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<p style="text-align: left;"><span><em>Based on the article &#8220;Plumb Perfect,&#8221; written for the May/June 2004 edition of Yoga Journal by <a href="http://www.yogadelmar.com">Roger Cole, PhD</a>, a certified yoga instructor and research scientist. </em></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: left;">I like to encourage skaters at all levels to practice <a href="http://getrolling.com/orbit/balance.html">one-foot balance</a> poses to improve agility, coordination and confidence. Such practice also delivers better control over a constantly shifting center of gravity during the motions of skating so we can become more efficient with each stroke. This article discusses how <a href="#alignment">alignment</a>, <a href="#strength">strength</a> and <a href="#attention">attention</a> affect your <a href="http://getrolling.com/fit/balance.html">balance practice</a>. <span class="post-teaser-more">&nbsp;<a href="http://getrolling.com/blog/2013/04/15/understanding-balance/" title="Permanent Link: Understanding Balance" rel="bookmark">Read more...</a> <i>(570 words, 3 images, estimated 2:17  mins reading time)</i></span></p>{"id":1429,"date":"2013-04-15T06:56:59","date_gmt":"2013-04-15T13:56:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/getrolling.com\/blog\/?p=1429"},"modified":"2021-01-07T12:51:18","modified_gmt":"2021-01-07T19:51:18","slug":"understanding-balance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/getrolling.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/15\/understanding-balance\/","title":{"rendered":"Understanding Balance"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span><em>Based on the article &#8220;Plumb Perfect,&#8221; written for the May\/June 2004 edition of Yoga Journal by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yogadelmar.com\">Roger Cole, PhD<\/a>, a certified yoga instructor and research scientist. <\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I like to encourage skaters at all levels to practice <a href=\"http:\/\/getrolling.com\/orbit\/balance.html\">one-foot balance<\/a> poses to improve agility, coordination and confidence. Such practice also delivers better control over a constantly shifting center of gravity during the motions of skating so we can become more efficient with each stroke. This article discusses how <a href=\"#alignment\">alignment<\/a>, <a href=\"#strength\">strength<\/a> and <a href=\"#attention\">attention<\/a> affect your <a href=\"http:\/\/getrolling.com\/fit\/balance.html\">balance practice<\/a>. <span class=\"post-teaser-more\">&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/getrolling.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/15\/understanding-balance\/\" title=\"Permanent Link: Understanding Balance\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read more...<\/a> <i>(570 words, 3 images, estimated 2:17  mins reading time)<\/i><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":null,"protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fitness","category-skating"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/getrolling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/getrolling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/getrolling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/getrolling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/getrolling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1429"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/getrolling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1432,"href":"http:\/\/getrolling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1429\/revisions\/1432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/getrolling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/getrolling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/getrolling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}