WEBVTT - Listener Mail: Spin Kick! 0:00:02.960 --> 0:00:05.280 Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind, a production of 0:00:05.360 --> 0:00:10.719 My Heart Radio. Hey, welcome to Stuff to Blow your 0:00:10.760 --> 0:00:13.440 Mind Listener Mail. My name is Robert Lamb and I'm 0:00:13.480 --> 0:00:16.000 Joe McCormick, and today we're bringing you a mail bag 0:00:16.040 --> 0:00:18.600 that is mostly about our two part episode about humans 0:00:18.600 --> 0:00:22.520 spinning around in circles. That's right, Spin Kicks, Spin Kicks. 0:00:22.680 --> 0:00:25.800 A surprising number of people had had really intense thoughts 0:00:25.800 --> 0:00:28.960 and feelings about spinning. Yeah, yeah, I was really pleased 0:00:28.960 --> 0:00:31.200 with the crop we were able to bring in off 0:00:31.280 --> 0:00:33.400 this one, and Carney the mail bod has been pleased 0:00:33.400 --> 0:00:36.639 as well. Carney has been spinning NonStop since these came in, 0:00:38.720 --> 0:00:41.920 that's true, and I've been quite mesmerized by the undulations 0:00:41.960 --> 0:00:44.720 of his skirt made out of wires and drive chains. 0:00:45.080 --> 0:00:47.879 All right, well, he's spinning spinning our way here. Um, 0:00:53.040 --> 0:00:54.880 I guess I'll go ahead and read this first listener 0:00:54.920 --> 0:00:56.680 mail that he has for us. This comes to us 0:00:56.800 --> 0:01:00.200 from Hannah, Hi, Robert, and Joe. I was so honor 0:01:00.280 --> 0:01:03.320 that my previous email helped partially inspire such an interesting 0:01:03.320 --> 0:01:05.600 pair of episodes, like a Circle in the Spiral Parts 0:01:05.600 --> 0:01:08.200 one and two. It made my day so much brighter. 0:01:09.040 --> 0:01:11.960 From the minute the episode started, I was waiting eagerly 0:01:12.000 --> 0:01:14.800 for you to mention spotting. In my personal experience, it 0:01:14.800 --> 0:01:18.280 makes a huge difference in preventing dizziness while turning, lessening 0:01:18.280 --> 0:01:20.800 the recovery needed for a long sequence of turns to 0:01:20.920 --> 0:01:24.440 maybe a few seconds at worst. However, maybe even more importantly, 0:01:24.480 --> 0:01:27.319 it helps to maintain balance in pirouettes and other one 0:01:27.400 --> 0:01:30.560 legged turns. Often the most challenging part of a long 0:01:30.600 --> 0:01:33.080 turn sequence is trying to stay on balance to not 0:01:33.280 --> 0:01:35.920 fall out of the movement. Focusing on a single point 0:01:35.959 --> 0:01:39.840 not only keeps you from getting as busy from the spinning, 0:01:39.840 --> 0:01:42.240 but but it's also a trick that can be used 0:01:42.280 --> 0:01:46.440 in stationary balances to help stabilize. Um. You know this 0:01:46.520 --> 0:01:48.760 is this is something that is a great point because 0:01:48.760 --> 0:01:50.800 it does come up in in yoga, for instance, So 0:01:50.840 --> 0:01:54.080 when you're doing balancing poses, it's often been pointed out 0:01:54.120 --> 0:01:56.440 to me by yoga teachers that you know, you need 0:01:56.480 --> 0:01:59.280 to focus on a point to help maintain your balance, 0:01:59.760 --> 0:02:01.240 and and I was I did that for years, but 0:02:01.280 --> 0:02:03.280 then another teacher was like, don't just focus on a 0:02:03.360 --> 0:02:05.920 point while you're doing a uh, you know, a standing 0:02:05.960 --> 0:02:11.760 balancing post. Focus on a vertical line, and I found 0:02:12.000 --> 0:02:14.200 that that seemed to work. I I don't you know, 0:02:14.240 --> 0:02:16.400 I have no empirical studies here on my part, but 0:02:16.560 --> 0:02:19.000 that seemed to work even better than focusing on a point. 