So if I have an arrow on the table, okay? Arrow on the table, the early Hippie R drops off, but late Hippie R might be magnified. So this is why you have to distinguish between the early and the late representation. So we're, and I know you know the answer to this because I remember you answered it on a video previously. If I compress the posterior aspect of the pelvis, where does the ER go?

If I hold my arm here or I hold my arm here, the arms are not in the same position. So the degree of relative motion changes.

Is where can you produce the greatest degree of force down into the ground? Well, you've got a bias towards external rotation, and a sumo would be in an externally rotated representation. So the question is, where can you produce the greatest degree of force down into the ground? If you're a narrow-stance deadlifter, your ability to capture the internal rotation position of the pelvis is reduced. It doesn't mean you don't produce internal rotation, just means that how you do it and where you do it will be different. If you were to try to lift conventional, you may not even be able to assume a position that will allow you to push down into the ground effectively. If you, like, and again, you might have a representation of this. If you're video yourself doing a conventional deadlift versus the sumo, what you'll find is that you can actually capture a better pelvic position in the wider stance just because of your—like you're more upright in a sumo than you would be in a conventional, right? And that would be advantageous for you to push down into the ground. If you have to, like, so if you sit down into a conventional deadlift and you see that, that, you know, that little rounding of your lower back, like right above your pelvis to get into that conventional position, you have not optimized your downforce. You actually have connective tissues that are in a position where they're not stiff enough and therefore you cannot push as hard into the ground. It actually dampens your ability to push down. So this requires an experiment as to what positions you can acquire most effectively. As a narrow-stance, your bias is towards more of an upright type of pull from the ground, which would be more like a squat. Does that make sense?

because this is like somebody coming in and saying, I've been trying to fix my posture. It's like, good luck with that, right? And then they always come in, it's like, well, shouldn't you pull your shoulders back and you go, but how much? Is it six degrees? Is it 14 inches? Is it as far as it'll go? Or is it halfway? It's like, nobody knows the answers to these things.

So under that circumstance, the muscle in question is oriented to produce force in IR and we're asking them to try to produce force in ER.

Okay, it's very compressed, got a lot of concentration, not a lot of wiggle room, right? If I was to take that representation and mobilize it into IR, can you appreciate the fact that it would be emphasizing the current strategy?

Good morning. Happy Thursday. I have neuro coffee in hand, and it is perfect. Zach Fender, great shirt. Thank you. You're not required to wear that on these calls. You know that, right?

I have neuro coffee in hand and it is perfect. All right. A busy Monday coming up. A little housekeeping item. Ifast University members, we have a call at 1 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. If you are not a member of Ifast University, please go to IfastUniversity.com. Get yourself signed up. And then you can join us for that Q and A. Again, 1 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. Link will be on the Facebook group page. Okay. Taking in today's Q and A. This was Steven. Steven's dealing with a client that has some medial knee pain. And based on this description, it appears that this person has to use a very, very wide stance squat because of the lack of available space. And so we discussed how we're going to reacquire that ER space so we can start to drop inter-orientation a little bit closer to midline, because chances are what we have here is an exaggeration of the ER representation. And that allows us to apply the inter-orientation into the ground in that space. Unfortunately, we're probably using a knee compensation under those circumstances and then applying the internal rotation. That way, that's the medial knee pain because you've got a knee orientation that is better represented as a knee that should be straight and we're bending it in a squat circumstance. A little assist from Manuel near the end of the call where we talk about some of the mobilizations that I presented recently on some other videos that will allow us to actually mobilize the lower extremity into internal rotation. So a nice little combination of contributions there from the guys, Steven and Manuel. So thank you guys. Truly appreciate it. Everybody have an outstanding Monday. I'll see you tomorrow.

Good morning. Happy Thursday. I have neural coffee in hand and it is perfect. Please mute. If you have a question, please go to the chat function, indicate that you have a question. We'll answer them in the order in which they arrive most of the time. For those of you who don't know, it's Thanksgiving here in the United States. So I can't promise this will be a normal call. People coming in. All right, first question goes to Lalo. Today will be a silent call.

