Actually, not stooped, but reasonably tall. Bending over pushes your butt back, moving your center of mass more towards your heels - which is where the applecart gets upset and your feet go for big air! Will Truitt From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of paul bruesch Sent: Friday, December 12, 2008 7:41 PM To: pianotech at ptg.org Subject: Re: [pianotech] Winter Kinda old and stooped like... like so many of us are anyhow!?!? AnonAnon On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 6:27 PM, Will Truitt <surfdog at metrocast.net> wrote: <snip>a little advice for walking on ice. Keep both hands in front of you, and if you are carrying your case, try to carry it a bit in front of your body. Also, move your shoulders forward a bit in front of your feet. This will draw your hips and torso over your feet, centering your mass over them, and making your contact with the ground more solid. </snip> -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech_ptg.org/attachments/20081212/a22b061a/attachment.html>
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