Settle an argument - can you form a straight line from knee to toe?

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Weird title I know. Apologies.
But myself and OH were just discussing my legs. Or more specifically my foot.
I was stretching my leg/foot out (as one does) and he jumped in horror saying 'Ew, that's disgusting?' After much questioning it transpires that I can bend my foot down enough with an outstretched leg so that it's just one straight line (hard to explain).
He tried it and his ankles won't go halfway near to a straight line with his leg.
Is it men? Is it me (dancer all my youth) or can everybody but him do it and I'm not a freak?

@ChristmasCarcass google "Slav squat" :D

Ok. So I can do this, even though my left leg is a tad fucked, and I can't get my heel anywhere near the floor after 3 spinal surgeries recently. A straight knee to toe though I can do 🤷‍♀️

Am now awaiting DP to come to bed to see if he can do it or not...

Woohoo! A skill I never knew I had!

It will be useful if you ever need the loo in Asia.

I can squat right down as long as my knees are splayed out (so with hands down doing whatever between my legs) but not like in the photo just above where the young woman has her knees together.

Oh that sounds rude.

@ShredMeJillianIWantToBeNatalie makes sense, only my dad can do it so generic maybe?

Yes one of my sons is spectacularly hyper mobile so I’m guessing I have an elbow-specific version

Yes I can too, no longer a dancer since I was a teen. but did lots of Yoga.
Dh does the Asian squat. He said that when he was younger the Vietnamese men he knew used to d it, around a car they were fixing (car raised up slightly) They all looked very comfy, so he tried it, and with practise he says it is comfy when working on something low down. But now he is getting old (retired) I've noticed his heels coming off the floor a bit.

genetic not genetic. The wider my legs the lower my squat

It's just pointing your toes. Nothing to do with dancing or flexibility. I am horribly inflexible but can do it easily. I suspect it's just biomechanical. DD, DS and DH can all do it.

I can do an Asian squat too. I do it when we play board games on the floor. Again, not flexibility but strength/practice.

I can do it, never danced or really did yoga but did swim quite a bit when younger. Can't ask DP but they run on their toes so I'm fairly sure they can.

My DB used to do the Asian squat, I can barely get to 90 degrees now but used to be able to get to about 45.
I really need to do some stretching.

Most of me is hideously inflexible but I can point my toes so they are sole down on the bed.
DH can barely move his ankles (although when he was videoed on a treadmill his ankle stability looked like a camel running ) I think his poor ankle mobility contributes to his dire swimming technique as he can't use his size 12s as fins.

DS seems to have some hypermobility. He naturally sits around in an Asian squat (something I have never achieved despite years of dance and yoga). This evening I was reading to him and he was lounging around with his thigh behind his shoulder flapping his lower leg around.
There are legs everywhere at the dinner table!

Yes, can do, not a dancer!

I can but I hyperextend

I can, without any effort. Never had a ballet lesson in my life, and no gymnast, and am mid-50s.
Just waiting for anyone else in the house to come in so I can do a full survey as am weirded out that none of my dc have ever been able to touch their toes, as children, teens, nor adults

I would not consider myself flexible at all and I can do this. I know DD and DS can do this to as I've seen them stretch out. No idea if DH can, that said he does have a dodgy ankle at the moment so I'd say he can't currently with that one. He's going to think I'm mad in the morning if when I ask him to try with his ok leg.

I can, but I'm hyper mobile (if I lean on my arm my elbow bends backward), so not sure I lend weight to your argument.

Men's ankles are different to women's. Most women are more flexible than men.

Actually makes sense. I used to have this irrational fear of public toilets as a child (those metal ones in laybys in Wales.... shudder...) and when I got too big to be held for a squat wee in the woods instead I taught myself how to do it. I have never used a squat toilet but I reckon I quite easily could.

Yes, easily, and I can get the whole soles of my feet flat to the floor while I do it, but in fairness I do have something called Forefoot Equinus which means my feet bones overextend. On the down side it causes me agony after a day of bare feet / flat shoes, and I will never be able to do an Asian squat no matter how much I practice, my bones just don't bend that way.

I can do it and I'm most definitely not a dancer!

I can do it - I have hyper mobility so assumed it was because of that .

I always do the "asian squat" if looking at something on the floor but I don't want to sit on the floor (like at work trying to find something on a low shelf). Over the years quite a few people have said "you look like an Indian lady!"

I used to get my fingernails shellaced but never my toes, mainly because I could do a half decent job on them myself (or too far away to see the crap job I had made of them more like), but also because I'd feel uncomfortable having an adult I don't know ministering to my feet.

Anyway I was surprised that people would go to the nail bar to get their toenails done, and astonished when in a conversation with a group of women quite a lot said they couldn't reach their toenails in order to paint them themselves!

I can. Didn't know there were people who couldn't. I'll ask DH when he emerges.

Haven't read the whole thread, but it's completely usual for human beings to have different levels of flexibility from one another and no one is a 'freak'.

If most people check, they've usually got parts on either side of their body that are more flexible on one side than the other. It's just normal biology.