Good morning. Happy Monday. I have narrow coffee in hand and it is perfect. All right. Busy Monday coming up. First things, a quick housekeeping item. For those of you at IFS University, we would call it 1 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. If you're not at IFS University, please go to ifesuniversity.com. Get yourself signed up and please join us for that call. Again, 1 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. Digging into today's Q&A, this is with Alex. The initial part of this call was about how we're shifting centers of gravity in specific archetypes, very specifically we're talking about narrow ISA individuals, how we're moving them primarily from right to left in the initial phases of recapturing movement. And the cool thing is the way this question evolved is we got into the reasoning behind the static versus dynamic activities. Ultimately we want all of our activities to be dynamic in nature, but in many cases we have to use a static representation because most folks can't actually produce the shape change that's necessary to capture their normal relative movements. And so, again, I totally appreciate this question from Alex because it allowed us to go someplace that gave us this little bit of understanding that I think a lot of people miss out on as to why you would use certain types of activities. And again, ultimately, we want to be moving people towards the dynamic element because that's where movement really exists for us. So, thank you, Alex, for your question. I'm going to guide and help a lot of people. I'll see you, folks, on I-Fashion University this afternoon. Everybody have a great day. I'll see you tomorrow.

Good morning. Happy Tuesday. I have neuro coffee in hand and it is perfect. All right. Digging into a very busy Tuesday. We're going to go straight into today's Q&A. This is with Alex. Alex brings up a really good question. I fear that it's going to be one of those things that there's going to be like six people out there that are really, really interested in this. And everybody's going, oh, that's kind of cool. But anyway, I thought it was a great question. And it was in regards to the influence of how the vestibular system is affected based on positions, orientations, and such shape changes, if you will. One of the things Alex was observing is he's able to see some of these distorted representations in the cranium and mandible upper cervical spine. And it's like, well, what does that do to the vestibular system? And so you have the vestibular apparatus as part of the temporal bones. And so if we do have any shape change that involves upper cervical spine, mandible, cranium, you're going to get a change in the orientation of the vestibular apparatus. And so does that affect us? Absolutely it does. The question mark is how much? So if we have adaptations that influence the system fuel to a long term degree, then maybe the influence increases to a certain degree. But this is also positional. And I think I mentioned this in the video. If you look at a comparison between upright postures versus say a supine posture, you have a reduction in the vestibular influence in the supine position and increasing the dependence on vision for orientation. So context really matters here. But we also, as I said, have to consider the fact that we've got shape changes and positions that are also going to be an influence. So Alex, thank you for this question, truly appreciate it. It's gonna help a lot of people. Everybody have an outstanding Tuesday, and I'll see you tomorrow.

Have you ever seen a rocket takeoff? I have. So it's at a dead stop. Massive explosion at the bottom of the rocket. What happens?

Good morning. Happy Friday. I have neuro coffee in hand and it is perfect. All right, a very busy Friday coming up. We're going to dig straight into today's Q&A. This was Paul. He's doing a virtual consultation with a fitness client going through some complex movements and was identifying some of the limitations, but we dug into this a little bit deeper to gain a little more understanding. A lot of representations that we'll see in complex movements are based off of the same concepts that we would see on table tests. Now, we always talk about table tests being dirty. So a dirty table test means that what you think you're measuring isn't necessarily what you're measuring. So we have to look at these things systemically. So if we're moving a hip through its range of motion, that excursion that you're measuring is not necessarily the hip that's moving. And we need to be able to identify what is actually moving in that process. And so this is one of the things that we looked at with Paul's online client. I think we were looking at a squat in this circumstance in a couple of the compensatory strategies showing up and they led us to an understanding of what the actual limitation was based on the visual representation. So this is the hard part. This is going to take some practice for you to develop but this is why the understanding of the table test becomes so important. So the table test gives us what these options are and these active complex movements allow us to demonstrate them. So again, thank you, Paul for asking this question. It's going to lead people in a very good direction. Also gave you a little bit of a demonstration so you can understand a little bit what we were talking about on the video. So make sure you watch it all the way through. Don't forget to subscribe to the YouTube channel. Podcasts will be up on Sunday sometime and we will see you next week. Very helpful. This is a really good representation because, again, people will accuse these people of turning the wrong way.

