Mark on Movement

What can we learn from S K Warne?

This photograph of Warnie in his delivery stride can teach us about rhythm, rotation and reciprocation of the limbs.

Every skilled sport’s performance has a culminating moment where all of the elements come together to produce the action.

So, what can we see?
1. Rib wall turn where the trunk is rotated on the pelvis and legs to torsion the spring of the midline body.

2. The left arm is fully internally rotated and pronated/ the right are is externally rotated and supinated.
As Warnie completes the action, the trunk will rotate about 150 degrees and the arms will change their roles through acceleration of the bowling arm into deceleration of the limbs and centre of mass.

3. Head in opposition to pelvic floor and hips.

The body organises in this way for all throwing, striking, bowling and hitting.

Working on posture and rotating postures using the legs as foundation can radically improve understanding and performance, while reducing injury.

Sir Donald Bradman 1938

I took this photograph at Bedi’s Indian Restaurant in South Melbourne to highlight that alert posture has an absence of tension.

The leg loading, the trunk angle, the head/neck in opposition to pelvic floor is all ideal.

I am not seeing this efficient, relaxed alertness in athletes developed in today’s hyper-specialised environments.

Remember, this is the man who hit a golf ball against a corrugated water tank with a cricket stump to improve his batting!

He wasn’t told to do this, he made it up.

IYKYK