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I'm having way too much fun with this. Here's my first attempt. How do I make poor ole James fall forward instead of just slumping down... My other question right now is how to do have like a bat, racket or in my case the golf club work with the ball? If it's parented to the hand it's ignored so would I have to parent it to a different body part or keep it as a prop and keyframe it?