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  2. Plyometrics - Wikipedia

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    Jump technique remains the same regardless of whether it is a true plyometric exercise or a jump exercise. The hips, knees, and ankles flex when landing and the joints extend on the upward return. The sequence and overlapping in the sequence is basically the same, beginning with the hip extension, followed by knee extension, and ending with the ...

  3. Countermovement - Wikipedia

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    Countermovement groups are a part of American society that try to compete for government legislation to support their own views. The resource mobilization theory is an important issue in countermovements.

  4. Vertical jump - Wikipedia

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    Vertical jump measurements are used primarily to measure athletic performance. In sports such as high jump, netball, basketball, Australian rules football, volleyball, figure skating and swimming a strong vertical jump is a necessary skill, but many other sports measure their players' vertical jump ability during physical examinations.

  5. Force platform - Wikipedia

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    Typical force plate assessments in sport include the countermovement jump (CMJ), squat jump (SJ), drop jump (DJ), countermovement rebound jump, and isometric mid thigh pull (IMTP). Hawkin Dynamics force plates in sport. Practitioners often have trouble understanding which metrics to track when using force plates.

  6. Stretch shortening cycle - Wikipedia

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    The results of these often contradictory studies have been associated with improved efficiencies for human or animal movements such as counter-movement jumps and running. [6] [7] [8] However it is still not established why and how this enhancement takes place. It is one of the underlying mechanisms of plyometric training.

  7. Talk:Vertical jump - Wikipedia

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    This is misleading as there are two sub-types within standing jumps, with an important distinction, and who knows how many in running jumps. For standing jumps you may either start from the crouched position (a squat jump) or start tall, crouch down and and then jump from the resulting squat (a countermovement jump;). This dynamism tends to ...

  8. Passengers evacuate plane on slides after Delta flight aborts ...

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    Hundreds of passengers were forced to evacuate on slides during a snowstorm after their Delta flight aborted takeoff from Atlanta due to an engine issue Friday morning, the airline said. Delta ...

  9. Double movement - Wikipedia

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    Second, a reactionary "countermovement" arises whereby society attempts to re-embed the economy through the creation of social protections such as labor laws and tariffs. In Polanyi's view, these liberal reformers seek to subordinate society to the market economy, which is taken by these reformers to be self-regulating. To Polanyi, this is a ...