Dear Anybody With a Spine, Dear Movement Teachers, Dear Pilates Industry, As some point, youre going to have to deal with reality. Bending your back under load, especially reversing the curves, is super bad for it regardless of why youre doing it, how youre doing it, how famous the person is whos telling you to do it or how famous the person is who youre watching do it. Does that cover everything? I hope so! This is anatomical reality that routinely appears in mainstream media (like the linked Yahoo article that was just sent to me - thanks Jane!) and at some point, youre going to have to accept it or risk being identified as unsafe by anyone who reads stuff like this and, by extension, realizes that youre not teaching in compliance with pedestrian-level spine safety information. If you dont accept and conform your teaching to this pedestrian level anatomical reality, youre just like the climate change deniers. If you dont accept and conform your teaching with every known spine safety standard, youre just like the ostrich who buries his head under the sand and thinks *the problem* has disappeared. When you ignore this type of pedestrian spine safety information, how are you demonstrating professionalism and how are you demonstrating that you are a safe teacher? How? Youre not. Dont be afraid - BE INFORMED! If you dont know this information or you know it but you dont know how to apply it to your teaching, its super easy to figure out. It only takes small changes to teach movement in compliance with every known standard of spine safety and if you know how to construct even the simplest search, you can learn how to do it FOR FREE ONLINE. For. Free. Online. Dr. McGill and a bunch of other experts all have tons of videos up plus, you can watch this one from not-an-expert me where I teach you - for free - about their suggestions and how to apply them to the most iconic Pilates exercises: https://vimeo/32061652. If you cant learn it on your own from free online resources, you can hire me to teach it to you. In a single day. For $300. Tuesday, January 13. Via SKYPE, for Christs sake! You CAN teach Pilates and not reverse curves under load. Any images you see where spines are bending under load are images of unsafe performance and of unsafe teaching. Those arent my rules. Those are the rules of the bones. Those are realities of every known spine safety standard. Get real. Get smart. Be safe. Thanks for listening & if you want to learn more, call or write. Im available for the rest of my life.
Posted on: Mon, 29 Dec 2014 20:13:45 +0000