Tuesday, January 6, 2015

Figure Skaters Are Special Creatures

Read an interesting article the other day about how prolonged spinning over a period of years can alter your inner ear.

Not in a bad way though. It's just that figure skaters' bodies likely adapt to make themselves better spinners - improving balance by teaching the brain to ignore that inner ear signal that tells us we're dizzy. Pretty cool, huh?

Though it's clearly reversible, at least for me because taking a few years off clearly made a difference. After 8 revolutions of a sit spin, dizzy doesn't even begin to describe it. 


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