that's a long way away from here

[the_siobhan]

Yoga is a really good way to find out what body parts are extremely disproportionate in size to the rest of your body.


What? I meant my legs, people.

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[dali-muse.livejournal.com]

*giggles*

That's really unintentially funny.

And for something completely random, let's go see drag queens perform when we're all in Vegas!

[nicklausse.livejournal.com]

*laugh* Oh yes, hamstring flexibility definitely hits a limit vis a vis tummy pooch.

[kambriel.livejournal.com]

Ironic, since I just did yoga last night, but I totally read that as "Yoda" at first... which brought it all to an entirely new level of "huh?" ;)

[excess-and-oohs.livejournal.com]

yes. i have really long arms. yoga confirms.

Yoga

[sloot.livejournal.com]

sometimes, my arms are too short
sometimes, my legs are too short
sometimes, my torso is too short

I think I might be disproportionately short.

Re: Yoga

[dali-muse.livejournal.com]

I'm just not very flexible.

[the-siobhan.livejournal.com]

I have really short arms and really long calves - there's a position that's sort of a kneeling lunge where I'm supposed to have my arms on either side of my forward foot - only my bent knee sticks waaay up past my shoulders.

Re: Yoga

[the-siobhan.livejournal.com]

Well, that too.

[the-siobhan.livejournal.com]

Short arms here. And really long calves.

[the-siobhan.livejournal.com]

That could be fun. :-)

[epi-lj.livejournal.com]

I should try it!

I've seriously been trying to figure out how my body is shaped recently. You see, I'm reasonably tall. Not super tall, but I'm six feet tall, which is taller than average.

And yet, shirts are always way too long on me. Okay, so my torso's short, right? I must make up for it in legs.

But pants are WAYYYYY too long on me.

Also, the sleeves on shirts (even the aforementioned way too long on me ones) are always wayyy too short.

However, somehow it adds up to a reasonably tall person. I'm fairly sure that I don't stand on my arms with any regularity.

[geekers.livejournal.com]

Never tried yoga, but I have a long torso and short arms/legs, so a lot of things don't work out so easily...

[unagothae.livejournal.com]

Is that disproportionate or differently proportioned?

It's semantics and probably doesn't matter, but I do tend to think about this stuff too much.

[firecat]

25 years later I'm still mad at this one yoga teacher. We were doing sun salutations. In the lunge position there was no room for both my leg and my stomach under my arms. I could put my leg outside my arms but that isn't how she was demonstrating it. I asked the teacher if I should do that and she gave me a supercilious look and said "What do YOU think?"

Um...why am I paying for this class again? I'll just do it by myself at home from now on.

[unagothae.livejournal.com]

I have been completely obsessed with figuring out my proportions since I saw Donald in Mathmagicland and there was a segment about what the Greeks thought the ideal proportions for the human body were.

It used to freak me out that my legs are shorter than my torso and my boobs are smaller than my belly and my hands and feet are tiny even though I have this ginormous body and OMFG I'M SO HIDEOUSLY PROPORTIONED!!! I'M A FREAK! (Granted, I totally could have worked as a sideshow freak in the days when such things existed.}

Now, I'm getting to a point where I'm all, "Fuck it. I'm ME proportioned and if that doesn't fit properly into clothes, airline seats, or yoga positions, I don't give a damn because I fucking exist and there isn't really a right or wrong about the fact that I exist with tiny hands and a huge body. I'm just glad that netbooks are popular so that I have a tiny keyboard that actually fits the span of my fingers!"

Or maybe I'm just a freak and that's ok too.

[lil-m-moses.livejournal.com]

I think my thighs are really long, but I don't actually know.

[the-siobhan.livejournal.com]

I have tiny hands and feet for my size.

Or as I usually put it, "Small feet. Big boobs. Tips over a lot."

[excess-and-oohs.livejournal.com]

vitruvian man:

* "palmus autem habet quattuor digitos"
* a palm is the width of four fingers
* a foot is the width of four palms (i.e., 12 inches)
* a cubit is the width of six palms
* a pace is four cubits
* a man's height is four cubits (and thus 24 palms)
* "erit eaque mensura ad manas pansas,"
* the length of a man's outspread arms (arm span) is equal to his height
* the distance from the hairline to the bottom of the chin is one-tenth of a man's height
* the distance from the top of the head to the bottom of the chin is one-eighth of a man's height
* the distance from the bottom of the neck to the hairline is one-sixth of a man's height
* the maximum width of the shoulders is a quarter of a man's height
* the distance from the middle of the chest to the top of the head is a quarter of a man's height
* the distance from the elbow to the tip of the hand is a quarter of a man's height
* the distance from the elbow to the armpit is one-eighth of a man's height
* the length of the hand is one-tenth of a man's height
* the distance from the bottom of the chin to the nose is one-third of the length of the head
* the distance from the hairline to the eyebrows is one-third of the length of the face
* the length of the ear is one-third of the length of the face
* the length of a man's foot is one-sixth of his height

[inulro.livejournal.com]

And more affordable than Cirque!

[inulro.livejournal.com]

Yes. It means everyone in my class thinks I'm more flexible than I really am, because when the instructor says "and grab onto your foot if you can", I'm usually the only one who can! I can only do it because my arms are unusually long.

[excess-and-oohs.livejournal.com]

yeah, i can plant my wrists on the ground with straught legs. however i can also sit for a long time with my ankles behind my head, so i am also unusually flexible, but my sister has Marfan syndrome (loose cartilage) and my rheumatologist thinks i may have a sub-clinical form of it.

anyway. with both of those, i'm fairly contortional. it's fun and creeps people out.

[inulro.livejournal.com]

yeah, i can plant my wrists on the ground with straught legs

Even now that it feels to me that I'm less flexible than I used to be, I can do this without effort. However, my knee joints are also hyper-mobile so that might help.

I've got a really high degree of hypermobility in all of my extremities. When I was 27 a rheumatologist told me that, although I didn't have arthritis yet, with my level of hypermobility I'd have osteoarthritis within 10 years. I'm 42 in a couple of months and it hasn't happened yet.

[excess-and-oohs.livejournal.com]

ah. i am 32 and i already have osteoarthritis in my cervical and thoracic spine :( it hurts lot some days. mostly i can't look up or turn my head much. avoid it as long as you can. i didn't know i should be careful until it was too late (xrays show damage).