Yeah. It's like, what is contributing to whatever degree?

OK. Right. Okay. So then I think instead of talking about split, I think let's just talk about gait cause I talked about it a bit. Split squat, we talk about a lot on the network. So it's not an advertisement for that, but in the UHP plus we have like case studies. We have case study episodes, which are basically like a podcast series of you and I talking about different case studies. And we look at a lot of split squats. So we use that as a way, it's a pretty huge big bang for your buck. At this point, if I had to just look at one complex thing that someone would do, it would probably be that and maybe a toe touch. Check that out. A bunch of stuff with that. Like I said, free assessment course is going to be available soon. It has a big split squat part in it. Let's talk about walking. Let's talk about what people seem to care about when it comes to gait analysis and walking, and then I think what people should actually be paying attention to when they watch someone walk?

Walking is a common representation of all the phases of propulsion. Propulsion is moving forward through space in contact with the medium, whether it's your own body, water, or the ground. If we examine complex movements, we can generally understand a person's capabilities. Then, in a more dynamic context like walking, where rate is more influential, we can observe differences in foot contact with the ground and knee orientations. This magnifies compensatory strategies similar to those seen in complex movements. Most people without extensive experience observing gait don't benefit greatly from walking analysis unless looking for specific isolated issues like foot shape or ground contact that emerged from complex movements. Walking is easier to use for that purpose. Once you have an evolved perspective, understand table tests and complex movements, and train your eye over time, walking analysis has greater value because it saves time—you can identify things during initial walking that confirm your assessment. People get excited about gait analysis, but there's a lot to learn in pieces. Table tests emphasize certain areas, whereas walking requires observing the entire body moving through space at a certain rate, which is much harder to see.

Yeah, and I think a lot of people, when they sign up for like a gait analysis course, they're really paying attention to these like diagnoses that you would see like Trendelenburg gait or what are some of the other names that you typically see for in gait analysis for compensation or compensated gait.

Well, you'll see like, you know, sort of like ad, they would call like adducted, right? Where there's a lot of movement, movement towards midline.

Or someone like, oh, you walk duck footed or you're a toe walker. These like, these sort of like really vague diagnoses, right?

Medial lateral whips, which are just representations of compensatory ERs and IRs depending on where they show up.

Up slips and down slips get talked about a lot in gait.

You probably won't, I mean, you could see it reinforced. But not necessarily directly. I think one of the biggest things that gets totally ignored is thorax and upper extremity. It's very difficult to find a book on locomotion that takes the thorax and upper extremity into great consideration.

Yeah.

But, not necessarily directly. I think one of the biggest things that gets totally ignored is thorax and upper extremity. It's very difficult to find a book on locomotion that takes the thorax and upper extremity into great consideration. Yeah. Like most of your EMG stuff is going to be all lower extremity. And that's unfortunate because the thorax becomes a very integral part of what you're going to be seeing in the lower extremity because there are mirrors of what's actually going on.

Yeah, everything is just about the foot and the leg and the pelvis.

Like most of your EMG stuff is going to be all lower extremity. And that's unfortunate because the thorax becomes a very integral part of what you're going to be seeing in the lower extremity because there are mirrors of what's actually going on.

Yeah, because we're not really going to be able to answer anyone watching this being like, oh, Bill is going to teach me about gait analysis. It's not really about that. It's more like we're trying to offer the perspective of being able to zoom in and out on movement and movement assessment. Just in relating this back and analogizing the complex movements, you have the zoomed out version, which is the appendicular and axial together, and then you have the zoomed in version, which is the actual representation. The same thing is true when you're watching someone walk and gait; you will develop based on what we learn and the assessments and what we expect from different movements this sort of eye—what you're talking about, coach's eye—for what should be happening as the foot interacts with the ground, the wave of motion of rotation that should go up through the body and then back down through the body. So understanding that, you know, you have the wheel and the hub—so the pelvis being like the hub of this movement system and then the wheel being the extremities, those sort of lagging behind the movement. So it is complex and it is a pretty difficult thing to be able to kind of look at without experience or just a general understanding of what is going on and what we expect.

