December 30, 2008
YOUR SKILL VS TECHNOLOGY: WHY NEWTON SHOES DO NOT WORK FOR POSE RUNNING
A friend brought a pair of Newton running shoes one day and asked to check them out. Before handing them over, he explained that he already cut a chunk off both soles. Considering the price of $175 a pair, it was a painful experience. Having heard about runners "shaving" the soles of their shoes before, it wasn't much of a shock, it was more of a disappointment. The goal of this article is not to disqualify these shoes (this brand is not the only problem), but to simply show, yet again, that no technology, no shoe, no gadget can ever...
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December 23, 2008
SPEED SKATING with POSE METHOD
It's winter and it only makes sense to bring up the subject of winter sports and the techniques for such sports. We did skiing last week, let's move on to speed skating. While there is obviously room to discuss plenty more in skiing, we decided to focus on the fundamental part - technique. We'll do the same here. As mention in the Pose Skiing article, skiing has a lot in common with speed skating. Hence the choice of the topic for this week. Pose Speed Skating is obviously based on the general principles of the Pose Method® and is similar...
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December 16, 2008
CROSS COUNTRY SKIING with POSE METHOD
Cross country skiing has a 'traditional' || and 'ski skating' \ / techniques , where the latter one is considered to be the more efficient one. While there are differences between the two styles of skiing, the fundamental parts of movement are the same. Let's use the ski skating technique to look at what's going on in the technical department of skiing, since certain things are more obvious and easier noticed, while ski skating. While same things are happening in traditional skiing, as far as technique is concerned, they are less obvious there, as the straight || position of the...
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December 09, 2008
BODY MOVEMENT ON EARTH
Here on Earth, there are rules and regulations that were "written" by Nature and were in effect way before Adam and Eve came around. Many of those "rules and regulations" have to do with gravity and it's not a surprise, since gravity is the leading force in movement and in life. If gravity didn't work the way it does - none of us, not even the planets in our solar system would be here, or at least not in that shape and way. Is it not a puzzle that as powerful as gravity is, as omnipresent as it is and...
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December 02, 2008
WALKING DAILY - PAIN PREVENTION AND ALLEVIATION TIPS
Many of us can get away with lots of incorrectly performed movements during the day. But when any action is performed in an incorrect manner a thousand times, the negative effects will be felt, without a question. Let's take for example a person who has to walk miles and miles on a daily basis. While not too many of us would bother to even wonder, if there is a correct way to walk, somebody stomping out miles on a daily basis has already changed the shoes from casual to athletic and has been looking for other ways to better handle...
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