Episode 24: Learning To Fall Movement 4.0 - from Babies to Astronauts

We are not meant to fall down. Gravity has a linear affect on non living things and that is why those things fall when allowed. As living beings, when we fall it is usually not an intentional action but rather a loss of balance. We learn, from a very young age, to have a controlled decent. We also learn to commit to a fall based on previous experience for instance, when sitting on a chair. When an astronaut goes into outer space, whether it is a perpetual free fall or a true float, their bodies are no longer under the gyroscopic inter-rotation that it is used to and they loose the countering to all of their movement. This is why when they return to Earth, and all these counters to their systems return to normal, they can no longer oppose a fall without relearning how to not fall.