I would hope that you are leaving the ground on that side.

There you go. There's the answer. That is the answer. So it turns into a singular ground contact. So the fluid volume fills in all the spaces. So just take the skeleton. This is why skeletons can't walk, because they don't have the capacity to flip-flop the fluid volumes to create the right shapes. There are other reasons why skeletons can't walk, but the point is you have to have the bag of water down there to create the right shape. So when they talk about the accommodated foot, I'm not disagreeing with that because what happens is the fluid is shifting into the middle propulsive shape, which does create an accommodation to the surface. And then there's that moment of maximal compression where it becomes one piece, one contact, because I have to push into the ground under those circumstances. Otherwise, you get wobbly angles. If you have people that are accused of ankle instability, what does that mean? Ankle instability is somebody that can't capture the middle propulsive representation right, so they can't push into the ground straight down into the ground. So they're trying to push through any yard foot. So they're the people that come in and say, 'I sprained my right ankle 17 times since seventh grade.'

Yeah.

to come out the Y lateral load.

Magnitude, location, direction, duration, frequency, variability, and rate. Okay? So there's your seven components of force. So under the circumstance, let's narrow it down and let's just go with location. Like where is the application? In a static activity, there is less change as to where the force application would be applied. We could say that we have like more of a focal local influence. There's global influence. There's no question about that. But let's just say that we're chasing something specific. We're chasing like a pelvic orientation. Like let's just say we're trying to buy some more towards like an iron pelvis. So we're gonna do something that's in the middle range of a squat as far as the static representation would be that we're gonna use that same similar representation. But the sled drag has more variability in it as to where the energy will be transferred from one place to the other. Therefore, the force applied would be different as you're moving through space. Doesn't mean that you can't get the same end result. Right. Because again did the level of change is a little bit different. You might have like a greater transfer of energy with the sled drag that would produce a same adaptation that let's just again chasing the pelvic orientation that would provide us the same degree of change in regards to the outcome. Even though they are somewhat different, we're applying it within a similar range at a different rate with greater variability, but I would get the same quantity of adaptation in the same location even though I have a more distributed representation in the sled drag.

So they go forward on the right side, but they're not really going up because they're stuck down.

Yeah.

I'm pressing this part together. You see the delay? It's like an elbow, but it's not really an elbow. Let's not confuse people.

Awesome. Thank you.

That's correct.

Gotcha. So your KPIs would essentially, you could still use like the jump mat or a fourth plate to understand.

And that would be less than ideal. And so what she is continuing to do is apply stress to tissue in that circumstance. So the solution is to reestablish her ability to apply IR into the ground below her center of gravity, without the use.

Narrow anteriorly at this turn.

Okay, bring it. You can't shift your center of mass back on the back of your foot under any circumstance, unless you give up something else, but you're not doing it with relative motion. You're not using relative movement to capture the IR because you don't have that physical capacity. It does not exist in your world. You can try until the cows come home, until you turn blue in the face, or any other figure of speech. But it's just not possible. So, don't worry about it, but you got to select exercises that allow you to do what you need to do.

You do that and you're going to see a neat little change in her axial alignment. You're going to see a much better position. As the internal rotation is propagating up through her axial skeleton to hit her in the shoulder, as the body is moving forward and the arm is still going backward relative to it, you're going to see a much better position of the javelin. And honestly, you're going to give her a heck of a whip through that shoulder that she should get some distance out of it.

Okay, we have a couple things going on here that we need to discuss. The bias for the pylon will keep them on the ground longer. Then we have to consider the degree of anterior-posterior compression. Case in point: two wide ISA archetypes, both pylons. One has greater posterior compression than the other, which implies that one would also have lesser anterior compression. So they're still moving forward. If there is anterior compression, the one with more anterior compression is already forward. Understand that? They're already bumping into a wall they're trying to stop from going forward. The other one still has room to go forward because the anterior compression is less.

Okay. There's probably other research. I like Kappanji. He's got pretty pictures and stuff like that that gives you a pretty good description of things as to what is happening. Then the Y would be just another representation of the ability to create the shape that allows you to direct and manage energies. So if you're stepping forward and you're landing in an early foot representation, do you know the position and the dynamics of the fibula? Yeah. There you go. That was your right fibula, correct? Yeah. There you go. See, I knew exactly what you were doing. Nobody else on the call did, but you and I can have this private conversation. We'll just not worry about everybody else. No, but so you've got the right idea. But the reason behind that is because it directs the energy where I need it to go to be most effective in regards to movement. Right. So real quick, as I push as hard as possible into the ground, what does that fibula do? And you can just, you know, yeah, exactly. It does that, right? Cause it has to, to make sure that my ability to produce force into the ground is going in the right direction.

You could. Yeah. So, if you've got a late representation at the knee, and let's just say that you're a strength and conditioning coach that doesn't do knee mobilization. You can use that to access the tibial femoral IR. Here's the problem you run into: the foot and the distal tibia are not secure. So all you're doing is getting the whole lower part of the leg, so that from the tibia to the foot, the whole thing turns, which means that yes, I'm getting relative motion at the knee that I wanted, but the whole foot and the distal tibia are following. And so I don't get the differential that I wanted, because when you're doing a knee mobilization, when you're doing a tibial mobilization to change the knee orientation, you have to create the stable position of the foot and the distal tibia. So you get the differential within the bone itself.

Good morning. Happy Thursday. I have no coffee in hand and it is perfect. All right, Zach, since you're walking to the soccer field and you're not homeless.

So right away, if I don't have any other solutions that will give me a true inversion with anterior to posterior, I could at least lay you on your side and tip the cone over to promote the expansion superiorly relative to the inferior aspect. Do you see it?

Okay, oh, he's doing the, so it's at the crossover or it's the positioning step?

But we're rolling, we're on your side rolling.

So just near the bottom of the split squat, they have lead leg anterior knee pain.

Wouldn't that benefit from both of those though of either using the band or taking the weight off?

Got it.

Under most circumstances, what would you lead with? Would you lead with the reverse hyper? Would you lead with the back extension?

Yeah, so she's got all that; she's going to create all that right-sided compression because she doesn't have the delay strategy to make a turn, so she can orient that way. You're absolutely right, but the way that she's getting there is not going to be a turn. It's going to be like she's literally taking both sides of her body and she's going to push forward, but she's going to make sure she orients that way. Did you look at her left foot?

So mostly seeing it with stroke patients, yep.

Well, let's talk about the ugly stuff so we have a frame of reference. What ugly stuff are we gonna see?

That's what I'm talking about. Just because you're squeezing your knees together doesn't mean that you're internally rotating approximately. This is part of the problem. You have to be able to recognize when that's happening. And you can actually visualize this. You can see it on people when they're doing it. Like when you put something between the knees and say squeeze this, they will show you what their strategy is, whether it be proximal internal rotation or external rotation. The problem is going to be the pelvic orientation. To reduce the concentric orientation, you don't have to squeeze. You need to hold a position while you capture the proximal representation from the foot to the pelvis. That is the ultimate solution. What happens is people try to use too much muscle activity, they have too much proximal ER representation and they magnify the ER representation. This just comes from understanding your cues on how you set up the activity. Most people fail because they teach people to posteriorly orient the pelvis, meaning the pelvis is rocking back as a single unit, not with relative motions.