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GMA Network
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- GMA Network
Lovely Abella's husband Benj Manalo undergoes ACL surgery
Lovely Abella revealed that her husband Benj Manalo has undergone surgery for his anterior cruciate ligament (ACL). On Instagram, the 'Hello, Love, Again' actress shared a photo of herself beside Benj, who was lying in a hospital bed, along with an update on his condition. 'Sa panahon ngayon, mapamasaya o mahirap na challenge sa buhay, nagpapasalamat kami kay Lord kasi hindi niya ibibigay kung wala kami matututunan at heto 'yung panahon na mas lalong magiging deeper pa ang faith namin sa [Kaniya]' Lovely wrote. 'Thank you sa lahat ng prayers ninyo nasa recovery area na ang asawa ko,' she added. According to the actress and comedienne, Benj had to rush his operation because he wanted to heal quickly so he could dance with their daughter on her 18th birthday. Lovely expressed how proud she is of her husband and assured him of her unwavering support as he recovers. 'Excited kami sa mga travels at fitness journey natin,' she added. Lovely also shared via Instagram Stories clips and photos of Benj after his operation. In one of the videos, he can be seen walking slowly with his bandaged left leg while a health professional watched over him. Meanwhile, on Instagram Stories, Benj shared that he's now doing well and can move his leg without any pain. 'God keeps His promises. I can testify to that. Grabe ka lang Lord. You said to me before surgery everything will be OK and now everything is OK,' he wrote in the caption. '90 [degree] range, walking without crutches, no pain, all faith. Thank you Lord,' Benj added. Lovely and Benj tied the knot in 2021, with Benj also proposing to Lovely's daughter, Crisha. Their first child, Liam, was born in 2023. —Jade Veronique Yap/CDC, GMA Integrated News
Yahoo
18-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
We asked two parkour athletes to rate the realism of Assassin's Creed's acrobatics, and a surprising 'crime against parkour' might actually be one of the most realistic things they saw
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. I think the Assassin's Creed games are how I first learned about parkour, which would probably be nails on a chalkboard to Toby Segar and Benj Cave, two actual parkour athletes with team Storror in the UK. We asked Toby and Benj to judge Assassin's Creed's take on the sport in the latest episode of our new video series, Reality Check. The two clearly have an affinity for the series, but took it to task in the realism department. I was surprised to learn just how effective the games' hay bale-cushioned leaps of faith might be in real life—up to eight stories with perfect execution, by Toby's reckoning—but the iconic sky high jumps of Assassin's Creed would result in "a perfect assassin's outline in the floor underneath the actual cart." Something I really appreciated were all the little details Toby and Benj caught that just never would have occurred to me to question, like how fast the upcoming Shadows' Naoe can sprint across a tightrope or, indeed, how Mirage's Basim can do a one-story landing onto a rope and not just bounce off or slip into the streets below. The thing Toby deemed "a hate crime against parkour" might actually be one of the most realistic moves they observed, though. In a clip from Shadows' previews, they saw big guy samurai Yasuke clamber up a ledge by swinging his leg up and putting his weight on his knee to mantle it. This move, an "alpine knee," is apparently a parkour 101 no-no. Given the sensitive nature and biomechanics of your knee, you're just never supposed to put your weight onto it like that when practicing parkour. But this actually fits really well with Yasuke, who's your less agile, brute force tank character in Shadows, as opposed to the more nimble Naoe. It makes sense that he'd be alpine knee-level bad at parkour, especially when he's clanking around in 40 or so pounds of lamellar armor. Ubisoft's animators might have specifically selected the move to say "This guy's got a Dex score of eight at best." Above the feasibility and physics of individual maneuvers, Benj pointed out that the biggest fictions in Assassin's Creed are probably the protagonists' iron endurance and flawless execution even after hours of rooftop antics, as well as their constant improvisation when real parkour is carefully planned ahead of time. You can follow Toby, Benj and Storror on Instagram, while the team is also working on its own parkour sim of the same name, set to release in early access at the end of March on Steam. Meanwhile, you can follow PC Gamer on YouTube to catch future episodes of Reality Check, as well as our video reviews and other non text-based content of a PC gaming persuasion. Our previous episodes of Reality Check include a paleontologist's take on Monster Hunter monsters and a psychologist's assessment of drama in The Sims. 2025 games: This year's upcoming releasesBest PC games: Our all-time favoritesFree PC games: Freebie festBest FPS games: Finest gunplayBest RPGs: Grand adventuresBest co-op games: Better together
Yahoo
18-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Freerunning experts reckon Assassin's Creed Shadows' Yasuke probably has very bad knees due to his poor climbing etiquette and "crimes against Parkour"
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Aside from stabbing folks, fighting the pope, and launching yourself into unrealistically clean bales of hay, it's likely the first thing that comes into your mind when you think about Assassin's Creed is some hardcore parkour. Skulking about on the rooftops before flying down to dispatch your target helped the original game stand out at the time, and even with the series changing its identity to become more of an RPG (getting rid of those stealthy one-hit-kill stabs), parkour has remained a huge part of the series. Ahead of the release of Assassin's Creed Shadows later this month, PC Gamer chatted with experts from the parkour team Storror to judge how realistic traversal is in the series. And naturally, some of the ridiculous feats the assassins can pull off throughout the series – like jumping off a massive cathedral and landing in a nice bush, landing on a tightrope perfectly at high speed, or reverse-ziplining up a building – were dubbed unrealistic. But the two seemed downright offended by Yasuke's parkour skills. At the start of the video, we see a heavily armored Yasuke jumping across some beams to reach the top of a nearby cliff. Considering he's got a massive club and naginata on his back and is decked out in armor, he's unsurprisingly a bit slow-going compared to the likes of Ezio, but that's not what picked up the experts' attention. When he finally arrives at the cliffside, Yasuke climbs up by throwing his leg up onto the cliff and pushing up with his knee, which catches the ire of the pair. Benj and Toby both recoiled after seeing this, with Benj exclaiming, "You will be canceled out of any parkour community around the world," while Toby goes one step further, dubbing it "a hate crime to parkour." The duo explains that this move, the 'Alpine Knee' is a complete no-no when it comes to parkour, as the knees are "such a sensitive part of your body," with Benj saying that expert parkour athletes "avoid knees and elbows at all costs." To come to Yasuke's defense, the man isn't a ninja like his colleague (is that an appropriate term for professional killers?), Naoe. He's a big buff samurai with heaps of armor and massive weapons on hand; it's obviously going to be tougher to follow proper parkour etiquette. It's not like Assassin's Creed Origins' Bayek, whose sliding technique when descending down a pyramid was also slaughtered by the duo; that's poor form for a nimble of Assassin's Creed Shadows, from what we've seen, the game's expert difficulty looks like the ideal way to play it.