Right. Well, you have to understand what the options are in an ideal circumstance first. Because if you don't have an expectation of what the options provide, you don't have anything to compare to. Now, you might see things. You might be able to recognize something, but you wouldn't understand it sufficiently. If you see a lateral heel whip in somebody that's walking, that's an IR compensatory strategy through the actual skeleton that's actually creating that. Right? If I see a medial heel whip, that's somebody that lacks the late external rotation means they'd rather be weight bearing on that leg than trying to propel forward off of it. And it's like, so there is clarity of understanding, but you have to be able to understand what would that table test look like? Okay, well, what would that look like in a standing rotation test? And then I can say, oh, now I can see how I can recognize this in a much more dynamic environment like walking, which is again, it's a very high rate of movement, which makes it more difficult to see. Just like anything else, it is experiential. You do have to spend time looking at a lot of things, making a lot of comparisons so that you do understand what you're actually seeing.

Yeah.

And it's like, so, so there is there is clarity of understanding, but you have to be able to understand what would that table test look like? Okay, well, what would that look like in a standing rotation test? And then I can say, oh, now I can see how I can recognize this in a much more dynamic environment like walking, which is, again, it's a very high rate of movement, which makes it more difficult to see. Just like anything else, it is experiential. You do have to spend time looking at a lot of things, making a lot of comparisons so that you do understand what you're actually seeing.

Right. Understanding the 30,000-foot perspective, the sum of the parts, the potential for different places that the compensation is coming from as well. It's like an IR compensator strategy isn't always going to be addressed at one spot in the body. It could be showing up somewhere else. But understanding the rules, that's kind of why you teach the UHPC model the way you do, where everyone has to understand the principles and concepts first. Because a big problem with all of these biomechanics experts and courses out there is that they're trying to get you to the point of a veteran experience practitioner in an eight-week course. And that's literally impossible to do. Because they're generalizing everything. They're saying that, OK, well, if you see someone walk with this strategy, it's an IR compensation. So they're lacking IR. And they need to work on their hip internal rotation. It's like, no, that's probably not right. Maybe, maybe that'll get you there. But it's like where it's like understanding n equals one, each person has their own structural bias, where that person is within their base of support, what movement strategies and behaviors they use to get to that place. And then it's being able to reorganize that person to move forward with them instead of just giving everyone the same exact three exercises to try to get IR back with 90% of those people creating another compensatory strategy on top of the ones that they already had, and then washing your hands of it if it doesn't work. Just blame it on somebody, kick the can down the road to somebody else. Okay, I think we accomplished what we were trying to accomplish. What do we gotta do, question? I don't know, no one really answered the last one, so I don't know if anyone's washing to the end again. If you're watching, leave a comment on YouTube. because it helps drive traffic and it also lets us know that people are actually watching to the end. I want to know people's coffee orders. What do you order when you go to the coffee shop? How ridiculous is your order?

Is it like? No idea.

I usually do very simple, I have very simple orders. I'll do like a flat white with cinnamon.

I don't even know what that means. I don't even know what a flat white means.

It's all about the ratio of foam to milk when it comes to these lattes, flat whites, cortados, macchiato.

I know how to make my own coffee.

You push a button and water comes through the beans.

Yeah, it goes through the stuff and then it makes coffee.

You get all those beautiful microplastics. Try it. Yeah. That's what creates longevity, right?

There are preservatives, right?

Yeah, there you go. Preserving. OK, so yeah, leave your coffee order more complicated the better. I want to hear someone's nine-ingredient coffee order from Starbucks that ends up being $13. Those are my favorite. Like you bought a, you went to get a coffee that was $13. That's impressive.

People think walking is complicated. It's like some of these coffee orders are kind of ridiculous.