kinetic chains?

[timboura]

How do I go about linking biomechanical exercises into a kinetic chain. I have read Body Flow and I have been practicing the exercises(most of which I understand), but I do not understand how I go from one to another. I suppose most specifically, can I go from any BME to any other BME. And if so, should I just practice the induvidual BME's until I see where they connect?

[Scott Sonnon]

Every Biomechanical Exercise (BME) has three components: a beginning, a middle and an ending. You may Match, Patch or Hem these components together to string BMEs into a Kinetic Chain.

You may Match the ending component of one BME to the beginning component of another BME; for example, matching the Double Shin Roll into the Standing Shin Roll. The ending component of the DSR is the same as the beginning component of the SSR.

You may Patch in an additional component between the ending component of one BME and the beginning component of another BME; for example, patching the Quad Switch to a Leg Thread by adding the movement component of extending the legs into a prone position flattening the body to the ground.

You may Hem X number of components of one BME to Y number of components of another BME; for example, hemming the Neck Roll into a Lateral Shoulder Roll by stopping at the middle component of the Neck Roll (the Spinal Rock or yoga "plough" position) and moving into the middle component of the Lateral Shoulder Roll.

Understanding these three tools, one gains the ability to look at all human movement as strings of fluidly interchangeable Elementary Motor Components - one endless Kinetic Chain... and movement mastery begins.

[timboura]

Thank you for the help. I alredy have more ideas than I have time try. It seems so simple now, but I guess sometimes an inch might as well be a mile. I still don't quite comprehend some of the moves, I have plenty to work on until the video gets here.
thanks from the backwoods of PA, Tim

[Scott Sonnon]

You're most welcome Tim.

Just let it be simple. That's the problem. Flow is simpler than we allow it to be. The whole Body-Flow methodology simplifies unnecessarily complicated approach to movement. The BMEs look complicated not because they are, but because we are. In other words, the (learned) complexity filter we use to process information (sensory data) muddies the simple clarity with which we were designed to see.

Through physical practice and mental vigilance (to disallow distractions to our physical practice), we can remove that complexity filter, and reclaim our mastery as the natural athlete we all were as children.

Stay the course, and keep incremental.

[KAS]

Hi Coach,

Your comment reminds me of something I read in The Tao of Jeet Kune Do a few years ago. Lee said something the effect of, "we must not filter our experiences through an overt conceptual framework...only in abandoning the complexity that our minds provide will we see the world as it truly is...only then will we achieve formlessness"

This is what flow is all about it eh? I suspect that when someone describes themsleves as being "in the zone" they are just in a flow state. Certainly the optimal state of being for an athlete :D

-Kyle

[Scott Sonnon]

Many paths to the same summit.