Thanks, Marci. That does sound long. I had some custom-made pants from BuJin for awhile and I had to have them add more than ten inches to the standard length. I am all legs -- they are disproportionately long, like the legs of someone 6 feet tall or so.
Sometimes I like being tall, but in class it's actually often a pain. I have to squat a lot to execute techniques properly because everyone there is so much smaller than I am (we have mostly women and children students) and a lot of our techniques, especially the judo-type throws, are harder to execute on somebody who's shorter and/or heavier.
On the other hand the height is intimidating to others, which is a good thing I guess. For awhile we had another woman student who is 6' 2", and she used to scare the hell out of me. She would stand all the way across the dojo, seemingly, and throw a kick that spanned the whole room and nailed me.
