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Josh Phillipson wrote:
gyroscopic: in that there is a responsive, reflexive and restorative torque created when it is perturbed.
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OK, agreed, but it all comes from the rapid spinning of the gyroscope!
Lots of things respond instantly and appropriately, and they don't need a freely spinning core. For instance the ground, or walls-- they always push back exactly enough to counteract what is put into them. Also a pendulum at rest has a restorative torque in response to perturbation (it pulls back to centered when you first touch it to start oscillation). Also elastic things like springs do this.. thus I feel yamabiko is a concept more related to ground reaction force, gravity-based pendulums, and soft, elastic (ju) tissues in the body. Or at least, moreso than to gyroscopes.
--JW