Hand Grabbing Post
Endike Baur
Contact that results in the re-routing of an opponent is a foul which must be called immediately. Contact initiated by the defensive player guarding a player with the ball is not legal. This contact includes, but is not limited to, forearm, hands, or body check.
EXCEPTIONS:
(1) A defender may apply contact with a forearm to an offensive player with the ball who has his back to the basket below the free throw line extended outside the Lower Defensive Box.
(3) A defender may apply contact with a forearm to an offensive player with the ball at any time in the Lower Defensive Box. The forearm in the above exceptions is solely for the purpose of maintaining a defensive position.
(4) A defender may position his leg between the legs of an offensive player in a postup position in the Lower Defensive Box for the purpose of maintaining defensive position. If his foot leaves the floor in an attempt to dislodge his opponent, it is a foul immediately.
Many are familiar with this scenario: you go to a fun event or take a vacation, and along the way you upload some photos and videos to your favorite social networking sites. After the event or trip is over, you post more pictures videos because you have more time to really put all your content out there. Many people do this on a regular basis without much thought at all. But others do put thought into it because they are aware of their personal brand and do not want to ruin their online image. The question I am asked often is When it comes to pictures and videos, how human can I be before Googling employers (current or future) will decide I crossed the line between a professional and unprofessional image?
But you really can post much more than that! You can post any photos or videos on a public website as long as they are clean, upbeat and do not portray yourself in a negative light. So, that leads to the question, what exactly does that look like?
However, it should be a clean, fun picture. The picture in this article is a good example of what I would consider to be perfectly acceptable. Yes, the couple is holding drinks but drinking alcohol is not an illegal activity! Your pictures just need to reflect the fact that you are responsible and respectful when it comes to alcohol.
You need to consider what other people are doing in your pictures as well. Do they have their tongues out or are they grabbing at others? No, you should not post pictures like that. Just use common sense here. Pictures that contain alcoholic drinks should appear as fun gatherings (not crazy parties), or just relaxing times and everyone in the picture should appear sober. One crazy drunk in the picture turns the fun gathering perception into a crazy party perception. And perception is everything.
Other things you should screen out before posting are pictures with you or someone else making obscene gestures, smoking, or doing anything that might appear as illegal (theft, vandalism, disorderly conduct, etc.).
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Does Jesus contradict himself following the resurrection? I ask this because he initially told Mary Magdalene not to touch him (John 20:17), but later seemed to permit Thomas to do so (John 20:27). This detail caught my attention yesterday as I listened to children recite John 20 in our morning worship service, and it caught the attention of others in the church as well. So here are some follow-up thoughts, having given this a closer look.
First, the KJV chooses the word "touch" in v.17, while other translations choose either "hold onto" or "cling to" instead. The Greek verb is a present imperative form, indicating that Mary was doing more than reaching out to touch Jesus. She was touching him persistently, as in "holding onto him" or "clinging to him." Once she realized who Jesus was, she seems to have fallen down before him and grabbed hold of his feet. But Jesus urged her to stop doing this.
By urging her to stop, Jesus was not necessarily teaching that no one could touch his resurrected body. Instead, he was teaching her that the proper response to his resurrected appearance was not to cling to him, but to go tell others that he had risen. She immediately responded and did so.
Now here is an interesting question. Did anyone else touch Jesus in his post-resurrected state? I've already mentioned Thomas (v.27), but a careful examination reveals that Jesus invited Thomas to reach out his finger and look at his hands, and to reach out his hand and put it into his side. Technically, these are not verbs that convey touching, though touching may have occurred. Furthermore, John never tells us that Thomas did any of these things. Perhaps he did, but we only know for certain what he said: "My Lord and my God!" Jesus himself tells us that Thomas saw and believed, but he does not say that he touched and believed.
But still the question remains, did anyone else touch Jesus after the resurrection? In Luke 24:39, we learn that Jesus invited all of the disciples, not just Thomas, to touch his resurrected body. But we only know that he showed them his scars, with no clear evidence that they touched them. In Matthew 28:9, we see that some other women held Jesus by the feet and worshiped him. Unlike his encounter with Mary Magdalene, there is no mention of Jesus forbidding them to touch him, but there is a repeated emphasis on the more appropriate response - to go and tell others what they had seen.
One more indication that others touched Jesus after his resurrection appears outside of the four gospels in 1 John 1:1. In this verse, the apostle John tells us that the disciples both saw the resurrected Jesus with their eyes and handled (or touched) him with their hands. This may refer to the encounters previously mentioned, or to others off the record. But here John verifies the fact of the bodily resurrection of Jesus Christ based upon multiple disciples having touched him.
What should we make of these observations? Perhaps the answer is simple. Jesus invited certain disciples to touch him, to verify his bodily resurrection and to affirm his claim to be the prophesied Messiah, the Son of God. That this happened was important and appropriate. Jesus would never invite his followers to do the wrong thing (Jam. 1:13). But when Jesus told the women to stop holding onto his feet, he was teaching another lesson. The women were not looking for evidence. They believed and worshiped.
Knowing this, Jesus urged them to go tell others that they had seen the Lord. The appropriate response to the resurrected Christ was not to hold on to him, but to go and spread the word. After all, Jesus was on the move. He had not completed his mission. He had not yet ascended to the right hand of God. And others, especially the band of soon-to-be apostles needed to see him before his impending ascension took place (John 20:17).
As you start making the grabs more regularly then you will find it starts to make your jumps more stylish automatically. You body is forced to hold a position for longer and with a grab you start forcing your body to twist in slightly different positions which can feel great, look more stylish and give you a great ab workout too!
The easiest grab for most people will be a tail grab. Its easier to take your back hand off the bar (so you can still control the kite with your front hand as you come into land) and even for the less flexible among us, getting one end of the board close enough to touch should be possible.
As you get more confident, twist and give it some style, drop your head over your back shoulder, and push your hand backwards. Or lean back, point your front foot into the air and pull the tail into your back hip.
For a board off having your back hand just on the toeside edge, wrapping your fingers around the top of the fin can give you a secure hold and is a good place to start. An indie grab is also popular for board offs and allows you to control the board as it will be balance better in your hand.
Multiple rotations can be made far more stylish if you can hold a grab through the majority of the rotations as it stops your body dangling and spinning uncontrollably. The hard bit is controlling the kite with just one hand for the whole time. You need to be getting bigger, floaty jumps and keep your hand on the bar right up close to the centre depower rope.
First up is probably going for the grab after the kite has completed the loop. Below we have a back roll kiteloop (F16) and after the loop he then reaches across his body with his back hand for the crail grab:
Alternatively, if you more comfortable adding extra high loops of the kite after the first big loop, then take your front hand off, grabbing the nose of the board and twisting your body frontside, will feel pretty good and allow your back hand to continue the kite looping.
There are so many grab options for those of you who are riding unhooked and performing powered wakestyle tricks. Adding a grab to these type of tricks, particularly if you can hold the grab for a second, will force the trick to be way more stylish.
These days pros are adding one or more grabs to tricks or using them in more advanced tricks to help change the direction of rotation mid trick. Below Sam Light is throwing a nose grab in after a KGB, allowing him to change direction and then go into a frontside 180 to land wrapped!
Hopefully you can see that there is a huge amount that a simple grab can do to spice up your kiteboarding. So get out there and try adding grabs to any trick you can already land consistently and let us know how you get on.
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