Author: Tony Pay ★2017
Date: 2014-09-23 17:58
I'm fed up with reading this silly refrain that 'muscles working against each other' is necessarily counterproductive. I get it from Ken Shaw, I now get it (surprise, surprise) from Paul Aviles.
Delicately balanced opposition of muscles is very often what is required for precise control. It's as though these people don't realise that the flexion of each of a pair of opposing muscles in quasi-equilibrium can vary from almost nothing to a maximum.
Imagine flexing your biceps, like a body-builder. You can do that (opposing with your triceps) a tiny bit, a bit more, a lot, or as much as you possibly can.
Likewise, you can smile a tiny bit, a bit more, a lot – or in a rictus.
So, stop talking rubbish, will you? You get people worried about something simple BY TELLING LIES ABOUT IT.
OF COURSE you don't want maximum opposition for the most part. (Very occasionally, actually, you DO.) But making that clear is very different from telling people that they MUST BE maximally relaxed.
Tony
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