Good morning. Happy Monday. I have neural coffee in hand and it is perfect. As usual, a busy Monday. Coming up first, a housekeeping item for those of you on IFast University: we have a call today at 1 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. If you're not on IFast, please go to ifastuniversity.com to get yourself signed up and join us at 1 p.m. Eastern Standard Time for that conference call. Digging into this Q&A, this was with Ian, and then he had a special guest—my adopted son, Zach, who was on the call incognito. He had on his Clark Kent disguise glasses and a hat so nobody could recognize him. The discussion revolved around split squats, but the thing that I want you to take away from this call is the influence of structure. So we got into this a little as far as, from a structural standpoint, what are the compensatory strategies we're typically going to see under the circumstances of executing a split squat? It also lends itself to the fact that not every exercise is for everyone at every time. We can't generalize these rules that everybody should be able to do all of these different things because structure matters. And it's going to lend itself to being good at certain things and not so good at others. Again, a very, very important aspect of this call. So thank you, Zach. Thank you, Ian for taking care of my boy. And everybody have an outstanding Monday. I'll see you—if you're on IFast, I'll see you today at 1 p.m. If not, then I'll see you tomorrow. Let's go. Ian, I'm sorry, there's only one person allowed on a call. You guys are going to have to split up and get on different screens.

Good morning. Happy Tuesday. I have neuro coffee in hand and it is perfect. A very busy Tuesday coming up. We're going to dig straight into today's Q&A. This is with Taya. So this is actually a follow-up question to yesterday's question on the high oblique pulldown activity. And so what I did is as we're talking with Taya in regards to clarifying the position, I superimposed some still frames and some video over top of the questions. So you can actually see the execution of the high oblique pulldown. So you can see the setup just as important as the execution of the exercise, but you'll see the explanation as it's being executed. So again, I think it'll be helpful for a lot of people to actually see this. We then went into a comparison between trying to do a cable activity, a similar cable activity with the low oblique sit as far as the difference between the two, basically what we're looking at is a difference in the helical angles. And so exercise selection would be more associated with the idiosyncratic structure of that individual as to which would be more optimal. So thank you, Taya, for this question. Reminder, Coffee Coaches Conference call at 6 a.m. on Thursday. Everybody, have an outstanding Tuesday and I will see you tomorrow.

Good morning. Happy Monday. I have neuro coffee in hand and it is perfect. A very busy Monday coming up. First, a housekeeping item: the dates for the Intensive 20 have changed and are now December 8th through the 11th. Please note for those still waiting to apply, applications will remain open until the end of today, then close, as we'll exceed our target number. I appreciate those who have applied; apologies for the date change, which was necessary. To those who can't attend, I apologize, and we'll make it up to you in 2023. The next instance will likely be in March. Thinking about today's Q&A with Taya, who is working with a client/friend experiencing medial knee pain. As discussed in the video, the typical presentation involves magnification of normal representation in the distal knee during so-called extension—when the femur is centrally rotated relative to the external rotation of the proximal tibia. This often causes medial knee pain. An additional factor here is that this person was training on sand, which prolongs the yielding action during ground contact, potentially magnifying forces at end range and creating a fluid shift that can worsen the situation. We must account for such factors in training. This gives you ideas of what to expect when dealing with clients who have medial knee pain. Thank you, Taya, for bringing this question to the Coffee and Coaches Conference call. Have an outstanding Monday, and I'll see you tomorrow.

