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Date Posted: 09:34:20 06/18/00 Sun
Author: Peter
Subject: Our Bodies, Yourselves

Excuse the bad pun on the book title, but the subject is appropriate.

I did gymnastics in high school (this was long before the bionic sprites you've seen lately). There were moves I couldn't do and would try to learn. I would think I'm not x enough (strong, flexible, coordinated). In almost every case I was wrong about x. In one notable case I thought I was not strong enough when in fact I was not flexible enough. The problem with being wrong about x is you work on the wrong thing. x is not necessarily obvious and this is the role of a coach, to get you to work on 'the correct' x.

Since college I've done a lot of coaching/teaching of sports. I then learned the second point of the title, there are large variations in bodies and almost every person will interpret your direction differently. How you experience a movement is in almost every case not the way someone else experiences it. I won't go into war stories here but some are hysterical. The bottom line is the coach/teacher needs to vary the delivery of their message until the student understands. Aids and 'tricks' are sometimes helpful.

I mention these two 'learnings' because in these types of forums the difficulty caused by each is exaggerated.
Everyone has different views of x. Even different 'professionals' have different and often conflicting views of x. This is why I focus on sharing experiences. If something worked for you it might work for me and vice versa.

Communicating body positions/movements is the most difficult. One way around this is to develop a common vocabulary ala the book 'The Golf Machine' (TGM) or medical school/kinesiology descriptions. However it is unlikely that eveyone here has the time or the inclination to become experts in either. So the other option is to have clarifying exchanges until a common understanding is reached.

It may be that the best way to communicate wil violate some 'standard' definitions. I am not concerned with this as long as the message is getting across.

As I have just relearned for the nth time, what you think you're doing is not necessarily what you are doing. I would strongly recommend to everyone that they videotape themselves and correlate what they feel to what they see. Not to validate or invalidate either perspective, but just to understand.

Peter

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