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Author Topic: Skaters land with 8X their body weight  (Read 2053 times)

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Offline AgnesNitt

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Offline jbruced

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Re: Skaters land with 8X their body weight
« Reply #1 on: November 06, 2015, 07:41:55 AM »
Interesting problem for jumpers. It seems they need the high levels of repetitions to learn and then perfect a competitive jump but the amount of repetitions may need to be reduced to prevent injuries.

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Re: Skaters land with 8X their body weight
« Reply #2 on: November 06, 2015, 11:44:32 PM »
That is why jumps are done in the harness first.

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Re: Skaters land with 8X their body weight
« Reply #3 on: November 07, 2015, 05:46:32 AM »
Here's more info on the design of the instrumented blade:

http://www.vishaypg.com/docs/25501/25501.pdf .

It would be great if the various figure skating associations would fund more research.  But perhaps the money is not there.  Maybe we need to get the NHL involved somehow ;).