he's the stilt maker scientist alright
what's your name my name's David Ansen
David nice to meet you I'm Mike Columbo
from make magazine so I what is the what
is the state of stilts today because
I've seen old-fashioned stilts where
you're just sort of holding them like
this and you're walking along like that
what's the difference between those and
the kind of stuff that you make ours is
an evolution of stilts that are just
always been out there in a sense but
we've learned so much about how the body
works these days that we can start to
really dial it in so it's not just janky
old wood ones which are great but we can
make them out of metal and we're welding
them and these particular stilts have a
lot of varieties of adjustments on them
from where your foot is on the plate to
the calf support that's reversible and
you can put it in the back and make it a
shin support or a calf support there's
there's height differences it's all
about comfort so that's really
interesting because I actually well I
took a graduate class on biomechanics
and and and and we talked about some of
that same stuff but I didn't know that
that the study of biomechanics extended
to stilts are you in that so we're there
I mean were there people who were into
biomechanics and we're just like I like
stilts too and I'm gonna like put these
two things together or something like
that I think it's an age of
specialization so we're all just geeking
out on our little particular niches
right yeah and so this is my geeking out
here well you know a lot of people say
that that creativity in and of itself is
sort of the taking disparate fields and
and bringing them together which is
seems to be like the kind of thing that
you're doing that is definitely me so
I'm a licensed contractor by trade for
years couple decades and I just enjoy
this the minute I got in sauce tilters
in Santa Cruz I just got so excited by
it and I just applied my knowledge of
making started with wood eight years ago
and just have been building through and
now I'm into the aluminum and I have
even more new kind of styles and designs
coming out great well thank you very
much on
yeah so it's a still Factory calm if you
want to check it out um so have a
wonderful weekend thank you very much
all right