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Segment Feedback — Matthew McIlhenny — Segment Focus

Most interesting

I suppose the most interesting thing to me was how certain foci are typically grouped together, like the ascend and torsion, structure and gravity foci.

Unusual or difficult

When I reflect back on the course so far I think I would have a very hard time explaining it to someone who is a novice, which means maybe I do not actually understand sufficiently the concepts in the course. Part of this is that I feel like I am kind of rushing through it in order to finish in the allotted 90-day time period. But also maybe it’s inherent to the nature of the material. What I mean by that is that the course is set up so far in a linear framework, where we learn about form, and then focus and now it looks like we are going to enter into intensity modification. However as students we come with so much baggage from either sports or self-help/well being that we are subconsciously doing all these things even from the beginning. Partly for that reason I find myself not paying attention to super specific things in the course (even though there is fear there will be some question on a test I won’t know and will have to spend hours going back through videos to find the answer), because I don’t know if I am going to have to unlearn something in a future node. In writing this it would be helpful if there were transcripts of the videos so we didn’t have to keep watching a whole video and scrubbing through it either manually or on 2x speed, etc in order to find or help remember a key point. I would also like it if I could go to any node without having to unlock prior ones, but you might have a good reason for structuring the course this way.

Movement habits

Not yet, I am only at the precipice of being aware of this stuff. I am curious to observe whether the focus I have in my daily movement is more predisposed to a certain type of focus and to what extent that might be contributing to pain in my body.

Could be better

I didn’t hear an explanation as to why some of the foci are not being discussed here. I would have liked a broader overview about all of them, and possibly how they relate to each other.