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new frontiers in slowness
Not all low-gear tricks are created equal.
I tried out "lagging" pelvis/hip rotation versus forward rotation, to see how large a percentage slower was the lagging-backward move. Rubber wheels on asphalt, climbing a hill around 7-8% steepness grade. At first I hardly make myself do the move of lagging my non-pushing hip lower behind the pushing hip. I've practiced the forward advance of the non-pushing hip so many thousands of times for hundreds of hours in so many contexts on and off snow, I barely knew how to move any other way (except connected to bicycle). But once I got into it, there seemed no doubt it felt slower. So I measured the time climbing up that hill. Then I switched back to forward pelvis/hip rotation and modified some other aspects, and to my surprise it was even slower than backward. But then I said that if I applied those modifications to lagging-rotation, that could be made even slower -- and indeed it was like another 50% slower. Then another round of applying my maximum ingenuity in making climbing with forward pelvis/hip rotation as slow as possible while still retaining _some_ glide in each leg-stroke. So slow it was getting really boring -- and interfering with car traffic on this low-traffic road -- and I was getting cold because I wasn't exerting much muscle mass fast enough. So then I switched to lagging-rotation and applied those "maximum ingenuity" slowness to achieve the ultimate: side-to-side skating "track stand" on a hill I kept making gliding-rolling skating moves, and each skate individually rolled diagonally uphill -- but overall my body did not go up the hill. (which probably cannot work with "normally" long skis on "normal" snow) Ken |
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