Sentence examples for firm springboard from inspiring English sources

In turn this could help explain the greater energy cost to jump from the firm springboard.

We hypothesised that the energetic savings achieved when jumping from a compliant springboard in comparison to a firm springboard would be greater when jumping greater distances.

Firstly, the calf muscle is likely used more, and the thigh muscles less, to take-off from a firm springboard during 1.8 m jumps, which may result in the power required to take-off being produced less efficiently.

Considering together the range of pairwise post hoc comparisons for the 1.8 m jumps, there is considerable evidence that jumping from the compliant springboard is energetically less costly than jumping from the firm springboard.

At the point of take-off during a jump (as the feet lose contact with the ground) the hips are more flexed and the ankles more extended when jumping from the firm springboard.

However, greater peak height of the COM was achieved when jumping a horizontal distance of 1.8 m from the compliant springboard than when jumping the same horizontal distance from the firm springboard (t7 = 5.919; p = 0.001; CI = 49.55 to 115.49).

Therefore, further analysis and discussion focusses on trying to uncover and interpret why jumps from compliant springboards are less energetically costly than from firm springboards at 1.8 m but are not less energetically costly at 1.2 m.

Carisma executives view this particular Escalade as the firm's "springboard" into the North American market.

In the present study we measured the energy cost of horizontal jumping in participants to and from both firm and compliant springboards, and for relatively short (1.2 m) and relatively long (1.8 m) jumps.

He simply used Parliament's lower house as a springboard.

Site development is a cornerstone for these firms, but it is a springboard for complex information technology services like database integration, data mining and storage, corporate servers and electronic commerce programs.