Thomas Myers - Tensegrity Applied to Human Biomechanics

[@potapotapotapotapotapota]

this is so important, every athletics teacher should learn this at a fundamental level

[@raginald7mars408]

.. as a German Biologist - YOU deserve Praise and Applause. This is essential for everybody - The more we practice this, the better we are ready to face any challenge. Bravo! ThankYou!

[@azdjedi]

Amazing. I saw this 7y ago and wasn't ready. I've been doing FP w my trainer now for like 6 months and I'm rediscovering all this knowledge w newfound interest and understanding. Being able to translate my trainer's words into a body-experience is important for me, so I needed to understand what I'm doing and why.

[@davidj2826]

Mr. Myers I don't know if it's your voice, articulation, or philosophy on biology but you are by far the most fascinating speaker on physiology I've ever heard. You should have a TED Talk if you don't already.

[@Joequinlan_footrx]

TeD talk or narrate children’s books and meditational mantras. I could listen to it forever

[@Wolliz]

Personally I disagree. I don't like the stretching of the words. : )))

[@dan23563]

His voice and speaking style is similar to that of Carl Sagan

[@kostoffj]

Had the exact same thought 9 years later

[@arabianorangutang]

@@dan23563Carl Sagan meets Jeff Goldblum 😆

[@marylewis3311]

Tensegrity is a major part of internal arts and tai chi postures and bio mechanical alignments. When learning static postures you re basically trying to balance your body and relax and release all the major muscles to the point where the bones and ligaments support your body. It feels like everything is hanging off this but the body is relaxed but still springy. The next stage is working with the interstitial fluids in between the joints cartilage and muscles and compressing and expanding these like a hydraulic system. My teacher calls it “working with the juice to engage the goosh”. Also referred to in chinese tui na massage as pulsing/ open and closing/ expanding and contracting. When you can feel this stage of movement it feels like you are moving through honey thick and viscous. In the classics it is referred to air turns into water.

[@Escuelasomayoga]

WOW! where can I find more information about how to work with interstitial fluids??? Thank you!

[@katyseo7485]

Wow, love this explanation 👏 ❤

[@EdwardBanda]

Nice demonstration. Enjoying the Jeff Goldblum vocal performance tonality as well... 😊

[@rollinOnCode]

Absolutely great stuff! Sadly so few people even today understand even the concept of a tensegrity structure and the relationship and importance of myofascia tissue.

[@erikdepeer]

Geweldig om zo inzicht te krijgen in het functioneren van alle structuren in ons lichaam

[@tonyrabone4668]

Beautifully presented snd very compelling concepts. Look forward to learning and applying more practical work in this area.

[@lMobiuscidl]

I remember my father talking about this time ago when I was a kid, pleased to know he was on the right track on what concernst to physical fitness

[@noface6872]

Very interesting video. Functional patterns is ahead of the game when it comes down to physical and mental health. Thanks Naudi for the great job you are doing bro. You are saving lives every video upload. Can't thank you enough. Thomas Myers too.

[@jefflacson5811]

Fantastic! Thank you for all of your hard work and dedication to the field. You are an inspiration.

[@kinetichealthonline]

Great video Tom, always enjoy your presentations.

[@badcid1362]

Hell ya bruh I’ve been a believer in this type of training for years know . Never have I felt better since adapting this style of body mechanics. Thanks Dr super smart guy ...

[@VikrantSingh-se2zb]

Thanks a lot for brilliant narration of structural functional patterns forming dynamic bio-mechanics of fascia body networks without beginning and ends connected breakdown bridge cycle looped cellular anatomy.

[@youragentnikkiwhitten9979]

I was thinking your talks reminded me a lot of the information I read in the book Anatomy Chains!! Love this!!

[@youragentnikkiwhitten9979]

I meant Trains not chains

[@leontrevino8526]

Beautiful presentation. Makes a lot of sense. The body in motion is more the sum of its parts and less the part that you see moving most.

