i have been stifled by the fact that sliding around on hardwood floors is considered """unsafe""" and """inefficient""" lemme tell you something. okay? my body may not be designed to Mario Kart my way around my living room but when have designs' intentions ever stopped anyone? i mean.
bilaterally symmetrical bipedalism (which is the general form of anything with two legs side-by-side) requires some degree of instability to move
as a human person, i literally have two redundant things in the deepest point of my ears that work as both gyroscopes and accelerometers in real-time
human legs have remarkable controllability compared to how powerful they can be
hardwood floors produce just enough friction for walking but not enough to fully keep from slipping without high-friction contact (shoes, grippy socks, bare feet)
read that last point again. that's almost exactly the traction conditions of rally racecourses (loose dirt/gravel/snow on a flat surface). rally drivers use functional oversteer (also known as powersliding or drifting depending on the situation) to accelerate in the direction they want to go while using the momentum of the moving body (in this case the car) to break traction and slide in whatever direction goes around/past the obstacle you're traveling towards.
combine this with the agility that comes with precision accelerometers/gyroscopes in your head, and the ability to completely shift your center of mass on the fly, and no wonder it's so fun to just. slide around with near-perfect control regardless of how cluttered the path from my room to the kitchen like it's TITANFALL|2.
...i should probably be asleep right now. this also might just be the silent adrenaline junkie in me speaking.