My apologies. I missed this until this morning in the brown fog of the shit storm that got brewed up. Yes. But you'll need to travel to Murphysboro, IL or somewhere reasonably close. I can and will travel some moderate distance. I'll even do it for free. The initial lesson will take an hour or so, depending on your ability to overcome the natural lifelong fear of falling, your ability to learn more motor skills, and you ability to relax.Originally Posted by Ivan Stepic
This has become an interesting thread. Simply commenting on an adult male's unfortunate falling experience got brought back to an earlier discussion about teaching the elderly to fall. And not by me. That, as far as I was concerned was done and over, with both sides remaining unconvinced by the other. But no, it had to be dug up and displayed.
I'm trying here to limit the number of syllables in the words I use and to keep this as close to a 5th grade reading level and still get things across to the readers. It never occurred to me that my other posts were hard to understand by Texicans and perhaps some others. So no more vocabulary lessons.
Your confusion is understandable, given the use of your name in the lead sentence. But then when enough eccentricities start spinning around and colliding, when they escape the spraying spittle can hit some other targets that were not the main focus of hate, shit, and discontent. As I read your response, and the comments of a few other posters both before and after the post above, a few things are shared yours, theirs, and my own thoughts.
For instance, it isn't either/or. It's both, and as I had said in an earlier thread, strength first. That is the best counter to preventing a fall. But, shit happens even with a strong person. Like vomit on a tile or concrete floor. Then too, your final remark about grandma is also well taken. I know that you weren't attributing that approach to me, and I completely agree with you.
I gotta say, this thread has also been a learning experience for me in some ideas and concepts that seem to contradict each other. Given the passion with which training the elderly in strength is rightly promoted in the Kingdom of SS, the fatalism about not bothering with some teaching on falling strikes me as eccentric. But, maybe that's just the nature of the this place these days. I suppose if it bothered me all that much, I'd just quit posting here and move on. It just seems out of character from all that I thought I knew about this place.
Then too, there's the discovery that the Objector-In-Chief has picked up some Japanese along the way. Impressive, dojo and Sensei. I guess China Grove with it's sheriff and his buddies with their Samurai swords have spread their influence around more than I thought.
Finally, as I review all the posts in this thread, it's somewhat interesting that all those who have mentioned that they learned something about how to fall, do not dismiss it out of hand. Sure, would it be better to teach someone when they are younger and more sound? Absolutely! But then the same is true for getting someone strong young and having them maintain their strength through the course of their lives.
