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Thirty-three recreational athletes performed single-leg landings from 3 different heights (11, 22, and 33\u00a0cm) under 3 conditions: with both vision and knowledge, with knowledge but without vision, and without both. The no vision and no knowledge condition resulted in an intermediate strategy that produced similar landing mechanics for 22\u00a0cm but significantly different kinematics and kinetics for 11 and 33\u00a0cm. Slower knee flexion angular velocities, increased peak vertical ground reaction forces, and greater knee internal rotation and abduction angles suggested increased ACL loading for 33\u00a0cm. Landing patterns with knowledge but without vision closely matched those with both. 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