05/27/2024
One of my favourite course deliveries sessions underway here in NYC in 2015. The four foot types...
🦶🏼Flat foot / Flexible
🦶🏾High arched / Rigid
🦶Flat foot / Rigid
🦶🏻High arched / flexible
The message is that pigeon-holing your foot type is not a useful way to approach working with a foot. They come in different shapes and sizes and we should have a thought process about working with anything we come across. It comes with time but we just need a place to start...
Turns out that where to start is often a case of either a) starting to teach a foot to pronate or b) teaching a foot to supinate (so that it has a better position to pronate from!
At the end of the day a foot must have the capcaity to both pronate and supinate if it's going to efficiently and effortlessly make it's way through the git cycle with approproate timing and connections made through the whole kinetic chain.
So try this ensuring a tripod is present throughout:
🦶🏼Flat foot / Flexible - PRONATE IT (so it can supinate in response)
🦶🏾High arched / Rigid - PRONATE IT (so it can rest in a less supinated position and have more mobility)
🦶Flat foot / Rigid - PRONATE IT (to mobilise the tissues) and SUPINATE IT (so the bones know where to go when they do supinate in response to the pronation)
🦶🏻High arched / flexible - (these often look flat and turned out, which i teach in other posts that that is a set up demanding to pronate better so - PRONATE IT! (to enable it make the most of that natural arch set up).
In our Closed Chain BIomechanics courses I teach you what a pronation is and how to go about ensuring a foot can pronate, what to look for from the toe all the way up to the pelvis and the same for foot supination too. Turns out it's so much more than an arch going up and down 🤫😉
