Talk:Head-carrying

carrying boats on ur head

reminds me when rowers carry singles (usually only ever singles) on their head. its kinda crazy because the boats (shells) are so skinny and long its hard to balance the weight properly. Abadneagu (talk) 16:28, 6 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Laptop in Hand vs on Head

Maybe it's too light to tell the difference, but I feel they are the same weight and that my neck does take the load. However, it's not much, and it's kind of comfortable. Ccgm0421 (talk) 16:29, 6 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

distribution of object weight

I find this practice interesting because it puts weight on a part of the body that doesn't normally get stressed in this way. It makes the body perform like a column. I wonder how this effects the beginning of the spine starting from the end of the skull in the back and down the neck. Acasascolucarelli3 (talk) 16:30, 6 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Humans are strong

After placing a tablet on my head and comparing it to the pictures shown in the Wiki of people holding even heavier items, it reminded me of how much the human body can handle. The forces from a weight on the head is entirely axially compressive on the entire human body, which makes sense why we feel a significantly smaller force/stress than if it were placed on a different body part. Drewslash (talk) 16:31, 6 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

ExperiencE

I think carrying something on your head feels different from carrying something on your hand because the strength from the muscles that you’re using is transferred from a different distance and direction. The head is vertically connected to the neck so the power travels directly down but the arms transfer the strength in a variety of directions.

THis reminds me of when I used to go to a Buddhist summer camp and they would make us practice stacking books on our head, mainly for posture, but after a few minutes it would feel weightless. Strawberry2302 (talk) 16:31, 6 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Maintenance tag

What's with the maintenance tag on the top of the article saying this article is insufficiently globalized? The article has many examples from Africa and Asia of the practice, perhaps making it among the least Western-oriented articles on the wiki if anything. Kalimi (talk) 14:26, 20 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Pinging @Ajfweb:, who added the template. Kalimi (talk) 14:28, 20 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I did a minor copyedit sweep and removed the tag. When it was added, the reason was that the article "feels too rooted in a Western perspective"[1] which is not enough to merit a tag.

I don't mind if it's re-added, but there needs to be some kind of actionable complaint. For example, that it ignores this and that important example of head-carrying. Or simply explaining in what way the article might otherwise be biased. Peter ^Isotalo 19:48, 20 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]