In your post you said 'so it's better to land heel for contact sports'. I think he's saying no, nobody runs heel as it slows you down. That pose running has you leaning forward pushing your legs behind you with bent knees, hardwiring those mechanics would be detrimental to your boxing mechanics. Regular running has you taking longer strides with your head balanced more naturally so the mechanics have alot more in common with boxing mechanics.
He said pose running doesn't translate to contact sports, that's why I replied that landing on the heel doesn't either. I wasn't suggesting it's better, it was sort of a question. Neither has anything in common with boxing mechanics, boxing isn't running. But at least in pose running you'd be on your toes, that was the reason I thought scrap made no sense at all.
The main reason RDJ, is posture in relation to the Head. I was invited by the uni when they had a guy over giving a lecture and demonstration of the technique. As i understood it, it was about transferring the posture and head forward. So making your weight take you forward. Useing gravity to help and the knee lift to take you forward, you are falling in a way .
I think running mechanics have alot in common with boxing mechanics personally, especially sprinting. I was just saying what I thought Scrap was saying. I don't know how close I was though, it's fun guessing!
I try Actually I've got a question for you, your talk about oral stability has had me thinking, is there an exercise that you know of that can help with it or is it something you just have to always be conscious of when moving??
Like pose running that is a controlled fall, mechanically that has nothing to do with the upright position in boxing. I see very little similarities to be honest. Boxing is a constant shift of balance between the legs, movement goes in all directions. A sprint is a fall forward. I'm often guessing as well, most of the time I can see where it somehow could possibly make sense though It makes for interesting discussions :good
James Toney's weight issue could be head trauma related: [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8DXiCr3-jE&feature=player_embedded[/ame]
Lefty, look at any great sportsperson, they all have one thing in common, Oral Stabilty. Oral is above the kneck, the Head, posture comes from its position.Move it more than 15% the Head is not balanced neither is the rest of the Body, something is working overtime to rectify the problem. That and your dominant side is the foundation For 95% of injurys. More than 15% alters the the perception of the ocular cavity, more than 15% forward it stops the Dyaphram fromworking by 50%. Which starves the eyes from there primary energy supply oxygen. Theres more if you need it.
Yeah once I figured out what you meant by oral stability I started to watch what boxers were doing with their heads more closely and you can really see what that stability does for a fighter, it seems the better that stability the better the fighter. My question was more along the lines of what can be done to improve that, are there exercises or is it a predetermined thing in your opinion?
Another alternative is getting a bmx bike and finding a really steep hill. Go up and down a 300 yard hill on that bike about ten times. It also really works you're upper body as well because you're pulling and pushing with the handle bars. BRUTAL
Lately there are few things that I like better than a good run. It's hard to believe it makes you weak if you approach it properly. Curly i suggest a good track, i used to dread it but now I have this track full of hills alongside the beach. It made all the differance.