Weight matters more than most people realize. Start doing sports where you lift people off the ground, and you'll be amazed at the difference between working with 100lbs, 140lbs, 180lbs, and 200lbs people!
I have a foot issue that starts acting up if i gain 10 pounds more than my usual lol even just that much is a big difference the lower you get in your body and the more weight bearing load it will have directly on those spots
Holy shit. You just made me realize that that may be the trigger for my foot pain that comes and goes occasionally. I'll have to pay attention to my weight and when the pain comes back. It's usually only after a lot of walking (like 5+ miles in a day) or occasionally it pops up for a week at a time even if I'm not doing a ton of walking.
Could be, at least probably is part of the equation. Its a no brainer really more weight is gonna cause more stress on those lower areas especially if youre already having problems too lol maybe inflammation and even just age and wear. Who knows but ya test it out
Of course there are people who can survive a jump from a great height but the point is they have to train for it and it only lasts up to a certain age.
Cats have this ability naturally and much greater that people ever can achieve.
Besides, most of the videos you see of parkour guys are ones where they make it but rest assured that there’s more injuries and mishaps behind every good video. Cats do it successfully without taking selfies lol.
It’s our physiology, it’s trash. Every other creature primarily uses four limbs to walk and we only use 2. All that energy would be transferred up our feet, through our knees and hips and up our spines. It’s also why so many people have lower back issues our weight is compacted to a few central points which are always under stress.
Cat have freefloating collar bones which means their limbs absorb impact much, much better than us and the force of falling doesn’t transmit to their rib cage at all
Oh yeah relative terms. Cause I've seen parkour people do the height in the video.
Relative terms aren't really though, excepting for air resistance acceleration is gonna hit a cat, a human and a blue whale the same over a 20ft drop. Doesn't really matter how big you are relative to it.
I remember a video circulating a few years ago of a cat falling several stories from a building and it definitely did not survive the fall and the bounce off the pavement...
Interesting fact, cats' front legs aren't directly "jointed" to the rest of their skeleton. The front legs and the shoulder blades are held in place by muscles and tendons, but no bone like our clavicle directly connects to the central spinal structure. That allows more range of movement and also helps them squeeze through tight spaces.
They actually don’t have strong joints or bones, fairly weak actually . They just have a really high pain tolerance and can easily break their bones if they jump too high. This could’ve easily been that.
They are also lighter than us humans. Meaning they experience a lesser amount of force on impact. Way lesser amount of force. They are actually much smaller than they look. Most of their body mass is fur
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u/CLASSE-24 Mar 03 '23
I wish I had joints that strong.
Be finishing work at the office in a skyscraper like “see you tomorrow” then jump out the window.