Thinking about standing straight
After I began skiing 20 years ago, I took seriously about standing straight.
I had thought that standing straight had been easy to do, but I hadn't known that I couldn't really.
Years ago I recalled carefully what I was like when I was in school.
Then I was restless basically. I easily became tired when I had to stand or sit still.
When I was permitted to move, I was relieved.
Probably, I couldn't stand still or sit still more than 20 minutes.
When I had to stand straight at school, I tried to do it by using power of muscles all over my body. I ended up being rebuked that I was not doing seriously, and ended up being really tired. I meant be serious, in a sense that I become breathless as if I ran at my full speed and that I frowned to look making a great effort with steam over my head. Hardly anybody looked at me as serious in that I was totally, terribly and awfully missed the point.
I was aware this first in a ski lesson. I meant to stand straight, but everybody said my legs and hip were bent. Where was my hip? What was the difference between knees, hip, and belly? I asked these questions really seriously. I knew by word what part each word points at, especially those of someone else's body, but I didn't really know where I could feel in and as my body.
Days after, I practiced to stand straight in a relaxed way. I looked into the mirror and surprised that how my body was bent behind when I meant to stand straight at my best effort. All the effort I had made was spent to stand wrongly.
I gave up the effort and then looked at the mirror. My body became a little bit more straight.
Is this what relax means? I was going to get hang of it.
Actually it took a few more weeks to learn how to stand straight by relaxing. It happened when I was 22 years old.
Standing straight in a relaxed way was the source of my motor skills. After the practice of standing straight, my skiing was much improved. So were my running, swimming throwing, and swinging.
Now I'm making an effort to improve my skiing again.
I know keeping my body straight against gravity and other external forces whatsoever, with ever-changing situation when I'm making turns. I turn to the left and to the right, and once my left foot higher, and later right foot higher, and my calves and thighs change directions one after another. I was told that my upper body should face the fall line if I want to race, but it was sometimes unexpectedly unusual posture to keep it down.
Thinking about standing straight in a relaxed way may sound simple things, but to me it is daily practice I have to do to improve my skills and my life.
I had thought that standing straight had been easy to do, but I hadn't known that I couldn't really.
Years ago I recalled carefully what I was like when I was in school.
Then I was restless basically. I easily became tired when I had to stand or sit still.
When I was permitted to move, I was relieved.
Probably, I couldn't stand still or sit still more than 20 minutes.
When I had to stand straight at school, I tried to do it by using power of muscles all over my body. I ended up being rebuked that I was not doing seriously, and ended up being really tired. I meant be serious, in a sense that I become breathless as if I ran at my full speed and that I frowned to look making a great effort with steam over my head. Hardly anybody looked at me as serious in that I was totally, terribly and awfully missed the point.
I was aware this first in a ski lesson. I meant to stand straight, but everybody said my legs and hip were bent. Where was my hip? What was the difference between knees, hip, and belly? I asked these questions really seriously. I knew by word what part each word points at, especially those of someone else's body, but I didn't really know where I could feel in and as my body.
Days after, I practiced to stand straight in a relaxed way. I looked into the mirror and surprised that how my body was bent behind when I meant to stand straight at my best effort. All the effort I had made was spent to stand wrongly.
I gave up the effort and then looked at the mirror. My body became a little bit more straight.
Is this what relax means? I was going to get hang of it.
Actually it took a few more weeks to learn how to stand straight by relaxing. It happened when I was 22 years old.
Standing straight in a relaxed way was the source of my motor skills. After the practice of standing straight, my skiing was much improved. So were my running, swimming throwing, and swinging.
Now I'm making an effort to improve my skiing again.
I know keeping my body straight against gravity and other external forces whatsoever, with ever-changing situation when I'm making turns. I turn to the left and to the right, and once my left foot higher, and later right foot higher, and my calves and thighs change directions one after another. I was told that my upper body should face the fall line if I want to race, but it was sometimes unexpectedly unusual posture to keep it down.
Thinking about standing straight in a relaxed way may sound simple things, but to me it is daily practice I have to do to improve my skills and my life.
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