Because Glycine is the most flexible Amino acid, it will respond readily and rather predictably to manipulation. The "glycine hinge" is a tactic used to shape a section of a Loop containing at least one glycine. It is most useful when a player has some idea of where other secondary structures should go, and wants to bend the loop in a way that will put them in the appropriate places while not dragging down his local score too much.[1] The recipe attempts to freeze backbone, and necessary Secondary Structures (SS), ("The rods"), around the surrounding Glycine Amino Acid (AA), ("The hinge"), and proceeds to wiggle with bands.