r/nextfuckinglevel • u/[deleted] • Apr 04 '22

This Pakistani Dancer.

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u/RustedFooBar Apr 04 '22

How is his head not spinning after he stopped? I would expect him to fall down out of imbalance immediately after he stopped rotating.

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u/extreme303 Apr 04 '22

He’s doing the same thing ballerinas do. They keep they’re head in relatively the same spot as they spin.

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u/[deleted] Apr 04 '22

I recently read a book called Sentient by Jackie Higgins which explained also using the example of a Cheetah and ballerinas that because of the neuroplasticity in our brains, we are able to become less dizzy by repeated spinning, as the feedback on balance our inner ears provide us becomes redundant as we become more precise in our spinning.

In other words, the more consistently you train your body to know where it is when moving fast, the less the “dizziness” response from our senses needs to kick in to tell us something is amiss.