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  • Thumbnail for Ski jumping
    ski jump with 253.5 metres (832 ft), set on the ski flying hill in Vikersund in 2017. Ski jumping can also be performed in the summer on an in-run where...
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    moving ("flying") into the target after a running start to gain forward momentum. In this sense, a "Jump kick" is a special case of a flying kick, any...
    5 KB (597 words) - 01:31, 31 May 2024
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    ever wanted to know about BASE jumping, speed flying, and skydiving but didn't know whom to ask. "Two men die in base jumping accidents in Switzerland". The...
    77 KB (3,827 words) - 03:11, 30 July 2024
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    costume). An early attempt at wingsuit flying was made on 4 February 1912 by a 33-year-old tailor, Franz Reichelt, who jumped from the Eiffel Tower to test his...
    44 KB (4,716 words) - 15:08, 2 July 2024
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    Ski flying is a winter sport discipline derived from ski jumping, in which much greater distances can be achieved. It is a form of competitive individual...
    151 KB (18,889 words) - 07:54, 15 July 2024
  • Lotus kick (redirect from Jump outside kick)
    jiǎo; lit. 'flying jump kick"'), also known as the jump outside or téng kōng bǎi lián is a popular jump in modern wushu taolu. The jump involves performing...
    3 KB (392 words) - 11:05, 27 September 2023
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    Parachuting (redirect from Tandem jump)
    or acrobatic free-flying. A cross-country jump is a skydive where the participants open their parachutes immediately after jumping, with the intention...
    65 KB (8,199 words) - 18:02, 19 June 2024
  • jumping from high mountains, BASE jumpers will often use special clothing to improve control and flight characteristics in the air. Wingsuit flying has...
    37 KB (4,482 words) - 17:34, 4 August 2024
  • Thompson died on August 28, 2009, while performing a wingsuit proximity-flying jump from a helicopter in the Swiss Alps, when he hit the side of the mountain...
    2 KB (174 words) - 22:31, 13 January 2024
  • Look up Jump, jump, or jumping in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Jump most commonly refers to jumping, a form of movement in which an organism propels...
    7 KB (892 words) - 15:23, 18 June 2024
  • larger than ski jumping hills, with the K-point set between 185 metres (607 ft) and 200 m (660 ft). Unlike ordinary ski jumping, the Ski Flying World Champion...
    20 KB (225 words) - 15:51, 28 January 2024
  • Rope jumping, also known as rope free-flying, falling is the extreme sport of jumping off a cliff while anchored to a highline system with a rope. This...
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  • "Debbie Lawler: the Pain and Payoff of Jumping Over Cars". People. Retrieved 19 July 2019. "Debbie Lawler "The Flying Angel" — United States". cyclejumpers...
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    hips, and the side of the abdomen. A flying knee (known as hanuman thayarn in Muay Thai, and sometimes called a jumping knee) is a knee strike very similar...
    7 KB (831 words) - 00:26, 21 May 2024
  • Jump blues is an up-tempo style of blues, jazz, and boogie woogie usually played by small groups and featuring horn instruments. It was popular in the...
    10 KB (1,069 words) - 17:49, 28 July 2024
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    Peak ski jump poised to rejoin world stage". Duluth News Tribune. 24 October 2015. Retrieved 24 October 2015. "Copper Peak Ski Flying Jump". National...
    15 KB (831 words) - 18:47, 20 November 2023
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    203.4.725. PMID 10648214. Whitfield, John (10 March 2000). "Off to a flying jump-start : Nature News". Nature. Nature Publishing Group. doi:10.1038/news000316-1...
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    Bungee jumping (/ˈbʌndʒi/), also spelled bungy jumping, is an activity that involves a person jumping from a great height while connected to a large elastic...
    27 KB (3,106 words) - 19:06, 29 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Fanny Blankers-Koen
    world records during that period, in events as diverse as the long jump, the high jump, and sprint and hurdling events. Apart from her four Olympic titles...
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    year, except the horses were not required to do figure-eights, flying changes, or the jumping and obedience tests that were required of the dressage horses...
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