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  2. Visual cliff - Wikipedia

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    Before Gibson and Walk conducted their study with human infants, multiple experiments were conducted using rats, one-day-old chicks, newborn kids, kittens, pigs, adult chickens, dogs, lambs, and monkeys. Overall, most species would avoid the deep side of the visual cliff, some right after being born.

  3. Cliff jumping - Wikipedia

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    A person jumping off a cliff in Arizona. Cliff diving is the leaping off a cliff edge, usually into a body of water, as a form of sport. It may be done as part of the sport of coastal exploration [1] or as a standalone activity.

  4. Plyometrics - Wikipedia

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    Vertical depth jump: starting from the top of a box, jump down and back up as fast as possible. [16] Plyometric push-up (plyo push-up): perform a push up, but exert enough upward force to lift the hands and body off the ground. [16] Broad jump (long jump). Pike jump. [17] Straddle jump (similar to split jumps used by dancers, gymnasts and ...

  5. JumpStart - Wikipedia

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    JumpStart (known as Jump Ahead in the United Kingdom) is an educational media franchise created for children, primarily consisting of educational games. The franchise began with independent developer Fanfare Software 's 1994 video game JumpStart Kindergarten .

  6. YouTube Kids - Wikipedia

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    YouTube Kids has faced criticism from advocacy groups, particularly the Fairplay Organization, for concerns surrounding the app's use of commercial advertising, as well as algorithmic suggestions of videos that may be inappropriate for the app's target audience, as the app has been associated with a controversy surrounding disturbing or violent ...

  7. Power training - Wikipedia

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    An example of a wrist strengthening exercise is a one-handed barbell deadlift exercise, which requires increased utilisation of the wrist in order to stabilise the bar. Strong and flexible joints also help to prevent injury. If a joint is injured or excessively weak then it will inhibit the amount of power that it can cope with and transfer ...

  8. Jumping - Wikipedia

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    In a jump from stationary (i.e., a standing jump), all of the work required to accelerate the body through launch is done in a single movement. In a moving jump or running jump, the jumper introduces additional vertical velocity at launch while conserving as much horizontal momentum as possible. Unlike stationary jumps, in which the jumper's ...

  9. Chinese jump rope - Wikipedia

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    Chinese jump rope combines the skills of hopscotch with some of the patterns from the hand-and-string game cat's cradle. The game began in 7th-century China. In the 1960s, children in the Western hemisphere adapted the game. German-speaking children call Chinese jump rope gummitwist and British children call it elastics. The game is typically ...