[@meryljordan8799]

Thank you for this fancinating vidoe! I had a Spinal osteotomy coming up for 3 years ago. It is so helpful to think of the surrounding tissues supporting my spine that can still build flexibility! The breathing thing has been true for me, I now do Tai Chi and I can feel the release and lengthening of my spine (it feels like I'm getting hot and sweating brought on by simply breathing through Qi Gong). I have some prolapsed discs in my neck currently because of the lack of flexibility in my thoracic and lumbar spine, but I'll continue to work on it.

[@blistex239]

The six strut icosahedron he used comes from Buckminster Fuller's jitter bug. Half way inbetween an octahedron and a vector-equilibrium(cuboctahedron) the icosahedral geometry is made. The elastic(tension regions) makes the 8 triangular faces. Myers ideas on the tension and rigidity in balance in the body are incredible! A next step in this direction of thought could be to apply principles of magnetics along with structures like this together. I have a feeling they can be married together. Magnetic repulsion is the struts and attraction could create tension like the tension lines/wires.

[@zaktilife6087]

Bingo!

[@RandomAmbles]

I mean... the physical materials themselves are all held together by electrostatic forces, but that's not the same as magnetic forces exactly. You kinda have to look at chemistry and materials science more than anything electromagnetic, at least for the structural stuff. Action potentials in the nervous system are certainly electrochemical, but again, not really magnetic so much. I'm a little embarrassed to admit that it was only in my twenties that I learned, when someone pointed it out to me, that positive and negative electrical charges are different from North and South magnetic poles. They both follow a "opposites attract, likes repel" rules, but different ones! I think if we want good theories of the nervous system, then we're gonna need a lot more than mechanically structural principles. We're gonna need to learn a lot about self-organizing systems. Though fields of one kind or another might play a part, I personally don't think magnetic fields have much to do with biology. Then again, I could be wrong. It's tricky stuff, after all.

[@kylecarleo3790]

This is some top tier knowledge about movement

[@aaronmarwood2343]

Absolutely fascinating! Great to listen too and wonderfully described and explained!

[@UTubeSporaticUser]

Omg, thank you so much for this video. Im a massage therapist and i had been finding these tension lines in the body then when you follow them, the fascia releases and the muscle collapses and loses shape. And i have been trying to get an explanation of I was doing and feeling for a year. I start my massages from the bottom up because i find that it the lower back doesnt release if you start from the top going down. I also find that the lower back doesnt release without releaseing the hip, etc.... this is so great. I have been doing massages by following tension lines in the body that i accidently found one day. Thank you thank you so much for your video. It is so great to finally understand what and how releasing the lines of tension were giving my clients back their full range of motion. When i tried to explain what i was feeling or tried to get answers about it, no one knew what i was talking about. I could cry right now. Thank you so much.

[@diegocovu4101]

Thank you How do you call and how to find those tensegrity objects ?

[@theglovelock1752]

Mesmerizing and inspiring to listen to. So much to unpack, wrap my brain around and implement. “The Rhomboid is an ankle supinator.! “ 🤯 Love it. Is it just me or is his voice a combination of The Mandarin and Ultron?!

[@mizzlchieizzl]

Recovering from scoliosis and honestly periods of trauma in my life and this idea is profoundly helpful to me. Instead of big muscle groups, I benefit most with yoga or centered balance type of exercise and stretching

[@lainerbug]

Great lecture & I love the way you speak!! I can really hear the way your mind is working through your cadence haha!! makes for a stimulating listen.

[@dariatrifonova5535]

Thank you for making it so easy to understand!

[@alext8803]

On another note, where can you get those structural models? I really would love to get my hands on some for clients.

[@stevenkrumins3340]

Just discovered this Channel..amazing lecture. I love this guy.

[@wojciechfurman9991]

where can I buy a model?

[@coachneriah]

Where can I get these tensegrity models?

[@KelGhu]

Myofascial science: kzbin.info/www/bejne/qJKmc5iHYsyLnNU

[@muchkneadedsportsmassageof7933]

Excellent explanation and presentation. At Much Kneaded Sports Massage NYC, I made a simple tensegrity model out of plastic straws, rubber bands and paper clips to demonstrate the principle of tensegrity. It's a very helpful visual!

[@alext8803]

This guy's voice reminds me of an anatomy-genius version of David Carradine. Anyone else? Great video, FP team.

