Walk Like a Penguin on Ice – IOTW Report

Walk Like a Penguin on Ice

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Your arms are one of the greatest aids in maintaining your balance, especially when it’s icy. Start with your hands, and wear gloves. Gloves keep your hands warm and out of your pockets, which frees up your arms so you can extend them out from your sides to improve your ability to stay upright.

Your feet also aid in balance. Assume that all wet, dark areas on pavements are slippery and icy. Slow down, take short, careful steps at first, and then adjust your pace to surface conditions. Or walk like a penguin. Point your feet slightly outward, and put your center of gravity directly over your feet as much as possible. More

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22 Comments on Walk Like a Penguin on Ice

  1. Cleveburg here – I’m over 70 and have yet to fall on ice, (now I’ve jinxed myself) except when I wuz much younger and fartin around! Slipped yes, but can still recover… comically.
    In other news I have been known to go almost 60MPH tobogganing on ice!
    Other times I just Walk Like a Man!
    (I did never master that falsetto thing)

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rj9m98GmTnY

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  2. A lady at work walked like that – all the time. She was short and took 6 inch strides, it was hilarious to watch. But seriously, watch you step out there, I had a slip and fall on an icy sidewalk and broke a femur.

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  3. @ecp — Yeah, man, I got some tiles like that! I go in and out via my garage!

    But the slipperiest stuff I ever experienced was in the early days of anti-lock brakes. I somehow got invited to participate in an Audi “experience focus group” and got to try out their tech (which worked great, BTW). On a Sunday, they had rented an otherwise idle parking lot without obstructions and tacked down long strips of Teflon panels wide enough for only one side of the cars’ tires to roll on, and a line of traffic cones close in on both sides. We’d approach at speed and once on the Teflon, stand on the brakes. The cars would yaw a little but keep going in a straight line. Cones unhit. But the REAL convincer was when their tech still work like a champ when they sprayed the Teflon with ArmorAll. Now, THAT was slick!

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  4. @Jethro — Those bucks weren’t wasted, they help some bureaucrat’s pierced and green-haired kids go to college and get degrees in Mayan Menstruation Ritual Dance.

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  5. Uncle Al – Nice, when my kids were younger they’d beg me to buff out a spot on the wood floor with Pledge. I’d let them slide on it when my wife wasn’t around, but once she came home there would be a big BANG and she’d be on her ass in the middle of the slippery spot, lol.

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  6. GA Native, I quit wearing flip-flops in public—at least while not on vacation— for that very reason. Well that and I hate that sweaty, dirty feel on a 90 degree Georgia day. At least you can wash them off in the shower by the pool on vacation.

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