This was very informative! As a teacher, I have wrist discomfort outside my thumbs. All of these options are invaluable to me. I've had other teachers call me out for turning my hands out! Thank you!
Distribution of force is ideal, avoiding focus tension or compression, absolutely. The number one way to honor the body’s design is to find the natural (efficient, resilient!) arch in the hand. To do away with flattening the arch in the palm (forget index knuckle down!) which includes avoiding massive finger spreading which also flattens. Also wider plus turned out- turned out honors the fact that we don’t have 90 degrees of wrist flexion naturally and forcing that with the floor and fingers straight ahead takes the wrist beyond their range of integrity of force distribution. You can observe this by flexing your wrist in the air (without load) and seeing it’s not going to maid 90 degrees. It’s extremely rare to have that range, as nothing in our body is rectilinear or works like pivot points. I’ve seen students’ wrists have near miraculous immediate relief by angling, widening and bringing the natural arch back. You can observe the arch by relaxing your hand and holding your forearm vertical in front of you. We’re non linear! Once we under that all these adaptations are far more unified and intuitive- we don’t need to remember single issue cases, as they all come together in our spherical spiral nature.
Thx Jason! I have been learning from you for 20 years or more? love your teaching and your podcast you two are so real and helpful. Did I hear you were coming to Boston in April? I sure hope so ,love to take class, dar from CT
