I’ve always wondered why when you start to go off balance, you automatically swing to the side which you are falling.
Surely it would make more sense to swing the other way in order to counterbalsnce the falling motion?
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You know how you can press against a wall to steady yourself? This works because the wall pushes back.
The act of moving your body (or a part of it) toward the falling side creates inertial momentum, a force like the wall against which you can push to return yourself to a condition of stability, from which you may then withdraw whichever body part you thrusted against.
It might seem like you are leaning the wrong way but you are actually moving your center of gravity to the other side.
Imagine this ”C” as your body viewed from the side
The top of the body leans towards the falling direction but the middle body is shifted to counter the falling direction.
As your torst is the heaviest part of your body it will counter the fall but in order to move it over there, you need to fling your arms towards the falling direction
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