I’m wondering if trying to understand wobbling and the art of losing my balance is going to completely strip me of the ability to wobble and lose my balance.

Does it work in the complete reverse of other learning patterns? The more I understand of what I’m doing the less I will be able to do it?

If I completely understand the unintentional movements my body performs will I not be able to un know what I have learnt? and as a result, given my human instinct to stay upright all the information it needs, and any subsequent wobbling would be premeditated or intentional and therefore completely false?

 

I doubt it? That would be in a world where I can think my body into being better skilled or where knowledge = hours of practise.

 

Phew. So on with the search for Point A.

Point A is the name I have given to a specific type of wobble- one in which there is as much chance of regaining balance as there is of falling off completely. A point which is on the edge of the point of no return.

In theory it exists- however figuring out how to measure wobbles will take a long time, and how to categorize them even longer. Right now my measuring tool is a feeling I or someone watching gets when I am losing balance and we don’t know if I will regain balance or not.

I’m hoping that I can build up knowledge about “wobbling technique” around this point and create timelines of different points along a wobble, cause and effect etc.

So far I have found one other point- Point B- which is the last shape pulled in an effort not to fall off which freezes for a moment before the body admits defeat and moves to land safely on the floor.

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By Fiona Salisbury