Some journalists and judges have become "Cyclops," Mishin said, myopically focusing on transitional moves between jumps instead of on the difficulty and innovation of the jumps themselves.
While the jumps themselves aren't open to the public, you can still access the area to watch the pros train.
While locals make the 35-foot dive into the water in an attempt to earn tips, tourists all too often try the jump for themselves... sometimes with life-altering injuries as a result.
The others burst out laughing, then jumped up themselves.
If the progress of foreign firms in China sometimes seems a bit like a game of draughts, with companies jumping over themselves to gain better positions, the advance of Chinese firms abroad is more like a game of chess.
Tennis watchers have been jumping over themselves to call this or that the greatest match ever, but it's becoming a distinction with an extremely short shelf life: each year seems to bring one to top the last.
But even Edwards has admitted that the Jets' offense was flat in the second half, and he suggested that there are some things the Jets could do in the future to jump-start themselves to begin the third quarter.
Walsh was also forced to request this week that people cease the practice of "snow jumping" – propelling themselves from heights, often upstairs windows, into massive banks of snow while wearing only bathing costumes.
Mothers were there encouraging their daughters to give it a go before jumping in themselves, only to return back in line and give it another shot.
I was sucking great gulps of air, my lungs feeling like they were expanding beyond capacity, the muscles of my face so constricted with my spreading terror and desperation that, would we have been seen by someone in front of us they would surely have screamed and heaved something buoyant at us or jumped in themselves.
