middleway wrote:In the mean time ...
How does Fascia feature in your model of simultaneous Muscle recruitment through conscious input?
Is this Independent of the process your talking about, part of the system or irrelevant to the system?
There has been talk of Fascia here a fair bit. I wonder what level of relevance it holds for people in terms of IMA mechanics?
Regards
Chris
I'll start by saying that I'm not at all familiar with much of the fascia discussion. There is, in MA circles, this notion that the fascia are in some way integral to skilled force development. Mike Sigman talks of a
“fascia suit” in which the whole body is enveloped by fascia that somehow relates to internal power. Muscles of course come under the heading of fascia, as do tendons, ligaments and other stuff too.
To me the critical test of relevance to internal power development/skilled force is: What part of the total summation of fascia can I directly interact with using my conscious mind. My answer is that the only thing I can influence the action of is muscles, by getting them to fire using my imagination. I then can proprioceptively feel that that is what happened, again using my brain.
I don't know how to influence any other kind of fascia directly. Now I think it might be the case that by influencing muscles, I also, as a consequence, manipulate or in some way alter other fascia – but that is not the primary goal of skilled force development.
Having said all that, I read this on the Anatomy Trains website “
Anatomy Trains links the individual muscles into functional complexes....” and this is a pretty accurate view of what I'm discussing. The same site also mentions
tensegrity, which, if I understand the idea correctly, is what I'm talking about too.
But these are models, in the same way as qi and its circulation is a model, not the thing itself.
Tensegrity helps to illuminate how impact force can be dissipated, or how when you receive an incoming force to your structure you can absorb and then repel it. But the further you go down the road of models, however good, the further you get from the thing you are trying to achieve.
So fascia is an interesting discussion, but not wholly relevant.