Good morning. Happy Monday. I have neural coffee in hand and it is perfect. Coming off a stellar weekend. We just wrapped up the Intensive 19 yesterday. Great group. We went hard. I think we went like two hours longer on Saturday than I think we've ever gone. So it was great. We were rolling in the gym there. So it was great. Speaking of the Intensive 20, I'm probably going to lock in those dates this week. It looks like November 17th through the 20th, so you might want to check those dates on your calendar and then be ready because if we open up the applications, it fills up very, very quickly. We only take so many applications at any one time because there's only eight people that are going to be in the room. So please keep that in mind, but look at those dates today. Digging into this Q&A, this is with Jack, and I've talked with Jack a few times in the past. His initial question is about working with clients with anti-orientation, but this led us into some foundational concepts such as training in the available space. So we want to try to avoid pushing people into spaces that they don't have access to with their movements so we can avoid some compensatory strategies that actually might be interference or potentially lead to consequences that are undesired. Moving people into a different orientation, for instance, if we take somebody from a flat foot contact to a heel's elevated contact, we'll also alter that space. So again, we touch base on that. Giving your client an opportunity to learn. Many times what we intend for the client is not what the client understands and so they might not be great at something at first. So giving them an opportunity to change over time is also very important. Let them problem solve and figure some things out. So this is actually a great question for a lot of younger coaches or people that are just being exposed to my model. So thank you Jack for your question. Everybody have an outstanding Monday and I will see you tomorrow.

I'm trying to reconcile in my mind when we get towards end game presentations in narrows or wides, what their phase of propulsion looks like in one side of the body compared to the other side of the body during that end. So when we end up say we're going to a wide I say heavy over on the right oblique push right forward and To me, like a media, when I sort of look at that, I'm thinking in my mind that we're sort of later on the left-hand side than we are on the right-hand side being pushed from the back initially and then over onto the right. What I don't quite... I guess what I don't quite get is when we end up over on that right oblique, if I was to look at that in respect to like a gate cycle, I would think that my sacral orientation would be kind of leading into the early phase on the right leg would be pointing to the left, right? So axial skeletons turning to the left in a right step, for instance.

Good morning. Happy Tuesday. I have neuro coffee in hand and it is perfect. All right. A very busy Tuesday coming up. So we're going to dig straight into today's Q&A. This is with Taya. Taya's question pertained to scoliosis. And so we covered some ground in this one in regards to what I think is the source of the deformity, if you will. in regards to scoliosis and I think it's a very strong mechanical situation. There may be some other influences. I don't think there's any question that things tend to be multifactorial. There could be issues with silio deformities. There might be cerebral spinal flow issues, but I think the strongest evidence points towards the internal force relationship with the external physical structure and then how we manage things. Reason being, If we go back into, I believe it's an article in Spine Journal 2007 where they were looking at normal spines, so-called normal spines, people with normal internal anatomy compared to citizen versus what we saw was opposing mirror image curves of the normal spines. If you look at a scoliotic spine, you're going to see the structure of the anterior aspect of the spine is the area where we're going to see the lengthening of the connective tissues, where we're going to see the compressive strategy on the opposing side. So internal organs are attached to the anterior aspect of the abdomen and to the spine. Therefore, we should expect to see the elongation as described in the research. There was a more recent study by Schlosser where they specifically mentioned this concept of the influence of the internal organs. They found issues similar to the spinal curvatures in the 2007 study. So again, I think everything's pointing towards this mechanical representation as the source of the scoliosis. We also touched base on a little bit of what we would consider hypermobility and why it may exist. So this is a really, really interesting call. So thank you, Taya. Great question. Should get a little bit of discussion going with a lot of people as far as what they're dealing with and how we're going to manage these things. So again, thank you. Everybody have an outstanding Tuesday and I will see you tomorrow.