[@bethmedina9200]

“How do you handle tension & compression in the body?” Fascinating question for me to ponder with you as a somatic psychotherapist!

[@albertomuitofixolas3192]

What's s somatic psychotherapist? I'm curious to know what you do

[@myofasciatherapy8191]

Alberto; I am one too. It is working on the Body-Mind-connection. There is so much we can help the mind by helping the Body - either calming the Body - Heart - Mind - or as often to help the mind out of a frozen state. When the Body feels good the Mind follows. I see this each and every time. It is amazing work without meds.

[@petepalermo6023]

Where did you get that tensegrity model? I would love to show clients

[@KelGhu]

Science of fascias. Look it up

[@JourneyOfStrength]

That is extraordinarily interesting. I'm a trainer. I want to learn mire

[@TheOGJeff]

This reminds me of ken wheeler or theoria apophasis, and how he talks about pressure mediation

[@esk8jaimes]

''The body is a strain distribution machine!''

[@MsGaella]

Very very helpful. Thank you so much

[@freyfaust6218]

Hi Tom, fascinating discourse! The expansion and contraction demo was surprising, counterintuitive. I have trouble with the fact that the model is dissimilar to the human body in a number of ways: no straight line fibre relationships, hundreds of different tissue types and consistencies, the constant, voluntary loss of tensegrity as a primary strategy for moving. What do you think?

[@Idrinklight44]

Was pretty much shut down with 13 pretty bad bulging discs, herniated and ruptured disc, 6 numb finger's. Fibromyalgia for 30 odd years. This perfectly describes the integrity i feel returning, geometric straps, that definitely aren't in any anatomy books.

[@YuoSham]

Great video! Thank you

[@avoidbeing]

wonderful knowledge

[@inspiracionyoga-prof.marie7953]

Hello from Argentina! Thank you for so beautifull and practice information. Please....may you traslate or subtitle this information in spanish? thank you so much!

[@Idrinklight44]

This is a perfect explanation of what I've been feeling in my body. Been doing PRI physical therapy for a year and half now.

[@truefistofthenorthstar2044]

Bone has a crystal lattice structure as well

[@onerider808]

Fascinating. Thanks.

[@DunkzGam1ng]

The saddest thing is that when you try to teach people in a gym environment how to move better most of the time they just look at you as if u mad.

[@adricgonzaleztaichi]

Gracias Excelente!

[@Rakibrown111]

best approach for robotics

[@heekyulee4784]

Nice video 📹 👍

[@jackiev4255]

awesome info

[@muskduh]

thanks for the video

[@funclosure]

This the video I need!!

[@424io]

Dios nos envia sabiduría maestra Meyers!

[@Sixthsenseofselling]

very cool teacher

[@simonpenny2564]

OK, but credit where credit is due please. The tensegrity structure that Thomas shows is one of many clones of the work of the American sculptor Kenneth Snelson, who pursued tensegrity structures as sculptures sign 1948. Important works include Needle Tower (1968) which still stands outside the Hirshorn Museum in Washington DC.

[@kusalsilva-qt9ej]

Please do a podcast with huberman

[@davidguthrie3739]

Is strength and stiffness the same thing?

[@irinasarnetskaya3073]

Tom reminds me of Bob Ross, his voice is so soothing.

[@baharatilgan]

Would love to have these models for teaching. Are they available to buy anywhere?

[@komitaskomitaskomitas]

Can I stretch fascia if I am a heroin addict?

[@ydubin]

Mindblown!!!!

[@baz3142]

Fascinating!

[@DIAMINEO]

the guy is a genious!!

[@simonmasla]

This is all common sense and nothing new, but he does a great job at explaining it.

[@functionalpatterns]

Simon Maslaveckas Definitely not new, but it is not "common sense" up until this point unfortunately. In relation to human biomechanics, tensegrity has not been adopted anywhere. Atleast not in regards to slings and what not... I do get where you're coming from though. Thank you for watching

[@razzie66]

+functionalpatterns Well responded. You saved my fingers. ^^ Thanks for uploading Thomas' explanation.

