To master effective movement, particularly when navigating tight spaces or positions, understanding the role of your hips is essential. In many situations, attempting to get through with your legs at a low position can feel awkward and limiting. This tutorial focuses on elevating your hips to create more room, making it much easier to transition through movements while reducing unnecessary strain on your body.
Start by practicing lifting your hips as high as possible before you make any leg movements. Instead of simply trying to maneuver your leg through a small space, focus on generating space by raising your hips. This elevation creates a comfortable gap underneath, allowing your leg to easily step through. As you become more comfortable with this technique, you can start to lessen the height of your hips, but initially, aim for a significant lift to feel the ease it brings to your movement. Adopting this method not only simplifies the process but also minimizes the need for extensive flexibility or mobility to achieve your goals.
In conclusion, the ability to elevate your hips can dramatically improve your movement efficiency. By prioritizing hip height, you create the necessary space to maneuver with confidence and ease. Embrace this technique, and you’ll likely find that not only is the movement smoother, but it also feels more natural and less physically demanding.
- Focus on lifting your hips high to create space before leg movements.
- Practice making the gap underneath bigger to ease transitions.
- Once comfortable, you can gradually lower your hips for more advanced movements.
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1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:04,000 all right so this session we're going to 2 00:00:03,000 --> 00:00:08,000 have a quick look at the hips so the 3 00:00:04,000 --> 00:00:09,000 point of this is going to be that you 4 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:13,000 want to try to get your hips nice and 5 00:00:10,000 --> 00:00:17,000 high so if you try to get through using 6 00:00:13,000 --> 00:00:20,000 this position you'll find it difficult 7 00:00:17,000 --> 00:00:22,000 to get that leg out what you actually 8 00:00:20,000 --> 00:00:24,000 want to do is try to push our hips up 9 00:00:22,000 --> 00:00:28,000 high first and then you have lots of 10 00:00:25,000 --> 00:00:31,000 space underneath you to get that leg out 11 00:00:29,000 --> 00:00:33,000 the more comfortable you get the smaller 12 00:00:31,000 --> 00:00:36,000 it can be but to begin with you really 13 00:00:33,000 --> 00:00:40,000 want to emphasize that gap get high and 14 00:00:37,000 --> 00:00:43,000 step through and down like a normal step 15 00:00:41,000 --> 00:00:45,000 fold but the idea being that bum and 16 00:00:43,000 --> 00:00:47,000 hips get nice and high get that room 17 00:00:45,000 --> 00:00:49,000 underneath you so you don't actually 18 00:00:48,000 --> 00:00:52,000 have to worry too much about mobility 19 00:00:49,000 --> 00:00:55,000 and flexibility it's just creating the 20 00:00:52,000 --> 00:00:55,000 space by raising hips