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Met pads in teleboots?
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Do they lose effectiveness when the heel of the back foot comes up?
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comprex wrote:
Do they lose effectiveness when the heel of the back foot comes up?
why would they???
this would be the same argument that says that an orthotic insert is pointless in cycling as the heel is not on the ground.... stabilize the foot in a good position and the fuction will remain even when the heel is off the ground
if anything i would say they increase in effectiveness
on the cycling thing.... the pressure has to get from the leg to the forefoot somehow, and unless it dissapears into the ether and reappears at the forefoot then an orthotic is a useful addition to a cycling shoe
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CEM wrote:
comprex wrote:
Do they lose effectiveness when the heel of the back foot comes up?
why would they???
The comparison is most intuitively made to barefoot gait, no?
Furthermore, it's really easy to think of the met pad solely as a spreader acting when pressured through weight (and ground reaction force); it's much harder to think of it as a side-to-side locating tool when it isn't fully pressured.
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this would be the same argument that says that an orthotic insert is pointless in cycling as the heel is not on the ground.... stabilize the foot in a good position
I see that as almost but not quite: the foot does not bend in a cycling shoe unless you've got really bad ones.
To my mind, it becomes a question of what datum plane that 'good position' is referenced to?
I've been poking around an idea that it's really relative to whatever elements are side-to-side rigid on the clog of the teleboot, not to the sole itself.
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When we do it we half the hight of any lump/ bump and move further back around 4mm on a 26 foot.
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Gotcha, I think: Allow more room for foot to adapt shape between lump/bump and forefoot pivot.
Tnx. Many.
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