Quotes About Body position

It does seem to help to lean your torso toward the curve. You don't have to shift your butt to the inside of the saddle, just lean your torso forward and toward the curve. Some riders use the mirror as a reference point, leaning toward the inside and lining up the mirror with their cornering line. That happens to work nicely with countersteering, as you'll tend to pull the grips toward the curve as you lean your torso.

The energy of a body which is due to its position, is called potential energy. The energy of a body which is due to its motion, is called kinetic energy.

You must observe and correct the body position (adjusting it from both sides) with the help of the trillions of eyes that you have in the form of cells. This is how you begin to bring awareness to your body and fuse the intelligence of brain and brawn. This intelligence should exist everywhere in your body and throughout the asana. The moment you lose the feeling in the skin, the asana becomes dull, and the flow or current of the intelligence is lost.

Working on the Samurai sword is very different because your body position has to be very still. It's a much quieter was of fighting.

Hitting in its simplest form is seeing the ball, adjusting to the location and speed, and hitting the ball. That sounds simple but unless you have set your body in a proper position to maximize its strengths you will fail time after time.

All efficient swimmers—which means nearly all the fast ones—seem to have a more instinctive sense of how to keep their bodies in the best position for slipping easily through the water, gliding as far as possible with the least possible effort.

holding your book over your head while you lie down will all cause low-level constant contraction of several muscle groups.

Power comes from body position in the form of leverage at delivery and the wrist and hand motion at release.