Good morning. Happy Monday. I have neural coffee in hand and it is perfect. All right. Man, busy week coming up. Busy day today. So we're going to dig straight into this Q&A. This was Alex. And Alex was looking at some of the anatomical iterations that we talk about and some of the connected tissue behaviors, especially with some of the bony relationships and So he's looking at something in the lower extremity relative to the pelvis. And we get to talking about how we'll see bony twists and torsions and things like that. And we get to the pelvis. And we talked about a representation of how the sacrum is going to behave, especially in the sort of like an early propulsive representation, where you've got some distal tibial IR relative to the proximal tibial ER. We're going to see a similar representation in the pelvis. This is going to be our typical early representation. Now plastic model doesn't bend like a real pelvis so what we want to consider though is that as we're looking at the connected tissue behaviors especially this the yielding action that we're going to see um if we were stepping forward with the right side of the pelvis right foot lands we've got an apex that is relatively fixed and then as we see this this er of the enominant it's actually going to take the the sequel base with it. So we have the sequel base moving back on this Ilium as we have the ER denominator. The thing we want to recognize is that this is going to be a much more externally rotated representation here relative to the apex of the sacred. So that's what we're talking about. And this is just part of the normal connected tissue behaviors, but it is useful in understanding when we have people that are biased in certain aspects of propulsion that becomes interference. We also want to make sure that we're addressing this from an iterative standpoint. A lot of your activities that you choose are going to address this, but in certain cases where maybe we have a local change that is not taking place, we might need to use a local or a a focal strategy which would be a little more effective from a regional perspective so we might have to do something in this specific the powers when we have to do something that would be specific at the tibia in this circumstance so alex thank you so much for asking this question certainly will be helpful for a lot of people everybody have an outstanding monday and i'll see you tomorrow alex do we have another mandible question

Good morning. Happy Monday. I have neuro-coffee in hand and it is perfect. All right. Digging into a very busy Monday. Quick housekeeping item, IFast University members. We have a call today at 1 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. If you're not a member of IFast University and you'd like to participate in this call, please go to ifastuniversity.com. Get yourself signed up and please join us at 1 p.m. today. Digging into today's Q&A. This is Cameron. Cameron has a really good question. One of the things we have to understand is that no movement takes place without a gradient. So we have to have a differential in our ability to change our shape. So humans are primarily water, so we use compression and expansion to move through space. And if we don't understand how we are compressed or expanded, then we don't understand how we can help people restore their movement capabilities. And so this is why we have to rely on things like understanding archetype and starting conditions. And again, the strategies that people will use that become limiting in regards to movement so then we can actually help them recapture those movement capabilities. So we talk a great deal in this call about position and how we can apply pressures to promote these shape changes that are so necessary for movement. So thank you Cameron. Great question. Very helpful for a lot of people. Once again see you all on IFSU at 1pm today. Everybody have an outstanding Monday. I'll see you tomorrow.

Good morning. Happy Monday. I have neuro coffee in hand and it is perfect. All right. Had a pretty good weekend. Actually revamped the office a little bit. Rewire nice things, got it kind of looking the way I want it to look. Almost, almost getting there. So I feel pretty good about things. I'm going to dig straight into today's Q&A. This is with Alex. So Alex's question pertains to some shape change concepts. And so it started with the foot. When we talk about different shape changes, we talk about pelvis, we talk about thorax and things, but can we apply the same concepts to the foot? And the reality is, yes, we can. In fact, there are already mobilizations and manipulations and such that are actually quite effective. I think that what was lacking in regards to the explanation and the reasoning in the past is that there just wasn't an effective model upon which we could base our thought processes and come up with a logical and reasonable presentation as to when these things are most effective. And I think once we do that with an effective model, then we become much more influential with our application of manual therapies. And so that's kind of the direction that we went here. We were looking at some examples as to how we would actually apply this and like in what context we would apply this for the most effective result. So thank you Alex for asking a great question that's going to help a lot of people. Everybody have an outstanding Monday and I will see you tomorrow. All right Alex, thank you for your patience.

Good morning. Happy Monday. I have neuro coffee in hand and it is perfect. All right, coming up on a very busy Monday, an unusual Monday, but we will get it done. A quick housekeeping item, IFAST University. We have a call today at 1 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. If you are not a member of IFAST University, please go to ifastuniversity.com, get yourself signed up, and join us for the 1 p.m. Eastern Standard Time call. We're going to dig straight into today's Q&A. This was Zhang. Zhang asked a great foundational question in regards to connective tissue behaviors. And so he still has a question in his mind as to how we influence connective tissue behaviors in the relationship to muscle output. And so this is one of the reasons why we have to consider direction of gravity and body position and such because we have internal and external forces that we have to manage. This is going to tune up and tune down motor output, which is also going to influence and tune the connective tissue behaviors. So a great question, Zhang, and like I said, we covered a lot of ground here in a very short period of time. I hope it clarifies this point for a lot of people. Everybody have an outstanding Monday, and I will see you tomorrow.

