Tall Lifestyle

Tweet I hope you learned from last year’s tall travel nightmare and avoided Spirit Airlines this year, otherwise you may have to stand for the duration of your trip. The space between economy class seats on a Spirit Airlines Airbus A321 is about 28 inches, which is below the typical 31 inches. JetBlue offers 34 to 38 inches of legroom, and those extra inches add up. While JetBlue hosts 150 seats on its jets, Spirit is able to squeeze in … →

Tweet In addition to all the basic travel services they provide like booking tickets and accommodations, travel agents can also arrange car service, personalized tours and activities. They are also excellent sources of information concerning local information about your destination. Before you start thinking that travel agents are too expensive or that you don’t travel enough to use a travel agent, remember that the Internet has changed a lot of things, including travel services. These days you don’t have to … →

Tweet A great resource to find great deals on air travel is Airfare Watchdog, the low airfare alert site that covers all airlines. Their free service scours the web and sends you email alerts on the routes you’re most interested. Follow them on Twitter @airfarewatchdog for travel related updates. They also list promo code airfares and airline-site-only deals, too! And don’t forget to review the articles in our Tall Travel Section as well for great tips and advice to make … →

Tweet Long-distance couples may include partnerships where one or both partners are business travelers, deployed in the military, college students, airline pilots, flight attendants, traveling salesmen, railroad workers, truckers, professional athletes, musicians, entertainers, actors, or corporate executives. In other words, couples who are forced to be away from each other for long periods of time on a regular basis are often forced into LDRs (long-distance relationships). What can one do in such a situation? Is an LDR worth pursuing, or … →

Tweet Lots of people hate the hassles that come with travelling. This is particularly true at holiday time and especially now that so many are on tighter budgets. No matter where you’re going or how you’re getting there, if you’re traveling while tall do your best to be patient and be prepared and you just might arrive intact. Preparation Pays Off These days being prepared means that you anticipate delays, so you’ve charged up your iPod, have plenty of batteries … →

Tweet Check-in agents and gate agents sometimes have discretionary upgrades available to move passengers from Economy/Coach Class to Business/First Class. Most people, regardless of height, express dissatisfaction with the space they are given in economy cabins so a free upgrade is often a coveted prize. After a thoroughly unscientific and informal survey of my twin sister and some of her friends on their day off from a major carrier I’ve discovered that the key ingredient to getting upgraded is pure … →

Tweet If you or your kids are first time visitors you may be shocked to discover height minimums required because the park does such a good job of marketing itself as a place appropriate for kids of all ages. Rider Height Requirements at Disneyland Most of the rides at Disneyland are safe to accommodate riders of any height and the following rides have HEIGHT MINIMUMS: Indiana Jones Adventure – 46 inch minimum The Matterhorn Bobsleds – 35 inch minimum Splash … →

Tweet The Great Recession is having a devastating effect on taller passengers as airlines pinch pennies to bolster their already battered bottom-lines. It seems all of their efforts hurt those of us flying while tall more than most. The average legroom in coach is getting smaller. The seat width remains unchanged in decades even as Americans get bigger. Airlines are increasingly using small regional planes to serve less-popular destinations. The legroom in regional jets isn’t less on average than on … →

Tweet Dining solo can be immensely pleasurable or incredibly daunting, depending on your temperament and overall approach. To ensure your next table-for-one adventure is as enjoyable as possible, The Height Site offers up these time-tested tips for dining alone Be Bookish. Always come armed with reading material. Having something to read not only keeps you from getting bored but also serves as a shield against waitstaff pity or unwanted conversational overtures from fellow patrons. Keep in mind that certain reading … →

Tweet Standing out above the rest The only hotel chain that seems to have specifically staked out the tall traveler niche is Kimpton Hotels, which introduced its “tall rooms” with 96-inch beds, higher showerheads and higher door frames in 1995. What began as a one room test in three properties has now become so successful for the company that each hotel in Kimpton’s Hotel Monaco chain has about 20 tall rooms. The company apparently plans to add more Tall Rooms … →

Tweet 6 ft 7 Brooks Anderson had never flown on Spirit Airlines and didn’t know about their notoriously compact seat arrangement. The space between economy class seats on a Spirit Airlines Airbus A321 is about 28 inches, which is well below the airline industry average of about 31 inches. If he had consulted Seat Guru he would have known that the steep discounts come at the price of precious legroom. According to the site, JetBlue offers 34 to 38 inches … →

Tweet Two members of the U.S. Women’s National Volleyball team, 6 ft 7 in Tayyiba Haneef-Park (200 cm) and 6 ft 3.5 in Jennifer Joines-Tamas (191 cm) were featured on the popular nationally syndicated television show Dr. Phil. The women are the two tallest players on the U.S. Women’s Olympic Team roster and both were part of the silver-medal roster at the 2008 Olympic Games. Growing Up Tall The women shared their personal stories of growing up taller than average … →

Tweet The Martha Stewart Show aired a tall themed episode in February 2010 which they called, “The Tall Show”. To open the episode martha who is about 5 ft 9 dons a pair of Yves Saint Laurent heels to have some fun with being tall. Guests include model, actress and Long Tall Sally designer Lisa Butcher with author Arianne Cohen and Hyatt Regency Chicago pastry chef Alain Roby.   “Tall Show” Episode Page   Segments of the tall show episode … →

Tweet Whether in Britain, America, China or Ukraine, this film shines a spotlight on the lives of some of the world’s tallest people. These eye-opening videos will make you laugh, cry and well up with compassion. They might also make you want to scream at short people. This important film will open a lot of minds to what it’s like to live in a world where nothing fits. As a very tall man myself I found it a little overwhelming … →

