Long legs, where do you draw the line?

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Quote from: endomorphisme on April 17, 2015, 01:22:33 PMit's not my fault if i am 5 cm taller than you

It's not very nice to talk down on someone who's shorter than you, especially because you have height neurosis yourself, and even more because you are on a forum full of people with height neurosis.

Hope that comment to Uppland made you feel better about yourself Mr 6 footer. Once you are are 6' 2" than you can look down on 97% of people and feel really good about yourself friend
: )

Btw Uppland, I know this means nothing to you, but I think you are already a great height. I would love to have an extra 2-3 CMs of height and be your height. No need for me to be 188CM, or even 183CM. Just extra wasted space.

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Quote from: endomorphisme on April 17, 2015, 01:22:33 PMit's not my fault if i am 5 cm taller than you

I'm merely commenting that neither of us want to settle for 183CM, so we are of one mind here.

Although I wouldn't consider the surgery had I grown another 5CM naturally, but if I'm doing it I would like to gain as much as I can under the circumstances.

Quote from: Alittletooshort on April 17, 2015, 01:32:14 PMIf your arms can handle it, than go for it. This guy looks pretty aesthetic in my opinion, long legged but not akwardly long.

Yes well, I look like that while wearing my pants kind of low, maybe my legs aren't quite that long but you get the point.

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Uppland, If I was you I'd set my goal for 6cm's and check the proportions after this length has been accieved. After 6cm's you'd be at a very respectable height of 185. Later you could still decide to get the last 1-2cm's. 
At least this would be my approach to this, I have the same starting height so our situation is quit comparable.

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Quote from: Alittletooshort on April 17, 2015, 03:46:33 PMUppland, If I was you I'd set my goal for 6cm's and check the proportions after this length has been accieved. After 6cm's you'd be at a very respectable height of 185. Later you could still decide to get the last 1-2cm's. 
At least this would be my approach to this, I have the same starting height so our situation is quit comparable.

Exellent, although my dream height is 187 as that is my dads height.

I suppose we all make concessions however.

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Here's a proportion pic I found that is interesting. Notice how the second tallest guy has the shortest torso, and also short arms compared to the guy all the way on the left, and the shortest guy (all the way on the left, but it's close) has a pretty long torso

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Quote from: NewHeights on April 18, 2015, 12:00:37 AMHere's a proportion pic I found that is interesting. Notice how the second tallest guy has the shortest torso, and also short arms compared to the guy all the way on the left, and the shortest guy (all the way on the left, but it's close) has a pretty long torso



It could be just the picture: angle, height, tilt, distortion, etc. I've taken many group pictures like that and I can say that I wouldn't be surprised if the tallest guy in that pic turned out to not be the tallest, or the guy on the left was actually the 2nd tallest. Also the torso thing you mentioned could be down to how low/high they are wearing their bottoms.

You can only compare when you have isolated pictures of each of them 1 by 1 taken exactly in the same way with tape cross (or tape measurements) for reference.

If you think that a guy has slightly odd proportions then he probably looks fine. If you think that a guy as clearly fked up proportions then he's probably slightly disproportioned.

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Quote from: w1988 on April 18, 2015, 12:10:05 AMIt could be just the picture: angle, height, tilt, distortion, etc. I've taken many group pictures like that and I can say that I wouldn't be surprised if the tallest guy in that pic turned out to not be the tallest, or the guy on the left was actually the 2nd tallest. Also the torso thing you mentioned could be down to how low/high they are wearing their bottoms.

You can only compare when you have isolated pictures of each of them 1 by 1 taken exactly in the same way with tape cross (or tape measurements) for reference.

If you think that a guy has slightly odd proportions then he probably looks fine. If you think that a guy as clearly fked up proportions then he's probably slightly disproportioned.

You're right, it can be deceiving, but nonetheless, I think this pic is very interesting for multiple reasons. Assuming the proportions are not an illusion... 1 and 4 who are the shortest, have much longer arms than 2 and 3 who are noticeably taller, something else I noticed.

This pic is a huge mashup of different proportions, but if it's an illusion, than I just wasted everyone's time, sorry.

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Hi Uppland

My boss is 6 feet and his inseam is probably at least 34 inch or maybe even 36.  One day, I sat next to him in the chair.  I felt so terrible because his legs are so way much longer than mine.  Even compared to other guys whose height is about 6 feet, his legs are obviously longer than them.  But, I think he looks great.  So my conclusion about height is that long legs with a normal torso is better than long torso with short legs. I don't even bother thinking about arms.  I just want to have longer legs.

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If one has to choose, is it better to have very, very long tibiae and normal femurs or very, very long femurs and normal tibiae? Both of these are very average for me right now, and I'm only going to do LL once, so I am trying to figure out which segment to make disproportionate.

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Quote from: Taller on April 18, 2015, 01:55:03 PMIf one has to choose, is it better to have very, very long tibiae and normal femurs or very, very long femurs and normal tibiae? Both of these are very average for me right now, and I'm only going to do LL once, so I am trying to figure out which segment to make disproportionate.

I personally think femur is preferable both in forma and in function