I spend a lot of my days working in them and I've never managed to find one that didn't get uncomfortable quite quickly in some way or cause old strains to flare up. Curious to know if others have had better luck, or can talk to what are the features of a really ideal chair (structure, material, brand, etc.)? -- especially since with gongfu practice I expect we prefer different things from most buyers, whose much greater number I expect makes manufacturers cater designs to their tastes. In particular:
- Are "ergonomic" chairs actually helpful as office chairs, or do they act in fact more like a crutch?
- It may be that I never really learned to sit in them right, but is there a good reason that most chairs -- at least that I've found in the U.S. -- have a base (i.e. the surface that one sits one's rear on) that isn't at an angle parallel to the ground but is tilted back (so that the front lip of the base is higher than the back edge)? Seems to throw off how one holds one's weight, especially from how one does so and trains to do so in a standing position. Or is that just me?
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