As you may have noticed, in some places the floor often folds in such a way than a
portion of it rises in right angles to the ground plane, and then the next part
is placed parallel to this plane, to give way to a new perpendicular.
This pattern is repeated in spiral or broken lines to various heights.
If you bend over and put your right hand in one of the vertical parts
and the left in the corresponding horizontal, you are holding a step.
Each one of the steps formed, as you can see by two elements, is placed
slightly upwards and forwards of the preceding one, a principle that gives rise
to the stairs. Any other combination may produce fancy or picturesque alternatives,
but it will be unable to take you from the ground floor to the first floor.
Stairs are to be climbed up front because if you climb them backwards or
sideways it is particularly uncomfortable.
The natural attitude is to stand up, your arms hanging down
effortlessly, head up, but not so much as to lose sight of the following steps,
breathing slowly and regularly.
To climb stairs you have to raise this part of your body situated to the
right downwards, normally covered with leather or cloth which, normally, fits
into the step.
You put that right part which, for short, we’ll call it foot, on the
first step, then you gather the equivalent part on the left, which shouldn’t be
mistaken with the other part and, taking it to the height of the foot, you
place it in the next step.
First steps are always the most difficult, until you acquire the
necessary coordination.
The coincidence of the words foot and foot makes the explanation
difficult.
Take special care in not raising, at the same, time foot and foot.
Once you have reached the second step, it is sufficient to repeat
alternatively the movements until you reach the end of the stairs.
You then exit graciously from the stairs with a strike of your heel
which fixes them in its place, from which they won’t move until the moment of
descent arrives.
(inspired by Julio C)
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