*** Quoting Bob Ackley from a message to Carol Shenkenberger ***

 CS> When we have alot of work, the guys who have no head for heights
 CS> (oddly in my  experience, it's always been guys with that problem,
 CS> never women) take the  antennas after we dismount them and refurbish
 CS> them.

BA> I get very nervous on a ladder when I'm more than about ten feet up.
BA> enough, when I was flying in EC-47s (www.ec47.com) I could stand just
BA> inside the open paratroop door and watch the scenery go by 5,000 or mo
BA> feet straight down and it didn't bother me (and not wearing a chute, e

BA> I'm going to have a major problem next summer because I have to repain
BA> (scrape/wire brush, prime, paint) my  22x40 foot 2 story house.  The t
BA> the walls outside is about 25 feet above ground - and 30 feet to the p
BA> one end.  It's not going to be fun, but it *has* to be done.

Grin, perhaps the one felt 'unreal' and the other real?  I get nervous on
¨ladders but once I have a tether on my ass (grin) I feel fine.

Here's one odd factor I have noticed but even though I *think* it's
related, I ¨am not really sure.  Sample too small.  Every one of the women
who I've asked, ¨took gym classes that did lots of work on balance bars and
the balance beam and ¨self report they were 'pretty good at it, better than
average'.  All of us ¨think of ourselves as having a good sense of balance
either naturally, or ¨developed during those classes (normally given in
girls gym classes in 7th or ¨8th grade but may be 9th).

When I was on the Fort McHenry, I asked the guys on that too and the ones
who ¨were not bothered by heights, mostly had had classes that did the dual
balance ¨bar training and self report that they felt they were 'pretty good
at it for a ¨guy' (girls at that age are from what I recall, normally
better and boys often ¨do not get the single balance bar training at all or
if so, only learn to walk ¨on it, not do summersalts or cartwheels which
the girls normally do get).

On the single balance beam, this is partly the hip structure differences
¨between men and women, or so I recall being told.  It's literally easier
for ¨girls than boys.  On the uneven bars (balance bar sets), boys had the
advantage ¨un upper body strenght but the center of balance made some moves
very hard for ¨them (yours is in your chest, mine amid hips) and well, umm,
nature designed ¨you to make some of the moves the girls did kinda hard for
you (grin).

Could that early, seemingly useless although fun exercise, have given a
hidden ¨benefit?  One not anticipated but there nonetheless?  I lead to yes
but my ¨sample is too small to be sure.

The only other thing I can add, is that of the guys who have no head for
¨heights, they either didnt have those classes, or felt they were not good
at ¨them (some were afraid of heights the whole time so that would have
made them ¨bad at it which clouds the issue).

BA> I'm going to have a major problem next summer because I have to repain
BA> (scrape/wire brush, prime, paint) my  22x40 foot 2 story house.  The t
BA> the walls outside is about 25 feet above ground - and 30 feet to the p
BA> one end.  It's not going to be fun, but it *has* to be done.

I know the feeling.  That kind of ladder is not what I do and i dont think
I'd ¨enjoy it either.  I'd want a clawhammer over the roof and under the
eaves on ¨the other side with a rope then around my waist .
                                       xxcarol

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