Kimura-proof your shoulders: Part II
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Jiu jitsu is a martial art designed to take advantage of the simple fact that everyone is weak at their joint end-range.
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How do you protect your shoulder and strengthen your end-range?
By using FRC concepts you can:
1️⃣Improve mobility: Usable motion.
2️⃣Create resiliency: By applying loads into your end-range you can improve resiliency in the shoulder joint to mitigate injury.
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After spending several weeks of improving mobility and end-range stability (CARs and PAILs/RAILs) one can progress to the next step: Eccentric neural grooving (ENG).
Focusing on the eccentric portion of a movement to connect the dots of previous mobility work to make the entire range more resilient.
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✳️Eccentric Neural Grooving of Shoulder Internal Rotation: Start in the same position as the shoulder IR PAILs (sleeper stretch) and slowly lower a resistance that you can control. As you get more competent in the movement you can gradually increase the load.
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In the context of jiu jitsu:
1️⃣ if you do not have adequate passive range then the injury from the joint lock will come much quicker.
2️⃣If you do not have adequate strength at the end range you will not be able to resist long enough to escape or tap.
3️⃣If you haven’t prepared the tissue for that range then more likely the damage will be more severe.
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