How tall are you? What is your wingspan and sitting height?

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Tbh, in real life no one gives a flying fk about wingspan and sitting height because not everyone knows about LL and the media doesn't discriminate or judge based on sitting height or wingspan, the only thing you should focus when doing LL for me is how  proportionate you'll look nked. Take also in consideration that if you do more amounts (6cm +) you'll look weird and it'll look like you're wearing high heels.

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Antlers lengthening!? 

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So in conclusion, What do you think matters the most... Sitting height or arm span?
Cause i've got 192cm / 6'3.5" (I can get up to 194cm / 6'4.5" if i stretch) but my sitting height varies between 90-93cm during the day, may be due to bad posture. Lets say its 91.5cm for argument's sake, this means that i have long limbs and short torso (highly uncommon for caucasians). And thats not the case IMO, sitting height is a  ty measurement for torso length. I am not deformed, if anything i am well proportioned. So people with flat butt's can't do LL ? 
Do doctors really take into account sitting height ratios, is the limit 0.50 and if so will they refuse to go over it ?
6.5cm shouldn't cause too much trouble especially if they're divided by two segments IMO.
What do you think ?

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Quote from: 680 on June 25, 2014, 03:50:17 PMSo in conclusion, What do you think matters the most... Sitting height or arm span?
Cause i've got 192cm / 6'3.5" (I can get up to 194cm / 6'4.5" if i stretch) but my sitting height varies between 90-93cm during the day, may be due to bad posture. Lets say its 91.5cm for argument's sake, this means that i have long limbs and short torso (highly uncommon for caucasians). And thats not the case IMO, sitting height is a s**tty measurement for torso length. I am not deformed, if anything i am well proportioned. So people with flat butt's can't do LL ? 
Do doctors really take into account sitting height ratios, is the limit 0.50 and if so will they refuse to go over it ?
6.5cm shouldn't cause too much trouble especially if they're divided by two segments IMO.
What do you think ?

With that wingspan you probably do have long limbs. It's not "highly uncommon" for caucasians, maybe for asians, but there are still plenty of caucasians on both sides.

Sitting height is not a bad metric, assuming you're not morbidly obese, butt will matter very little. I'm skinny and have a 94 cm sitting height at 173 cm. I've seen many short asian guys with high sitting heights. There's a reason it's been used as a torso length metric in most studies.

In terms of wingspan vs. torso...I believe wingspan may matter more if you dress with long shirts, since it is very difficult to give the appearence of longer arms. However, I believe torso length matters more when nked.

As long as you don't go 10 cm above your wingspan or below 49-50% sitting height, it won't be noticed by people.

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First post here, and I believe I'm a fairly interesting case. I am very tall, but composed almost entirely by my torso (192cm, made up primarily by torso). I haven't measured my inseam, but the disparity's blatant, though I am only really conscious of my wingspan. My wingspan is 183cm, and that's with very broad shoulders. I'm not phased by the short legs, as I feel I'm tall enough that I don't need the extra height, but what does often disturb me is my arm length, in that I can sit at a desk, tower over everyone else, yet 90% of the time my elbows don't reach the desk when sitting straight.

I'm very interested in carrying out limb-lengthening surgery to my upper-arms, and believe this is possible and particularly safe to do so. Does anyone have any advice on where I can begin researching and following up the possibility for adding 5cm to each upper arm, for cosmetic limb-lengthening?

Cheers.

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Quote from: tallshort_throwaway on August 04, 2014, 02:22:50 AMFirst post here, and I believe I'm a fairly interesting case. I am very tall, but composed almost entirely by my torso (192cm, made up primarily by torso). I haven't measured my inseam, but the disparity's blatant, though I am only really conscious of my wingspan. My wingspan is 183cm, and that's with very broad shoulders. I'm not phased by the short legs, as I feel I'm tall enough that I don't need the extra height, but what does often disturb me is my arm length, in that I can sit at a desk, tower over everyone else, yet 90% of the time my elbows don't reach the desk when sitting straight.

I'm very interested in carrying out limb-lengthening surgery to my upper-arms, and believe this is possible and particularly safe to do so. Does anyone have any advice on where I can begin researching and following up the possibility for adding 5cm to each upper arm, for cosmetic limb-lengthening?

Cheers.

I wouldn't do it for cosmetic reasons, but would definitely do it if your short arms are causing you functional issues, as in not reaching steering wheels easily, or having to hunch to the point of getting back pain while eating or writing. If this is the case, you might even be able to get insurance to cover your procedure. Dr. Parihar in India can do it for under 50k if you use precise and probably around 20k for external devices. Dr. Paley in the US can do it for ~90k with the precise nail. Go with him and get it covered by insurance if you can.

By the way, what is your sitting height? What pant inseam fits you best, generally speaking? Do you know if there is any medical reasons for your fairly uncommon proportions?

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Quote from: Tall on August 04, 2014, 04:39:36 AMI wouldn't do it for cosmetic reasons, but would definitely do it if your short arms are causing you functional issues, as in not reaching steering wheels easily, or having to hunch to the point of getting back pain while eating or writing. If this is the case, you might even be able to get insurance to cover your procedure. Dr. Parihar in India can do it for under 50k if you use precise and probably around 20k for external devices. Dr. Paley in the US can do it for ~90k with the precise nail. Go with him and get it covered by insurance if you can.

By the way, what is your sitting height? What pant inseam fits you best, generally speaking? Do you know if there is any medical reasons for your fairly uncommon proportions?

Measuring just now, 103cm sitting height (floor to top of head). As for inseam, I've never selected pants by measurements - purely by what fits, as short legs-wide pelvis, isn't particularly well accommodated by many types of trousers.

50K-90K for the precise is quite a lofty price though, but if it achieves what's necessary I suppose I feel it's worthwhile. What is the difference between precise and external?

Also, I'm surprised health insurance covers international treatment. My worry is whether I'd actually be eligible for it, given that I still have an average and largely manageable wingspan, and my reasons are partly cosmetic.

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Im 165cm tall. 168cm armspawn and 90cm sitting height. Could i go for 175cm tall?

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Today I ate lunch with somebody very interesting, not just character-wise, but also proportion-wise. This guy is Caucasian (says he's of German descent), and stands 6'4-6'4.5 (~194CM) depending on the time of day. Guess who had the taller sitting height? I did! My sitting height is 96CM. We were talking about tshirts and I pointed out that it was funny that we both wore size mediums despite our massive height difference. He chuckled and said that it was because he has ridiculously long legs. He wears pants with a whopping 40 inch inseam! He said that anything shorter looks noticeably short on him. As a proportions-obsessed prospective LL-er, I felt as though I was looking at a unicorn. I couldn't believe that such proportions actually existed, let alone occurred naturally, and asked him to sit up as straight as possible. Sure enough, I was 2-3CM taller! His medium t-shirt went down past his waist. Standing up, though, he looks perfectly proportionate, and does very well socially, probably in no small part due to the confidence that his impressive height has allowed him. His proportions don't seem to bother him in the slightest. The only things that he has, that an LL-er would lack, are two very long arms, which work wonders in balancing out his proportions. His forearms were especially long and, as we know, those can't be lengthened. His hands were of pretty normal size though. I am sharing this story to give my take on why I am now more confident that a short sitting height doesn't necessarily mean that you'll look like a freak after LL. Just keep the amount of lengthening reasonable.

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^Are you MiracleGrow on the other site?