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This posting describes a technique to avoid falling when turning. Marling wrote: >But, does anyone else have trouble with the "pivot" or "turn"? >I find that often when I am walking and turn too quickly my feet get >stuck. Or at least one of them will get stuck (usually the right) >and then I am off balance and cannot get it back. Marling, I have not only experienced this I have worked out how to avoid it and at the same time improve my cornering generally. Watch a "normal" person change direction. Just prior to making the turn they glance (often with a small head movement) in the direction in which they are about to turn. Watch a PWP shuffle through a turn. Their head and eyes never leave the straight ahead position. I have found that if I deliberately turn my head in the direction I want to turn, that the whole process is much easier and I am much steadier on my feet. Try it. Dennis