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cannibalcoalition:hashtag-stripper-problems:csykora:hashtag-stripper-problems:csykora:brandoncarlo:Hockey players have weird af anklesUnnecessary answer hour returns! This is in fact true. There are two bones in your lower leg. One’s big and buff and one’s pretty wimpy. When you walk, that big tibia takes ~80% of your weight of impact, and the fibula only has to take the remaining 20%. But skaters place their weight differently over their feet. In principle a hockey player has 100% of their weight shifted forward onto their tibia. You can actually see the implications of this in practice. If you break your fibula, 20% of the weight-bearing is gone, and you won’t really be able to walk. But a hockey player who cracks their fibula can and will keep skating almost without noticing something’s wrong. This happens pretty damn often when they block shots. You’ll see them skate easily over to get checked out, step up onto the hallway floor, and then suddenly slump over, with medical staff helping them limp off down the hallway. I hear people saying, “oh, guess he’s fine!” when hockey players get up and appear to be skating okay: nah. And when a player wants to return to the ice: they may genuinely feel better skating but be too injured to walk. And over time, if you’re in the weight-bearing position for skating more often than walking, and are skating from a young age, yes, that affects the shape of your weight-bearing bones and external appearance of your legs and feet. I don’t have a survey on hockey players’ shapely ankles compared to the normal population in front of me at the moment, but every single skater I see could be identified by their anklesOk now someone explain to me how stripping has deformed my body in this exact way Just since this is information I happen to have if you’re cool with hearing from me—cool to know you’ve seen this happen!Stripping is balance work! (Probably one of the most intense forms out there.) Not every dance discipline is as dramaticly visible about it as ballet, but any dance work is going to make you work to control how your weight falls over your feet. When most people walk they drop all their weight right onto their heels. This lets them go quickly, but there’s very little control: if they hit and uneven patch of ground, their weight’s already over it, they’re committed, they can’t adjust. Dance is about controlling movement, so you step more with your toes, making fine adjustments of your foot and ankle and big adjustments with your calf and thigh.Most exaggerated form: this is demi-pointe (pointe position with no shoe to support me). All my weight is forward, falling in a straight line down my tibia, ankle, to toes. Here I’ve relaxed so I don’t have that extreme aesthetic straightness to the front of my foot, but my weight distribution is still the same. This is also exactly what I look like wearing a 4 inch stiletto heel, without the heel.Just holding a pose, you can see the muscle at the back of the calf is working: that’s why it looks ‘toned.’ When I’m just sitting around and my muscles are resting my leg does not look like that. My thigh muscles are doing the same thing. All those muscle are working to counterbalance any little wobble. This is why high heels work: the narrower the heel, the more it encourages you to roll your weight up on your toes, changing the shape and tone of your leg (and even your back, really). Height of the heel also encourages the position, but narrowness is really important. You can stomp around  even in a pretty high wedge heel, but if you put your weight down heel-first on a stiletto, you’re just probably not going to land that tiny little point perfectly flat to the ground, and it’ll wobble out from underneath you. The only way to walk securely in stilettos is to roll your weight up onto your toes, step toe first, and then set weight down on your heel, with your ankle, calf, and thigh all working to control the motion (it happens unconsciously fast once you’re used to it, but it’s a notable difference.) So stilettos give you that absolutely toned shapely look. Many people can spend a long time in wedges but when they put on narrow heels suddenly their legs get tired–because suddenly their leg muscles are working more! So if you work in any kind of shoe, being able to choose one you personally are able to move comfortably and safely in is really important.You aren’t necessarily in as dramatic a position as I demonstrated all the time, but more of your weight is probably shifted forward when you strip than when you walk out on the street, whether you’re wearing heels or dancing barefoot.Walking in heels or any kind of dance is going to increase the force going through my bones and direct it all forward onto the big bony end of my tibia. Those forces cause lots of micro-injuries (not Capital-I Injuries) that encourage the bone there to grow larger and stronger so it can take the stress, making that big visible malleolus.These forces–and just the fact that you are moving more and more actively than most people–can cause injuries. But if it isn’t hurting you or limiting your range of motion, it’s not a sign of Injury or much of a deformation: it’s a sign your body’s doing something really cool and has adapted to do something better than other people could if they ever got up and tried to do your job@csykora this is amazingI was looking at the pictures of the hockey players, wondering what everyone was talking about because they just looked normal to me. Having a condition that affects the strength of my cartilage means that my knees and ankles sometimes decide to Not Worktm which is one reason that my attempt to be a dancer didn’t really work out the way I wanted it to. But I still have that kind of development in my ankles because joint weakness means I spend more time than most people anticipating a potential fall. And like sometimes I can’t prevent a fall. It’s gonna happen. But it’s been a decade and a half since I’ve had a fall that really caused any significant damage because my body just kind of takes over to take the least amount of hit to my legs. The fall I took the other day could have been a full face-plant, but I redistributed my weight to turn it into a baseball slide. I’ve fallen forward into a neat little barrel roll and landed back on my feet. Splits aren’t uncommon. Sometimes it’s just taking a knee. So my joints are like ‘It’s Fuck-Up-Time!’ and the rest of me is like ‘Okay, looks like we’re dancing now.’  -- source link

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