How was that possible?

[EFO]

I've done a lot of sports when I was young,but never see a human coming back on its feet from the ground on its toes.

For sure,step by step,humans start to develop new skills.And I say that because "they" showed me how to bring real true joy through rescuing things from what we call "recycling".For some is not to much or means mostly nothing,but the "explosion" of joy that I have it after I see that thing working again,no matter what it is:an oven,a refrigerator/freezer,an electric engine,is tremendous and helpful for the Earth,because through recycling is wasted a lot of all kind of energies and resources.

In the past I've done small or medium repairs as everyone does in his house,but this time is totally different,I'm feeling myself like a repairing machine for machines. :)

Ok,let's get back to Zay Jones new skill. :)

Bills WR Zay Jones Magically Floats Back Up To His Feet After Play vs Chiefs
(00:05) hit replay button


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXfdasSumNc

[Patient]

Wow, weird. Could be a little bit of video editing trickery added to make something weird look weirder.

But if it is a direct replay from the game, then I would suspect that it is a combination of a couple things that create the illusion. One element adding to the effect could be the curved lines in the background - the edge of the field and the yellow line along the wall. (Sort of like a magnetic hill causes the illusion of going up when you are actually going down.) From the football player, it looks like his ankles are taped up to keep them from bending. Perhaps a strong upper body allowed him to push himself up from the ground and other muscles added to him getting to his feet. When I went from leisure sports to playing more serious, a trainer taped up my ankle so firmly that I had a real hard time running. (I came off the field and ripped it off - didn't go over well with the staff.) But those things all together could create an optical illusion.

[DeDukshyn]

It's the angle of the camera -- somewhat behind the player. Due to this you can't quite see the true velocity of him coming to his feet so it looks like he is somewhat floating. He does push himself up with enough strength to easily catch himself, but it looks a bit like he is doing it more slowly than expected. He also uses his knee as a pivot on the ground to use his momentum from the strong pushup to help guide his body back vertical - that combined with the camera angle makes it look interesting.

Pretty neat shot. :)


Here's a guy going straight from pushup position to vertical without a knee pivot ... if you were at a 45 degree angle behind this guy you woulodn't see the actualy velocity of the start of the pushup and it would have even more a pronounced effect than the football guy , I am sure.

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