File puptcrit/puptcrit.0809, message 230


Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2008 22:13:51 -0400
From: "Mary Robinette Kowal" <mary-AT-maryrobinettekowal.com>
To: puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org
Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] DRY WALLER STILTS


You are totally wrong in worrying about the extra weight.  Knowing a
performer who went down on a pair of homemade ones and shattered his
wrist, I've got to say that I'd put up with the weight for the
stability of painters stilts.

Yours,
Mary

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Mary Robinette Kowal
http://www.maryrobinettekowal.com



On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 8:44 PM, Mathieu René <creaturiste-AT-primus.ca> wrote:
> >From one source selling actual DURA-STILTS on Ebay (thanks Steven Widerman
> for the tip of looking for those there)),. I read that a pair weighs 15
> lbs!!!
> Yikes!
> I guess thats what you need for stability and durabilty for such an
> insudtrial product.
>
> Maybe way too heavy for my uses.
> Doesn't this mean that each leg must lift 7.5 pounds each step?
> How can one dance and do the Wild Rumpus with such extra weight?
> Not to mention the rest of my costume, a giant full head paper mache skull
> mask (lightweight, but still), a lot of black fabric, and probably giant
> skeleton hands on rods...
>
> Oh well, maybe Destiny wants me to build big things myself, expecially the
> cosntruction stuff...
> I'm guessing that Pine wood and a few screws might weigh less than the cast
> aluminum of thr dura stilts.
>
> Or am I totally wrong, totally exagerating the importance of 7.5 pounds?
>
>
>
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