Centuries of Sailors Weren’t Wrong: Looking at the Horizon Stabilizes Posture

Association for Psychological Science ^ | January 26, 2011 | Unknown

[Blue Collar Christian]

If one can look at the horizon, the brain can tell the body how to maintain vertical stability. DUH! Any ocean sport fisher can relate to this.

Of course, this doesn’t explain why Mrs. BCC gets sick when we point the car towards the coast. And, no, she won’t go out fishing with our club.

[MDspinboyredux]

Any college-age kid who has too much to drink knows this.

[massgopguy]

Open a Heineken and stand at the bow charging the waves. Let the tourists hide their heads in garbage bags HA! Raise the spinnaker on El Tigre!

[goat granny]

Yep and swaying when drunk aboard ship is natural. Horizon be damned

[bunkerhill7]

Centuries of Sailors Weren’t Wrong: Looking at the Hore eyes on Stabilizes Posture

[DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis]

I like that song :-)

Now I am going to have it in my head all day...

[Larry Lucido]

Not sure about looking at a Horizon, but trying to do someone in the back seat of one is horrible for posture.

[stylin19a]

now to figute out how to use this info on my golf swing

[stylin19a]

now to figure out how to use this info on my golf swing

[HonkyTonkMan]

Next study: Putting your foot on the floor stops the room from spinning

[SeeSac]

When I went through survival school with the USAF, they mentioned that if you were getting sea-sick on the emergency raft, to slide over the side and float in the water. Apparently that has a calming effect on you, and the sea-sickness goes away.

It has a calming affect on your buddies knowing you will not throw up in the raft all over them. Besides, the sharks rubbing against your legs takes away from your worrying about throwing up.

[PIF]

Eat ripe bannas - they taste the same the second time around - more old salt advise.

Being outside on deck is also a good way to overcome queasy feelings - focus on the sea state: watch the wind playing with the waves.

[stylin19a]

now to figure out how to use this info on my golf swing

[decimon]

now to figure out how to use this info on my golf swing

Well, look at the horizon and you'll probably just break your foot. ;-)

[IYAS9YAS]

Besides, the sharks rubbing against your legs takes away from your worrying about throwing up.

Funny you should say that. When I went through the water survival part of the training, I went to Homestead AFB, FL (early 90s). The area we used was Biscayne Bay. They told us prior to going out into the water that Biscayne Bay was the hammerhead shark capital of the world... That set this landlubber Idaho boy on edge. It didn't matter what swam underneath me, it was going to bite.

[Oztrich Boy]

Now if you do this on a sailboat that is 360 feet long in 12 foot seas, it gets real hilarious, real quick.

You do know there was ever only one of those?

[GOPJ]

...in this study, he rode on the research vessel Atlantis as it went between two points in the Gulf of California. “It had nothing to do with the fact that I like cruising near the tropics,” he jokes.

LOL - sounds like one likable guy...

[Vendome]

Nope.

Look up the Wind Spirit, one of the largest 6 masted sail boats that cruise the Caribbean and Meditation.

If you need more info, I just happen to have a bag full of poker chips in a bag from the ship in my office.

http://www.windstarcruises.com/windspirit-yacht.aspx

Been on it at least a few times.