Yesterday I was going for a walk and I was thinking about walking downhill as if you were like, if you were like hiking coming down like a fairly steep grade. So when you land, you go to, cause you almost kind of quickly land on it because it's not much of like a heel strike, cause you're almost like coming down. So almost a flat foot. So you have enough traction on like on a rock or the surface that you're on. If you're doing one of those like scoots sort of walking down the hill things. Yeah. Uh, in that case, but cause you're still like in almost like a plantar flex position, are you, So for people to have like a lot of like anterior knee pain when they come down a hill like that. Yeah. Is it. He's trying to dance. So like in an ideal to make sure you don't fall down the mountain. Like you have to like land pretty quick into like an early mid-propulsive situation.

Correct, yes. To try to supplement the goal of helping them not bottom out.

I'm just talking. I don't know where you're going to start this guy, but okay. And then all you do is say, take your arm back like this and roll to your back. And then you help him back to sideline and then you roll to your back. Okay. And then he gets really good at that. And then you take a bunch of pillows and you put them in front of him and you say, roll over on top of the pillows first. So he's going to face down a little bit, but he's propped up on pillows. So it's not full prone. And you say, reach back and then make your turn. Yeah. You see, I'm getting that. And then you lead them into this. And then eventually it can turn into like a prone to sideline to supine kind of a thing. You see it?

Okay.

Okay, so they're not always on the balls of their feet, number one. Because I have to transition, so my ER to IR to ER transitions still need to be intact. So you're still going to be capturing early and late representations. The early representation is where the heel is on the ground. Maximum force into the ground and maximum IR actually occurs as the heel breaks from the ground. So that's actually where the heel is starting to come up, and they're producing the maximum force into the ground that brings that IR up. So they're still going to transition into those phases. But again, when maximum force is going to be applied, there's maybe a tap to the ground of the medial calcaneus because I have to create the delay to create the turn that allows that force to be demonstrated as I transition from one foot. So if I'm going to apply force to the ground with my lead foot on a punch, I have to get the other side of the body to be moving into a late representation where that ER is going to be demonstrated. That requires heel contact. But the maximum force— the heel is going to be coming off the ground. So it's not always on the balls of your feet. We're using that foot position because it's easier to reposition your stance, but you're still moving through these phases of early, middle, and late. They're just over a very small excursion.

Right.

Right.

I mean, does that establish the player on the team as somebody that will be in the right place for the official season? Are they using it to establish the hierarchy of position?

You're welcome, man.

Everybody starts to move out. Again, there are going to be those people that are exceptional and they were born to be able to do this stuff. They don't change like most people do. They are down at the other end of the curve. They are the exceptions to the rule, but the rule still exists. If I compress, I have to move outward. The people that can maintain their expansion under those circumstances are there. They are superheroes. They don't lose that space, and so they can access it. The guy that pops into my head is John Kuk. He's an old lifter from when I was a kid. He was really strong. He was a narrow stance, deep squatting powerlifter with the perfect structure for it and never lost range of motion. He was doing 700-pound squats back in the 80s. So there are people that can do that.

Oh, wow. Well, I feel special then.

Cause that's the opposite of ER space. That's compressor.

Take load away.

Yeah. I got my last semester of the summer of this year. That's why you're on clinicals.

So I was just wondering if you could explain to me the difference between a band pulling the knee from the outside versus the inside in a split squat.

Thank you for another time.

You can't do it. It's not possible. You know, we only have mechanics in one direction. You can slow things down, but you can't go there.

Yeah. That's not me. That's just me going, oh, okay.

Appreciate it, Bill.

Yeah, so again, the question is, why would I choose to do one over the other? Well, how tall is your femur bone? How wide is your pelvis? What is your femoral orientation? How wide is your ISA? All of those things come into play from a mechanical standpoint as to what is the best strategy under the circumstances for you to apply to manage gravity. There are subtle differences in how you would do that. It's just like somebody that's seven feet tall walking against a really strong wind and somebody that's five foot two walking against the same wind—different strategies.

It's forward. Now look at her toes on the floor. You see the toes—two, three, four, five. You see the curl. That's concentric activity on the bottom of the foot. So she's actually late. She's in a late propulsive strategy on this side. Now, can you see the other leg? You see it? Yeah. Okay. See how the tibia is going backwards?

So I actually posted a video about this. I believe quite a while back, somebody asked me a similar question, and I am the interference to everything that I do. So I'm at least aware of that, but being human is going to be fallible. So that helps right off the bat. One of the things that I try to do on a regular basis is: I don't consume content; I look for sources that would be in conflict. Because when you start to feel confident about something and your lens kind of gets a little bit too narrow, it's too easy to fit everything into the existing story. And so part of the time that you spend consuming information—not other people's content, but information like original source stuff—is to see what else is available. So you can make the comparison between what you think you know and then what has been expressed. And then the ultimate representation of what is, is your experience as you interact with other people as you apply it, and that's going to be the best answer as to whether you're on the right path or not. Because, I mean, it's so easy even for me to feel like I have something right, and it feels good all the time like, okay, put it together. Okay, I'm going to give everybody a book. Hang on. Oh, on being certain. There you go. It's by Robert Burton. Yeah, it's a really good book. I enjoyed it a great deal. So yeah, and that's the thing. That's one of those places where your confidence kind of comes from is this feeling, but I encourage everyone to challenge it whenever you can. Because, like I said, the thing that we do is nobody likes to be wrong. It's uncomfortable to be wrong. But it's important to be wrong sometimes. Safely, safely be wrong. Don't compromise someone else's safety or your own. So anyway, it's like awareness has a lot to do with it. I think that the more aware you are, and to never get so confident that you don't let your ego go unchecked. Egos are a very powerful tool; it's a very useful tool that allows you to do many great things, but left unchecked, leads to arrogance. And then that's dangerous.

Yeah.

There you go. That's what I wanted you to say. Think about this. So you put her in the water. She goes into foot contact and compresses. As she comes out of that foot contact, she's got to re-expand. Teach her how to re-expand herself in an anti or reduced gravity situation.

So it's easier to just have them in a wide stance because gravity is going to help them come down on that left side. Yeah. Okay. As opposed to trying to do a ground-based activity.

Yeah.

Okay. And then that, and that resolves it.

Well, it's very easy for a wide ISA because the sacrum is already nutated. And so there's an angle. So if this is the bottom of L5, yeah. And then this is the angle of the sacrum, I've already got this. So it's a little bit easier for them to capture that orientation. It's going to go from the pelvis upward, if you will.

But yeah, it's like you create the positions to create. And this goes back to that Cameron's question. It's like you're trying to create the path of least resistance so that the air will go where you want it to go and promote the expansion from the inside out. And one of the things that Terry loved was a toe touch variation, which inverts him and allows the representation of gravity inside the thorax to be flip flopped, right? So if I get you upside down, the top of the lung is now the bottom, the bottom is now the top. And so when you take a breath in, gravity makes the air go down, if you will. And so it fills up the upper aspect of the thorax. So we use that a lot. He loved it.

And could you have them like literally just take a breath in and then do the box squat and I'll get you some EP expansion that you can push off again. Yes, yes. Okay, cool.