Did you see people in the TOP comments disputing it? Here's an apparent anthropologist (though on Reddit) getting into detail, with links to videos of indigenous people walking heel-first and barefoot. At the very least it seems this German is speaking with false confidence.
They rarely goose step that I ever see.
The Middle Ages -- when soles moved, but the soul was constant.
I've lurked since ~2004 and even went to a 2007(?) UnFoggedDCCon and I still don't know what people mean by the other place. Insufficient lurking!
FaceBook, which is where a lot of conversational energy went. No reason not to actually mention it by name, it just feels sort of Voldemorty.
I'm not sure what Moby's reading, but I think he shouldn't be doing it at work.
I vaguely feel like I'm in danger of linking people's pseuds with their real names when I take stuff from one place to the other. Certainly if I kept using a single person, the pattern might be enough to out them. So even though it's not a secret other piece, it's a vague gesture towards my discomfort.
Ogged said, "You cannot serve both me and Zuckerberg." Many disobey, but they try to be discreet about it.
Originally the name of this site was Unfaceogg.
13: No. Facebook's original name was Fogbook.
It is clearly bullshit. Anybody spending summers walking barefoot as a kid can tell. You can also look at numerous videos of barefoot hunters in Africa, etc. Just silly
I don't do a forefoot strike exactly but at least shift more to the midfoot when wearing barefoot shoes (vs normal shoes) or wearing minimalist trail runners (vs hiking boots). With modern shoes on normal pavement, both can be healthy, but when you are on trails with questionable traction, heel striking is treacherous because you can't recover by using your foot muscles---your heel slips out from under you and there's nothing behind your heel to help you recover. Before I realized that the secret was to consciously move the strike towards the front of the foot, I used to be really bad at going down scree-covered trails because of my natural heel strike.
When I ran barefoot as a child it was usually on grass and heel striking was fine on that terrain.
Re: The other place. Tim will be eligible for U.S. Citizenship in June. One of the things they are asking for is Facebook and twitter accounts. (He used twitter once, because it helped him resolve an RMV issue.)
On F***book it says that I'm married to him, and I'm sort of afraid to discuss politics there in case it could affect his citizenship application.
I really like that you took up my implied-Fuckbook joke.
Re: The other place. Tim will be eligible for U.S. Citizenship in June. One of the things they are asking for is Facebook and twitter accounts. (He used twitter once, because it helped him resolve an RMV issue.)
On F***book it says that I'm married to him, and I'm sort of afraid to discuss politics there in case it could affect his citizenship application.
Whoops.
Biomechanics question. My current reboot basic minimal fitness routine consists of 35-90 plus minutes of walking in the evening, the 7-minute workout every morning and resistance bands for my arms 2-3 times a week.
My legs are getting to be a bit tight. In the past I was occasionally jogging or doing brief sprints to increase my heart rate, but recently I'm finding that my legs won't cooperate with that movement.
Does anyone have any good stretching suggestions? Videos with good demonstrations would be especially helpful.
Are you warming up before your morning workout and stretching after it?
If not, maybe shift the workout to the evening, after you've warmed up by doing your walk.
My legs are always very tight. It's probably not good, but never stopped me from running the way chronic ankle pain has. I just regular stretches, like toe touching and grabbing my foot from the back to stretch the front leg muscle.
No reason not to actually mention it by name, it just feels sort of Voldemorty.
More Withnaily, I'd have thought.
The heart of rock 'n roll is still Eton.
OT: Yesterday, they rescued a deer from the reservoir used for our drinking water. Now I'm wondering how many deer have drowned in our drinking water that nobody happened to notice.
Grabbing my toe from the back doesn't seem to get the right muscles.
29: the morning thing has a very brief warm up and i feel better, concentrate better if I do it.
I'm trying to figure out specific stretching routines.
33: not to mention fish, frogs, birds, water beetles, freshwater crustacea, insect larvae and so on. It's OK, they filter the water.
I always thought triangle pose gave the best results for tight legs. This is an OK intro: https://video.search.yahoo.com/yhs/search?fr=yhs-mozilla-001&hsimp=yhs-001&hspart=mozilla&p=triangle+pose#id=4&vid=6bdb38ba4f9c2cfb2a1de9808c982314&action=click
Some filtrides are heavier than others.
AIHMHB due to a childhood injury I walk on my toes whenever barefoot, and even when not if I don't pay attention. My calves are indeed ripped like a medieval tapestry, but all my knees hurt anyway. There might be something to the slouching thing, but now I'l never be able to observe myself.
The heart of rock 'n roll is still Eton.
This is great.
My legs are getting to be a bit tight.
This is pretty vague. Hamstrings? Calves? Quads? Hip flexors? All of it?
Alcohol goes straight into the bloodstream. If you're tight, all of you is tight.
My legs are really tight lately, but I did 17,000 steps yesterday.
41:quads, I think. Whatever you call the back side of the thigh.
I have also been getting knots in my thighs when I do lunges. I don't know how to stretch these out.
Whatever you call the back side of the thigh.
Lower butt.
Hamstrings. Your quads are in front, above the knee.
You want to put one heel up on a chair or a box and lean towards your raised knee. You can vary how bent your knee is to get a stretch in the right place.
It's only called "Hamstrings" on a pig.
I described this method of walking* in detail on this blog 10ish years ago and I was ridiculed. I guess I was just ahead of my time. (As usual.) But really, it's the only safe way to walk.
*actually a somewhat improved twist on the same general method that involves landing on the ball of your foot but through your stride imagining that your hip flexors have both been slit horizontally with a knife and are nonfunctional.
49: don't take away our ridicule in these dark times. We need what joy we can squeeze out of your gait.
I have ridiculed urple, but I think it was his "no soap" thing (and yours) that got me to stop washing my hair with shampoo more than once a week.
This is my new favorite cartoon. Not on topic, but I'm putting it here to save the trouble of bookmarking it on all the different computers I use.
To the OP, these look pretty heel strikey to me, but what do I know? Maybe what goes around comes around even if it takes three and a half million years to do it.
This site notes the deep heel impressions.
That was probably pretty squishy ground when they walked on it. The equivalent of a naturally occurring cross training shoes.
OT: Can't anybody in this administration get through a week without promising something unconstitutional or discussing their penis.
