Why study ostriches? (Read 165 times)

Point taken on venison and mutton (ew). 

Maybe it is just fowl that keeps the animal name.

And rattlesnake.

I ate camel once. I won't repeat it.

"Fowl" is a terrible name.

George Costanza had a random riff about eating ostrich in an episode of Seinfeld.

Anyway, we call chicken chicken, pheasant pheasant, duck duck (goose!), and turkey turkey. I don't think the name was why it failed to catch on. I think it failed to catch on because it is a motherfucking ostrich.

WORD!

I ate camel once. I won't repeat it.

Did it give you the hump?

 

Long p[g is very succulent, and pairs most excellently with fava beans, and maybe a nice Chianti

One of my most favorite movies! I always choose chianti for this reason

Regardless, ostriches have a totally different biomechanical system than humans, so they can't really teach us much except how ostriches run. Nearly nothing can be applied to human physiology.

Well if you aren't smart enough to see the connection, then that's your problem. Especially since African Pygmies run with their mimicry and so did the three sprinters faster than Usain Bolt.

Oh, and not to mention that that one coach training his students in both deer and ostrich biomechanics managed in one track meet to set numerous world records, including besting the previous mark of the 10K by 42 seconds.

So how do you expect any runner to set a new record without understanding their biomechanic advantages?

https://www.nytimes.com/1993/09/12/sports/track-field-chinese-runners-excel-on-work-and-worms.html

I used to do the worm, often at Devo concerts. It wasn't too many years after that when I qualified for the Olympic trials. If only I'd known of a dance move called the ostrich or deer, I might have run even faster. If only we had the internet back then, so people could boost my performance with completely unsubstantiated claims and armchair theorizing! Ah, what might have been!

Doping doesn't change the way you run, which is why it's a useless path to improve performance. Not to mention that all of the records his runners set, tested clean at the time of the race.

While removing the appendix is pathetic, even that doesn't change the way you run.

Western athletes slow down in the curves of a track

http://jeb.biologists.org/content/210/6/971

Ostriches are able to increase in speed through the curves of a track.

Why are track events held counterclockwise and not clockwise? If you can't describe the difference, then it only proves how little you understand running mechanics.

If you run on courses which include both curve directions, then why do you ignore the easiest way to increase in speed if you don't know the difference between optimum clockwise and counterclockwise curve running?

An ostrich has evolved to run the way it runs because it's very existence depends on it. Hasn't it?

A human has evolved to run "in this instance" because of chasing competition and meeting the never ending line of goals and identification bettering. Or is that wrong?

Perhaps incorporating a hungry lion or pack of hyenas into training over a period of millions of years would offer a few intelligent insights to your study?