Segway And Human Balance
Beginning of December came out was the Segway, a balanced "human transporter". It uses a combination of gyroscopes, tilt sensors and the high performance - engines and the tons of processing power - a scooter-like device to produce with the you have virtually every type of terrain without fall on travel.
As Kamen explains, is "the idea of a human being in a system, where the machine is an extension of your body." If you go, you are really what is called a controlled crash. They do not fall in the balance itself, one foot before the other and over and over again on it. "If you use a Segway, it's a gyroscope, which is how our brain acts engines, like your muscles, inner ear, wheels like a calculator, as your feet."
Segway has earned rave reviews, performance, though its price tag of $3000 can restrict sales to industrial markets and the high end consumer market.
The Segway HT is a wonderful reminder of our own ability to stand and move with an upright attitude. The Segway design is impressive all right, but what is even more amazing, is the design of our body, which allowed us to go about life, without falling over. Because we are large, relatively thin creatures with a high focus rests on two rather small feet.
Why fall on earth we do not easy to keep? How we stay upright?
A large part of the answer lies in the way, that not easily separate our head to our spines and a brilliant structure that allows our heads for stability, our body is balanced! - and our heads can move fast and easy flexibility - in response to changed circumstances.
As Joan Arnold, a teacher of the Alexander technique in New York City, writes: "... If the neck muscles do not fatigue easily poised at the top of the spine. the head" The relationship between head and spine is of the utmost importance. How to manage this relationship has effect in the rest of the body. As the top-good or schlecht--the sound for an organization that gives head / spine drag-compressed or stored-determines the quality of the overall coordination of the body.
"Our neuromuscular system is designed to work in concert with gravity." Delicate position of the head spark the body's response anti-gravity: which easily leads a natural opposition force in the upper body, us up and invites you to extend the spine, rather than compress when we move. "Place relax or keep us in a rigid attitude, we can learn to mobilize this support system and use it, where us - go in the car, on the computer, in the gym."
But this elegant design works well only if the muscles in the neck of excess tension are free. Unfortunately, as we go through life, many of us develop tension in the neck and other parts of the body, which interfere with our upright posture and our ability to use our bodies, as it was designed.
You can this for yourself to see if you are running a look at almost any group of adults or jogging and see compare, what you to children, which run about in the game. More than often, the adults are shoulders, their faces Arme-and of course their necks will attract. Most small children will run with ease and confidence.
The harmful posture and movement habits that acquire many of us can grow up as we for a variety of reasons about: the unconscious imitation of adults in their lives, even to wear, excess voltage, bad school furniture design or familial stress, to only to name a few.
A machine like the Segway confronted not these types of problems. If something happens, influence how they work - may fixed a bug engine or computer - it quickly by repair or replacement.
For us, it's more complicated. We can not just go and a new neck to order, if our old one overly is tight. But we can use our intelligence to assess the situation and learn how one the harmful posture and movement patterns, which in our life crept have.
There are a number of somatic education and therapeutic processes that can help us recover, the grace and the ease of movement, which we had as children. I'm with the Alexander technique is the most trusted. Taught for over a century, it has help a well-deserved reputation for people who improve their physical functioning.
Segway is a loanword version of musical expression "segue" what means. The Alexander technique is really to learn how to adapt to changing circumstances - from moment transitions - on the most efficient way possible.
The quote by Joan Arnold comes from their excellent brief introduction to the Alexander technique in http://alexandertechnique.com/at/
Robert Rickover is a teacher of the Alexander technique, that lives in Lincoln, Nebraska. He teaches regularly in Toronto, Canada. Robert is the author of fitness without stress - A Guide of the Alexander technique and is the creator of the complete guide to the Alexander technique in http://www.alexandertechnique.com
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