the action of minimizing the pressure of body weight on a ski before a turn by briefly bending down or straightening up
Unweighting is necessary in order to execute a parallel turn.
Examples of 'unweighting' in a sentence
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We hypothesized that unweighting the plantar sole should lead to a facilitation of the sensory transmission.
Laurence Mouchnino, Olivia Lhomond, Clément Morant, Clément Morant, Pascale Chavet 2017, 'Plantar Sole Unweighting Alters the Sensory Transmission to the Cortical Areas', Frontiers in Human Neurosciencehttp://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fnhum.2017.00220/full. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)