0:02:19.040 --> 0:02:22.480 If I could find like a line in some tiles, 0:02:22.680 --> 0:02:25.760 or a line on a door seal, something like that, 0:02:26.000 --> 0:02:28.440 it helps me maintain my my balance a lot better, 0:02:28.720 --> 0:02:31.480 you know, assuming my balance isn't out of whack due 0:02:31.480 --> 0:02:33.880 to lack of sleep or something. I wonder if that 0:02:33.919 --> 0:02:37.680 has anything to do with the one of the rationales 0:02:37.720 --> 0:02:39.639 for dizziness that we talked about in the first part, 0:02:39.639 --> 0:02:43.000 which is the nastagma's issue, dizziness caused by the rapid 0:02:43.040 --> 0:02:46.000 adjustment back and forth of the eyes. Like maybe a 0:02:46.080 --> 0:02:51.840 vertical line helps keep that forestalled better than a point would. Yeah, alright, 0:02:51.880 --> 0:02:55.200 so Hannah continues, uh quote. I also had some thoughts 0:02:55.200 --> 0:02:58.760 about children spinning and spotting. In my experience teaching dance 0:02:58.800 --> 0:03:01.120 to children, I found that one of the techniques that 0:03:01.160 --> 0:03:03.519 it takes the longest for young dancers to grasp is 0:03:03.639 --> 0:03:06.840 learning to spot. For my youngest students, I would often 0:03:06.880 --> 0:03:08.800 take something big and bright on the wall to give 0:03:08.840 --> 0:03:12.040 them an easier place to focus, but mostly it's reminding 0:03:12.639 --> 0:03:15.120 and encouraging them to slow down and focus on one 0:03:15.160 --> 0:03:17.840 part at a time. I mostly chalk up this challenge 0:03:18.000 --> 0:03:20.680 to a combination of still developing motor skills and coordination, 0:03:21.280 --> 0:03:23.160 but I think it also has quite a bit to 0:03:23.160 --> 0:03:25.240 do with the fact that spinning really fast and getting 0:03:25.280 --> 0:03:30.160 really dizzy is fun, at least for children. Yes, I 0:03:30.200 --> 0:03:32.360 wanted to end on two quick things. One is a 0:03:32.400 --> 0:03:35.360 sort of folk tip for recovering from spinning related dizziness. 0:03:35.760 --> 0:03:38.840 Make your hands into a blade shape and lay your 0:03:38.960 --> 0:03:42.720 thumb along your nose in between your eyebrows, so your 0:03:42.720 --> 0:03:45.480 hand becomes a barrier between your eyes. I don't know 0:03:45.520 --> 0:03:48.200 exactly why it helps, but my guess is that it 0:03:48.360 --> 0:03:52.120 maybe helps your eyes recover from the no stagmus. I 0:03:52.200 --> 0:03:54.880 learned this way back when I was a young dancer 0:03:55.000 --> 0:03:58.520 just learning to spot. Last, but not least, here's just 0:03:58.560 --> 0:04:01.040 a YouTube video with a lot of well executed turns. 0:04:01.080 --> 0:04:04.840 It's a video from Pacific Northwest Ballet of a rehearsal 0:04:04.920 --> 0:04:07.440 for Swan Lake. As you may know from the movie 0:04:07.480 --> 0:04:11.640 Black Swan, Swan Lake has an infamous thirty two foete 0:04:11.880 --> 0:04:15.760 turn sequences, which is incredibly difficult even for the most 0:04:15.800 --> 0:04:19.080 talented ballerinas. That that he also has a bonus of 0:04:19.160 --> 0:04:23.760 some wicked fast p K and Shinna turns near the end, 0:04:23.880 --> 0:04:25.920 and they include a link for us. But I imagine 0:04:25.960 --> 0:04:29.280 people can maybe just do a search for Pacific Northwest 0:04:29.360 --> 0:04:32.280 Ballet Swan Lake and you can get all the spinning 0:04:32.320 --> 0:04:35.400 you could possibly want. I watched, I watched the video. 0:04:35.440 --> 0:04:38.520 It is incredibly impressive, as with all the spinning stuff 0:04:38.560 --> 0:04:41.400 we've been watching. I'm yeah, I couldn't do that. I 0:04:41.440 --> 0:04:45.279 have no idea how people do. Hannah closes out by saying, 0:04:45.320 --> 0:04:47.480 thanks so much for an awesome show. Always look forward 0:04:47.480 --> 0:04:49.760 to its showing up in my feet. Well that's really interesting. 0:04:49.760 --> 0:04:57.320 Thanks for getting in touch, Hannah. Okay, so this next 0:04:57.360 --> 0:05:03.320 message comes from Cassidy. Are you ready? I'm ready, Cassidy says, Hey, guys, 0:05:03.680 --> 0:05:05.560 I've never really had a reason to write into you 0:05:05.640 --> 0:05:08.080 until now. I just listen to the first part of 0:05:08.120 --> 0:05:10.880 the like a Circle in a Spiral episode and wanted 0:05:10.920 --> 0:05:14.120 to share my experience. I work in a research lab 0:05:14.240 --> 0:05:19.480 studying suspected hearing genes using zebra fish as a model organism. 