Good morning. Happy Monday. I have neural coffee in hand and Come on Bill. Give us one chance one shot Good morning happy Monday.

Good morning. Happy Monday. I have neuro coffee in hand and it is perfect. All right. A very busy Monday, unusually busy Monday. But quick housekeeping item, the Intensive 19 is going to be September 22nd through the 25th. We're going to open up applications this week, maybe today for those of you on the mentorship list. If you're not on the mentorship list, go to any post on billhartmanpt.com. Get yourself signed up on that list. You will be first notified when applications open and give you the first opportunity to apply for the Intensive 19. Intensive 18 is this week, so this is Intensive 18 week, very exciting. So a lot of things to do for that, people coming into town from all over the place, even outside the country. So again, very excited. Today's Q&A was with Sandis. The original question from Sandis was in regards to sprinting and then this led us into some things associated with connected tissue behavior, some testing to differentiate what type of connected tissue behaviors you have. So we mentioned things like a Bosco test which you can look up yourself and find out how that's going to help you to determine whether you need to bias training towards more force production or a more power-oriented or a time-constrained type of an activity, plyometric activities fall into this category as well. So this is going to be a great question for those of you that are always trying to determine, well, what do I do with this athlete? How do I determine what I should be doing with this athlete? So again, Sandis, thank you. Very useful question for a lot of people. Everybody have an outstanding Monday. Don't forget to get yourself signed up on the mentorship list today ASAP so you can be first to apply for the Intensive 19. Have a great day. I'll see you tomorrow.

Good morning. Happy Monday. I have neural coffee in hand, and it is perfect. All right. We have a busy Monday coming up. We're going to dive straight into today's Q&A with Matt. Matt had a question about carries, more specifically variations of rack carries, suitcase carry, etc. One of the things we want to understand about carries is that we're trying to manipulate the position of the center of gravity to create a shape change that provides a favorable influence in regards to recapturing relative motion under certain circumstances. There are certain circumstances where we're just concerned with force production. We actually mentioned this in the video in regards to strongman training—we're not really concerned with relative motions under those circumstances. But when we are, the magnitude of load will matter because too much weight will compress space. Too much weight will limit the movement of the center of gravity. So we're playing a little bit of a game here in regards to how we're going to shift the center of gravity around. The center of gravity typically oscillates as you walk. We're actually going to change the shape and the movement of that center of gravity to help us recapture relative motions. So Matt, outstanding question. Thank you so much. Everybody have an outstanding Monday, and I will see you tomorrow.

Good morning. Happy Monday. I have neural coffee in hand and it is perfect. All right, man, very busy Monday coming up. Quick housekeeping item: IFAS University has a call at 1 p.m. Eastern Standard Time today. Please join us for that. If you're not a member of IFASUniversity.com, please go to IFASUniversity.com and get yourself signed up, then you can join us for the call at 1 p.m. Always great people and a really solid Q&A session today. Digging into today's Q&A, this was Zach. We had a case situation here, so we have a field hockey coach slash player with some situations. What this does is allow us to look at how we evolve from potentially reduced gravity situations. Say we're working on somebody on the table—we've taken gravity out of the equation to a certain degree, we're managing some of the internal forces—then what happens when we stand up? How do we test for that? This is where we can introduce the load propulsion test, which gives us a representation of how an individual manages internal forces when we bring them upright compared to when we get somebody clean on the table. Zach is very successful on the table with this individual but is having trouble with this transition in standing. So we definitely go over that. Thank you, Zach for bringing this up—it allows us to answer a lot of questions in regard to how people will progress their clients and patients. Everybody have an outstanding Monday, and I will see you tomorrow.

