Mapping - Contra from the SI Joint
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- One of the things we believe is
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- that movement comes from the center
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- and through the feet into the hips.
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- And so there's the foot center hip system, uh, as opposed
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- to being about the arms or even about the chest.
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- And I'm gonna give an example that has to do with contra.
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- And so if you watch me walk, the, the normal way
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- that people walk is something like this.
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- Is it not where,
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- and I'm, I'm gonna exaggerate when I say normal,
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- but, uh, many people will overdo the
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- contra from the low back.
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- And so here's a demo of, of what I'd say is the right first,
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- which I'd say their contra starting from the SI
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- joint in the hips.
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- And as an example, if instead of doing it in an SI joint,
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- I did it in my low back, that would look like this.
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- Or if we zoom in,
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- uh, a walk, that was from the, if I was pivoting, uh,
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- from my low back, then this is making my low back a joint.
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- But it really, its function is not
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- to be a primary point of pivot.
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- If instead I pivot by moving around my SI joint,
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- you get something like this and so does the back move?
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- Yes. But it's not about the low back moving,
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- it's about the change in the SI joint.
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- And so if I, I do this in slow motion with this close up,
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- then we have the, the, the bad looks like this.
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- Once again, look at my low back.
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- The bad is that and that,
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- or from another angle, this and this.
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- And the good is this
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- and this or
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- this and that.
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- And so one thing you can do as an exercise
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- is you can walk but put your hands on your SI joint.
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- And you don't have to do anything unnatural,
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- just walk normally, right?
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- You just walk and feel how it moves.
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- And you can realize that there's movement down here
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- and that's good and natural and powerful
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- because in general, the lower you
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- get the more powerful it is.
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- And then when you go to create contra, you can realize
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- that your contra can come from there,
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- that there's some amount of movement
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- that happens very low down.
