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A mechanical encounter or other energy-exchange may cause tissue damage.
I used biomechanics to save time when I was competing.
Cardboard cutouts of cheerleaders operated by arthritic monkeys would move more fluidly.
Simple, like uncarved wood.
Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame
It is a quintessential example of the whirling kinetics that drive a Keaton film, in which not just the medium but the human body- the permutations of the sinews, the shock of the limbs -seems infinitely elastic, an unruly instument to be wilded with a cheeky kind of grace.
What is the heart but a spring, and the nerves but so many strings, and the joints but so many wheels, giving motion to the whole body?
If you have the material it will form itself as a kind of connective tissue.
They are dragged to the withered bracken by the load,
And they seem not to break; though once they are bowed
So low for long, they never right themselves.
God who gave Animals self motion beyond our understanding is without doubt able to implant other principles of motion in bodies which we may understand as little. Some would readily grant this may be a Spiritual one; yet a mechanical one might be showne. ...
How often we must remember the art of the surgeon, which, in replacing the broken bone, contents itself with releasing the parts from false position; they fly into place by the action of the muscles. On this art of nature all our arts rely.
Only when you can be extremely pliable and soft can you be extremely hard and strong.
Get things hot, use pure muscle to bend them. Pretty much the same approach men use for everything.
If ergonomists have their way, future products won't be built for some hypothetical average person but will conform to the biomechanical needs of whatever particular human body happens to come into contact with them.
Mechanics is a means or discipline for the realization of life, but not life itself. It ought to carry us to life itself.
On one foot you limp;
on two feet you sprint.
Just shattered structures rising up like rotten teeth from a diseased jaw.
Power comes from body position in the form of leverage at delivery and the wrist and hand motion at release.
All this, the positive and physical essence of mechanics, which makes its chief and highest interest for a student of nature, is in existing treatises completely buried and concealed beneath a mass of technical considerations.
In nature things move violently to their place, and calmly in their place.
That body is heavier than another which, in an equal bulk, moves downward quicker.
Thus, flexibility, as displayed by water, is a sign of life. Rigidity, its opposite, is an indicator of death.
Very little strength can produce much motion of air. Learn about air as motion.
Life forms a surface that acts as if it could not be otherwise, but under its skin things are pounding and pulsing.
Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.
Movement implies development and not evolution (C.F.D. Moule)."
~R. Alan Woods [2013]
Bending from side to side helps you avoid obstacles in racing.
A pair of legs engineered to defy the laws of physics and a mindset to master the most epic of splits.
Water is very forgiving. Everything lifts in water.
How do they rise up?
Bent metal is worse than bent wood and weight for weight is more flexible.
The most direct evidence of the wonderful plasticity and elasticity of red corpuscles is obtained when they are watched in a current, where they can be caught against a projecting edge and bent by the pressure of the current flowing past them.
It is my intent to beget a good understanding between the chymists and the mechanical philosophers who have hitherto been too little acquainted with one another's learning.
She is a woman of muscle twisted around bone.
The biological structure of our bodies is not some evolutionary accident.
What bends, can break.
The tilt of his head cracks gravity in half.
Like the muscles knew from the beginning that it would end with this, this inevitable falling apart ... It's sad, but a relief as well to know that two things so closely bound together can separate with so little violence, leaving smooth surfaces instead of bloody shreds.
The body is like the earth ... as vulnerable to overbuilding, being carved into parcels, cut off, overmined, and shorn of its power as any landscape.
The human body is a magazine of inventions, the patent office, where are the models from which every hint is taken. All the tools and engines on earth are only extensions of its limbs and senses.
Long necks. The thrust of the head in a certain position. The way the fingers work, fabrics work. It's all part of my painting background.
Healthy posture is based on natural positions that balance and support your skeletal system's curves and weight-bearing abilities against the force of gravity.
So all things limp together for the only possible.
Holding together a kind of tension. When you see a painting that's really good that's what it's doing.
As you keep moving forward, you can stay upright even when outside forces try to pull you down.
Heat is a universal solvent, melting out of things their power of resistance, and sucking away and removing their natural strength with its fiery exhalations so that they grow soft, and hence weak, under its glow.
The term physical is just kinda like an honorific word, kinda like the word 'real' when we say 'the real truth'. It doesn't add anything, it just says 'this is serious truth'. So to say that something is 'physical' today just means 'you gotta take this seriously'.
Power is mass multiplied by cohesion.
The spine that refused to bend at all was often the most malleable once it gave way.
To discover the laws of operative power in material productions, whether formed by man or brought into being by Nature herself, is the work of a science, and is indeed what we more especially term Science.
Think about doing a bunch of stunts in leather. What does leather do? It doesn't stretch, it rips.
All motion consists of two components. One component serves inwardness (internalisation) and the other outwardness (dispersion). Both preconditions for motion regulate the eternal flow of metamorphosis (panta Rhei).
