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Being taller is a disadvantage, as is being tired. But if you think that's hard try this one: stand on one leg with your eyes closed, wave the other one wildly out to the side. A ten year old child can do this for ages without falling over. One of my kung fu teachers introduced me to that one quite a while ago with the suggestion it's a proxy for biological age.
Eyes open I'm rock solid on one leg, eyes closed I can feel all the tiny adjustments I'm making to stay balanced (made a bit over 30s having not done it for a while, but practice can bring it up), it's less a core strength issue than all the systems that make up your body's sense of itself in space. Your inner ear is affected by issues like tinnitus, but even that balance sense (which is quite good) is not so helpful when balancing like this, because it's less tilting and more side-to-side motion and small sensations in the legs and feet. There's also the speed with which your nervous system can respond to that input. Proprioception is the word: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proprioception you can certainly train this, though I'd bet benefits to health would come from the actual training and exercise, rather than improved balance.
Edit: I see Grunfeld brought up proprioception a page ago.
Also, depends how you're judging rocking, doing this you are far more aware of the work you're doing to stay up.
I feel really, really old now. I'II have to try this when my muscles are not knotted and aching to feck. Problem is that they always are.
On the bright side I can do the waving one leg, whilst standing on the other thing with my eyes closed all day and night, that is basically what I do, day in day out. Is that really supposed to be harder?
She's cheating, she has her eyes open....anyone can do that with their eyes open.
So I called my sister, she is 4 years older than me and unfit. She could do 20 seconds. Considering how fit I am and that I do a physical job and am pretty much shagged every day. I seriously think it's down to having bad ears, fatigue and a very high centre of gravity.