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  2. Dutch angle - Wikipedia

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    Person passed out on sidewalk – New York City, 2008 – shot using Dutch angle. In filmmaking and photography, the Dutch angle, also known as Dutch tilt, canted angle, vortex plane, or oblique angle, is a type of camera shot that involves setting the camera at an angle so that the shot is composed with vertical lines at an angle to the side of the frame, or so that the horizon line of the ...

  3. Sit-up - Wikipedia

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    Sit-up form. The sit-up is an abdominal endurance training exercise to strengthen, tighten and tone the abdominal muscles.It is similar to a curl-up (that target the rectus abdominis and also work the external and internal obliques), but sit-ups have a fuller range of motion and condition additional muscles.

  4. Talk:Dutch angle - Wikipedia

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    What you're showing with the Caligari still is a high-angle shot, not a Dutch angle-shot. A Dutch angle is defined by tilting your camera to the side so all horizontals and verticals become tilted. Look at the three people in the Caligari still, they're all standing upright, perfectly alligned and parallel to the sides of the picture.

  5. Angelo Poffo - Wikipedia

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    On July 4, 1945, he set a world record for sit-ups. [1] He completed 6,033 sit-ups in four hours and ten minutes. According to his son Lanny, after 6,000 sit-ups he did 33 more, one for each year of Jesus's life. [1] [6] After leaving the Navy, Poffo attended DePaul University and was a catcher for the DePaul Blue Demons baseball team. [1]

  6. Sitting - Wikipedia

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    The Thinker by Auguste Rodin. Sitting is a basic action and resting position in which the body weight is supported primarily by the bony ischial tuberosities with the buttocks in contact with the ground or a horizontal surface such as a chair seat, instead of by the lower limbs as in standing, squatting or kneeling.

  7. Squatting position - Wikipedia

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    Vietnamese children squatting. Squatting is a versatile posture where the weight of the body is on the feet but the knees and hips are bent. In contrast, sitting involves supporting the weight of the body on the ischial tuberosities of the pelvis, with the lower buttocks in contact with the ground or a horizontal object.

  8. Jumping position - Wikipedia

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    Toes down/Heels up: This is usually accompanied by the swinging lower leg. Often due to incorrect leg position, too-long stirrup, or, in some cases, due to the rider standing on the toe, instead of sinking his or her weight down his lower leg.

  9. Kneeling chair - Wikipedia

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    Conclusions from scientific work on the possible benefits of the kneeling position point in different directions. A. C. Mandal's research from the 1960s to the 1990s concluded that a forward sloping seat did effectively tip the pelvis forward, opening up the angle between torso and thigh, and thereby correctly aligns the spine, indicating a more suitable position for long periods of sitting.