POSE METHOD AS A WAY OF MOVEMENT
QUESTION: One unanswered item from my post
"Marathon good, but when do I get my speed back?" is how can I work to use Pose effectively in sports such as football, soccer and basketball where starting, stopping, turning, and jumping are valued as much a raw speed?
My concern is that while I'm using Pose as much a possible when running straight, I'm doing things that are normally not desirable (braking, pushing off, landing in front of GCM, etc...) when I need to stop, turn, etc. While I understand that I need to come out of Pose to stop, after a quick turn for example, it takes a few steps to get back into Pose.
How can I make these transitions effective?
Regards,
Brian Bernsee
ANSWER: The question how to use
Pose Method in sports such as
football, soccer, basketball, volleyball, tennis where we have lots of stops, turns, changing direction of movement, is not new for me. I was involved in teaching of several of these events (soccer, volleyball) from early 80-th in Russia until the time I left to America.
The essence of movement, which I am describing in Pose Method of running, does not change from one event to the other, it’s the same movement within the gravity field, with the same laws of physics applied. Our understanding should come from these fundamentals, with the question of how to apply gravity in the best possible way to these seemingly different looking kinds of movement.
I am writing in my book about this and talk at my presentation on my running and triathlon clinics. There are two major rules, which we have to understand and execute here:
- Do not stop your movement, just redirect it.
- Do not create (avoid) a leverage (with your foot) or the arm force.
The meaning behind both of these rules is as follows:
do not work against gravity, but work with it. So it boils down to the questions of what are we supposed to do and what not.
We can start from “do nots” already known in Pose Method.
Don’t push off while you stop and turn, just change the direction of your movement. What you can do much easier, is change the support by pulling your foot from the ground. Remember, that before it you have to shift your body weight in the desirable direction, which means that you have to lean your body from one direction to the other by using your legs (feet) to support your action. Legs and muscles are playing a very simple role of transporters of your body weight from one direction to another.
Obviously, muscle strength and coordination are playing a very important role in it, but only an assisting role for the body “falling” in the different direction, where a stop, and a turn are all parts of the same process.
So the skill of movement in these events is the skill of redirecting the body fall quickly, and unpredictably by changing support and leaning in the direction of the move.
Dr.Romanov
