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Posted: Mon Sep 15, 2014 10:31 pm
by joedw00
BuckeyeDennis wrote:Guys, I can sympathize. As a relatively young pup at age 56, you would think that getting up from the floor wouldn't be a big deal for me. But while I'm still pretty robust from the thighs up, I inherited my Mom's prematurely arthritic knees. They work OK on level ground, but they sound mighty like a ratchet whenever I walk downstairs. No way that I can sneak up on my kids anymore.
Fortunately, my mind is still sharp, and my early training in physics and robotics enabled me to invent a move for rising from a completely supine position, to fully erect, in almost no time .. while never applying a significant non-columnar load to my knees. I call it the "kip-up". You can check out my technique out in
this video, in which one of my acolytes demonstrates the move for the benefit of the next generation.
You may want to practice the maneuver on a thick padded carpet, before attempting it on your workroom floor.
That looks easy enough.
Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2014 12:42 am
by ChrisNeilan
BuckeyeDennis wrote:Guys, I can sympathize. As a relatively young pup at age 56, you would think that getting up from the floor wouldn't be a big deal for me. But while I'm still pretty robust from the thighs up, I inherited my Mom's prematurely arthritic knees. They work OK on level ground, but they sound mighty like a ratchet whenever I walk downstairs. No way that I can sneak up on my kids anymore.
Fortunately, my mind is still sharp, and my early training in physics and robotics enabled me to invent a move for rising from a completely supine position, to fully erect, in almost no time .. while never applying a significant non-columnar load to my knees. I call it the "kip-up". You can check out my technique out in
this video, in which one of my acolytes demonstrates the move for the benefit of the next generation.
You may want to practice the maneuver on a thick padded carpet, before attempting it on your workroom floor.
I can do that, but I find it's easier to do a backward handspring to your feet. I was blessed with gymnastic abilities, finely honed while playing right field in little league! When I turned fifty five years ago, I marked the date with five flips, nailed four of them...
six for sixty?
Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2014 12:54 am
by shipwright
A little motivation can be of help sometimes I find. For instance, if you drop a screw ..... it's hardly worth the trouble.
...... but if you toss say your last beer down there with it, then it's worth going to the trouble. There's an old joke about a two holer outdoor toilet........
:-)
Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2014 7:18 am
by robinson46176
BTW, I find that gluing a good button shaped magnet to the base of a hammer handle stops a lot of the noises of picking up a screw or nail...
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Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2014 11:54 am
by Ed in Tampa
BuckeyeDennis wrote:Guys, I can sympathize. As a relatively young pup at age 56, you would think that getting up from the floor wouldn't be a big deal for me. But while I'm still pretty robust from the thighs up, I inherited my Mom's prematurely arthritic knees. They work OK on level ground, but they sound mighty like a ratchet whenever I walk downstairs. No way that I can sneak up on my kids anymore.
Fortunately, my mind is still sharp, and my early training in physics and robotics enabled me to invent a move for rising from a completely supine position, to fully erect, in almost no time .. while never applying a significant non-columnar load to my knees. I call it the "kip-up". You can check out my technique out in
this video, in which one of my acolytes demonstrates the move for the benefit of the next generation.
You may want to practice the maneuver on a thick padded carpet, before attempting it on your workroom floor.
Hey thanks Dennis this was just what I needed. The wife was after me to paint the house, so I dropped the paint brush on the floor and laid down beside it to pick it up. Then I did just like the video showed. It worked!!!
Wife said the painters will be finished with the house about the time I get out of the hospital.
Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2014 10:57 pm
by BuckeyeDennis
Ed in Tampa wrote:Hey thanks Dennis this was just what I needed. The wife was after me to paint the house, so I dropped the paint brush on the floor and laid down beside it to pick it up. Then I did just like the video showed. It worked!!!
Wife said the painters will be finished with the house about the time I get out of the hospital.
Ed, you the man! You must have snuck back up here to Ohio and got yourself a good bellyfull of gravy-fried, hickory-fed squirrel to have pulled off that stunt! Don't worry about the hospital thing .. those poor starving docs need all the charity business that we can afford them.
ChrisNeilan may be younger and more acrobatic, but he is just not as kind and generous to them young whippersnapper docs as you are!
Posted: Wed Sep 17, 2014 5:52 am
by dusty
ChrisNeilan wrote:I can do that, but I find it's easier to do a backward handspring to your feet. I was blessed with gymnastic abilities, finely honed while playing right field in little league! When I turned fifty five years ago, I marked the date with five flips, nailed four of them...
six for sixty?
I would say "Don't try those flips at 60 unless you do a few every day between now and then. A lot can go wrong in 5 years".
Posted: Wed Sep 17, 2014 8:37 am
by ChrisNeilan
dusty wrote:I would say "Don't try those flips at 60 unless you do a few every day between now and then. A lot can go wrong in 5 years".
A lot already has!
Posted: Wed Sep 17, 2014 9:33 am
by Fla_Jim
This little $2.00 on sale item from Harbor Freight is a life saver.
I can pick up a screw with it, or other larger objects.
Posted: Wed Sep 17, 2014 10:29 am
by sawmill
Fla_Jim wrote:This little $2.00 on sale item from Harbor Freight is a life saver.
I can pick up a screw with it, or other larger objects.
I have to stop shaking first to be able to use that:)