Lizard Crawl Progression Video

This video demonstrates what I observed from Dewey Nielson's seminar at the 2013 UKSCA conference. Having Improved, I have been able to link each stage of the movement together in one routine.

Getting there, with a few mobiliy issues left to work on. But i think Crawls are a great way to attain global mobilisation, whilst achieving high level of shoulder and trunk control/strength under novel movement patterns.

Stage 1: "The Spiderman" movement working the basic pattern with knee out to the side and a modified press up position.

Stage 2: Keeping the hips and shoulders/chest close to the floor, requiring a greater level of shoulder strength/endurance and hip and spinal mobility.

Stage 3: Only real difference in this step is the introduction of bringing the knee inside then flaring out. So looking for hip internal rotation followed by a quick change to external rotation. I quite like this pattern just in terms of "greasing the groove" you would normally perform an internal Rot followed by the Ext Rot in a stretch for the same reason. So why not incorportate the movement into a routine!

Stage 4: The last stage here just further increases the demand of shoulder strength/endurance, trunk control and spinal mobility by destabilising the body to 3 points of contact.

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