diff --git a/index.html b/index.html
index e8960fa..102820f 100644
--- a/index.html
+++ b/index.html
@@ -431,6 +431,6 @@ if (location.hostname !== 'splatter-tennis.wuwi.one') {
     </div>
   </div>
 </div>
-<script type="module" src="src/main.js?v=208"></script>
+<script type="module" src="src/main.js?v=209"></script>
 </body>
 </html>
diff --git a/src/config.js b/src/config.js
index 3943a04..cecae40 100644
--- a/src/config.js
+++ b/src/config.js
@@ -9,8 +9,12 @@ export const TUNE = {
   playerSpeed: 5.4, aiSpeed: 4.3,
   reach: 1.3, aiReach: 1.6, // tight contact radius: the assist positions you, the tap must be honest
   fallSlideDist: 0.5,      // s of run the collapse travels: total slide = the body's speed x this
-  fallSlideMix: [0.10, 0.30, 0.45, 0.15], // how that total is shared across fall1/fall2/fall3/rise, so
-                           // the landing SKIDS and the rise still moves. Tuned in #bench (FALL button).
+  fallSlideMix: [0.12, 0.35, 0.53, 0], // how the total is shared across fall1/fall2/fall3/rise, so the
+                           // landing SKIDS. THE RISE GETS NOTHING — "the slide must be finished before
+                           // the rise": a body pushing itself back onto its feet is planted, and still
+                           // drifting while it stands up reads as the court moving under it. The 0.15
+                           // it used to take is redistributed across the first three in proportion, so
+                           // the total travel is unchanged. Tuned in #bench with the FALL button.
   proneSink: 0.20,         // how far a fall3 frame drops, as a fraction of its own drawn height:
                            // its lowest ink is the RACKET, so bottom-aligning it floats the body
                            // (see the note at drawZombie's drawStatic call)
diff --git a/src/zombies.js b/src/zombies.js
index 451e8cd..33ffd57 100644
--- a/src/zombies.js
+++ b/src/zombies.js
@@ -1018,7 +1018,12 @@ export function updateZombies(dt) {
     if (zb.burnT > 0 && burnTick(zb, i, dt)) continue; // the fire finished it — the array moved under us
     // a chapter boss is excluded: bossAI owns BOTH of its axes, and leaving this in advanced it twice
     if (!held && zb.variant !== 'B') zb.z += zb.v * (zb.burnT > 0 ? TUNE.burnPanic : 1) * dt;
-    bleed(zb); // open wounds bleed every frame they're standing
+    // ...AND A BODY ON THE GROUND IS NOT STANDING, which this line already said and did not enforce.
+    // bleed()'s wound anchors are ABSOLUTE world heights — the headless neck spurt is pinned at
+    // y = 1.5 m — so a corpse lying flat through the fall kept spraying from where its neck used to
+    // be, two metres above itself. Oliver: "this looks like blood fountains midair." The falling body
+    // is the one G.matchFall owns; every other body on court bleeds as before.
+    if (!(G.matchFall && zb.variant === 'r')) bleed(zb); // open wounds bleed every frame they're standing
 
     if (zb.shieldT > 0) zb.shieldT -= dt; // staggered chair comes back up when this runs out
     if (zb.hitT > 0) zb.hitT -= dt;       // boss contact cooldown (see TUNE.bossHitCool)