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  2. Handbrake turn - Wikipedia

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    François Duval performing a handbrake turn with his Citroën Xsara WRC during 2007 Rallye Deutschland. The handbrake turn (also known as a bootleg or bootlegger's turn) is a driving technique used to deliberately slide a car sideways, either for the purpose of quickly negotiating a very tight bend, or for turning around well within the vehicle's own turning diameter.

  3. Biomechanics of sprint running - Wikipedia

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    Human legs during walking have been mechanically simplified in previous studies to a set of inverted pendulums, while distance running (characterized as a bouncing gait) has modeled the legs as springs. Until recently, it had been long believed that faster sprinting speeds are promoted solely by physiological features that increase stride ...

  4. Bootleg turn - Wikipedia

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    A bootleg turn is a driving maneuver intended to reverse the direction of travel of a forward-moving automobile by 180 degrees in a minimum amount of time while staying within the width of a two-lane road. [1] This maneuver is also known as a smuggler's turn, powerslide, or simply bootlegger.

  5. Rebound exercise - Wikipedia

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    Some of the basic movements and actions of rebound exercise include bouncing in place (sometimes also called "jumping" or the Health Bounce [1]), jumping jacks, twists, side-to-side motions, running in place, dance movements, and a wide variety of other movements, patterned or un-patterned, with or without the use of hand-weights or other ...

  6. Is driving on the shoulder to let faster vehicles pass you ...

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    Slow or stop when the vehicle is disabled and traffic or other circumstances prohibit the safe movement of the vehicles to the shoulder to the right of the main traveled portion of the roadway.

  7. How to spend less on gas: Fix your car. Drive slower ... - AOL

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    If you're one of the lucky few driving a stick shift these days, bear in mind that higher revolutions per minute can be less fuel efficient. Upshift with the tachometer at 2,000 to 2,500 rpm, not ...

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    Shoot bubbles while candy and cakes advance towards your mouse hero in this free fast-paced match 3 bubble shooter ... Home & Garden. Medicare. News. Shopping. Main Menu ... Your game will start ...

  9. Mechanics of Oscar Pistorius's running blades - Wikipedia

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    Most sprinters spring out of the blocks with their fastest time and slow down as the race progresses, but Pistorius ran a "negative split", starting slowly and building up speed in the last half of the race (though he no longer uses this pattern). His average time was also less in the 400m race when compared to other runners than in the 200m. [12]