0:05:19.520 --> 0:05:23.719 This also includes genes affecting the vestibular system. Zebra Fish 0:05:23.760 --> 0:05:27.160 inner ears are actually very similar to human inner ears. 0:05:27.600 --> 0:05:30.480 They also have the utricle and the saccule, and I've 0:05:30.480 --> 0:05:34.080 had to dissect these. We made a crisper mutant that 0:05:34.120 --> 0:05:39.359 has progressive vestibular phenotype as juvenile slash adults. Because of 0:05:39.400 --> 0:05:42.119 the mutations, they can't get their bearings in the water, 0:05:42.279 --> 0:05:46.400 so they're constantly spinning. The vestibular slash hearing system and 0:05:46.440 --> 0:05:49.159 fish is very important as it allows them to orient 0:05:49.279 --> 0:05:52.560 themselves in the water and since vibrations or movements in 0:05:52.560 --> 0:05:54.800 the water around them. If you'd like a video of 0:05:54.800 --> 0:05:57.440 the vestibular phenotype and fish, I would be happy to 0:05:57.440 --> 0:05:59.960 share it with you. I love your podcast. I frequent 0:06:00.160 --> 0:06:02.400 listen while I'm working in the lab. It made me 0:06:02.480 --> 0:06:05.080 so excited to hear something relevant to my work from you. 0:06:05.200 --> 0:06:09.280 Huge thanks, Cassidy. Wow, that's really interesting. Yeah, Cassidy, yep. 0:06:09.520 --> 0:06:11.600 Please send us more about your research. I'd I'd love 0:06:11.640 --> 0:06:18.640 to know more about it, all right. This next one 0:06:19.000 --> 0:06:22.000 comes to us from Jonathan Quote. As a person who 0:06:22.040 --> 0:06:24.919 has studied the Sufis and their methodology for forty years, 0:06:24.960 --> 0:06:27.920 I was impressed, as usual by your objective and open 0:06:27.960 --> 0:06:31.279 minded take on the whirling dervishes. I think it's important 0:06:31.320 --> 0:06:36.120 to understand, though, that the jalah udin Rumi, the punative 0:06:36.160 --> 0:06:39.200 founder of the order, wrote that the practice of spinning 0:06:39.240 --> 0:06:43.040 was something he prescribed especially for the people of Connie A, Turkey, 0:06:43.080 --> 0:06:46.480 where he taught for that particular time in history. It's 0:06:46.480 --> 0:06:51.360 not a perennial or integral part of Sufi methods of development. Interestingly, 0:06:51.480 --> 0:06:53.839 Joe is spot on when he discussed the visual effect 0:06:53.920 --> 0:06:56.880 of the spinning robes, since the Sufis assert that the 0:06:56.880 --> 0:06:59.840 practice of whirling was as much, if not more, for 0:07:00.080 --> 0:07:04.080 effect it had on the spectators. In thirteenth century Turkey, 0:07:04.200 --> 0:07:08.160 there were limited methods of provoking alterations and people's consciousness 0:07:08.160 --> 0:07:11.680 and viewing and concentrating on the whirling under the right 0:07:11.760 --> 0:07:16.680 circumstances was one that was used. Throughout the centuries, the 0:07:16.720 --> 0:07:20.520 Sufis have continually utilized the methods and terminology of their 0:07:20.560 --> 0:07:25.360 contemporary environment to project their teachings. I'm confident that they 0:07:25.400 --> 0:07:28.280 would easily adapt to the terminology that you too often 0:07:28.400 --> 0:07:31.560 use and say that in one sense, the Sufis aim 0:07:31.680 --> 0:07:35.920 to establish a voluntary, manual override over the default mode network. 0:07:36.400 --> 0:07:40.640 That ability provides a person with an additional dimension of freedom, volition, 0:07:40.760 --> 0:07:44.360 and understanding in a much wider sense. A good source 0:07:44.400 --> 0:07:46.840 for anyone interested in the subject is the book The 0:07:46.880 --> 0:07:50.880 Mind Field by the prominent psychologist Robert Ornstein. I know 0:07:50.960 --> 0:07:53.680 it's a cliche, but keep up the great work, Jonathan 0:07:54.280 --> 0:07:57.960 and cliche are not. Yeah, we we love to hear uh. 0:07:58.080 --> 0:08:00.400 We would love to get that positive reinforcement from from 0:08:00.400 --> 0:08:02.800 you guys that the listeners. Um, I'd say some of 0:08:02.840 --> 0:08:05.320 the main place we get positive reinforcement regarding the show. 0:08:05.400 --> 0:08:08.960 So so keep it going. It keeps us energized, you know. Uh. 0:08:09.360 --> 0:08:12.080 But along the same