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Originally Posted by Lauren_
Can you elaborate a little on this? Sounds like really important stuff! Which movements?
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You know those cool-looking tick-tock movements where you angle each hip down alternately? Very back for your lower back and discs. I used to teach mayas with the heel up to start, then graduate to flat-footed to encourage use of abs and obliques to drive the movement rather than the legs. Also very bad for your lower back and hips. I'll be teaching an alternative to the tick-tock thing, and mayas will be taught with the heel up.
Other typical things that I don't do, but TONS of people adapt this bent-knee, pelvic tuck when dancing and it's very bad for your knees and lower back. It creates an imbalance in your quadriceps as the outside muscles gain more strength than the inner muscles and it pulls your kneecap outwards (kneecap is situated on top of these muscles). The pelvic tuck is often described as being done to help support the back, but that's gross ignorance. The back is supposed to be curved and keeping the pelvis tucked crushes the discs and grinds vertebrae together. You do not want to cause permanent damage to those discs, or it'll cause some serious irreversible (and painful) damage.
It's not that you can't tuck in your pelvis, but maintaining any posture too much is going to cause damage and/or discomfort.
Plus this whole - don't let your head move while your lower body does it's thing... also not good on your lower back or hips and it's much prettier to let your upper body dance too. All this jarring that's going on too... terrible whatever joint you're bashing into place.
The anatomy and safety was more thorough than my CanFit Pro training! You aren't forced to memorize muscle and bone names, but rather UNDERSTAND how they work and how they can be applied to dance in safe and effective ways.