klonk wrote:This business of being bipeds makes backing up our worst mode of locomotion. We're inherently not good at it.
Walk the Torque wrote:klonk wrote:This business of being bipeds makes backing up our worst mode of locomotion. We're inherently not good at it.
Sure but if we train...............what then?
klonk wrote:Walk the Torque wrote:klonk wrote:This business of being bipeds makes backing up our worst mode of locomotion. We're inherently not good at it.
Sure but if we train...............what then?
Obviously you can improve the backing up skill through training, but you are still building upon a foundation of something we are naturally not good at. Western fencing probably does more and better backing up than any other martial art, but it is still a bit unnatural. It is, furthermore, done in the knowledge that there is a clear strip behind you.
I would say, train to back up when you need to, but when there is something else you could do instead, say, move sideways or forward, you are playing more to your inherent strengths if you do that, instead of backing up.
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