Originally Posted by
livedarklions
They balance at 1 and 3 o'clock unless I apply force on one to push the other up. I will then have to apply force to the other one to get the first one to go above 3 o'clock, and repeat. In terms of energy expended by me, it's not nothing, it's a little bit repeating again and again. It is a marginal increase in the resistance that it is going to return once I "remember" the chain.
Do you have anything that documents your assertion that the research showing pros do lift their legs was wrong?
Are you sure they won't balance at everywhere o'clock?
But we'd be slower spinning it up, and harder to slow it down.