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2. Figure 8 (climbing) - Wikipedia

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   This device utilizes a large surface area in contact with a climbing rope to provide sufficient friction along with the proper technique to be used as a belay device or for rappelling. A figure 8 (sometimes just referred to as an 8) is used in conjunction with a climbing harness and locking carabiner to control a belayed climber's descent, or ...

3. Professional wrestling holds - Wikipedia

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   The anaconda vise is a compression choke. The wrestler wraps their arms around the head and one arm of the opponent and squeezes, choking the opponent. It is considered legal in professional wrestling, although it is a chokehold. This submission hold was invented by Hiroyoshi Tenzan. Also known as an arm-trap triangle choke.

4. Grappling hold - Wikipedia

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   Two soldiers in a "crude north–south position". A pinning hold (also known as a hold down and in Japanese as osaekomi-waza, 抑え込み技, "pinning technique") is a general grappling hold used in ground fighting that is aimed to subdue by exerting superior control over an opponent and pinning the opponent to the ground.

5. Figure-eight loop - Wikipedia

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   A figure-of-eight loop tied using the follow-through method. A figure-eight loop is created by doubling the rope into a bight, then tying the standard figure-eight knot.. In climbing, this knot is used to save time when repeatedly attaching the rope to climbing harnesses, using locking carabiners, such as when a group of people are climbing on the same top-rope.

6. Figure eight (angling) - Wikipedia

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   The figure eight is a technique used by anglers to fish specifically for the muskellunge. [1] It has been developed due to the nature of the fish's hunting style. Essentially, the figure eight is a final enticement performed by the angler just before lifting the lure out of the water for another cast.

7. Figure 8 - Wikipedia

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   Figure 8, a riding figure used in the training of horses; Figure-eight, type of noseband; Figure eight turn, man overboard rescue turn in sailing; Figure 8 (belay device), a piece of rock climbing equipment; Figure of 8, figure in English country dance; Figure eight (angling), a technique used by anglers to fish specifically for the muskellunge

8. Oscar Predictions 2013 - The Huffington Post

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   Don't rely on bloviating pundits to tell you who'll prevail on Hollywood's big night. The Huffington Post crunched the stats on every Oscar nominee of the past 30 years to produce a scientific metric for predicting the winners at the 2013 Academy Awards.

9. Bandage - Wikipedia

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   The term 'compression bandage' describes a wide variety of bandages with many different applications. Short stretch compression bandages are applied to a limb (usually for treatment of lymphedema or venous ulcers). This type of bandage is capable of shortening around the limb after application and is therefore not exerting ever-increasing ...