Recent content by Brychanus

Yeah I think all this tinkering can help. The relationship of the coil & the stride off the rear foot & plant has so many challenges I still find it amazing people figure it out at all. You have to have "good enough" stuff going on in so many parts of the body & your posture and balance. It's...

This part also just triggered a memory SW shared with me a while ago. My "toe lead" still sucks and I tend to air on the side of flat-footed, but working on this has helped:

I think if I've learned anything, people learn good things in various ways from various people. I have benefitted from exaggerations or phrases or motions from other people even if I've moved on to other things myself. Since I have developed a persona of being a "form academic" at this point, I...

Use Youtube player, easier to manipulate framewise. I'll bite the bullet this time to help a lifter bro out. You are now getting taller in the "prep step" (good). Your Hershyzer posture in transition is trending a little better, however... (remember I am very much empathetic to your struggles...

This is just musing as usual: I don't know if this will actually help another human since like I say here I only intellectually "got it" after my body started to do it, which is always interesting. CoM rather than real mass stuff is understandably confusing to a lot of people but I had a rare...

Got it & love it again. Right now I'm getting a lot of sneaky momentum in the landing even when I'm going slow, so I'm extra motivated to keep at this to get pressure off the plant knee. Throwing at like 60% & this is strangely relaxing lol. 1. This is a little harder than the 2nd but...

I think these are all things you have cued recently so starting to tie them together: Mostly a rest day so I tried just a few at half speed trying to get the front leg to swing in underneath me unimpeded and "stick the landing" better so I can take some pressure off my my plant knee as the next...

You know this but for my & lurker benefit: It's bizarre to me how sometimes I "see" something in advanced form after we get my body to do a version of it. I think I "understand" "throwing with my center" much better than before. And I also understand why other people have trouble seeing it. GG...

Just some relatable thoughts on each: 1. Yes, yes, yes... whether you skip, run, hop, gallop, etc, prep step is a "risen" or "rising" step. Off camera I am often still doing bits of Kick the Can trying to figure out how to get the lower body and theoretical center where it needs to go, which...

Once in a while I recall SW saying "throw your thumb at the apex." That's still a nice simplifying thought even if the details vary, I think.

I was just trying to explain how to express multilevel crossed and nested models in R to PhD students, one with a sharp clinical background and one a sharp programmer. Even starting with a simple picture and the most basic line of code imaginable it took a good 15 minutes of sharpening up what...

I'm bringing a mosquito bomb next time I go camping. I still like camping, but I get crankier about the bugs over time. Front side is making progress. In standstills, gotta get you more "on top" of your rear leg walking your whole body back like Elephant walk or Reverse Stride or Double...

This all made me think about how I used to react to Cris Collinsworth commentating the NFL. There was a season or two where it was like he had just learned the phrase "RPO," and I swear I heard him say it several dozen times during every broadcoast. It probably wasn't that many, but it felt...

Need a break and probably wise to take it to the course next. This fella is on my mind. I'm not sure I'll ever get this high on my toes but posturally it seems like where this may be taking me, and in the ballpark of SW's last images of his own form.

Just a cross-reference that helped me - when you talk about "X-factor" in "inside swing" (~6:44) you can seek the same kind of coil and windup on only the front leg. Figuring out how to find it against the rear foot and also when standing or landing only on the front foot was very valuable in my...