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- From: rrempel@selkirk.sfu.ca (Rodney Dwight Rempel)
- Subject: Re: Impact absorption
- Message-ID: <rrempel.714853889@sfu.ca>
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- Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
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- Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 18:31:29 GMT
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- egpv29@castle.ed.ac.uk (JHenderson) writes:
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- >Someone recently mentioned a "league table" of which shoes are
- >most absorbing. Could you (or someone else) post it?
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- >Thanks in advance,
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- Keeping in mind that softer isn't necessarily better ... Most heavy
- runners are better off with stiffer shoes than softer ones (don't
- "bottom out", and control motion). Would you want the same springs
- and shock absorbers on a 2-ton pickup as you put on your Chevy Sprint?
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- Of course, everyone is "an experiment of n=1", and more info is always
- better than less ...
-
- Rod Rempel - rrempel@sfu.ca
- Department of Kinesiology, Simon Fraser University
- ... if two million people do a stupid thing it's still a stupid thing.
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