Tweet Jabe measures 6ft 2inches (188cm), works as a dominatrix and lives on society’s margins, defying expectations of the ‘normal’ ‘feminine’ body and female sexuality. Jabe Babe also has a life threatening genetic condition called Marfan Syndrome, a connective tissue disorder which affects one in three thousand people. This hybrid documentary film, merging fiction and non-fiction forms, inhabits the heightened technicolour world of the tall woman, the outsider, to boldly provoke questions on society’s desire for sexual, visual, and genetic … →

Tweet The character is introduced in Goblet of Fire when her school is invited to the Triwizard Tournament, with Fleur Delacour being elected as Beauxbaton’s champion. When Harry is chosen as the fourth champion and second Hogwarts champion, she is angered and is about to leave the tournament, but eventually she agrees to stay. On Screen Frances de la Tour appeared as Madame Maxime in the film adaptation of Goblet of Fire. The 7ft tall British actor Ian Whyte acted … →

Tweet In 1907, a San Francisco Chronicle cartoonist named Bud Fisher began drawing a daily comic strip called “Mr. Mutt.” A short time later, he added the diminutive Mr. Jeff, and “Mutt and Jeff” was born. Mutt was a tall, lanky man with a penchant for the ponies, while Jeff looked like the Monopoly man after a rough weekend. Mutt and Jeff were affable losers — the guys in the cheap seats at horse races on a Wednesday afternoon. The … →

Tweet Published seven years after Daniel Defoe’s wildly successful Robinson Crusoe, Gulliver’s Travels may be read as a systematic rebuttal of Defoe’s optimistic account of human capability. In The Unthinkable Swift: The Spontaneous Philosophy of a Church of England Man Warren Montag argues that Swift was concerned to refute the notion that the individual precedes society, as Defoe’s novel seems to suggest. Swift regarded such thought as a dangerous endorsement of Thomas Hobbes’ radical political philosophy and for this reason … →

Tweet Everyone over a certain height has to deal with a wide range of situations and tall comments, Chris Clapham greets them with humor.          

Tweet Everyone over a certain height has to deal with a wide range of tall comments – watch the video below to see how comedian Anthony Griffith deals with it.          

Tweet When it comes to shopping offline and especially for holiday shopping, most people already have a smartphone that is a high-tech tool filled with insider shopping secrets. With such rapid development of mobile applications for every major platform, most smartphone users have no idea how much apps can do for them. Most of these are free and most are available on iPhones, Android phones, or any phone that connects to the internet. Compare Prices Amazon Mobile (Free) is a … →

Tweet Twitter is a great way to keep track of all your favorite tall athletes. A Few Of Our Favorites            

Tweet As the world’s largest employer of exceptionally tall people, the National Basketball Association (NBA) should be more acutely aware of the physical needs of taller people than any other employer in the world. The picture at right shows the top picks in the NBA Draft of 2002. As you can see, the seated players look terribly uncomfortable sitting on chairs that are plainly too small for them. It’s difficult to believe that the league can’t find basic furniture to … →

Tweet Twitter is a great way to keep track of all your favorite tall athletes. A Few Of Our Favorites            

Tweet Britain’s most successful Olympian 6ft5 Sir Steve Redgrave and UK Sport teamed up with the UK’s Minister for Sport Richard Caborn to launch the “Sporting Giants” project.[/note] Redgrave’s somewhat lofty ambition to prove his theory that “if you’re big enough, you’re good enough” seems to have yeilded many positive results despite its much ridiculed launch in Trafalgar Square. In all, 3,854 applications from taller athletes were received. Strict Requirements It seems all the more amazing considering the Sporting Giants … →

Tweet Today skateboarding is more popular and a lot more accessible than it has ever been at any point in its history. As an activity, Skateboarding provides a thrill that other activities or forms of transport simply can’t provide. You could go faster on a bicycle but on a board you’ll feel more mobile, agile and free. There’s nothing quite like the feeling of standing on a narrow wooden board as you’re navigating through an urban landscape. As an action … →

Tweet While most Americans barely pay attention to the sport and the vast majority of people around the world still seem to assume that tall equals basketball, the 2010 World Cup could do a lot to inform folks about the range of taller athletes. To do our part, The Height Site decided to check out a few of the national teams slated to compete. From the countries with the highest number of Height Site readers, here are a few of … →

Tweet The NBA has done a brilliant job of marketing basketball around the world over the years as the best sport for the tallest players. They have done such a good job in fact that most people seem to forget that taller athletes often participate in a wide range of sporting activities. Here are a few more sports, beyond basketball, where height offers an advantage. In college and professional basketball the shortest players are usually well above average in height … →

Tweet While not a fully comprehensive list, we’ve done our best to find the tallest athletes in a variety of sports.          

Tweet MOSCOW — In any boxing club, sweat is part of the ambience, but in Russia, the sweat factor usually scores a one-two punch to the nose right from the doorway, reminding all who enter of what it smells like to be a nastoyashi muzhik, a real Russian man. On the wall of a small neighborhood boxing club in northwest Moscow, there is a huge, grainy photo of Stanislav Stepashkin, the 1964 Olympic featherweight champion who was one of Russia’s … →

Tweet At first glance, it may not make sense that bigger athletes would be faster. However, Jordan Charles, a recent engineering grad at Duke, plotted all of the world record holders in the 100 meter sprint and the 100 meter swim since 1900 against their height, weight and a measurement he called “slenderness.” World record sprinters have gained an average of 6.4 inches in height since 1900, while champion swimmers have shot up 4.5 inches, compared to the mere mortal … →