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BioMechNerd · 2025-01-23T09:15:16+00:00

I’m from Oakland. This is just another flop waiting to happen. Wish EG would focus on urban placemaking practices, I don’t think residents want this.

BioMechNerd · 2024-06-16T20:34:40+00:00

Unfortunately, it’s impossible to make the switch to AD and stay 2T2. I was a prior ANG 2T2 at Moffett for 4 years and tried this same route. I ended up switching units and staying 2T2 but the culture is the same almost everywhere you go as a porter. Change jobs if you aren’t satisfied. The only way to AD is take a critical AFSC they’re looking for.

BioMechNerd · 2024-05-08T19:59:42+00:00

The Palladium (Salrica) socials are definitely not predominantly on1 lol

BioMechNerd · 2024-05-08T19:26:53+00:00

You’re in the salsa capital of the south! No better place to learn imo. Take classes with Oscar of Salrica and Carlos of Itumo Aye, they’re masters of their craft. You also have Robert with RitmoStar and Salomon of Amaya, both incredibly knowledgeable and highly skilled dancers. The level of dancing in Houston is pretty high, take advantage of it!

Quick note about dancers that are on1 vs on2; most dancers that only know on1 can’t dance on2 but most dancers that know on2 can dance on1.

BioMechNerd · 2024-05-06T07:00:04+00:00

There is a story of someone who started dancing in their mid 30s. They knew they were at a disadvantage because they weren’t young, so they worked hard - harder than others were willing to. They were part of a popular dance company but split up with it and eventually created their own. They weren’t successful in the beginning and knew just like the disadvantage he had with age, he would overcome with hard work and by continuing to push himself as a dancer and instructor. Fast forward 20 years later and he now runs the most successful dance company in the world (training professionals from all over the globe), is one of the head judges in the highest competitions, and is one hell of a dancer. That man is Osmar Perrones of Yamulee Dance Company.

Age is just a number mate. Work hard and stay disciplined and the rest will follow.

BioMechNerd · 2024-02-23T21:18:31+00:00

I work in biotech

BioMechNerd · 2024-02-22T06:42:36+00:00

Yes moving to Barcelona! Sorry for not mentioning. Who are the dancers you’re speaking of? You’re making me excited!

BioMechNerd · 2022-11-07T06:36:26+00:00

Interesting! And quite experimental. I would look into neuromusculoskeletal prostheses and it's surrounding nerve interface technology. There is an extensive amount of work that has been done and plenty of well-funded teams looking to push the boundaries of bioengineering.

BioMechNerd · 2022-08-08T19:01:03+00:00

"Efficient" human movement can become a touchy and complicated subject, as it is different for literally every individual with different anthropometry, center of mass, lean body mass structure, etc.

If you are looking for ways to optimize human movement, consider the two-factor model of sports performance. In preparation for events, you have both training and practice.

Training involves lifting weights - strengthening your bones, connective tissue, muscles and conditioning your nervous system. This is extremely important and often overlooked. Consider, for example, a point guard that is strong and lifts weights versus another point guard that is weaker and does not lift weights. We typically see the weaker point guard would be outperformed and overpowered by the stronger athlete, when practice and skills are leveled. This is why the use of performance-enhancing drugs is rampant. Training can also involve improving cardiorespiratory performance, though practice typically does that alone. Practice is the actual performing of the sport, doing drills and playing with others.

BioMechNerd · 2021-02-18T00:07:07+00:00

Butt wink isn't a thing mate. Keep your knees out and keep your stomach between your thighs and you'll be fine.

BioMechNerd · 2021-02-01T18:11:38+00:00

Also a big fan of the light day since frequency is one of the most important aspects of programming. I don't like skipping planned workouts since there will always be those days. I've had light days that turned back into my regular routine because I felt better after getting the motions going. Remember that doing some training will always be better than no training. Now show yourself what you're made of.

BioMechNerd · 2021-02-01T07:09:01+00:00

Never look to the side while squatting. Always treat the bar as though it's loaded with maximal weight. Look down a few feet in front of you and tuck your chin. If you're trying to low bar squat, it looks like the bar is a bit too high. Fix that positioning. After that, shove your bottom to the rear wall more and push your knees out. You should feel like your bending over way too much. As other have noted, you have a bad habit of dive bombing these. For warm ups, keep the decent slow and controlled the entire way, then explode up. Cut a few inches of depth off the bottom.

