Okay. Take that same scenario and move it down to the pelvis. So you have to get more and more ER orientation. So they get compressed A to P in the pelvis and the sockets will have to turn up and out to find ER. Because I have to have a space to move in until I run out of space, of course, which does happen. And so that's what you end up looking at when you have these really severe representations of lots of ER, no IR, until they get so much compression that they start to lose all of that ER representation too, because they can't get their spine to move. This is something that still has a spine that's moving, right? That's allowing them to capture some of the ER representation. You probably still have some orientation to deal with. But generally speaking, you've got somebody that literally, how do you get 80 degrees of ER? Well, you have a socket that points outwards, and you have a spine that can turn in that direction.

She's going to perpetuate the problem.

Can you explain the fulcrum part?

Someone with a very elevated scapula because they're so A to B compressed, those points of contact get closer together and that means less relative motion. They're basically in the later representation of the, just like you, the toes in the first mad head. All right. All right. Got it. Thank you.

Let's go back one second. You said, assume there's no space on the left and she was to descend into a full split squat. If she was to descend into a full split squat, how far do you think the second would turn to the right? wouldn't it start turning more towards the left of them? If she was doing a right foot forward split squat.

If there's no space to move into, then you don't move into that space. It just doesn't exist.

Right. Yeah. I was just thinking in terms of your, your wides where you might have more of an eccentric orientation of kind of like the lateral infraspinitis, you know, or my backwards on that or the obturator.

You see it? It's like they're both there, which again makes me question whether it's a useful representation to call things open and closed.

I just wanted to say I really appreciate the schools. They really helped me understand the model better than just from the YouTube videos.

That's why certain people are good at certain things, just by who they are.

Like a funnel.

Right. Connective tissues are dumb. Not much of a brain. But they behave based on the physical principles of their structure. They are adaptable to a degree, and therefore that's what we do with training—we expand or narrow their capability of responding in certain situations. So if you were training a high jumper who jumped off his left foot, he would have to do thousands of left foot jumps. Those connective tissues on one side of his body will behave differently than the connective tissues on the other side because they have to. That adaptation would occur over time. You're training those tissues on one side of the body to behave very specifically at the right time under the right circumstances with the appropriate direction, variability, et cetera. It's a bit more predictable, which is nice. It's not like training a field athlete in an emergent environment. High jumps are predictable—you know where the bar will be, where the ground will be, where you'll hit the ground before takeoff. Whereas if you're playing soccer—or football for those in Europe—that's a much less predictable environment. It has some fixed elements, like a field and player orientations, but it's a more emergent situation. You have to be adaptable enough to absorb perturbations. Like in the high jumper example, if you add a defender in front of the pit, you have to get around them first before jumping. That's the difference. Again, you have to consider how force is applied. If you're in an unpredictable environment, you have to train your sport in that unpredictable environment.

That's early, yeah. Maybe? Yeah, yeah, all right.

Got you. But it's still valuable from the standpoint that if someone is super pushed forward on both sides and that's the space that they have available to superimpose the IR.

Yeah. So you have to get there first. You have to put them in a position to be successful. And then you have to progressively challenge those positions for them to maintain it in context. That's all you're talking about at this point.

Yes, yes, yes, yes. So all right. You understand? Yeah. Yeah. It just makes sense that this is too narrow. We got to go out a little bit now trying to figure that in terms of lower body activity. Cause one of the things we were, I think we were successful with compared to him prior to the last eight weeks of training was that we did do a lot of front foot elevated split squat trying to just, with the understanding like we want to shove you backward. And we did have a, we started with like a Jefferson set up to kind of create a turn on both sides. And well, looking back probably that was too demanding.

No, but your stuff makes more sense to me, so I can use it. To be able to translate into their world, so it helps me.

To get her into a position that she's not getting on her own.

Oh, okay.

I was thinking like you could have someone be on their back or sideline with a bend, like either on the inner or outer thigh and kind of roll against that, that would be an equivalent.

It's actually not terribly complicated. The first thing you have to do is formulate questions. There must be purpose in the things you are trying to learn. Instead of just saying, 'I'm going to learn about this or that,' you can get away with that some of the time, but to actually learn something, there must be an emotional attachment to it. There must be meaningfulness to it. And there must be a reward for learning something—that's what helps you retain information and inspires you to continue. So, you formulate a question that is meaningful to you. It's like, 'I want to understand,' 'I want to know why,' 'I want to know how,' or 'I want to know what if.' Those are the three big questions. Then you use Socratic reasoning. You get to the Y's. Have you ever heard of the five Y's?

So from a training perspective, if you're trying to train someone to be able to better access that storage and release of the connective tissues, the ultimate goal is getting it to maximal stiffness with still an effective yield. That's going to give you the desired result. So is that just happening through, I guess, if we're just talking about muscular strength, like if you're doing something like a jump test. Do you get increased stiffness and better storage and release because you're able to hold on to more concentric orientation as you're descending? So you're able to hold on to the stiffness, but then up until a certain point, if you're just too concentrically oriented, now you no longer get that yield and elastic return.

And like I said, it's not like you can't see the anti-orientations and things like that. Those are people that are just deeper into strategy, but generally speaking, if you just consider the starting conditions and then what would show up as you try to set up in an E orientation and as you try to move towards an IR, which would be at the bottom of the split spot.

What causes the pelvic orientation to move anteriorly as opposed to moving into a sway back posture? Which of the, because obviously you can't, you're not going to end up in a position with, you know, that pump handle being pumped down, pulled down significantly in an anteriorly orientated pelvic position. Why not? Well, I would suggest that you're going in the opposite direction, aren't you?

That's probably where the disconnect is coming from.

No.

Yes, sir.

Put it right over your left foot. Okay. Nam, don't move your hands, but put your body in a position where the weight would then be outside of the base of support. The other way, the other way, the other way. That's what you're doing when you chop outside of your body. So you're moving towards a late representation, which is fine if that's what you want to do. But you have to recognize the fact that you're not capturing relative motion. You're reducing the relative motion under those circumstances. So if you're to do a lifting motion on a diagonal instead of the chopping motion, it's much easier to produce the late representation under those circumstances. It's very easy to see that late representation. But when you chop outside the base of support, it's a lot harder to see it because everybody's looking at the hands. They're not looking at the response of the body to that position. Okay, so there's two options when you chop outside the base of support. I can go with it, I can turn with it, but understand that that turn is just an orientation. I'm just turning my body towards the load, whereas if I can turn away from the load, which is very difficult to do under that circumstance, it's very difficult. I'd be going in the opposite direction, which would be a late representation. But again, that the orientation or the movement away are both a loss of relative motion.

It's turning, right? Okay. Get it? Okay. You understand? Yes. Okay, cool. So if both sides of the spine are flexing, okay. What does that mean that the spine is doing? Is it internally rotating or is it externally rotating? If one side is ER, then both sides are doing the same thing now. So both sides are flexing. Yeah, it still should be ER. It is ER. It is okay. Yeah. Yeah. For sure.

So again, you have that type of interval that you have to be able to consistently produce high levels of performance. And then again, like the exceptions, the rule would be like a two minute drill where they don't have full recoveries and they need to be trained for that as well. And so again, that's just the elements. Like can they acquire the position that allows them to produce the maximum force under the circumstances? And this is beyond technique, right? I mean, it's hand-to-hand combat. So all of those elements come into play. But that's more of the technical side, not so much the strength and conditioning side, if you will. Our main concern is can they acquire the positions? Can they produce the force? Can they do it quickly? And can they do it over and over and over and over again? And that's how I would prepare them.