why is it harder to skip a stair step going down than it is going up?
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I think it’s mainly down to center of balance and how your body falls into place.
When you bend your leg and move to place it two stairs up, your center of mass moves forward and you start to fall forward, but your foot lands on the stairs almost instantly, restoring your balance and halting your fall. If you have sufficiently large legs you might not even have a moment of falling.
But when going down, as soon as you start moving your front leg forward you have a long way to fall before your foot hits the stair, unless you start by bending your *back* leg down first, which is a difficult move. You’ll have a lot more momentum to deal with and if you can’t stop in time you’ll over-rotate and fall all the way down the stairs.
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