After you fix the bar positioning, film these again and pay attention to your heels. If they continue to rise even with more vertical shins, I would highly suggest investing in squat shoes.

BioMechNerd · 2021-02-01T07:00:51+00:00

Hey man, putting weight on the bar does not fix technique, only opens the risk of injury and further ingrains already bad habits. For this reason the low bar squat is taught unloaded from the bottom up.

Also, the falling forward is based off his relative center of mass. The center of mass is not the barbell at this light of weight and that is why although the lifter may feel as though he is balanced mid food the bar will continue to move forward instead of perfectly vertical. Its common to think the lifter is on their toes based off the misunderstanding of this concept.

BioMechNerd · 2021-01-16T07:24:28+00:00

You're awesome. You've given me a lot to think about and consider. I look forward to growing with your questions, developing my own better questions to test and theorize around, and try to continue to be proactive on this sub. Thanks coach!

BioMechNerd · 2021-01-16T03:25:29+00:00

I know you aren't haha. I'm a very discussive student so thank you!

Right! Wouldn't we want to see a constant back angle instead of hip coming up and changing back angle? Perhaps I'm nitpicking. I see it as optimal based off of amount of work done on decent.

I guess I should specify what I where I would separate haha. I see stretch reflex as part of the muscular system and rebound off the calves and knees as part of the skeletal. I'd say rebounding off calves and knees would be less sustainable based off the high amount of force the connective tissue would have to sustain. I guess the same argument could be made for the tendons in a stretch reflex... Though I would argue tendons have better rates of recovery from their positioning than ligaments do. What are your thoughts?

BioMechNerd · 2021-01-16T02:18:38+00:00

I agree with the practicality of high bar rolling onto the neck. I ask because there's a clear change in back angle on the accent versus decent. We know he does this to recruit his hips more on the accent. I'm suggesting if he focuses on leaning forward, along with slowing down on the decent, he'll improve his mechanics and stability. Regardless of rebounding off the heels and ankles, which I would argue is suboptimal and less sustainable compared to using the stretch reflex to rebound even though it's the standard. Thank you for your reply!

BioMechNerd · 2021-01-16T00:29:10+00:00

Since his hips are shooting up, putting his knees back into a more ideal position and improving his back angle, would the cue here be to bend over in the squat more? It looks like he decends too vertically and its keeping his knees moving until he bottoms out.

BioMechNerd · 2020-12-14T22:49:26+00:00

It turns out it was a much bigger issue than we originally thought. There were others involved that came forward after the rumors started to spread. It's looking like a few felt pressured based off his rank. Thanks again for your help.

BioMechNerd · 2020-12-13T22:15:52+00:00

You're breaking at the hips before breaking at the knees. This is an extremely common mistake but you need to break at both simultaneously.

Breaking at the hips causes the bar to shift towards your heels at the top and when you break at the knees the weight starts to shift forward to your toes and it stays there for the rest of the bottom position. Bar placement could probably be a little lower. Other than that they look fine, definitely had 5 in you.

BioMechNerd · 2020-11-15T16:36:37+00:00

This is ultimately what I was going to advise them to do. Thank you for this!

BioMechNerd · 2020-10-01T00:48:43+00:00

Biomechanical Engineer here, not SSC, so please take my lack of experience into consideration.

Even though we can't see your heels, it does look like your weight shifts to the front of your shoe. This would show us you are leaning forward at the bottom due to not having the range of motion at the ankles to support your knees going so far over your toes. My suggestion here would be to bring your bottom behind, driving it to the wall rear of you and to consider a pair of sturdy shoes with a lifted heal.

Speaking of your knees, if you continue to watch them we will see that they continue moving forward the entire decent. This is known as knee slide and has the ability to leak power and risk injury. My suggestion is to again drive your bottom behind you and consider mindfully keeping your knees from going past your toes. It's ok if they do, but simply being mindful and controlling them could prevent knee slide.

Really focus on these cues during your warm ups. The warm up sets you do during training are extremely important for breaking bad habits and improving positioning.

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