lines, you know, at anytime there's 0:08:12.080 --> 0:08:15.160 any criticism or correction, we also depend on that as well. 0:08:15.320 --> 0:08:17.800 Totally alright, Joe, are you ready for some spin kicks 0:08:17.800 --> 0:08:25.720 because I think Carney's coming in with intention now. Oh, 0:08:25.880 --> 0:08:29.400 we got several messages about spin kicks, So this first 0:08:29.400 --> 0:08:34.319 one comes from g G says, Hello, guys, I was 0:08:34.360 --> 0:08:37.679 pleasantly surprised and excited when you guys touched on fighting 0:08:37.760 --> 0:08:40.880 in your Like a Circle episode. Finally something I can 0:08:40.920 --> 0:08:43.800 contribute to. I compete in M M A and my 0:08:44.000 --> 0:08:48.120 one knockout just from a spinning sidekick, and he attaches 0:08:48.120 --> 0:08:50.920 an Instagram link. I went and looked up the video 0:08:51.000 --> 0:08:54.680 and yes, it it is pretty brutal. G knocked somebody 0:08:54.679 --> 0:08:58.160 out by a move that includes spinning around once and then. 0:08:58.280 --> 0:09:01.760 A sidekick is a a pushing motion with the leg 0:09:02.080 --> 0:09:04.960 as opposed to like a swinging motion, if that makes 0:09:04.960 --> 0:09:07.080 any sense. It's like a thrust, a thrust of the 0:09:07.080 --> 0:09:09.959 foot as opposed to like a you know, a glancing 0:09:10.200 --> 0:09:13.160 blow or you know, swipe of the foot. Right now, 0:09:13.640 --> 0:09:15.840 she is responding in part two when we talked about 0:09:16.120 --> 0:09:19.120 a kick by a fighter named Joaquin Buckley that is 0:09:19.160 --> 0:09:22.040 a spin kick that was just absolutely brutal, like made 0:09:22.040 --> 0:09:25.760 the head snap back and uh. He says that his 0:09:25.840 --> 0:09:28.079 kick is not as cool as Buckley's, but still worth 0:09:28.080 --> 0:09:31.199 a watch. Well, I have to say that Ji's kick 0:09:31.240 --> 0:09:35.760 was still very impressive, and Buckley's kick, though certainly very impressive, 0:09:36.160 --> 0:09:40.440 also had really nice um like video and audio effects 0:09:40.600 --> 0:09:43.280 and also some version of a live crowd or at 0:09:43.360 --> 0:09:46.679 least live crowd noise, so it was very accentuated by 0:09:46.679 --> 0:09:49.720 the production values, I'd say, while also being still being 0:09:49.720 --> 0:09:53.240 a just a ferocious kick. Yeah, okay. She goes on 0:09:53.800 --> 0:09:56.480 reasons for spinning in combat because we were asking this 0:09:56.520 --> 0:09:58.760 in the episode right, I was talking about how when 0:09:58.760 --> 0:10:02.440 I was learning quote taekwondo whatever it is that they 0:10:02.440 --> 0:10:04.920 were teaching me as a child in Tennessee and calling 0:10:04.960 --> 0:10:09.320 taekwondo um, I remember thinking like with the spin kicks, 0:10:09.360 --> 0:10:11.480 like a spinning sidekick, I was like, would this ever 0:10:11.480 --> 0:10:14.240 actually be useful or is this just more like for 0:10:14.920 --> 0:10:18.079 stylistic effect, is this more of a dance move? And 0:10:18.120 --> 0:10:20.440 we didn't really know if there was a good answer 0:10:20.480 --> 0:10:23.240 to that, but but she absolutely has some thoughts here. 0:10:23.600 --> 0:10:26.720 So first of all, she says power space is needed 0:10:26.760 --> 0:10:30.680 to generate power, and spinning helps to create artificial distance. 0:10:30.800 --> 0:10:34.240 Spinning can help generate additional rotational power the same way 0:10:34.240 --> 0:10:37.600 a shot put or would throw a shot uh second 0:10:37.760 --> 0:10:42.040 speed and efficiency. A few spin kicks are actually misnomers. 