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A review by violentoceans
Becoming a Supple Leopard: The Ultimate Guide to Resolving Pain, Preventing Injury, and Optimizing Athletic Performance by Kelly Starrett
2.0
Meh.
The first 20% of this book is just stupid and almost entirely unnecessary. I'm not exaggerating when I say it could have been condensed to two pages and the book overall would have been the better for it. To save you the trouble of reading a fifth of the book, I'll just sum it up for you. In one sentence: The way that I stand is the right way, and everyone should stand like me.
This point of view is distinctly different and separate from the sentence: I like to stand the right way. It's also indicative of the rest of the book. The book doesn't take into account differences in skeletal structure (because people do PHYSIOLOGICALLY have different pelvis structures, for example) and basically says that unless you move exactly the way Kelly Starrett does, you move the wrong way.
After the first fifth of the book, it gets mildly better. In all truthfulness though, the book doesn't become worth cracking until slightly after 50% of the way through the book.
This book also pretty accurately demonstrates that Starrett doesn't have a great understanding of hip rotation. He gets foot/knee rotation fantastically. Hip rotation, not so much. In his world it seems like it's only possible to externally rotate from the knee to the ankle. So if your leg is externally rotated (even if it's from the hip) it's bad, bad, bad! for your knees. This isn't true. If the rotation comes from the knee (either internally or externally) it IS bad. If it comes from the hip, and the hip, knee, and ankle all demonstrate the same degree of rotation, it's FINE.
If you do still want to check this book out, I would recommend doing it literally, as in you go to the library and check it out. It's not worth purchasing.
P.S. In case you were unaware, Kelly Starrett, leopards don't have stripes.
P.P.S. The more I think about it, reading this book was like watching KStar give himself a handjob.
The first 20% of this book is just stupid and almost entirely unnecessary. I'm not exaggerating when I say it could have been condensed to two pages and the book overall would have been the better for it. To save you the trouble of reading a fifth of the book, I'll just sum it up for you. In one sentence: The way that I stand is the right way, and everyone should stand like me.
This point of view is distinctly different and separate from the sentence: I like to stand the right way. It's also indicative of the rest of the book. The book doesn't take into account differences in skeletal structure (because people do PHYSIOLOGICALLY have different pelvis structures, for example) and basically says that unless you move exactly the way Kelly Starrett does, you move the wrong way.
After the first fifth of the book, it gets mildly better. In all truthfulness though, the book doesn't become worth cracking until slightly after 50% of the way through the book.
This book also pretty accurately demonstrates that Starrett doesn't have a great understanding of hip rotation. He gets foot/knee rotation fantastically. Hip rotation, not so much. In his world it seems like it's only possible to externally rotate from the knee to the ankle. So if your leg is externally rotated (even if it's from the hip) it's bad, bad, bad! for your knees. This isn't true. If the rotation comes from the knee (either internally or externally) it IS bad. If it comes from the hip, and the hip, knee, and ankle all demonstrate the same degree of rotation, it's FINE.
If you do still want to check this book out, I would recommend doing it literally, as in you go to the library and check it out. It's not worth purchasing.
P.S. In case you were unaware, Kelly Starrett, leopards don't have stripes.
P.P.S. The more I think about it, reading this book was like watching KStar give himself a handjob.