Body Ratios

[RRod]

in your example, the person has limbs shorter/longer relative to his body

that's exactly what i was saying

it doesn't matter if a person has long arms if he is also tall and they are in proportionate to his body... sure they're long in absolute length, but relative to his body they're normal

Yeah, I meant the last paragraph to come off as "I agree with stonerider that relative positioning makes a huge difference". A little difference in length can make a substantively larger difference in joint angle.

[Dave 321]

Exactly, so he is considered to have long legs, because the ratio between leg length and height is high and NOT because he is high as a whole, right? (Let's say he is.)
I mean I am 6'2'' but that doesn't make my legs long... Comparison against whole body does, yes? This is what it's troubling me... For examply my ratio bewtween legs length/height is 0.53.. So is this considered long/ short?
(Yeah, obviously I lack word mastering skills...)
ITP.

You listen to death?

[IndividualThoughtPatterns]

You listen to death?

HELL YEAH. You aswell?

Also thanks for interesting debate...

[squatyourface]

A friend of mine who is at least 3-4 inches taller than me, has all of those inches in his legs: when we sit side by side, we have the same apparent height.

Exact same as me. Pretty sure I got short femurs (not complaining, I enjoy an upright squat)!!