0:10:42.080 --> 0:10:46.360 They're technically turning kicks, such as the buckley ko. Certain 0:10:46.400 --> 0:10:50.240 techniques like the sidekick think Bruce Lee's kick are easier 0:10:50.280 --> 0:10:53.320 to throw from a spin or turn. Imagine you're standing 0:10:53.320 --> 0:10:57.080 in a bladed slash split stance meaning left leg in 0:10:57.160 --> 0:11:00.560 front torso turned slightly to the right, and want to 0:11:00.559 --> 0:11:03.880 throw a sidekick with your rear meaning right leg facing 0:11:03.880 --> 0:11:06.800 your opponent, you would need to bring your right leg 0:11:06.920 --> 0:11:10.240 in front and to the left, chambering your leg before 0:11:10.280 --> 0:11:12.839 extending it to kick. A better option would be to 0:11:12.960 --> 0:11:16.480 turn to your right, temporarily exposing your back, but the 0:11:16.559 --> 0:11:19.160 chamber and extension of your leg is faster and we'll 0:11:19.200 --> 0:11:22.520 have additional momentum from the turn or spin. These are 0:11:22.559 --> 0:11:25.080 the more general, easier to explain reasons you would spin 0:11:25.120 --> 0:11:28.360 in combat, but there are many others, such as ring slash, 0:11:28.480 --> 0:11:33.400 cage general ship. I don't know what that means, psychology, angles, 0:11:33.440 --> 0:11:37.080 and impressing judges. Uh so, so that one last one 0:11:37.160 --> 0:11:39.600 maybe does sound like it's like the stylistic dance move 0:11:39.640 --> 0:11:42.480 thing too, which shouldn't be totally discounted from M M A. 0:11:42.600 --> 0:11:45.800 I suppose I think ring cage general ship. I think 0:11:45.840 --> 0:11:47.920 that refers to like being at what they called like 0:11:47.960 --> 0:11:51.040 a ring general or a cage general like, which I 0:11:51.080 --> 0:11:54.880 believe just means like just being totally in command and 0:11:55.520 --> 0:11:59.320 having an air of of command over your space. Could 0:11:59.320 --> 0:12:00.560 be wrong on that, but I think that's what they 0:12:00.559 --> 0:12:04.840 mean the spinning cage boss. Spinning attacks can be higher risk, 0:12:05.080 --> 0:12:07.960 but if you're in a fight, everything you do could 0:12:08.040 --> 0:12:10.800 potentially be a bad idea. If you are aware of 0:12:10.840 --> 0:12:13.000 how your opponent can counter your attacks, you can pick 0:12:13.040 --> 0:12:16.319 appropriate moments to execute your techniques or even take advantage 0:12:16.320 --> 0:12:19.199 of probable counters. Thanks for all your great work, Looking 0:12:19.200 --> 0:12:22.240 forward to the next episode. G very cool. I I 0:12:22.280 --> 0:12:24.760 suspected we had some some folks out there listening to 0:12:24.800 --> 0:12:26.760 the show that had thrown some spin kicks, or at 0:12:26.800 --> 0:12:30.000 least had washed enough spin kicks uh to to to 0:12:30.000 --> 0:12:31.800 speak to it. So I was very impressed with this. 0:12:37.080 --> 0:12:40.920 And here's another short one. This is from Charlie. Charlie says, recently, 0:12:40.960 --> 0:12:44.480 you guys wondered if there were wrestlers turned dancers. Look 0:12:44.520 --> 0:12:48.200 into Lady Beard. He was an Australian wrestler I think 0:12:48.200 --> 0:12:52.720 Australian turned Japanese pop star. He definitely dances a lot now. 0:12:53.080 --> 0:12:55.360 He has a more recent project than Lady Beard, but 0:12:55.400 --> 0:12:57.480 I don't remember the name. Hope you guys have fun 0:12:57.520 --> 0:13:01.880 with this, l O L. Charlie Well, I had to 0:13:01.880 --> 0:13:06.480 look up Lady Beard, but it looks like they they 0:13:06.520 --> 0:13:09.520 they do or or have wrestled for D D D 0:13:09.679 --> 0:13:12.520 Pro Wrestling. That's what a Dramatic Dream Team, which is 0:13:12.559 --> 0:13:18.600 a Japanese pro wrestling promotion that goes so basically, let 0:13:18.640 --> 0:13:20.520 me just back up and say that with Japanese pro 0:13:20.559 --> 0:13:23.840 wrestling you kind of have different extremes. On one hand, 0:13:23.880 --> 0:13:28.320 there's stuff that's very technical and serious and athletic um minded, 0:13:28.400 --> 0:13:30.320 and some stuff in the past has even been very 0:13:30.920 --> 0:13:33.520 uh you know, semi shoot or shoot oriented, where it's 0:13:33.520 --> 0:13:37.440 supposed to resemble authentic fighting as real as possible, and 0:13:37.480 --> 0:13:39.839 you still see that like kind of energy there. D 0:13:39.960 --> 0:13:43.200 DT goes in the entirely different direction and has this 0:13:43.440 --> 0:13:47.280 very just ridiculous um at times have a very very 0:13:47.280 --> 0:13:49.800 great matches nothing you know, not nothing bad about the 0:13:49.840 --> 0:13:52.160 