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  2. Backbend - Wikipedia

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    A backbend is a gymnastics, contortion, dance and ice skating move, where the spine is bent backwards, and catching oneself with the hands. Throughout the move, the abdominal muscles, obliques, and legs are used to steady the performer while curving backwards. Modern yoga includes some backbending asanas. Backbending can be acquired from ...

  3. Hypermobility (joints) - Wikipedia

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    Hypermobility, also known as double-jointedness, describes joints that stretch farther than normal. [2] For example, some hypermobile people can bend their thumbs backwards to their wrists and bend their knee joints backwards, put their leg behind the head or perform other contortionist "tricks".

  4. Glossary of gymnastics terms - Wikipedia

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    Cassina Kovacs straight with 1/1 turn; named after Igor Cassina. Chestroll This skill to bend the back. It is also called a chin stand. Cartwheel The maneuver where one moves sideways, from hands to feet, in a straight line (in the motion that the wheel of a cart would follow), while keeping the back, arms, and legs straight, and the feet pointed.

  5. A year after a 'catastrophic' leg injury, gymnast Brody ... - AOL

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    A year after a 'catastrophic' leg injury, gymnast Brody Malone is back and maybe better than ever. WILL GRAVES. May 31, 2024 at 2:15 PM. ... he botched the end of a tumbling run and bent awkwardly ...

  6. Genu recurvatum - Wikipedia

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    Genu recurvatum is a deformity in the knee joint, so that the knee bends backwards. In this deformity, excessive extension occurs in the tibiofemoral joint. Genu recurvatum is also called knee hyperextension and back knee. This deformity is more common in women [citation needed] and people with familial ligamentous laxity. [2]

  7. Auburn gymnast opens up about moment of gruesome leg ... - AOL

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    Auburn University student and former gymnast Samantha Cerio opened up about her recent career-ending injury during an interview with TODAY. Auburn gymnast opens up about moment of gruesome leg ...

  8. Split (gymnastics) - Wikipedia

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    This can also be an oversplit and a front oversplit with the back arched backwards. Twisting split is performed by transitioning from front split to side split, and then to the opposite front split. Martial arts split is a front split in which the back leg is rotated so the inside edge of the foot rests on the ground.

  9. French gymnast suffers a horrific leg injury that could be ...

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