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chris fawcett

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  1. Dear Colleagues,

     

    Haskell Wexler's affection, wisdom and wit will be sorely missed.

    His talent, kindness and fierce human advocacy are for the ages.

     

    Our profession effectively began 41 years ago when Haskell's chase-scene shakedown of the Steadicam prototype (for a Keds commercial), led to that first brilliant, ballsy combo shot on Bound for Glory.

     

    He was our original patron. He has been my inspiration and and our dear friend and companion ever since. He will be with us always

     

    Vale Haskell,

     

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  2. Hey John,

     

    First you need to find a teacher you like. Some of them can be a bit wu. If they say they combine it with other 'alternative’ therapies, I'd avoid them. AT is well documented in the British Medical Journal and the Lancet as an effective therapy, and teachers train full time for 3-4 years to get qualified, so good ones stick to the pure technique.

     

    I'd advise getting a couple of lessons to see if you click with the teacher, and if you do, go for a longer series. Some say 10 lessons is enough, but I've had a lot more. I learn something useful about my body every time, and I'm in a lot better shape than I would be oherwise.

     

    I lmost admire AT because of what it isn't. It's not a therapy like chiropractic or massage, where you have to keep going back for the same treatment. It's a progressive education about your body; and it's not a series of exercises you have to repeat every day, you simply roll what you have learned into whatever it is you do every day.

     

    Having said all that, it's a subtle process, and you may find it too slow for your tastes. I can only hope you get to like it as much as I do!

     

    All the best,

     

    Chris

  3. I'm checking it out now Chris! Thank you!!! It's definitely not allergies. It's something to do with scalene/sternocleidomastoid/traps that's involved I'm thinking.

    Let me know how you get along. I hate to sound like an evangelist, but it helped my posture a lot, and informed me in the process of designing the Exovest. An ex-gf had her life-long migrane headaches cured permanently. Oh shit, I sound like an evangelist.

     

    Good luck!

     

    Chris

  4. New Exovest owners. There's a change to the pad system on the vest to deal with the problems of working with memory foam in sub-zero conditions, and we think summer performance has been improved as well.

    If your pads look like the ones below, with the grey 3-D spacer mesh on the inside, here's some info that hasn't hit the user manual yet.
    The configuration with the blue memory foam on the inside is for summer. Pull all the layers out, and reverse the whole sandwich for winter. The white foam stays always in the middle (though please feel free to experiment).
    Please note that this is a rolling change, not part of an upgrade package. The older pads are just fine—I still have them—but these new ones are available from Steadicam if you think you need them.
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  5. Quite so.

     

    I also ignored localised differences in barometric pressure, gravitational anomalies, and random quantum fluctuations, but given that exact measurement of both momentum and position was limited by the Heisenberg uncertainty principle, and input and output energy totals subject to inaccuracy arising from conservation of energy principles relating to the second law of thermodynamics, I decided to do a real-world test in a situation in which the arms might actually be used in circumstances within which an operator might actually notice ;)

     

    All the best,

     

    Chris

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