performers or anything. But they also have some just really 0:13:52.200 --> 0:13:56.920 silly stuff like inanimate objects winning championships, um. Even to 0:13:57.480 --> 0:14:00.960 where at one point an inanimate champions ship one itself, 0:14:01.000 --> 0:14:03.360 I believe. So there's a lot of a lot of 0:14:03.360 --> 0:14:06.440 crazy stuff going on there, perfectly the right promotion for 0:14:06.480 --> 0:14:13.600 somebody with a name like Lady Beard. All right, here's 0:14:13.600 --> 0:14:16.079 another one. This one comes to us from Brett. Hello, 0:14:16.200 --> 0:14:18.880 Rob and Joe. I hope this note finds you both 0:14:18.920 --> 0:14:22.000 doing well and staying healthy. Just a personal comment on 0:14:22.160 --> 0:14:25.080 spinning Rob might be able to relate as a spell 0:14:25.120 --> 0:14:27.560 of vertico occurred while I was practicing yoga a few 0:14:27.640 --> 0:14:30.560 years ago. Everything goes going well until the instructor had 0:14:30.600 --> 0:14:34.040 us go into a humble warrior position with eyes open. 0:14:34.520 --> 0:14:36.840 I chose a spot on the ground and started to 0:14:36.920 --> 0:14:39.400 move down towards it. But when I wanted to stop, 0:14:39.640 --> 0:14:41.840 my head felt felt like I was still in motion. 0:14:42.120 --> 0:14:44.800 Thus I tipped over, not sure what I was what 0:14:44.840 --> 0:14:47.320 was going on, I decided to research what could be 0:14:47.360 --> 0:14:50.800 a possible cause for this lack of balance. I determined 0:14:50.840 --> 0:14:53.440 it was a case of b P p V, a 0:14:53.560 --> 0:14:57.200 type of benign vertico where the calcium carbonate had moved 0:14:57.200 --> 0:14:59.520 in the inner ear on the left side. There was 0:14:59.600 --> 0:15:01.920 suggest tis that I had found and tried at home, 0:15:02.160 --> 0:15:05.960 and the vertico type experience stopped. This experience taught me 0:15:06.120 --> 0:15:09.400 how much we rely on small crystals to help determine 0:15:09.400 --> 0:15:12.960 our position in space without and without them, I'm not 0:15:13.080 --> 0:15:15.640 sure where we would be symptom free for years now. 0:15:15.680 --> 0:15:18.000 It is amazing the things we can learn about our 0:15:18.040 --> 0:15:21.160 body and how so many impulses can control our everyday 0:15:21.200 --> 0:15:25.040 well being. Also, I am not advocating that everyone's self diagnosed. 0:15:25.880 --> 0:15:28.360 Thank you all for what you do and now with 0:15:28.480 --> 0:15:31.720 more content. Yeah, lots of content now. Happy holidays and 0:15:31.760 --> 0:15:33.400 looking forward to hearing more from the both of you. 0:15:33.520 --> 0:15:37.320 Cheers Brett in Colorado. Thanks Brett. Do you know anything 0:15:37.320 --> 0:15:42.400 about this kind of experience, rob Um? I well, I 0:15:42.400 --> 0:15:46.720 mean aside from I mean you anytime you practice yoga 0:15:46.720 --> 0:15:49.440 and you're doing any any anything really on your feet, 0:15:49.480 --> 0:15:53.280 I think it's it's always a chance to check in 0:15:53.320 --> 0:15:56.720 with your body, seeing how you're you're doing in multiple ways. 0:15:56.760 --> 0:15:59.480 You know, like you know, how how limber you're feeling, 0:15:59.600 --> 0:16:01.880 how you're hustles are feeling, and also how your balance 0:16:01.960 --> 0:16:05.440 is feeling um and so you you do get that 0:16:05.520 --> 0:16:07.680 kind of regular check in vibe where you're like, well, 0:16:07.720 --> 0:16:10.160 today my balance is definitely a little off because I 0:16:10.200 --> 0:16:12.560 can't go as far into this pose as I normally can, 0:16:12.680 --> 0:16:15.280 or I can't hold it as well. So I feel like, 0:16:15.800 --> 0:16:18.280 you know, that's that's certainly very helpful. It's sort of 0:16:18.280 --> 0:16:20.120 like a little check up, a little bit of self 0:16:20.160 --> 0:16:22.720 diagnosis that you can do every time you hit the 0:16:22.800 --> 0:16:25.560 yoga mat. You know, you're you're seeing where am I today, 0:16:25.680 --> 0:16:29.560 what is my body feeling like? What am I doing? Um? 0:16:29.840 --> 0:16:33.160 As opposed to you know, benign