Swinging around the high bar

The Swinging Chair Test

Setting the Bar Too High F

I further like the boldness of Professor Lee’s strategy. The data presented by Justice Kennedy’s opinion for the Court in Roper v. Simmons would seem to be special in purporting to show a literally unanimous, worldwide rejection of the juvenile death penalty outside of the United States. 2 If even such a total worldwide consensus could be shown to lack instructiveness when applying the Eighth A...

The Swinging Spring : A Simple

The Sellout to Swinging Youth

Bewildered and intimidated by the apparently monolithic structure of the teenage sub-culture, many members of the older generation are failing to play the stabilising role traditionally allotted to them, says Anthony Lejeune in this article. Deploring this 'moral and aesthetic relativism', he believes that a backlash by the older generation could bring benefits all round. Anthony Lejeune is a j...

Maximal dismounts from high bar.

In men's artistic gymnastics the triple straight somersault dismount from the high bar has yet to be performed in competition. The present study used a simulation model of a gymnast and the high bar apparatus (J. Appl. Biomech. 19(2003a) 119) to determine whether a gymnast could produce the required angular momentum and flight to complete a triple straight somersault dismount. Optimisations wer...