Yes.

Yeah. You do that by position. Okay, so number one, you have to be put in a position where you don't need concentric orientation in the limiting musculature.

Well, then it's going to be inside my base of support. Yep. So I'm just thinking a simple question.

Negative. Like five to ten.

Okay. In what direction, as I'm stepping forward, in what direction does the leg need to go?

Yeah, and then in that case, you got to do something to find the pulse of foot.

I understood that if we want to use the towel when someone is in an oblique sit, they cannot relax the lower leg to the ground. So you put the towel below to give them a little bit of that space.

Well, yes, I mean, you're actually thinking it through versus just accepting it as an absolute right. So you're looking at it from a positional representation, a shape change representation, and then the muscle orientation that follows all of those. And there's some give and take here. We have muscle activity that can change bony position. We have bony positions that influence muscle activity, et cetera. It goes both ways. So that's your perspective versus blaming some sort of isolated structural representation or some inherent quality within a muscle itself as if the muscle could do something independently of everything else, which it can't.

Sorry, could you put, could you also like, could you start bringing her back a little bit earlier if you put her on like a 15 degree or 10 degree slant?

So I have to just slow that side down.

So what's not affected? I mean, it's kind of like big picture. It's like, "This is a cascade of events." Right? If I can't change joint position because I have muscle orientation that doesn't allow the fluid shift or tune the connected tissues appropriately, I only feel certain things. And so I don't know what a heel feels like to have on the ground. Cause if I felt a heel, I would actually be able to change my muscle orientation. Therefore I would get a joint position change, which would again give me more proprioceptive information. So I would actually be able to feel where I was in space. You know what you do for a living, boss? This is what you do for a living, right?

And why do I talk about the imaginary sagittal plane? Because where does it go? Like, okay, we're straight ahead. Is it where your eyes are? Is it where your nose is? Is it where you're high eyed spacing? Is it where the pubis is facing? It's like, okay, where's the sagittal plane that everybody's talking about? It's like, give me a point of reference. Dead guys have a sagittal plane. They don't move. Good morning. Happy Wednesday. I have no coffee in hand and it is perfect. All right. So, today's Wednesday, that means tomorrow's Thursday, that means tomorrow's 6 a.m. Coffee and Coaches conference call. As usual, I think we're on call 103 or something like that. So we've been doing these for a while. Always a great time, great Q&A, grab yourself some coffee, and please join us. Digging in today's Q&A. This started off with Andrew, got a little help from Ian, got a little help from Max. And basically what we're doing is we're talking about how we use ground contacts to create relative motions. And so the foot's a great example of that in a number of cases. If you think about the bottom of the foot, as long as we have our four boning contacts, so two on the heel and first and fifth metatarsal heads, that's the foot contact that's going to provide us the greatest degree of relative motions. Generally speaking, we're forming a quadrilateral on the bottom of the foot, and that allows us to make these cool little turns and twists from ER to IR. If we lose any of those contacts, then we get a shape change that's no longer quadrilateral. If we have something that would move, say, into a triangular shape, so I lose one of my contacts, I now have a triangle, which is actually a very stable structure, and that's actually going to reduce relative motions. When we talk about propulsion that can involve walking, it can involve rolling, which we talk about in this video, is that we want to have those contacts with the ground. As long as we have those effective contacts with the ground, that's where our relative motions lie. When we don't have those, that's why we don't have relative motion. So when we're measuring people in the table, we're looking for the shape that is in physical contact with the ground or in this case with the table, that's going to allow us to be able to demonstrate the relative motions. When we have the shape change available to us, we can acquire the appropriate shapes in contact with the ground and we have relative motions. So, thank you guys. Appreciate the question. A great deal. If you'd like to participate in a 15-minute consultation, please go to askbillhartman at gmail.com. Askbillhartman at gmail.com. Please put 15-minute consultation in the subject line so we don't delete it. Please include your question in the email. We'll arrange that at our mutual convenience. Everybody have an outstanding Wednesday. I will see you tomorrow at 6 a.m. Coffee and Coaches Conference call. See ya.

Five degrees. As you push off mainly, you know, working on that inside the medial arch, right? Pushing out. As the trail leg lifts, you kind of rotate your zipper towards the femur just a little bit to get a little tension.

Oh, backwards. Okay.

So it's like the gravity allows the body to get more motion in the upper.

You understand why I said that?

You had a 50-50 shot.

Okay.

Okay. Very small human being for hockey players, like 5'11", 175, not fast, yet the greatest scorer of all time. What he was really, really good at was predicting. So his prediction capabilities were great. And he actually said this in an interview. He said, I never went after the puck. I always went to the area where I thought the puck was going to be. Right? And so again, very aware, and he's in a very specific environment many, many times. And so his predictability was probably a little bit higher than the average Joe. But generally speaking, it's like you're still making predictions. And then the more experience you get in an environment, the better your predictions get, your probabilities go up in your favor. So the anticipatory behaviors should improve. That's really good, Alec. Man, I love that. I love that. So why didn't I think of that? So I've been doing this for a long time. It's like, yeah. But this is why we do those calls. So I learned some.

You've got to teach them to unweight their feet. The only way to do that is to have an outlet that can go up very quickly.

Yeah. So, so again, it's like what, if you're chasing a late representation, right? Is there more IR in a late representation?

Okay. Does it answer your question?

I'm standing often. I'm standing in front of them and depending on the circumstance, like holding their arm.

Okay.

Very helpful.

Yeah.

So first I just have a quick question and then slightly. I just wondered how you cue breathing in terms of do you ever tell them to exhale and to keep slight tension in the obliques while inhaling? Say it one more time. So exhale and keep slight tension in the side abs with the next inhale, or do you not cue muscles at all, just like gentle exhale and inhale?

Okay.

And also, external rotation is also an element of, or anterior expansion is an element of internal rotation and exhalation, right? Momentum.

No. So it's still stiffer than it was. If I use the lighter load, do you see the difference?