vertigo and all. I 0:16:33.720 --> 0:16:36.400 haven't experienced any of that, but I think I have 0:16:36.480 --> 0:16:39.440 in the past had some teachers speak to it, like 0:16:39.640 --> 0:16:41.760 tell people you know what's to look out for, that 0:16:41.880 --> 0:16:52.720 sort of thing. Okay, you ready for this message from Lee? 0:16:53.040 --> 0:16:56.520 Bring it on, more spending, more spin kicking here, Lee 0:16:56.760 --> 0:17:00.240 Lee says, Hi, guys, love the podcast. I was thing 0:17:00.240 --> 0:17:02.520 to you discuss spinning in martial arts and wanted to 0:17:02.560 --> 0:17:06.000 offer my own experience on the matter. I've practiced Chinese 0:17:06.119 --> 0:17:10.520 Kenpo karate for fifteen years. It's primarily directed at self defense. 0:17:11.040 --> 0:17:14.360 The consensus among people I trained with is no spinning 0:17:14.440 --> 0:17:17.280 in a self defense scenario, as you never want your 0:17:17.320 --> 0:17:20.520 back turned to your opponent. The biggest risk is a 0:17:20.600 --> 0:17:22.960 strike to the back of the head, the second being 0:17:23.080 --> 0:17:27.680 someone getting your back putting them in a strongly advantageous position. 0:17:28.160 --> 0:17:30.200 I don't know if that means grabbing you from behind 0:17:30.480 --> 0:17:33.040 or I'm not quite sure that that's what it sounds 0:17:33.080 --> 0:17:36.320 like to me, because I mean, basically, yeah, there are 0:17:36.359 --> 0:17:39.159 all sorts of grapples you could do from behind that 0:17:39.200 --> 0:17:42.760 would give you an advantage I imagine, right, I mean, 0:17:42.800 --> 0:17:45.280 I guess this makes me think about comparing the feedback 0:17:45.320 --> 0:17:47.680 we got from g versus what Lee is saying here. 0:17:48.040 --> 0:17:50.760 It makes me wonder if a major difference in whether 0:17:50.880 --> 0:17:52.879 or not it makes sense to do spin kicks is 0:17:52.920 --> 0:17:56.840 the question of are their rules in this fight? Yeah, yeah, 0:17:57.040 --> 0:18:01.040 that's true, Whereas in in a there's plenty of room 0:18:01.119 --> 0:18:04.760 for you, even brutal injury, but there are rules in place. 0:18:04.800 --> 0:18:08.520 There is a referee if you're using it for self defense. Uh, 0:18:08.560 --> 0:18:11.040 you know, just out in the world there's not a 0:18:11.040 --> 0:18:15.160 referee usually. But anyway, back to Lee's message. While training, 0:18:15.200 --> 0:18:17.960 we do practice spinning kicks and back fists. This is 0:18:18.000 --> 0:18:21.480 primarily to build coordination and balance, but we also do 0:18:21.560 --> 0:18:24.960 it because it's fun. We also spar in a kickboxing style. 0:18:25.280 --> 0:18:28.720 There the consensus is that there are limited situations where 0:18:28.760 --> 0:18:31.720 you might break out a spinning move. Sparring is about 0:18:31.720 --> 0:18:34.520 trying to work out your opponent's patterns and not getting 0:18:34.560 --> 0:18:37.240 stuck in any of your own. The time to break 0:18:37.240 --> 0:18:40.000 out a spinning kick or backfist is when you think 0:18:40.040 --> 0:18:42.879 you've lolled your opponent into thinking they see a pattern 0:18:42.960 --> 0:18:45.800 in your movements, and it can be a deceptive way 0:18:45.840 --> 0:18:49.879 to break the pattern. We also use roundhouse kicks quite heavily. 0:18:50.480 --> 0:18:52.679 In the event that you miss a roundhouse kick that 0:18:52.760 --> 0:18:55.000 you have thrown at full speed and power, it is 0:18:55.040 --> 0:18:58.040 faster and easier for your body to continue their rotation 0:18:58.440 --> 0:19:02.440 and spin through the kick, resetting to your stance after 0:19:02.480 --> 0:19:06.440 turning fully around. Keep the great episodes coming, Lee, That's 0:19:06.520 --> 0:19:08.560 great once again. Great to hear from someone who has 0:19:08.960 --> 0:19:11.080 a lot of experience with what we're talking about and 0:19:11.119 --> 0:19:15.080 can can speak to the the strategy of deploying a 0:19:15.119 --> 0:19:17.800 spin chick spin kick and why you might want to 0:19:17.840 --> 0:19:20.760 think twice about it and given the given certain scenarios. 