Word: kneeing
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Ashtanga or no Ashtanga, I'm thinking, if I bop you in the knee, that's gonna stop...
...that you just know she didn't pay for, I feel my blood start to boil. I get the primal, irrepressible urge to jump on a cross-country bus to wherever she's shooting, run up to her in the middle of a scene and kick her in the knee. And let there be no doubt that right after I bruise her shin, I will make a very bad face...
...preset pitch while the instrument was being played, making the movement of the note part of the style. The first recording to feature this was 1953's "Slowly," by Webb Pierce, with Isaacs on steel, and the cat was out of the bag. More pedals were added, and then knee levers, which provided new ways to raise or lower the pitch of the strings. By the late '50s the pedal steel guitar - now up to 10 strings - was pretty much the way we know it today...
Research has also shown that women jump and land differently than men do. This is critical because a high percentage of ACL injuries occur during these moves. Women are less flexible in the hip and knee joints and tend to land in a position of extension rather than the preferable flexed position. Special jump training involving wall jumps and single-leg hops strengthens leg muscles and can create more favorable body mechanics...
Finally, women can protect their knees by improving their balance. This can be done by building up the muscles surrounding the knees. These muscles serve as shock absorbers, reducing the force that eventually gets transferred to the ACL and protecting against excessive rotation at the knee joint. Working on balance boards for as little as 20 minutes a day over a period of six weeks can improve coordination of the hamstrings and the gastrocnemius muscles in the calves, protecting the ACL during athletic twists and turns. Training properly and developing physical conditioning will not only help level the playing field...