When you're not a hair stand-in, what do you do on the set?
Dude, just don't quit and adopt an indomitable attitude, and soon you'll be blazing past the old ladies and children.
Okay, seriously, stay committed and you'll get it. It took me two or three weeks to feel like the heat was coming back into my punches and kicks. Before that it was pretty sad.
Right on, dude. Don't quit! You'll blow past those times eventually.
Take this dude I'm training right now. When he first came to me, I had him doing a circut of 30 seconds jump rope, 1 minute rest for 3 reps. It kicked his ass. Eight weeks later, he's doing circuts of 2 minutes with 30 seconds rests. Not exactly world-class, but the best shape of his adult life so far, and getting better.
He started and was slobbering and shaking off of 10 hindu pushups, but recently set his max reps at 35. In fact, we tested him at 3 weeks into training and again at the sixth week, and he increased his reps in each exercise, but most importantly did the whole routine in literally half the time. Like woah. So he's kicking ass and taking names.
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Re: visual effects, I totally get all that. I've worked around film and video enough to know a bit about green screens, getting keys, artifacting and halos, etc.; I'm not an expert, but I'm conversant.
I would have tried to cover the window with matte green tape.
In fact, this weekend in St. Louis, my friends produce a TV show that uses green-screens on the set for compositing, and Sophie and I totally meant to get our pictures taken in front of them, so I could do some fun photoshopping, but it never happened. C'est La Fun.
welcome back you stickyuppy haired boy! we missed you and wondered where you went! cklarock tells me it was some hard stuff, but you sound like you're doing pretty well now.
that is just most excellently delightful. do the soothing stuff. good for the bones.
[Edited on Jul 27, 2005 6:31AM]