The Concept of Body Equilibrium

The following components represent key building blocks that contribute to safe
effective and functional movement as well as skilled performance;

• Balance: Movement built upon this function represents an ability to stabilise and
  maintain a desired body position. Balance can be thought of as a correct or
  effective positioning of a body part or the entire body. This can be clearly
  seen during many surfing movements.

• Proprioception: This is the ability to sense joint positions and to be aware
  of body positioning and body movements.

This overlaps with kinaesthetic awareness and provides a
sense of body symmetry or necessary balance and positioning between body parts.

It specifically refers to a sense of joint position. Proprioception,
as mediated by sensory organs like muscle spindles located between muscle
fibres, represents the ongoing or normal awareness of the position balance or
movement of the body or any of its parts, this can be clearly defined during
advanced surfing movements.

• Kinaesthetic Sense: This is the ability to prepare or
  feel movement, weight shifts, and body position.

This feedback mechanism allows you to be aware of how the
body is positioned at any particular moment. Kinaesthetic awareness is the
ability to know where your body parts are in three dimensional spaces; DEEP
INSIDE A BARREL FOR THE LUCKY FEW!

Functional balance training and surfing
movements

Balance and
stabilisation training can simply be thought of as a position or series of
positions that occur during surfing movement and that are maintained when
opposing forces equalise one another so that little or no movement occurs at
the stabilised joint. When applied to movement, this means that muscles on both
sides of the joint contribute to stabilising via a co-contraction of agonist
and antagonistic muscles.

Agonist: The
term agonist refers to the
muscle that is primarily responsible for a specific joint motion or the muscle that is directly
involved in a contraction.

Antagonist: This term refers to a
muscle that opposes the agonist muscle during an exercise.