A lot of you from the south don't know what baseball is.. , JKI used to think that about the back leg too. Then I looked at it a different way.
Since the spine is tilted rearward, what would hip extension and rearward ground force look like?
.....Different than what normal propulsion via hip and knee extension is in a forward movement like sprinting or jumping. Correct?
Hip extension would work, but knee extension wouldn't allow rearward tilt. The movement might look like a hip bridge exercise......?
The force is to create forward rotation of the pelvis while maintaining a rearward tilt of the spine.... from a split stance.
How would you do it?
What if you could push the other end of the pelvis rearward against the opposite leg? Rotation from both legs applying forces acting in opposite directions on the ends of the pelvis, using large muscles? Oh my!
Can you post a gif of the hockey crossover? I'd like to see that!
I'm from the Souwwwwth and we don't know what hockey is.
8:40 of this video..
The reason why I chose a figure skater is because they truly understand edges.. alot of hockey players simply lift one leg over another without utilizing both edges. I actually joined figure skating when I was 4, of course by that point I was already skating for two years. But figure skating helped me with my edges and gave me an advantage over a lot of other hockey players.
Glutes and muscles that power the hips are so so important in skating(hockey players and figure skaters have a big rear and upper thighs.
Obviously Crosby has never skipped a leg day..LOL.
Anyway this is not going to make a lot of sense unless you've felt it before. Just after launch I can feel the stretch and feel like my glutes and muscles around my hips, an extreme force like it's trying to force my upper legs closed.. feel the same thing when doing a cross over except it's the total opposite, force that is trying to force my upper legs open