Can Figure Skaters Defy Gravity? with Dr. Deborah King
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Then You're Always Landing on Your Right Ankle
Skaters always land on the same leg for all jumps, even though take offs look really different. So they have thegetu stress fractures. Injuries like jumper's knee, hip and low back stress s. And so something isn't strong enough, it just that force literally goes up and breaks your thucking bone. It more gets sort of micro damaged overtime. But there's something that a we would call like u stress e us t r e s s, which is good stress,. Which is part of training. You do stress to your muscles, your bones, and then with a little rest and recovery, they build back stronger.
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