TeamTazerBigfoot Tries To Duplicate The Mid-Tarsal Break, Dr. Meldrum Says The Human Foot Is Incapable of a Mid-Tarsal Break
Many footprints of Bigfoot found have a feature that is referred to as a mid-tarsal break. This occurs when the foot bends before taking the next stride. This is common in most apes, but Dr. Jeffery Meldrum says this is typically not found on humans.
Dr. Meldrum, at the Department of Biological Sciences in Idaho State University claims that a footprint cast from the Blue Mountains of WA clearly shows toe slippage and typical front half-track. According to Dr. Meldrum, perhaps the most significant observation relating to this trackway was the evidence of a pronounced flexibility in the midtarsal joint.
Contrary to Dr. Meldrum, Robin Crompton, a professor in the University of Liverpool's School of Biomedical Sciences believes that although it's uncommon in humans, some "healthy humans" can produce ape-like footprints as well. He disagrees with many researchers who believed the loss of the "so-called mid-tarsal break", a flexing of the side midfoot, distinguished humans from non-human apes and that this flexing can contact the ground and leave behind a mark in footprints. Crompton and his colleagues found that certain people today create such footprints.
Here's SnowWalkPrime's Mid-Tarsal Break Challenge (TeamTazerBigfoot):
"Professor Meldrum, I am interesting in your opinion of this; or if you are aware of any other tests, of humans duplicating the bent knee stride and recording their footprints for comparison. I know people have duplicated the walk, but I was unable to find anyone who had recorded the resulting tracks afterwards."
That is the best fashion runway walk I have ever seen! I had my Achilles reattached after a rupture and I have trouble stepping off on the ball of the right foot. If I walk barefoot in sand, I will have that sort of print in the sand, looking different than my left foot. I have to wear a bit of a heel on my shoes so I can step off normally. We're talking about a creature with massive thigh muscles and very very heavy, so it would have to lower it's center of gravity to walk and depend less on knees and ankles as humans do -- look at any grossly obese person's knee and ankle problems-- the dynamics of human step patterns of going up on our toes and with that much weight it is wrong for the types of muscles and structure humans have, so they do get injuries. Squatches would have to depend more on the thigh muscles and the low back (gluteus) muscles which we see are pronounced on them.
ReplyDeleteI only thought this guy did comedy. This is a worthy experiment. I noticed his tracks did not follow a straight line as Sasquatches do, thus there is another mechanism involved maybe in the hips as it is hard to replicate in any kind of comfortable motion. Also got Dr. Meldrum to reply and this is his specialty.
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Alpha Dog, Good point! If you look at the mechanics of it, humans step off their toes, so their hips can allow for a very straight joint because our body weight can rest on one leg at a time and so we rest the weight under each shoulder as we step. If a squatch is so heavy and tall, it would need a shifted center of gravity and more thigh and butt muscles and its steps would be more in front of each other to balance as both feet are on the ground for more of the step through. Give the walk a try and see what it's like. You can't walk bent kneed like that and keep your legs shoulder width apart like humans who step-off. To keep your weight centered in the same place while walking, your legs almost swing out and in as you walk bent kneed. The hip joint would be different than for humans and the feet appropriately large to support the balance necessary. Interesting mechanics. Totally feasible. The one I saw had exceptional thigh muscles and buttocks muscles. If you were to walk all day like a BF, you'd be hurting like hell in those two places as you build those muscles. Hmm... I'm thinking new workout for that Brazilian butt lift so many women want. I can hear the accompanying workout song, "Walk like a Sasquatch" (to the theme of "Walk Like An Egyptian."
DeleteI like your thinking Autumn. I know I have tried the walk and it is very uncomfortable and I can not really replicate it. Witness say their fluid motion reminds them of cross country skiing.
DeleteWhy not put together a Sasquatch work out plan that will give women the desired butt. Run it by Jillian Michaels and with her name and your plan you can become the first Sasquatch millionaire, and provide hope for all women. Something this crazy could work.
Chuck
I would like to add my two cents here if I might. I agree completely with the comments by Dr. Meldrum and if it might help to understand the differance between the Ape/ Human stride. We seem to be in agreement that Sasquatch demonstrate a "mid-Tarsal break" and how that causes their tracks to differ from human. The reason humans do not have a mid- tarsal break is due to the anatomy of the foot and has nothing to do with weight or the strenght of thigh muscles. Human feet have a complex joint. A complex joint, is a joint involving more than two bones called the Mid-tarsal locking mechanism.
ReplyDeleteAs a person walks, heel strike is the first phase, at heel strike, and further into "foot flat" the foot is very slightly everted allowing slight flexion at the mid foot area. This cushions the impact of body weight. As one moves forward, from foot flat into toe off, the mid tarsal joints "lock", this occurs due to slight inversion of the foot. This "locking" of the mid tarasl region allows the human foot to not only flex to absorb the energy of weight hitting the ground but to become a rigid lever to push with as we walk forward. Without this locking mechanism we would not be able to run as we do or to walk nearly as well because we would expend alot more energy lifting our leg off the ground instead of pushing forward with it.
Take your own shoes off, walk in wet sand, then some loam. On a slope, running and walking. Look back. You may be surprised to see your own "mid-tarsal" break... the conditions, variables, all can conspire to leave a flat footed track or one with a break mid-point.
ReplyDeleteDon't think we have enough to go on yet.
Dermal ridges maybe more promising, as it is hard to duplicate those.
its funny all the experts say the same thing in that a sasquatch has to have a mid tarsal break for some reason. i heard another expert say on TV that unless thier bid toe is farther to the side of the foot then its impossible for them to have this mid tarsal break. what gets me is that NOBODY, and i mean NOBODY has ever, never ever seen a sasquatch's foot, not one damn person. plus all the track casts that have the said mid tarsal break were cast in soft substrait,(ground). never on hard surfaces. this video makes more sense to me in reguards as it can duplicate the known castings. this is called INVESTIVATING OTHER REASONS, you know scientifics, this guy is a biologist. unlike most of us he actually knows a thing or two about animals, the outdoors and scientifical stuff. and he pokes fun at others whom post blobs and blurry shakey vids, and in a humorous way.
ReplyDeleteMissing the point. You specifically stated that there are exact conditions that need to be met for you to create the mid-tarsal break. Now, explain how you can lengthen you foot to around sixteen plus inches, make your feet around 8 inches wide and cover several hundred feet leaving a trail such as you have described.
ReplyDeleteMany scientists/investigator overlook the obvious when wanting to disprove something. In PERFECT conditions with countless practice attempts, someone with a vast amount of skill and knowledge in this area of study can closely mimic a sasquatch print or gait. Note the Perfect conditions, countless practice attempts and skill and knowledge I spoke of. This fact alone eliminates 99.9% of the public at large. Throw in the dermal ridging re-creation and you now have something entirely different.
Now, lets take the above mentioned requirements needed for hoaxing a set of tracks and ask the person qualified to replicate this to go out into the middle of nowhere and lay down a set of hoaxed tracks approximately 20 miles from the nearest town or community.
Chances are, this doesn't happen, nor will it ever happen. Prints can be hoaxed, but the average debunker fails to take into account all factors such as the knowledge, time and effort needed to create only a few tracks. (Not even considering an entire line of prints that shows muscle flexation, pressure points, scarring, etc.)
The average skeptic will shout, fake! Hoax! With no real explanation or proof that they are anything other than real. The best argument presented: They COULD be hoaxed.
Archer1
Meldrum endorses BCM tracks as real, and a lot of Paul Freeman tracks. Nuff said. Mr. Elk lay.
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