[@SnakeAndTurtleQigong]

🙏

[@michaelzimmer1115]

I taught a martial art for decades. I was strongly influenced by Tom Myer's idea of Anatomy Trains. It lead to practical training methods.

[@michaelmch4640]

i admire him !

[@bluecafe509]

That was great.

[@marqcarnita4045]

I dunno maaaaaan. Touchy and ground breaking

[@theWorldInStrides]

Bravo

[@kevinmurray8]

"We say the rhomboids are a supinator" - No... Gary Gray & the Gray Institute deserve credit for originally coining this kind of nomenclature!

[@juancarlosrobalinoalarcon3802]

👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼FP🙏🏽🌎🙏🏽🔥💯🤝

[@fp45]

Tensegrity hit transplant

[@danielreinhardt937]

16:54 he whips out the tensigrity pelvis and I started to make connections. A lot of overlap with Neal Hallinan and PRI's "philosophy"... hmmmm another puzzle piece falls into place....

[@quanwei723]

棒棒哒

[@JoeSchmoe-eo8cp]

genius

[@Drstephenstokes]

Such bad lighting... Good content

[@Zikuth]

I fear that tensegrity is a worst model than the general compression one: nothing wrong with that until you said that the other view is wrong: Trying to explain your fascination for tensegrity, you degraded the other and therefore overselled the tensegrity model. Are not compression forces in the joints-bones not stronger than the tension ones? Are bones not directly interacting in the joints? I don't think that the human body is a proper example of tensegrity, as it is not tying a mast in a ship.

[@0caliche0]

#unintentionalasmr

[@tru_710]

He sounds like and looks like he's part-Indian

[@1105bubba]

Extremely ideological. This is a BAD model to teach people. Borders on an abuse of intellect or an admission of ignorance. To teach interested therapist that tension and compression are all there is in new biomechanics is idiocy. This is precisely why people should never surrender their ability to critically think to an self-promoted icon in the bodywork industry. No one pushes back and says, "There's more to it than that." Bucky fuller may have stated this concept in building but we must factor in building materials. It's why the body can be compared to a car or a computer to illustrate points, but we all know we are not a car and we are not a computer. It made me sad to hear Tom omit shear and torsion and bending in biomechanics. His assertions that no movement is isolated is not hard to accept, it's been there all along, but to begin this video by stating the new biomechanics is nothing but tension and compression eliminates him as anyone to be taken seriously from a scientific point of view. As far as promoting his classes to draw in more novices, his convictions will win followers like any other church or cult, but in the end, they will come to their own clinical conclusion that there is more to movement than rubber bands and dowels.

[@KelGhu]

It is new in its approach. It's the emerging science of fascias. Fascias keeps our body together through tensional integrity (tensegrity). Without fascias, our body would collapse. As a researcher of the University of Ulm, Robert Schleip, says if you take every else out (bones, muscles, etc), our body would still be standing. Fascias also provides us with proprioception (our sense of body position in space). Futhermore, most of the time when we're have pain in muscles, tendons, ligaments, etc, it's acually our fascias telling us we're hurt. Fascias have 6 times more nerve ending than our muscles. And all nerves have to go through fascias in order to connect with organs and other parts of our body. For centuries, fascias have been ignored and dismissed as "useless" envelopes to organs. Fascias science has been picking up only over the last decade or so. And the knowledge Tom is promoting is commonly accepted among fascia academic fascia researchers. It's facts at this point. But fascia science hasn't caught up yet to the general medical, biological, biomechanical community. It's still in its infancy. The first Fascia Research congress was only held in 2009 at Harvard. What Tom saying here is far from ideological. It's just that it's not common knowledge yet in the scientific community, not to mention the general population. But this will change within the next 20 years. Academic seminar from a University of California: kzbin.info/www/bejne/qJKmc5iHYsyLnNU

[@Zikuth]

Agree!!

[@TheKlever666]

Sounds like somebody needs some bong hit transplant!

[@aknvtso9971]

עברית: kzbin.info/www/bejne/ZmbVZJiebrCGi7s

[@BodyByBenSLC]

First!

[@Drstephenstokes]

Such bad lighting... Good content