0:19:21.000 --> 0:19:28.560 Totally thanks Lee. Al Right, here's another one. This one 0:19:28.600 --> 0:19:31.280 comes to us from Ryan. Dear Robert and Joe. First 0:19:31.280 --> 0:19:33.160 of all, I love the show. I used to listen 0:19:33.280 --> 0:19:35.320 very regularly a few years ago, but had to stop 0:19:35.359 --> 0:19:38.560 after being consumed by grad school. Since I graduated and 0:19:38.600 --> 0:19:40.480 because of the pandemic, I have had to practice the 0:19:40.560 --> 0:19:43.320 chance to pick up on the show again. In your 0:19:43.359 --> 0:19:46.320 recent second episode on spinning in Circles. I'm pretty sure 0:19:46.359 --> 0:19:49.760 the movie Joe was thinking of is Interstellar, where Matthew 0:19:49.840 --> 0:19:52.800 McConaughey is landing in a spaceship on a high gravity 0:19:52.840 --> 0:19:56.080 planet near a black hole. Where they had to quote 0:19:56.119 --> 0:19:59.480 come in hot to minimize the amount of gravity dilated 0:19:59.680 --> 0:20:03.840 time they spent there. He asked their friendly rectangular robot 0:20:03.880 --> 0:20:06.560 to assume control if when he blacks out from the 0:20:06.600 --> 0:20:10.040 G forces. I have to note that describing that scene 0:20:10.040 --> 0:20:13.399 out of context makes it sound truly ridiculous. That film 0:20:13.560 --> 0:20:15.720 might have been a bit of a mess when looking 0:20:15.760 --> 0:20:18.399 at all of its scientific and fantastic elements, but it 0:20:18.480 --> 0:20:21.280 was certainly a beautiful mess. I think this is picking 0:20:21.359 --> 0:20:23.639 up on There was a moment towards the very end 0:20:23.640 --> 0:20:26.000 of that episode where I was trying to remember what 0:20:26.119 --> 0:20:28.360 movie it was, where there's a scene where a pilot 0:20:28.920 --> 0:20:32.800 uh knows that they are going to blackout from G forces, 0:20:32.800 --> 0:20:35.680 and they're they're calculating in like their time to recover 0:20:35.840 --> 0:20:39.840 before crashing. Yeah. I do have to mention I remember 0:20:39.920 --> 0:20:41.800 when I was talking one of the times we got 0:20:41.800 --> 0:20:45.960 to interview Brian Green, the physicist UH, he did mention 0:20:46.000 --> 0:20:48.080 Interstellar as being a film in which he liked the 0:20:48.119 --> 0:20:51.639 black holes. He liked the movie's treatment of black holes. 0:20:52.320 --> 0:20:54.159 I mean they Yeah, they went to a lot of 0:20:54.200 --> 0:20:57.200 links to get many things about the science right and 0:20:57.200 --> 0:21:00.399 and stay stay pretty hard science plaus bowl with a 0:21:00.400 --> 0:21:04.560 few exceptions. Yeah, all right, Ryan continues. This leads me 0:21:04.640 --> 0:21:07.679 to a suggestion for an episode topic g forces in 0:21:07.720 --> 0:21:10.960 space travel. You could explore the real life examples of 0:21:10.960 --> 0:21:13.080 how humans have grappled with the crushing effects of G 0:21:13.280 --> 0:21:15.720 forces on the human body, as well as sci fi 0:21:15.760 --> 0:21:18.399 and fantasy treatments. It might be fun for you to 0:21:18.600 --> 0:21:21.439 to discuss fictional works that have tackled G forces in 0:21:21.440 --> 0:21:24.320 space travel to some extent, like the Expanse and some 0:21:24.400 --> 0:21:27.160 other fiction that doesn't bother with it at all. Basically 0:21:27.240 --> 0:21:32.080 any fiction with hyper drive or ridiculous acceleration deceleration Kim 0:21:32.119 --> 0:21:37.360 Stanley Robinson's novel twelve comes to mind, where careful budgeting 0:21:37.359 --> 0:21:40.359 of G forces comes into play with railgun like launch 0:21:40.400 --> 0:21:44.160 pads and the gradual slowing before they reach their destinations 0:21:44.200 --> 0:21:47.159 while traveling the Solar System. I'm certainly no expert on 0:21:47.200 --> 0:21:49.840 the subject matter, just a big old nerd when it 0:21:49.880 --> 0:21:51.840 comes to stuff like that, so I would love to 0:21:51.840 --> 0:21:55.000 hear your patented fun education will take on that. Thanks 0:21:55.000 --> 0:21:57.159 for all of the great content you offer, including the 0:21:57.160 --> 0:22:03.320