Miscellaneous proprioception

[mizmar]

Your sense of where you and your limbs are in space.

The Grawniad had a "Health" article about it. Stand on one leg while brushing your teeth and archive eternal life... Till next week's latest greatest thing.

Anyway; do we think playing a musical instrument is good for the old proprioception, And big, heavy ones - the sax comes to mind - even more so?
Has anyone achieved immortality from sax playing? I certainly think VeggiDave is on the path (if you didn't know Dave stunted on motorbikes, also needs good spacial awareness) and Sax Panther

The power of proprioception: how to improve your ‘sixth sense’ – and become healthier and happier

It is our physical sense of where we are in space and is essential to our quality of life as we age. Here are simple, everyday ways to test and train it

www.theguardian.com

 

[LostCircuits]

Your sense of where you and your limbs are in space.

The Grawniad had a "Health" article about it. Stand on one leg while brushing your teeth and archive eternal life... Till next week's latest greatest thing.

Anyway; do we think playing a musical instrument is good for the old proprioception, And big, heavy ones - the sax comes to mind - even more so?
Has anyone achieved immortality from sax playing? I certainly think VeggiDave is on the path (if you didn't know Dave stunted on motorbikes, also needs good spacial awareness) and Sax Panther

The power of proprioception: how to improve your ‘sixth sense’ – and become healthier and happier

It is our physical sense of where we are in space and is essential to our quality of life as we age. Here are simple, everyday ways to test and train it

www.theguardian.com

It'll definitely help with a field sobriety test!

Except it won't overcome the predisposition of the cops they will try to make it harder and harder until there is a hint that a more detailed analysis is warranted: "just cause"

 

[Saxlicker]

Ha ha,
Well, I never remember falling over at gigs with large amounts of alcohol that were flowing
Maybe thats down to the unwieldily thing helping my proprioception.
But liver damage could trump it in the race immortality.

On a more serious note,
I broke my ankle and needed to retrain (proprioception) to regain the balance so my sax playing did nothing to help that.

 

[thomsax]

Anyway; do we think playing a musical instrument is good for the old proprioception, And big, heavy ones - the sax comes to mind - even more so?

Yes, in general is good to play saxophone. How good? It's very individual but in the long run it's good. And if you combine saxophone with other activities it's even better. Wind instrument players "tackled" covid better than persons weren't. The risks with saxophone playing for older persons are dental and back/neck problems. Use harnesses, holders/stands and teeth protection.

Has anyone achieved immortality from sax playing?

Hard to say? Maybe it's better to ask if sax playing pro long the good life? I think so. Of course, it depends on how you play the saxophone. Touring rocksax player who is sleeping in tour bus, eating junk food, drinking ...... comparing to the rocksax amateur who use the bike cycle to go to the jam/rehearsal and and be back home around nine and eat a hummus salad and drinking water while watching the news. On the other side a sax player can achieve immortality by playing sax wild while he/she is living. Imagine a picture of of the a saxophone players paradise: Will sax players in paradise be pictured as decadent drones or hard working honkers practicing scales and chords?

 

[LostCircuits]

Yes, in general is good to play saxophone. How good? It's very individual but in the long run it's good. And if you combine saxophone with other activities it's even better. Wind instrument players "tackled" covid better than persons weren't. The risks with saxophone playing for older persons are dental and back/neck problems. Use harnesses, holders/stands and teeth protection.


Hard to say? Maybe it's better to ask if sax playing pro long the good life? I think so. Of course, it depends on how you play the saxophone. Touring rocksax player who is sleeping in tour bus, eating junk food, drinking ...... comparing to the rocksax amateur who use the bike cycle to go to the jam/rehearsal and and be back home around nine and eat a hummus salad and drinking water while watching the news. On the other side a sax player can achieve immortality by playing sax wild while he/she is living. Imagine a picture of of the a saxophone players paradise: Will sax players in paradise be pictured as decadent drones or hard working honkers practicing scales and chords?

Blowing steam on Cloud Nine!

 

[mizmar]

Hard to say?

We'll yes. To verify if someone is immortal the observer would have to live eternity+1 day, to write the report.
As an aside, the vacuum is expected to collapse in 10⁷⁹⁰ years. A full 10,000 years sooner than previously thought. So eternity isn't as long as one might think.

 

[Saxlicker]

We'll yes. To verify if someone is immortal the observer would have to live eternity+1 day, to write the report.
As an aside, the vacuum is expected to collapse in 10⁷⁹⁰ years. A full 10,000 years sooner than precisely thought. So eternity isn't as long as one might think.

OK well I'll book mark this thread and get back to the new readers around that time then.

 

[Targa]

We'll yes. To verify if someone is immortal the observer would have to live eternity+1 day, to write the report.
As an aside, the vacuum is expected to collapse in 10⁷⁹⁰ years. A full 10,000 years sooner than precisely thought. So eternity isn't as long as one might think.

Well that's well outside the warranty.
How long do you think the washing machine will last?

 

[mizmar]

How long do you think the washing machine will last?

We'll, in my experience it's the drainage pumps that go first. The drainage often depends on establishing a siphon - which in turn depends on vacuum... I rest my case.

 

[Jimmymack]

I think that standing on one leg while paying the saxophone, except maybe sop and smaller, is to be discouraged. otherwise do what you like.

 

[thomsax]

Standing on one leg, on your toe(s) ..... while you are playing/blowing sax is good. In the early 70's I started to see NHL games on TV. The organ playing during breaks was something new for me. I didn't understand the commentators, too fast and lot of terms I was not familiar with. So I played along with organ with my alto sax. Later I played when I saw football, boring English mud football😉, as well. But it was better, it was on Saturday afternoon instead of in the middle of the night. To play tones, licks .... when you see something that's good or bad. The eyes send impulse to the brain and the brain sen impulse to my diaphragm, throat, tongue, fingers ..... to play what I have seen. Forget keys, scales, Coltrane, Parker .......

Sit on a "pilates ball" and play along with the TV. The straight saxophons are best for this purpose. But an alto is also ok.😉

 

[Jimmymack]

Dental costs must mount up.