i completely agree.I don't think it's silly at all to want to understand the risks one is placing before themselves. Of course we want to avoid all risks, but it's prudent to gauge the scale of those risks.
well yes. you might consult a kinesthesiologist on this, but the feet-together-hop or shuffle-to-safety seems the best advice to me also. my crew of fit young lads would probably be fine on one leg, but knowing the nature of the actual dangers would of course be the best protection.Thank you beenthere for the reference. A shuffle sounds reasonable or even a two-legged hop. Many people find it difficult to hop on one leg controllably. It is a common test in physical diagnosis. Falling on one's hands while trying to hop on one foot sounds like one of the worse positions to be in.
Sorry and respectfully, no apology. I was reacting to your statement that the person should hop away on one foot. Perhaps, I did not express myself clearly as I could have that it was the one-foot hop that I was criticizing most.i feel that i am in no way overreaching the grounds of civility, to expect from you (jpanhalt) a basic acknowledgment of the fact that what i was saying, and what you were actively ridiculing, is in fact an established truth of the matter.
i really don't care about contextualizing such an acknowledgment as being 'apology' or 'manning-up to being wrong', it's just a question as to whether i should respect anything and everything you have to say in the future or not. no big deal.
wauw. sounds effective!The situation is analogous to electrofishing. One charges the water to attract fish into the field and to render them unconscious through electronarcosis.
i concur, all be it that being the slowest mode of escape. what really freaks me out is the testimony on 'jumping from equipment' within the literature. a high-wheeled truck is one thing, but in my job, our band covered the plains in a '74 corolla...with 13" tires! if we'd hit a problem in that piece of crap, i think the best medicine would be to stay put in our little faraday cage and wait for help... that thing was so low to the ground it was practically touching it at most time 0.oThe shuffle sounds safest.
"this long" being equal or less to 24 hours might be cause for question as to what might be deemed healthy.I am amazed that you have waited this long to express your concerns. I surely hope you have not been stewing over it all this time. That is not healthy.
perfectly reasonable. i couldn't agree more.*I am not recommending hopping on both feet either, unless one is sure he can do it. It is not particularly stable. Obese and older people simply can't do that either.