I am organizing a survey; how many of you have heard the term "stay on your toes all the time"? Well, I have and it has for sure caused some injuries. I want to draw your attention on one aspect in particular: the ready hop on the baseline. Looking at the Stroke Archive and thousands of HighSpeed clips of Fedi and Co., I have noticed something. As they touch down from the Ready-Hop, the whole lenght of the foot is contacting the ground. Where as I thought that it's better to not let the heal touch the ground, "on your toes", that is the mantra. Well, I can tell you from painful experince that taking this to the extrem is painful and counter productive. It puts a lot of stress on your knee and all the ligaments and tendons to push-off from this "on your toes" position.
Why are we all thaught to use your big muscles to push off in plyometrics. Use your gluts! And then we are taught to be on your toes all the time?
That being said, if you are moving latteraly, then you need to be on the balls of your feet, that at least I have seen on all the clips on this site.
I would be interested to know if some of you have had similar problems with injuries from pushing-off after the ready-hop.
Thanks,
gc
Why are we all thaught to use your big muscles to push off in plyometrics. Use your gluts! And then we are taught to be on your toes all the time?
That being said, if you are moving latteraly, then you need to be on the balls of your feet, that at least I have seen on all the clips on this site.
I would be interested to know if some of you have had similar problems with injuries from pushing-off after the ready-hop.
Thanks,
gc
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