We have a notoriously treacherous staircase. It has a turn in it and everything. If you don’t have a super honed technique for navigating a tiered system of steps, 
you could get seriously worked over by that thing. I’ve seen it happen more than once, and it can get ugly real fast.
I’m pretty much awesome at stairs. I might be one of the best ‘Steppers I know; sometimes I’ll even take two at a time, in a move I call the “Step Two Alternate”. There are almost no stairs I can’t handle. If I were to hand out some free advice to novice ‘Steppers, it might be to not bite off more than you can chew, because you don’t want to pull anything.
But even at my level of ‘Stepping, things can go bad, and they almost did yesterday. I totally wiped out.
Once Michelle was assured that I was alright (it takes a lot to shake me up because I’m so tough), her face shifted into an expression that did little to hide her amusement and said, “Some time I’m going to have to imitate what that sounded like.”
I don’t know how you imitate the sound of “cool, calm, and coordinated.”
