The concept is similar to a baseball player swinging two or three bats in the on-deck circle.Įxchange: Occurs during relays when one swimmer touches the wall and the next swimmer dives in.
A memorable example of drafting is Jason Lezak's anchor leg in the men's 4x100m freestyle relay from the 2008 Beijing Games.ĭrag suit: A second, loose-fitting suit worn in workouts and warm-ups to add weight and resistance. When all swimmers are stationary, the starter gives the starting signal.ĭolphin kick: Used in the butterfly, and during underwater portions of freestyle and backstroke races, where the thrust of the kick comes from the hips, and the feet and legs are held together.ĭrafting: A maneuver in which one swimmer is just behind another in an adjacent lane and uses the fast-moving water generated by their opponent to overtake the competitor. On the starter's command - "take your mark" - swimmers immediately take a starting position, with at least one foot at the front of the starting platform. Shazam! Fury of the Gods is currently set to be released in theaters on December 21.Block: The starting platform the area from which a swimmer dives into the pool to begin a race.Ĭap: Latex or lycra head covering used during a race or workout to protect a swimmer's hair from the effects of chlorine also serves to eliminate drag from a swimmer's hair.Ĭatch phase: The beginning part of the stroke where the arms and hands start to propel the body.Ĭommand: On the long whistle from the referee, swimmers step onto the starting platform or, in the case of the backstroke and medley relay races, enter the water. Because it can be aspirational, and I hope that that is someday going to be the case for my son." That's the one thing about entertainment that can be very powerful. In order to do that, we have to allow the entertainment business to continue to collide us together, and that's the only way to move forward. It's not a judgment on that but the reality is we're segregated, we're separated, and we have to bring ourselves together. I know that's not the right word, but we need to integrate ourselves by putting ourselves in the entertainment field so that people feel comfortable enough.
I think every day it's a struggle, and you think, 'Well, what about all the other things that you've done?' And it's not about that, right? It's about having other people understand that normalizing who you are, visually, will help to make the status quo and the foundation of life become a little bit more integrative. I don't want to say that the struggle is over because it's not. "I mean, I've been in the business for 30 years, and it feels like I just started yesterday. She talked about normalizing diversity and integration in the entertainment industry and what kind of impact that would have on people: Right? And so I think in a way, going into the entertainment business, you fall into this circus of people that are trying to find a way, and now I've been lucky enough to have worked and have had reached a level of success, where I can really feel like I belong, and we're all looking for that."īut, she said, the journey is not over. I mean, as a child for me, coming from an immigrant family, I did not feel like I belonged. I think it's about belonging, and we all want to belong, and that's why we're all here at Comic-Con. "It's always about, 'Is it interesting? Is it challenging?' And as those things build up, you start to build this structure and this foundation and other people can join, so it becomes a city, becomes a state or country, and it becomes something that we could all be a part of. She talked about her personal journey of finding a place of belonging: It's not even just these quotables, it's a real thing and being a part of that is really a dream come true."įor Liu, the progress of diversity and inclusion for Asian and Asian Americans is something that will take time and about making decisions on what an actor wants to do. So it really is a dream to be a part of something that, at that time, was unattainable and to grow into that space, and to have them grow into that space – for diversity, for women, and empowerment.
#Another word for jumping into movie
"I think being a part of a superhero movie is a super dream, because I am a super fan of comics and of that time, which is my childhood.
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