diff --git a/index.html b/index.html
index 42a76a5..5d6d89f 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=221"></script>
+<script type="module" src="src/main.js?v=222"></script>
 </body>
 </html>
diff --git a/src/beats.js b/src/beats.js
index 8bc1430..7d89d45 100644
--- a/src/beats.js
+++ b/src/beats.js
@@ -396,7 +396,14 @@ function matchReady() {
 // the collapse reads as one continuous movement decelerating into the ground; the 0.07 s fall2 it
 // replaced gave the two drawn frames ~4 display frames each and read as a cut, and a 0.40 s one split
 // them 0.80 against 0.56 m/s, which is a visible hitch between two poses of the same drop.
-export const FALL = [['fall1', 0.06], ['fall2', 0.25], ['fall3', 2.0], ['rise', 0.45]];
+// 2026-08-13, after the early-fall retiming: "the progression of frames in the fall must be
+// quicker... we must remove the rise frame, the opponent respawns anyway... the lying itself can
+// stay that long." So: the DROP tightened (0.06+0.25 -> 0.05+0.15 — the collapse now plays
+// against a live rolling ball, and the slower drop tuned for a dead court read as mush next to
+// it), the 2 s prone hold KEEPS its bench-tuned length, and the rise row is CUT: done() puts the
+// body on its mark in its wound skin anyway, and rising just to be teleported read as a respawn
+// with extra steps. The z_*rise frames stay in the sheets/preload — the bench can still show them.
+export const FALL = [['fall1', 0.05], ['fall2', 0.15], ['fall3', 2.0]];
 // Read LIVE by startFall, because a snapshot goes stale the moment the table is tuned and the match's
 // 'over' beat would then expire mid-collapse — the exact bug the comment above is about.
 export const fallLen = () => FALL.reduce((s, f) => s + f[1], 0);
diff --git a/test.js b/test.js
index c6fe086..a9208ef 100644
--- a/test.js
+++ b/test.js
@@ -746,17 +746,17 @@ test('a wounding point knocks the body down and it gets up MINUS the limb', () =
   update(DT);
   assert.match(zb.showFrame, /fall1$/, 'first frame is the buckle');
   assert.ok(!/w\d/.test(zb.showFrame), 'and it is the UNWOUNDED buckle');
-  // ...and it must LIE THERE a moment before it rises: a corpse that touches the ground and is
-  // instantly upright reads as a stumble, not as something the point did to it.
+  // ...and it must LIE THERE a moment: a corpse that touches the ground and is instantly upright
+  // reads as a stumble, not as something the point did to it. THE RISE ROW IS GONE (2026-08-13,
+  // Oliver: "remove the rise frame. the opponent respawns anyway") — the beat ends prone and the
+  // body takes its mark in the wound skin.
   let downFrames = 0;
-  for (let i = 0; i < FALL_LEN * 60 && G.matchFall && !/rise$/.test(zb.showFrame || ''); i++) {
+  for (let i = 0; i < (FALL_LEN + 1) * 60 && G.matchFall; i++) {
     update(DT); if (/fall3$/.test(zb.showFrame || '')) downFrames++;
   }
   assert.ok(downFrames > 0.3 * 60, 'it stays down for a beat: ' + (downFrames / 60).toFixed(2) + 's');
-  assert.match(zb.showFrame, /w1rise$/, 'it drags itself up as the one-armed body');
-  // ...and the point comes back only once it is standing
-  for (let i = 0; i < FALL_LEN * 60 && G.matchFall; i++) update(DT);
   assert.equal(G.matchFall, null, 'the fall ends on its own clock');
+  assert.equal(racketStage(zb), 1, '...and it comes back as the one-armed body');
   assert.equal(zb.showFrame, null, 'and hands the sprite back to drawZombie');
   assert.equal(G.serveNum, 1, 'matchReady ran: the next point is armed');
 });