620:. I can't find a good pic, now, but have seen them of the sheep actually jumping. They do this weird jump in the air and kinda arch their back (I don't think they get feet to head though...) Yeah, you could write an article on it, I guess, using the code and some books as RS's. And IG mag, I guess. however, you really miss out on a lot of pretty decent material because we don't allow blogs (even good ones, by coaches), etc. Really that field a lot of the activity is in forums, blogs, youtube, etc. I think the gymnastics project was going to do an article for evey trick, but that project is dead, dead, dead. Wiki is just not covering that sport basically (unfortuate as it is really not that obscure, has large female audience...but we are 90% male). I did do an article on
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624:, and tried to get a photo. No go. Guess I could write and try to get donations, but even then, most photogs don't want to give away. Would have to try for a snap myself. If for some reason, we did get an FP of the sheep jump (and it does not deserve it, check out the othe pics on Google Images) then I would go ahead and write a stub to cover it.
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