[Greg Needel]

i will admit that is a good solution, but that is assuming that you are completely motion less at the time but if you are moving you are going to have a dynamic moment that will also have to be counteracted especially when that arm outstretched starts to oscillate.

and all of your stresses will be on the hinge for that "foot thing"


it defiantly could work though



edit: matt don;t worry about it....this is one of those problems our professors tell us about where there isn't 1 solution and it requires alot of thinking about all the possible solutions and variables involved