Difference a day makes...

[flowerbug]

slow it down and pay attention. those are my two things to improve things and to not fall as often. @digits, yes, i think they'd put you in michelin tires when you say you fall that often!

judo and aikido are good for learning how to fall, tai chi for improving balance especially if you practice outside on an uneven surface. once when walking to work i slipped on some ice and fell and it was such a coordinated fall that i practically bounced back up and didn't even break stride. i only wished i had some cute girl to have seen that as it would have been like the icing on the cake.

i don't practice tai chi any longer but once in a while i can still see it working... a few years ago my newphew was messing around trying to attack me and i deflected him and then tied him up like a pretzel so he couldn't move. afterwards he looked at me and asked me how i did that and i said, "I don't know, i just did it." sadly he's not really had the discipline to learn a martial art. it would be good for him.

 

[bobm]

I learned ballance and how to fall while in High School working with a herd of 150 + head of experimental REAL DWARF beef cattle ( not the todays' so called mini cattle ) where the mature cows were at 500 -700 lbs and bulls up to 900 lbs. I also played middle linebacker in High School where our coach stressed how to fall to avoid injuries. So, after slipping on the black ice on my driveway, I did some fancy footwork moves but never fell down. Injury still happened to my tendon and now I get to hobble around in a HUGE black stomping boot.

 

[flowerbug]

sometimes the correction to try to keep from falling is a worse injury than you'd expect. i know i've pulled my back out a few times from that too...