Walking down stairs: Do you look?

[Jack of Arcades]

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If you ever get a chance to see the beginning of Hawaii Five-O, watch Jack Lord speed-walk down the stairs.

He does it really fast, without looking. I always thought that was very cool, and eventually learned how to do it myself. It's hard to describe, and I can't do it now as well as I could, because I used to be the flawless stair master, like my guru Jack Lord, and that's a high standard to maintain indeed. But anyway, you can get into a rhythm of doing it that's quite safe, involving basically little more than kicking your feet out in front of you rapidly while maintaining forward momentum. The stairs just rise up to meet them and then fall away behind. Get good at it and you can do it blur fast, like machine gun fire or tap dancing, without ever looking or feeling at all unsafe.

It's pretty cool to do and see, but it's a little bit tricky to learn because you have to take a chance on falling to get comfortable with it. Kind of like riding a bike is hard and a bit scary to do when you first learn it, because you have to surrender to the possibility of a painful fall if you want to master it. It's quite a time saver though, so well worth learning. You'll fly down the steps.

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Blarg, you've set a high standard for yourself, but this was your best post ever. [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

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This is why I love OOT. Great posts on dumb topics.