Figure 2. Pankratiast in Fighting Stance. Ancient Greek red- figure amphora, 440 B.C. The picture derived from the site: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pankration#/media/File:Pankratiast_in_fighting_stance.jpg. The athlete has positioned his body in a specific way, which allows him to maintain a safe distance from the opponent, protecting his upper body with his arms, while lowering his CoM for better balance. This stance is considered to be the first stance a Pankratiast would take at the beginning of the match. This image has been analyzed by OpenPose and is presented using Matplotlib

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Estimating Athletes’ Centre of Mass as Presented on Ancient Greek Pottery Depictions

Andreas G. Bourantanis, Nikitas N. Nomikos, Constantinos C. Trompoukis, Weijie W. Wang

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