Bad Wigins wrote:
fisky wrote:
a forefoot runner that is PUSHING OFF with its toes. The Pose Method fails to understand this
Nearly everyone fails to understand that there is no question of "pushing off." What gets your body off the ground is accelerating it forward in front of your plant foot. This has more to do with the momentum of the lead leg, and again, the body's inertia, than accelerating the foot itself or pushing the ground backwards.
This is the difference between sprinters, or even elite marathoners (typically 13 minute 5k guys) and slow people. Knee drive, recovery, arm action, all the important stuff happens above the foot. Observe this leaping cat:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6A31tfVybEBefore any significant acceleration happens in its rear legs, the rest of its body has already gotten its center of mass moving nearly enough to complete the leap.
I'm not sure what you're trying to say here. Let me explain what I'm trying to say. The Pose Method is three parts, according to its website: The Pose. The Fall. The Pull. The runner "poses," falls forward, and pulls up the trailing foot as quickly as possible. Thus, the Pose Method is essentially falling forward.
If you look at elite runners (and sprinting animals), you'll see that they extend the trailing leg behind them (as the cat does in the video you posted). This is what I'm calling the push. It's not pushing the ground backwards (impossible), it's adding a horizontal component to the force generated by the trailing leg. The Pose, as best I can tell from having run it for 6 months, has no horizontal component. The legs provide only vertical force to keep you from falling down as you fall forward.
You might not consider it a push, but we can disagree on that if you wish. It doesn't have to be a lot of push, but this is where horizontal force (actually diagonal to be more precise) is transferred to the ground. The Pose Method completely ignores this force component.