How to Demonstrate Torque

[jbooth]

There is a force by the front leg that contributes to the hip thrust prior to the front leg blocking.

You're going to have to explain that one better. I don't follow you. Contributes to which hip thrust, and when? How can the front leg do anything before it gets weighted, which is when my definition of block occurs. Maybe yours is different.

 

[softballphreak]

You're going to have to explain that one better. I don't follow you. Contributes to which hip thrust, and when? How can the front leg do anything before it gets weighted, which is when my definition of block occurs. Maybe yours is different.

Do the swing and focus your attention on the front leg (inner front thigh in particular). Feel what the muscles are doing. Feel the front knee help propel the hips before the knee straightens and blocks the forward momentum.

 

[Steve Huff]

- your front hip blows out and back....

This is what I have been trying to tell people for decades, and they tell me I have lying eyes!

 

[jbooth]

Do the swing and focus your attention on the front leg (inner front thigh in particular). Feel what the muscles are doing. Feel the front knee help propel the hips before the knee straightens and blocks the forward momentum.

Yeah, I agree, but that's the block. The "push" of push-block-push is the straightening of the knee. The "block" is the bent knee being firm after weight is on the foot. The hips instantly start to rotate when the front foot gets weighted, because it has blocked the forward momentum and turned it into angular. Yes, the hips turn before the leg straightens. The leg straightening finishes off the rotation. In fact, the rear leg push actually starts the rotation, it continues through heel plant, and finishes with the leg straightening.

 

[FiveFrameSwing]

JB ... I'm wondering if Phreak may be suggesting that the front femur externally rotates just ahead of the rear hip reversing direction going into 'front foot down'.