The Quest For Balance

The Quest for Balance

What Balance Is, How It Is Built, and Why It Decides How Long You Roll Good

Everyone talks about balance. Almost no one tells you what it actually is.

Many who teach others how to skate say "work on your balance." Non-skating coaches screaming on the sidelines, trainers whispering from the yogamat and therapists counseling from the therapy couches and sofas say "let's work on finding your balance." But ask any of them to clearly define it, and the room either goes quiet or they start yapping vague explanations.

The Quest for Balance answers that question clear and direct, once and for all.

This book is for if:

• you skate, or want to, and you plan to still be rolling at 70
• you teach skating or movement and want words for what you really teach to train
• you have ever frozen up because you were scared to fall
• you care about staying steady on your feet, on wheels or in the kitchen
• you are tired of "find your balance" and want to know how, in a measurable and effective way

Inside you will discover:

• Why "I have good balance" is not an accurate sentence, and why that small mistake costs people years of good movement
• The one-sentence insight from a scientist who never studied skating, which changed how a coach teaches it
• The Pentagon of Balance: five doors into one room, each with Train It drills for wheels and for shoes
• A ten-second test with no equipment, and what researchers found it can tell you
• Why fear, stress and a busy mind change how you stand, and how skating can roll you back out of it
• One honest training week that fits around real life

Brian B. Kanhai brings nearly thirty years of professional coaching and over four decades on skates to this short, sharp and surprisingly joyful essay. It is the foundation of his Soulful Fitness Roller Skate Training® system and the Rollgevity philosophy: It's not about how good you roll. It's all about how long you roll good.

Balance is not something you have. It is something you do by negotiating. And anything you do, you can train.

Details

• The Quest For Balance
• Author Brian B. Kanhai
  
• PDF format
• E-Story A5 format
• 47 pages