Anybody agile, or ever been?

Agile , used to be, great balance. I had fun watching reactions stopping at a light or stop sign without putting a foot:sneaky: down. Better watching some friends try it. Now get up too fast and I might have to grab something for balance. Still walk miles almost daily, been told I don't walk like an old man. Not sure on that last one.:unsure::devilish:
 

Steps are the structure of any dance but it's the way you get from one to the other that make it or break it. By the way, are you a professional dancer and what do you do in your spare time? Are you free on Saturday? 👨‍🦳
No I never danced professionally but I say "I was made of music", so I let the rhythms guide my movements. My Saturdays are booked solid. LOL :ROFLMAO:
 

Being thin lightweight with balance skills and fast reactions all my life helps. Compared to other octogenarians am easily in the top 99.9% of others. Active outdoors all my life that nourished the Earth creature within. Still elite snow skier, cross country hiking rambler, wc freestyle dancer but in any case in many ways also feel internal sensations like an increasingly old man. In another 70 years all on this board will be dead 'n gone.
 
Being thin lightweight with balance skills and fast reactions all my life helps. Compared to other octogenarians am easily in the top 99.9% of others. Active outdoors all my life that nourished the Earth creature within. Still elite snow skier, cross country hiking rambler, wc freestyle dancer but in any case in many ways also feel internal sensations like an increasingly old man. In another 70 years all on this board will be dead 'n gone.
Like a ray of sunshine! 😂
 
I've never been agile
Thus, don't think I ever will

Even in high school football practice
Never could drop and roll....and roll back up on two feet
I'd crouch down
flop over
get on my knees somehow
and grab a lean tight end, and climb up him

When I met my wife, she could bend over backwards and touch her palms on the floor
I found that rather attractive

Anyway

Anybody still agile?
Like do squat thrusts?

Or are we all half petrified geezers?
I used to be able to twist myself into a pretzel! Not as much now days but I can still do a good back bend. :ROFLMAO:
 
Yes, I still like to sit with my feet up on chair. But I never liked exercise (riding my bike everywhere as a kid wasn't called exercise) until I discovered exercising in virtual reality is so fun and easy... just have to walk to next room and strap on a headset. Oh, and then jump around, dance, or swing at flying balls and the like. Looks silly but gets the heart rate up.
 
I had to look up the definition of agile before I replied here. I wanted to make sure it was what I think it was. Agile means being quick, having ease of movement, and being nimble. It's almost as if it's a definition of a young person, lol. I'm not sure if it ties into sports, or not. I was into sports and dancing when I was younger. I raced in the junior olympics, played basketball and volleyball in high school, played co-ed soccer in my 30s, and danced all my life. I even took modern dance in college. That was quite an experience.

Now, fast forward to today. My range of motion has decreased significantly after my fall in 2008, but I still walk an hour every day, and I can bend down and pick up things easily. I still dance. Forget about bending over backwards or doing any yoga. Someone will definitely need to help me up in that case.

So my answer would be "Yes, I used to be agile. Can't say I'm agile now.":)
 
Yes, I still like to sit with my feet up on chair. But I never liked exercise (riding my bike everywhere as a kid wasn't called exercise) until I discovered exercising in virtual reality is so fun and easy... just have to walk to next room and strap on a headset. Oh, and then jump around, dance, or swing at flying balls and the like. Looks silly but gets the heart rate up.
I've never used virtual reality and that sounds like fun. Aren't you afraid of hurting yourself if you move around in the room? How does one go about getting this virtual reality?
 
A floater usually looks like a fruit fly, just a small speck floating upwards. A floater is not uncommon and we have more as we age. For some of us it’s been a sign of the retina detaching.
I have floaters. Maybe if you want to consider the floater as an "agile" part of yourself, I guess all of us who have floaters are pretty agile! :ROFLMAO:
 
Yes when a child. My Dad facilitated us learning a lot of acrobatics. (We knew circus people and i guess i got my curiosity about being able to do physical stuff as well as my mental curiosity about how things work, history and science from him.) At 5-6 yrs old i could walk both slack and tight wires, use stilts that put my feet 6 ft above the ground, some solo trapeze work. After i learned to ride bike within months i was able to get it going fast and then stand on the seat as coasting, could even put one foot on handle bars and take turns that way. (Good thing we lived in very rural area--not much traffic.) My Mom used to tease me because i could do all that stuff, never lost balance going from to fore to aft deck on the boat with it moving, but on dry stable land i could trip over my own feet when just moving across the room.

i could put my ankles behind my neck and walk around on my hands, pick up coins with my toes, big and index toes used for that and for climbing ropes. When i got to high school gym classes i kept telling them if they'd let me do it barefoot i'd be up the rope during 'Apparatus' like monkey. That was the one part of Gym i did well at--apparatus because of my early familiarity with it. i was never a fast runner. (Sigh)
Wow, @feywon, that was an amazing life you led! Just the idea of going on stilts terrifies me, and your ability to put your ankles behind your neck was fantastic! I never tried that, although I was a sprinter when I was young. Each person is different. :)
 
Wow, @feywon, that was an amazing life you led! Just the idea of going on stilts terrifies me, and your ability to put your ankles behind your neck was fantastic! I never tried that, although I was a sprinter when I was young. Each person is different. :)
Like i said, we knew circus people. Mostly side show (what at the time were often called 'freaks') folks, but many of them did acrobatics so they weren't getting paid just to let people gawk at them.
 
Well, I can still do the splits. But I'm not showing that off any more because it never comes up in conversation.

I wasn't agile after I had heart surgery at age 46, but I didn't think of that. We were camping (in a cabin) at a state park, and I decided to go up a long, steep hill to get the cabin because it was both a challenge and a shortcut. Good thing my collie was witih me -- on my own, I would have been stranded mid-hill.

My former neighbor/now landlord, is still agile. He is 77, in excellent shape and health, and can climb high into a tree, like a monkey. He likes to give me a heart attack - but he uses safety equipment. He used to be a landscaper/tree surgeon. He is a pretty amazing guy - he can do everything I don't know how to do. Some of them things he did in the past - like raising sheep to old age (to stock his nursing home for aging sheep), since he never ate his animals).
I climbed and trimed my tree, this last year, I keep adding things to it, the kids get a kick out of it.
 

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A floater usually looks like a fruit fly, just a small speck floating upwards. A floater is not uncommon and we have more as we age. For some of us it’s been a sign of the retina detaching.
A lot of floaters are the remnants of the blood vessel that connects the retina with the cornea during embryonic development.

The vessel dies and breaks up at a point during gestation and most of the "debris" is absorbed. Some remains to become floaters.

People who were preemies tend to have more floaters than do full-termers as there was less time during gestation for the debris to be absorbed.

I got this info from my eye surgeon who was sure I was a preemie. I wasn't.
 


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