Good morning. Happy Tuesday. I have no coffee in hand and it is perfect. All right. Coming up on a very busy Tuesday, we're going to take straight into today's Q&A. This is with Taya. Taya asked a very strong foundational question that pertained to what is basically the lower extremity representations during early, middle, and late propulsion. Seems like a very basic question. The importance of this question though, it comes down to when we intervene. So if we have somebody that has a specific representation and we're trying to make a favorable change in relative motions, it behooves us to number one, understand where they are in the propulsive phase. And number two, what is the representation of the intervention? So for instance, if I had somebody that was presenting with a late propulsive strategy, say on the right side in the right lower extremity, and I perform an activity that reinforces the late representation. That's all fine and good. If that's my intention, if my intention is to alter the relative motions, then I need to understand how I need to reorganize this lower extremity to create an early representation so I can make that favorable change. So again, very, very powerful question. Thank you, Taya, for asking this question. Everybody have an outstanding Tuesday and I will see you guys tomorrow. Hi, Taya.

Good morning. Happy Monday. I have neuro coffee in hand and it is perfect. All right. Happy Monday. Coming off a very strong weekend. Very busy going to dig straight into Q&A. This is with Christian. Christian had a little bit of a neck issue that he wanted to discuss on the last Coffee and Coaches Conference call. We're happy to do that on occasion, especially when it leads us into a really good discussion. So in this case, This brought us to some lower cervical mechanics. One of the things we need to understand about the cervical spine is that the mechanics throughout the cervical spine are not the same, even though they are often expressed as being the same, especially when they talk about rotations and side bends and things like that and we don't talk about that. It's all rotation under these circumstances. It's just how is it going to rotate based on the shape of the facet joints, which is different between the upper and the lower cervical spine. So when I'm talking about upper in this case, we're talking about like the C3-4 level compared to the C6-7 level. They are not the same. So we have to appreciate that fact because it is going to influence our decisions. So we break those mechanics down And we actually give Christian some suggestions and some strategy as to how to approach this, to get this lower cervical spine to turn appropriately and to alleviate the symptoms. Got some feedback from them and that actually it's already better. So we are definitely on the right track. So thank you Christian for your question and leading us in this direction. By the way, go to the YouTube channel. There is a video already up there discussing some of these lower cervical mechanics that you might find helpful. Everybody have an outstanding Monday, and I will see you tomorrow.

Good morning. Happy Monday. I have neuro-coffee in hand and it is perfect. All right, time is short. We're going to dig straight into today's Q&A. This is with Tovar. Tovar is new to the Coffee and Coaches Conference call, but asks a couple of great questions. And so we were talking about capturing early representations of propulsion and hook-line activities and such. And then this led to, oh, I've got this question about my feet and some shoes. And we started talking a little bit about an early shoe representation, which is usually a good recommendation in many circumstances for people that appear to have a low arch and are trying to capture an early representation. And so I wanted to throw up an early shoe that we were talking about. One of the things that we want to look at is this rear foot position. When we look at the sole, it's squared to the back. That would be an earlier representation of a shoe. As they land, this cushion has to compress and then that slows down the foot as it's moving from its initial ground contact to the early representation of that foot position. This shoe has a little bit of an arch in it because we've got an ER representation of the foot and it's got a very rigid heel counter which is what we're looking for. What we don't want in a shoe under the circumstances where we're trying to capture early is what's called an increased rocker on the back. This is a little bit of one. I had to rob the gorgeous shoes from the closet here. It's got a little bit of a cut off here. You can kind of see that the rocker is increased here. What that actually does is it accelerates the foot forward and gets the tibia moving very, very quickly. And this would be more of a later representation of a shoe under those circumstances, which would push somebody forward, which is what we don't want under those circumstances when we're trying to slow the tibia down. So just to give you a little bit of a representation as to shoe types, but when we go through this discussion as to what type of a shoe that we would be looking at, that gives you a couple of ideas. If you have any questions about that, I'm sure you'll post those up. Everybody have an outstanding Monday and we will see you tomorrow.