Keeping your balance is valuable, especially as you grow older
Washington Post
Aug. 4, 2009
It was parents' day at my younger daughter's karate class, and those of us who dared took off our shoes and socks and had at it with the kids. The instructor showed us how to lean back on one leg and kick a two-foot rectangular plastic sheet he held with one hand. When my turn came, I approached him cautiously, bounced and wobbled on my "planted" left leg, and kicked the sheet three times before bringing my right leg down to the floor to keep from falling over. "We don't put ourselves in the situations very often where we have to maintain our balance," says James S. Skinner, a professor emeritus of kinesiology at Indiana University and a past president of the American College of Sports Medicine.
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