a shot at the opposing goalie. Team with the most goals after the play-off, wins.


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[Assistant] Follow me on Twitter also, but in the meantime, enjoy Shinji!


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[Assistant] The object of the game is for your team to score more runs than the opposing team.


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[Assistant] Softball is a variation of the game of baseball, and the rules are very similar with some significant differences.


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[Assistant] Firstly, the field is generally a lot smaller. And the equipment used is also different.


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[Assistant] The hit outside these lines is classed as a foul ball, and the batter is not allowed to run.


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[Assistant] This is an imaginary box that's the width of home plate, and roughly between the batter's armpits and knees.


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[Assistant] In softball, the pitcher stands on a flat surface and must throw a bigger, softer ball, underarm. If a pitcher throws the ball through this area, it's a strike. If a batter swings and misses any ball, it's also a strike.


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[Assistant] If the batter hits the ball outside the foul line, it can be a first or second strike. And obviously three strikes means you're out. A pitch outside this area is called a ball.


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[Assistant] Four balls against a batter, and they get to walk to first base.


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[Assistant] Firstly, if a batter hits the ball along the ground, the opposing team can throw the ball to the base they're running to. If the ball beats the batter to the base, they're out. A batter can be tagged out whilst running between the bases,


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[Assistant] Once three outs have been made, their half of the inning is over, and the other team gets to bat.


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[Assistant] Once both teams have batted, this is known as an inning. The game is played over 7 innings.


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[Assistant] There are no ties in softball, so if the scores are tied after 7 innings, extra innings will be played to determine the winner.


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[Assistant] That's basically it, but there's a few other rules you'll need to know before playing or watching softball. For example, Home Run.


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[Assistant] If a batter hits the ball out of the park between the foul lines, the batter, and anyone standing around the bases, gets to walk freely around the bases and back to home. All runs score. Stealing Bases


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[Assistant] To help move the batters along the bases, some players will try and make a run for the next base.


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[Assistant] This is a risky gamble as the opposing team will be prepared for this and will try and get you out. If the batter is caught out, they are caught stealing. Tagging up.


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[Assistant] If a ball is caught in the air, any player standing on the bases must stop from that base before running to the next one. Double play.


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[Assistant] This is where a ball is hit into play and the defending team gets two outs, usually by way of throwing to one base, and then another.


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[Assistant] There are many other rules not discussed here, but as you watch or play softball, the rules will become clear.


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[Assistant] If you found this video at all helpful, please be sure to like, share and subscribe.


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[Assistant] Be sure to follow me on Twitter also, but in the meantime, enjoy softball.


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[Assistant] Nin explains the rules of mixed martial arts.


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[Assistant] The object of the game is for a fighter to win by points, knockout or submission.


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[Assistant] There are many organisations that promote the sport, the most famous being the UFC, the ultimate fighting championship.


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[Assistant] In MMA, fighters fight with an away class.


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[Assistant] You must be under the relevant weight limit, as if you are overweight, you are disqualified immediately, and cannot compete in the fight. Once the referee tells you to go, you must begin fighting. You are allowed to punch your opponent, kick your opponent, elbow, knee or wrestle your opponent, lock their limbs to cause them pain, throw them to the ground or against the cage, and you are allowed to choke them with your limbs.


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[Assistant] You can use virtually any stripe from any martial arts, and this makes MMA the most versatile combat sport in the world.


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[Assistant] There's also things you cannot do, which will earn you a warning and possible disqualification.


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[Assistant] You cannot attack the groin. You cannot knee to the head if the opponent is on the floor. You cannot strike the back of the head or the spine. No headbutting, eye gouging or fish hooking. No biting, hair pulling or grabbing of the cage.


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[Assistant] No fingers in orifices or manipulation of your opponent's fingers.


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[Assistant] No strikes or grabbing of the throat. And no intentionally throwing your opponent outside of the cage. Doing these things accidentally will result in a warning.


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[Assistant] A fight is contested in 3 rounds of 5 minutes each, with a 1 minute break in between rounds.


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[Assistant] Championship Contests are fought over 5 rounds of 5 minutes each. There are three ways to win a fight. Knockout.


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[Assistant] If you manage to knock your opponent down, they'll have a limited amount of time to get back up.


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[Assistant] If they cannot get up within this time and show that they can defend themselves, you win the fight by knockout. Submission


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[Assistant] If a knockout or submission hasn't happened when the time runs out, a group of judges will have scored each fighter based on their performance for every round that they have fought in.


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[Assistant] The fighter with the highest amount of points at the end of time wins. This is known as winning by decision.


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[Assistant] That's pretty much the gist of the UFC or Mixed Martial Arts, but there's a few other things that you'll need to know before watching a fight. For example, Disqualification.


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[Assistant] Once the third warning has been issued, the referee will stop the fights immediately.


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[Assistant] A disqualification can also be called if a fighter has been injured by an illegal move that seemed intentional. Forfeit.


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[Assistant] A fighter can announce his own defeat before a match begins, if he is injured or unable to fight. This is known as a forfeit. No contest.


