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ok this post just came out of my queue, it’s an adorable series of sketch animations of Jyn Erso powerlifting the entire Rogue One squad except she can’t pick Baze up, and I thought it was cute, but in the tags I mentioned that I now headcanoned Jyn as Totally A Crossfit Chick and at the time it was a throwaway line but now I can’t stop thinking about it.
I say this with love. I did derby for eight years, and Crossfit became popular in the last couple of those years, and many of my former leaguemates have gone on to be Those Crossfit Chicks.
I know Jyn is a smol, but here’s a secret, that many of you might not know. I learned this in roller derby. There is really no one body type of woman who is Strong. While yes, it’s true, if I did hitting drills with my 4′7″, 102-pound teammate, she couldn’t knock me over, she absolutely was capable of using her body and leverage to redirect me. Yes, there are inarguable forces of momentum, but– I’m 5′7″, and was at the time about 215 pounds, and she couldn’t stop me but she could sure keep me from getting where I wanted to be.
I even played a bit of co-ed, and let me tell you something, I’m bigger than most dudes. Our bench manager was a man, a hockey player, and he skated with us at practices, and I was his exact height and had 20 pounds on him, and he sometimes could out-leverage me, but if I could get my hip on him he wasn’t getting past me. And he wasn’t any faster than me. (Later we had another male bench manager, who went on to have a great roller derby career with a men’s league in Toronto, and as a bonus, he was our captain’s little brother, and she had twenty-five years’ experience at beating the shit out of him, and let me tell you, we beat the shit out of him.)
We have this idea, in culture, that men are So Big. I keep making jokes like it myself, about people like Riz Ahmed and Oscar Isaac, who are five eight or so, calling them tiny and pocket-sized and so on. But that’s. That’s my height, and I’m actually pretty huge for a woman. I know many men shorter than myself, and there are occasional jokes now and then but honestly, it’s not at all unusual, even for middle-class well-fed white dudes of whatever northern European lineage we like to headcanon as being giant. It’s just not true. Sure, I know a ton of guys who are huge– my dude is six three, my brother-in-law is six-two; my other brother-in-law is only five-ten but he’s got shoulders like a snowplow, he’s just a giant dude.
I personally know and could probably link you to the Instagrams of at least a dozen women under five-three who could destroy you. And they don’t really look like it, mostly.
In the modern AU, Jyn Erso is absolutely a Crossfit Chick and never shuts up about it but also if you need to change your car tire without a jack, she will powerlift that bitch.
ok this post just came out of my queue, it’s an adorable series of sketch animations of Jyn Erso powerlifting the entire Rogue One squad except she can’t pick Baze up, and I thought it was cute, but in the tags I mentioned that I now headcanoned Jyn as Totally A Crossfit Chick and at the time it was a throwaway line but now I can’t stop thinking about it.
I say this with love. I did derby for eight years, and Crossfit became popular in the last couple of those years, and many of my former leaguemates have gone on to be Those Crossfit Chicks.
I know Jyn is a smol, but here’s a secret, that many of you might not know. I learned this in roller derby. There is really no one body type of woman who is Strong. While yes, it’s true, if I did hitting drills with my 4′7″, 102-pound teammate, she couldn’t knock me over, she absolutely was capable of using her body and leverage to redirect me. Yes, there are inarguable forces of momentum, but– I’m 5′7″, and was at the time about 215 pounds, and she couldn’t stop me but she could sure keep me from getting where I wanted to be.
I even played a bit of co-ed, and let me tell you something, I’m bigger than most dudes. Our bench manager was a man, a hockey player, and he skated with us at practices, and I was his exact height and had 20 pounds on him, and he sometimes could out-leverage me, but if I could get my hip on him he wasn’t getting past me. And he wasn’t any faster than me. (Later we had another male bench manager, who went on to have a great roller derby career with a men’s league in Toronto, and as a bonus, he was our captain’s little brother, and she had twenty-five years’ experience at beating the shit out of him, and let me tell you, we beat the shit out of him.)
We have this idea, in culture, that men are So Big. I keep making jokes like it myself, about people like Riz Ahmed and Oscar Isaac, who are five eight or so, calling them tiny and pocket-sized and so on. But that’s. That’s my height, and I’m actually pretty huge for a woman. I know many men shorter than myself, and there are occasional jokes now and then but honestly, it’s not at all unusual, even for middle-class well-fed white dudes of whatever northern European lineage we like to headcanon as being giant. It’s just not true. Sure, I know a ton of guys who are huge– my dude is six three, my brother-in-law is six-two; my other brother-in-law is only five-ten but he’s got shoulders like a snowplow, he’s just a giant dude.
I personally know and could probably link you to the Instagrams of at least a dozen women under five-three who could destroy you. And they don’t really look like it, mostly.
In the modern AU, Jyn Erso is absolutely a Crossfit Chick and never shuts up about it but also if you need to change your car tire without a jack, she will powerlift that bitch.
