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19-year old nearly clears the pit in a Long Jump event.

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Huh. Look at what I found:

In a 1989 study of more than 300 Army infantry trainees at Fort Benning Ga., those with flat feet had far fewer training injuries than recruits with normal or high insteps. In fact, trainees with high arches suffered twice as many injuries, including sprains and stress fractures, as their flat-footed comrades.

"Much of what we've believed about flat feet is mythology," said Dr. Bruce H. Jones of the Army Institute of Environmental Medicine in Natick, Mass., and one of the study's authors. "I've seen drill sergeants with arches as convex as the bottoms of rocking chairs, who are active and successful." Doctors Question Old Warnings

Orthopedists are now inclined to agree. "We've all been brought up on grandmother's warning that flat feet are bad, so we'd better correct them," said Dr. Francesca Thompson, chief of the orthopedic adult foot clinic at Roosevelt Hospital in New York. "As we've become more scientific, we've begun to ask, 'why?' "
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The notion of an ideal foot type "is almost all cosmetic, like trying to decide whether a pug nose or a Roman nose is better," she said. "The best thing is to have feet that work and don't hurt and it now appears that those feet come in high arches, normal arches and flat feet."

Dr. Michael Coughlin, president of the American Orthopedic Foot and Ankle Society, said many professional athletes, particuarly basketball players, have flat feet. "We see people seven feet tall with size 16 shoes and the flattest feet you've ever seen," he said. The Army study "does substantiate many orthopedists' observations that many people with flat feet have no symptoms and do very very well," he said. No Strict Definition

https://www.nytimes.com/1990/11/22/news ... ntage.html

Maybe flat footers are the master race?

Makes some sense from an engineering perspective. Flat feet means a wider base for more stability maybe not the quickest on the pivot would be the tradeoff.

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Clearly, tractors have come a long way. Here is the kind my mother owned.

[Fife]

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1974:

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19-year old nearly clears the pit in a Long Jump event.

Holy shit.

Sometimes I really get jealous of those African dudes.

Imagine what he could do in parkour.

[Fife]

Some cool kickball maths. Really cool, actually. I've not seen about the cross-ratio before. When mathematicians call something magic, it's gonna be cool.