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no shit it is my opinion. i've said on a number of occasions I have no studies so HOPEFULLY you'll stop sounding like a broken record that saying there is no proof. just as you offer no proof that the body can just figure out the most efficient way for it to run other than just saying it over and over again. same thing I am doing.
I said there are people who run fast in spite of the most efficient style because of better motors and people who have worse motor and more efficient techniques that get beat.
i have said there can by stylistic difference and defined technique as the commonalities of an efficient method. the body is a 3rd class lever system with fulcrums that require anchoring and each body IS different.
malmo said he was both a heel striker and flat foot striker dependent on velocity. Why the change in technique if it didn't matter? how nice that his body magically knew exactly which contact to employ at every given velocity. and no one ever taught him and he never once had a conscious thought about it. Are there not people who run the same way regardless of if you ask them to jog, run and interval or sprint. I watch people who don't know how to change because their body only knows one way. you can repeat and ingrain a poor technique just as easily as you can repeat and ingrain a good technique.
My fundamental disagreement is with Malmo and those who say the body will just figure it out. Like the body and more importantly our mind can't override and make changes both good and bad.
People watch sports all the time and try to emulate what they see. Golfers try to change and tweak their swing for better results of accuracy and distance. I know another logical fallacy. But does the golfer simply need to just keep swinging and the body will figure it out? I mean moving your arms is just natural right? It doesn't matter right?
New people take up running all the time, does that mean that their body will just figure it out and that they can't be instructed on what is more efficient and what to try to avoid?
And again you don't answer my question: Do you think that heel striking is inefficient?