ROM Resist & New Zealand

Who asked for toe walking? This is a phenomenal athlete. Whatever she is doing she is doing for a GOOD reason! By definition. She succeeded in doing what turned out to be a most difficult feat.

Time to geek out. Fourier analysis of the gait in the constraint experiments found that 5 (occasionally 6) 'harmonics' [think gears] if well picked for relative size and linked together can reproduce human walking even when abnormal. That means abnormality also has limits. We can only do well or do badly with the parts we have built in.

We were on to the symmetrical pendulums trick... but, here, we defeated the pendulums – didn't we? The Joe Paluka punching gizmo is a vertical pendulum. Punch Joe in the nose – he goes down then returns back and bumps you. Notice anything weird in her stance phase?