18,000 Falls Per Jump: Debriana Berlin on Embodiment, Power, and What Happens When the People Running the World Forget They Have Bodies
Debriana Berlin has a number she returns to often. On average, it takes eighteen thousand falls to learn one jump in competitive figure skating. She learned fourteen jumps. By her own count, she has fallen roughly 250,000 times, and gotten up 250,000 times, all while carrying an unstable
