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What to know about reducing training intensity a.k.a. tapering leading up to a race, including the benefits and how to do it right.
In signal processing and statistics, a window function (also known as an apodization function or tapering function [1]) is a mathematical function that is zero-valued outside of some chosen interval. Typically, window functions are symmetric around the middle of the interval, approach a maximum in the middle, and taper away from the middle.
In sports, tapering is the practice of reducing exercise in the days just before an important competition. [1] Tapering is customary both in endurance sports, such as long-distance running and swimming, and strength sports, such as weightlifting and sprinting. For many athletes, a significant period of tapering is essential for optimal ...
Gunsmithing Modern Firearms: A Gun Guy's Guide to Making Good Guns Even Better, Bryce M. Towsley · 2019; Gunsmithing - Page 176, Roy F. Dunlap · 1963; The Complete Guide to Gunsmithing Gun Care and Repair, Charles Edward Chapel 1962. Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing; Revised edition (14 May 2015), Paperback: 512 pages, ISBN 1632202697
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A sabot (UK: / s æ ˈ b oʊ, ˈ s æ b oʊ /, US: / ˈ s eɪ b oʊ /) is a supportive device used in firearm/artillery ammunitions to fit/patch around a projectile, such as a bullet/slug or a flechette-like projectile (such as a kinetic energy penetrator), and keep it aligned in the center of the barrel when fired.
The city's system of bollards - short, vertical posts to block vehicle access to pedestrian streets - was in the process of being repaired, the vice president of the New Orleans City Council told ...
An example of this can be shown by the following tests, run by Performance Shooter magazine in December, 1996. The magazine was testing seven brands of .38 Special wadcutter rounds in three different revolvers , a Smith & Wesson Model 686 and Model 52, and a Colt Python Target model, with six, five and eight inch long barrels, respectively.