You Should Be Swinging!

Swings just flat out blow my mind. They are sooo much fun and I could swing on them for hours on end and think nothing of it, but how in the hell does pumping your legs make you swing better! Seriously! You move your legs back and forth and you just keep getting higher and higher.

I suppose maybe it has something to do with transferring weight when at the peak of the swing. When you get to the top and move your legs to the opposite side it must throw weight in that direction, giving you more speed. It's still weird though. You just put your legs out or in and it's like, magic or something. I wonder if you have really heavy shoes if you will get swinging faster. More weight shifting when you change directions with your legs, right? The "Pump".... Weird.

You know what would be a trip? Hooking up a swing on a huge structure like that arch in St. Louis. Could you get swinging really really high? Or would your pump max out and lose its effect when you get swinging a certain height? Maybe with those really heavy shoes you could swing higher. That would be so cool to find out. I think when I get to heaven, one of the first things I'm going to do is start swinging on a huge mountain top and just look at the awesome view, and swing. Yeeea.

Enough of this, I'm going to my old elementary school to experiment....