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[Assistant] If both fighters violate the rules, or if a fighter is injured by an unintentional illegal action, a no contest may be called. This is where no fighter wins the bout. No contests are rarely called in MMA fights. Technical Knockout


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[Assistant] When a referee, doctor or fighter's corner crew feels that a fighter is no longer able to defend himself, or that it's too dangerous to let him carry on fighting, they can stop the fight and the opponent will win by technical knockout.


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[Assistant] This video is a general summary of the unified rules of mixed martial arts, which most organizations adhere to.


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[Assistant] It takes me ages to make one of these things, and good karma is very much appreciated.


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[Assistant] Be sure to follow me on Twitter also, but in the meantime, enjoy Mixed Martial Arts and the UFC.


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[Assistant] The object of the game is to cycle faster than your opponents.


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[Assistant] Track cycling, sometimes referred to as Olympic track cycling, is contested indoors on a curb bank track that measures 250m long, otherwise known as a velodrome.


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[Assistant] In general, the rider who crosses the finish line first, wins. Shortest video ever, right?


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[Assistant] Well, sadly not. Rather confusingly, track cycling has many different events, each with significantly different rules to each other.


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[Assistant] I'm not going to cover every single event in this video, but the most popular events are Individual Time Trial.


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[Assistant] This is the simplest event to understand, as it's purely a race against the clock.


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[Assistant] The distance is 1km for men and 500m for women.


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[Assistant] You're out there on your own, and the fastest ride across the finish line from a standing start, wins.


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[Assistant] Very similar to the time trial, except that now, you're racing against someone. Individual riders will start from opposite ends of the track.


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[Assistant] When the starting gun goes off, they have to race 4km for men, and 3km for women. First person to cross the line, wins.


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[Assistant] The fastest four winners will ride off against each other until there is only one winner.


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[Assistant] Four riders will ride for four kilometres against another team. Each team starts from opposite ends of the track.


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[Assistant] The team that catches the other team, or that records the fastest time over 4km, wins. In Team Pursuit, there's a catch.


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[Assistant] The distance is just 750 metres, or three laps, of an Olympic track.


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[Assistant] Riders start next to each other and both will try and use tactics to either make the opponent go first,


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[Assistant] Or to push the rider in an unfavourable position before making a run for the line themselves.


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[Assistant] The time you take to do these three laps does not matter.


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[Assistant] The rider who wins 2 out of 3 races wins the individual sprint. Team Sprint.


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[Assistant] The teams start at opposite ends of the track and consist of 3 riders over 3 laps for men and 2 riders over 2 laps for women.


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[Assistant] The first rider sets the pace, and, after one lap, must peel away from the pack.


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[Assistant] The next rider, for men, also has a lap before they must also ride away.


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[Assistant] The last rider then has to sprint the final lap to the finish line on their own.


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[Assistant] The teams with the two best times ride off to be crowned the winner, and there are also contests for third and fourth place. Kieran.


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[Assistant] Developed in Japan as a means of gambling, it consists of up to 7 riders, over 8 laps of the track.


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[Assistant] Except that five and a half of those laps consists of following a motorized bicycle known as a journey.


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[Assistant] Riders must stay behind the turning as it increases in speed.


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[Assistant] And they will try and jostle each other out of position to get an advantage over their rivals.


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[Assistant] Once the Dernie pulls away from the track, it's a free-for-all sprint for the last two and a half laps. First person to cross the finish line after all eight laps wins. Elimination Race.


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[Assistant] 24 riders start at the same time over a race of 50 laps. The rules are simple.


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[Assistant] Don't be last, because in every two laps, whoever is last across the start line is eliminated. This carries on until there is only one winner. Scratch Race.


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[Assistant] A mid-distance event that is 15km for men and 10km for women. The rules are simple. Be the first to cross the finish line.


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[Assistant] Endurance Riders will try and outpace Sprinters, and Sprinters will try and hide in the main pack to conserve energy before making a final run.


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[Assistant] Think of this as NASCAR racing on bicycles.


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[Assistant] A long distance event that is 40km for men and 25km for women.


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[Assistant] A sprint is held every 10 laps, signalled by a bell.


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[Assistant] Points are awarded to the first four across the line for each sprint, and points are doubled during the last sprint of the race.


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[Assistant] Riders can also earn 20 points for lapping the field. The most points at the end of the race, wins. Madison.


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[Assistant] Put simply, it's a poise race, but with teams of two riders.


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[Assistant] Only one rider can race at a time, so riders must touch or tag their partner for them to be eligible to race.


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[Assistant] This is the decathlon of cycling events, and is comprised of the following four or six races.


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[Assistant] You'll get points depending on the position you finish at each race, and the rider with the most amount of points after 4 or 6 events is the winner of the Omnium.


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[Assistant] Is there anything else I need to know? Yes, there's a few other things that you'll need to know before riding or watching track cycling. For example... Lines.


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[Assistant] There are lines that go around the perimeter of the track, and they all mean different things. The Cote d'Azur is the start of the velodrome.


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[Assistant] The Black Line, also known as the Datum Line, denotes the shortest length of the track. 250m for an Olympic facility.


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[Assistant] Riders will stay glued to the black line as this is the shortest and fastest way around the track. The red line is also known as the sprinter's line.