'Low-gait' Squat (LGS) development
'Bipedal' locomotion: foundational patterns & conditioning
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3m 11s
THE WHAT:
'Low-gait': the bipedal world between standing and floor-entrance. These drills focus on the "deepest" range from which floor-entrance is most accessible - if the experience and mobility capacities are available. Whilst consistent practice of these drills will help DEVELOP those ranges, it is also part of a practice of MAPPING 'zero-points', forms which offer high TRANSITIONAL - and therefore movement - potential. A visualisation for this is of "nodes" in a join-the-dot picture, whereby the more dots/nodes/'zero-points' there are available, the more possibilities present themselves for movement complexity.
RESOURCE CONTENTS:
0:05 - 'Knee-kissing'
0:36 - Dragon-squat balance
1:13 - Low-gait balance: 12 o'clock (progression 1)
1:41 - Low-gait balance: 3 & 9 o'clock (progression 2)
2:13 - Low-gait balance: 6 o'clock (progression 3)
2:40 - Low-gait balance: around the clock (no pause between positions)
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