Is it a left knee?

Well, okay, that's my point. It's like, so the money is in the final representation, right? Like ultimately it's like, if I can capture that final representation regardless of archetype, I can be successful. However, not everybody's gonna do the, as you instruct them, they're not gonna get there the exact same way. And so there's gonna be a time where you're gonna say, oh, it doesn't matter whether I go first mid foot or heel first and that kind of thing. And then, you know what's gonna happen? I'm gonna tell you exactly what's gonna happen, okay? You're gonna do great on the right side. And then you're gonna get a wide ISA and they're gonna get a bunch of ER on the left side and you're gonna pat yourself on the back and they're gonna go zero on IR on the left side. That's what happens.

And that's your person who's stuck in end game?

Yeah.

So we're going from this to that. And then we'll go back.

He's probably going to shrug the crap out of it. Okay, which side? The left side.

No.

Just take two bands and strap her up like she's on a parachute.

Yeah.

From a solution standpoint, yes.

Okay.

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On it, okay. Cause yeah, they're almost at like 75, 80. So that starts to make more sense.

Yeah. Okay. So then I would like to touch on the connective tissue behavior just a bit.

Thank you, sir. Thanks so much.

Yep.

Right. And you're not.

Awesome. I just had one of those too.

You want to try it? You want to try it? Yes, of course I do. When you've got the left foot on the wall, cue them to drive the right knee harder. When you've got the right foot on the wall, cue them to drive the right elbow harder. I can remember that. Awesome. when I say, and then... It's a very small adjustment. It's a very small adjustment, but it will prevent, so sometimes when, and again, a lot of it has to do with how you set this thing up to make sure that they're not driving, because they will try to drive late propulsion on the left side when the left foot's on the wall, right? That's what they're gonna try to do. Right. Okay. If I drive the right knee just a little bit harder, even if they're using a compensatory strategy to get there, the compensatory strategy turns them to the left. As long as I capture my left foot cues, as long as I capture the left foot cues, I can't, it'll stop them from orienting.

That was really good. I really enjoyed that one.

Right.

There you go. So now I got a split squat. I use the same foot contacts as the cue. And then I just want to do the split squat. And I say, oh, she can or she can't. And then that allows me to select, do I need to do something else that might be less gravitational demand? Or is there something else I can do that's a little bit more complex like a split squat? And then you do what's meaningful to you. It's like, you can create anything that you want. Like people say, well, Bill, what tests do you do when you do an online assessment? I go, ah, you know, I just do what I need to do. Because whatever I need at the time. If you want to standardize something, you can do that too.

I'm falling.

I thought I was, but I'm not sure that I am because I don't want to check because that's direct access.

It is the muscles that are doing that.

Yeah.

Yes.

OK, yeah, because they'll just be orienting.

Well, not necessarily in end game. So, okay, let me take a wide ISA individual with a very long training history. Try to convert. Here you go. Dale, you ever try to convert a power lifter into an Olympic lifter?

Cause normally what I'm saying is over to the right.