I understand impulse, maybe I should have said the player does not bend their knees when landing. Even if they do bend their knees, it's still the same weight right? It's just being absorbed and distributed better though your legs . Let me use a different example, one without muscles. If you had...
It kind of answers my question. You never actually said the impact is the same as the takeoff. I just need to hear that clearly. That's what I am looking for, or looking to have something disagree with. Is the force of lbs. to jump off the ground the same as it is when you come back down and...
I was watching a show on TV that showed how many lbs. of force a basketball players uses to jump. In this case, the player pushed into the floor with 1400 lbs. of pressure to jump 4 feet in the air. That's all good and well, but does this mean when the player comes down and lands he will impact...