Sounds technical, some may say not, but any day where i have to do mathematical equations is a technical day. I have done lots of maths today. More maths than i have done in long time. Since the crazy days Guestimate with a Dr D. If only Dr D could of seen me today......didn't even use all my fingers to count.........
Anyway I drift far and wide from the events of the last 24 hours. You will notice drastic stuff happens in the time span of 24 hours. Normally when there is a massive presentation at the end of it. But and this a fairly big but. Not to day. Oh no today it was personal.
So last night after eureka moment 11, i set about researching runs and asked several questions about the Diamond Standard that may influence the way he runs;
- Gender: Male
- Age: late 30s
- Good guy the hero run..dun dun dun.!
- Military background
- He is running towards something NOT running away from something.
- The terrain
After this i then went to look at some runs. My first stop/Idea was to look into Olympic track. My line of thinking was this would be lead to some decent running shots that are not free running Parkor that the Internet is now riddled with. I don't have anything against that running but it's not how the Standard would run. He is not a guy who runs over the rocks, doing flips. He finds a straight path and charges at it. Think more Rhino rather than a Rabbit. After watching a few videos of this and even some that teach you technique on how to run. I still wasn't feeling a hero run. Something which had a bit of bizazz.
Then i had my second eureka. (That's 2 in one day) For the inspiration on how the Diamond Standard Runs i took great influence from how Daivd Tennant in Doctor Who runs. Now there is a lot of running in that show and people have created montages dedicated to how much running the Doctor does. But also David Tennant has an interesting run which is liked. Some key notes when watching some of the videos:
- Arms Kept Low and the elbow doesn't really change position through out the run. The shoulders do all the pushing of the arms.
- The body is at a slight angle but as a straight line (the back doesn't arch) and the head is kept up straight With little movement.
- The Knees don't get as high to what i had been doing.
- Not that much up and down movement (very, very small).
- Roughly a Tennant run = 9 steps per 3 seconds or 5 steps per 72fps. If me Maths is correct. To which i worked out roughly one step = 7 frames. Which ironically is what the animated survival Kit told me yesterday.
- The faster you run the less your body moves/wobbles. The speed stabilises you.
Also here are some links to the videos i have been watching in a type of bibliography type of thing:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZzDvY7qXAg&feature=fvwrel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbgQQHJqZao
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnf1-Dz06fo&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsUN9J659xM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmErE5ogKJE&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Drdm1WsRQwA&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BmtGNjm7BE&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nbjhpcZ9_g&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ncv-SU6p-LY&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CQsb3LMmfI
(yes i did look at speed skating. I thought seems that the helmet is based on the design of a speedskaters i wondered what type of body poses they did when they ran on the ice to build up there speed.)
