Surfing, Skateboarding Nonverbal Consciousness and Language

I learned to juggle sometime in my early teens and I vividly remember the experience of not being able to juggle one minute, then being able to do it the rest of my life in the next minute. It's something I learned by repetition and trial and error and close to zero verbal instruction. Other physical skills, like riding a bike, ice skating, or rollerblading are learned in a similar way. Over the course of many attempts, the brain and the body gradually adapt to the new thing.

The sensation of learning a new sport that involves balance, like ice skating, or riding a bike, or surfing have many common aspects. Much of the time spent learning seems to involve building up the muscles and motor control skills that stabilize the center of gravity of the body on a mobile or unstable surface.

Even though the experience is common and shared by so many, there's almost no language derived from it, except maybe some surfing or skateboarding lingo. The conscious awareness of how body position affects the center of gravity is hard to explain in words. Generally when people talk about it, they use hand gestures.