A woman's flexibility and a man's strength ... put them together and you'll have a body like mine.
It's all in how you arrange the thing ... the careful balance of the design is the motion.
All human things hang on a slender thread, the strongest fall with a sudden crash.
The product of movement and counter-movement is tension. When tension working strength is expressed, it endows the work of art with the living effect of coordinated, though opposing, forces.
Without the accurate spine movement, one can't exist dynamically.
The muscles fought so long
To control against the pull of
One magnet to another magnet
Many foam rollers are too large and too hard to navigate around bony prominences, joints, or delicate tissue junctions into which the grippy, pliable Roll Model Balls can easily navigate.
When torrential water tosses boulders, it is because of its momentum. When the strike of a hawk breaks the body of its prey, it is because of timing.
When a house is tottering to its fall,
The strain lies heaviest on the weakest part,
One tiny crack throughout the structure spreads,
And its own weight soon brings it toppling down.
For the creation of the mechanicals was a seismic event, an earth-rending convulsion that left nothing untouched: palaces, thrones, and empires, yes, but also the way men and women thought about themselves and their relationship to the world, to God, even their own bodies.
You translate everything-whether physical, mental, or spiritual into muscular tension.
Each of the humans chests are always rising and falling; and they sway minutely in place as they perform a constant balancing act to stay bipedal.
Flexibility makes buildings to be stronger, imagine what it can do to your soul.
Whatever is flexible and living will tend to grow; whatever is rigid and blocked will wither and die.
The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art.
There are two ways of exerting one's strength; one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.
They have no harsh edges with each other, no spiny conflicts, they ride through life like conjoined jellyfish - expanding and contracting instinctively, filling each other's spaces liquidly.
Certain objects that are supposed to (a) remain horizontal and (b) support heavy things have ceased to do either.
Young bodies are like tender plants, which grow and become hardened to whatever shape you've trained them.
The sensations of dismemberment flow through the forceps like an electric current.
He shifted his weight from foot to foot, but it was equally uncomfortable on each.
Weight is caused by one element being situated in another; and it moves by the shortest line towards its centre, not by its own choice, not because the centre draws it to itself, but because the other intervening element cannot withstand it.
Biology will tell you a lot of things, but there are many that it can not explain and you need to look at physics instead.
Whoever had created humanity had left in a major design flaw.
It was its tendency to bend at the knees.
The couturier should be a geometrician, for the human body makes
geometrical figures to which the materials should correspond.
No wonder most fleshers had stampeded into the polises, once they had the chance: if disease and aging weren't reason enough, there was gravity, friction, and inertia. The physical world was one vast, tangled obstacle course of pointless, arbitrary restrictions.
Our human bodies are miracles, not because they defy laws of nature, but precisely because they obey them.
Be sure to bend but never break
I watched as she stretched over the board to flick off a fallen leaf. Underneath her thin cotton shell, I saw how fragile the bones in her back were, far too sliver-prone, far too light to support a pair of wings.
Eggshells become hard to break after walking on them for so long.
His leap was exact, mathematical. The initial arc - head tucked between taut arms that spread out gradually like wings - was as graceful as a swan dive.
Strong as stone, supple as a sapling.
How imperceptibly the first springing takes place!
A form comes out of a combination of force and matter.
Four grabs a bar with each hand and pulls himself up, easy, like he's sitting up in bed. But he is not comfortable or natural here
every muscle in his arm stands out. it is a stupid thing for me to think when I am one hundred feet off the ground.
The properties which differentiate living matter from any kind of inorganic imitation may be instinctively felt, but can hardly be formulated without expert knowledge.
The difficulty involved in the proper and adequate means of describing changes in continuous deformable bodies is the method of differential equations ... They express mathematically the physical concept of contiguous action.
Einstein's Theory of Relativity
A game of chess is a visual and plastic thing, and if it isn't geometric in the static sense of the word, it is mechanical, since it moves. It's a drawing; it's a mechanical reality.
Good and gentle creatures do not offer a very stiff resistance, not for long, anyway. (from "A Gentle Creature")
The thing that seems most natural to me-most human-is movement.
Hard words are very rarely useful. Real firmness is good for every thing. Strut is good for nothing.
The structure of your organism, of your senses and nerves, endows the world with all its sensible and measurable properties - for rocks cannot seem to be hard except in relation to soft skin.
Soft as butter they can be, and yet sometimes as tough as old tree-roots.
I'm trying to assemble materials for a different mode of life.
Everything in life is vibration.
It [ballet] projects a fragile kind of strength and a certain inflexible precision.
Cartilage in the center of the diaphysis calcifies and then
develops cavities.
The human animal originally came from out-of-doors. When spring begins to move in his bones, he just must get out again. Moreover, as civilization, cement pavements, office buildings, radios have overwhelmed us, the need for regeneration has increased, and the impulses are even stronger.