Dr. Kelly Starrett
π€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
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It's very intense.
The bones are very hard.
Now they just core the bone by hand.
They just hand turn the drill because the bones are so soft.
So we're seeing this demineralization happening.
this less hardening of the bones of children.
We're seeing a whole host of injuries that did not exist.
Torn lats, more UCLs, more ACLs.
I mean, the epidemic of ACL right now is its own topic.
But when you come underneath that, what we see is didn't have, women didn't have access to movement control, overplay,
Did not have, you know, don't have good nutrition features, aren't sleeping, right?
No off season, right?
Just what we can see is we've set up the perfect conditions and this is a normal feature or normal accident given the sort of errors and the complexity of this person engaging in this play, which was supposed to be fun in the first place.
Maybe if you surf, maybe if you're into some extreme sports, skateboarding is a great example of probably the best...
Pick up basketball.
There are a couple pockets where that still exists, but mainly there looks like recreational sports.
Kid finds a recreational sport.
She's a skateboarder.
She's skating at the park all the time.
That's the best free play there is.