Oblique sitting gets used constantly as a developmental step or a regression from standing. What most practitioners miss is that it is actually diagnostic. It shows you whether everything you built on the ground transferred to a position where gravity starts working against you.
In this episode Bill and Chris break down low oblique and high oblique as propulsion representations, what each demands, what compensations reveal about the system, and how archetype changes both the presentation and the strategy. This episode explains exactly what you are seeing and what to do about it.
What we cover:
- What low oblique and high oblique actually represent as propulsion phases
- Why the position is diagnostic: what it reveals that ground positions conceal
- How to audit each position using ground contacts and breathing
- The rolling sequence that connects hook lying through oblique to upright
- Archetype-specific behavior: wide ISA versus narrow ISA in each position
- Why chasing IR without tracking ER will mislead your assessment every time
- How moving too quickly to upright loaded activities reverses your progress
Leave a comment: have you ever had a client look clean on the ground and completely fall apart in oblique sitting? Tell us what you saw.
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Timestamps:
0:00 Oblique sitting is diagnostic not transitional
0:26 Subscribe note
0:42 What low oblique actually represents: early propulsion
2:00 Slowing the grounded side to allow the other side forward
3:24 Progressive rotational loading against gravity
4:20 Why the position becomes more internal as support is reduced
5:19 Building AP dimension from earlier positions
6:21 How to audit: when to step back to low oblique or hook lying
7:56 What IR substitution looks like in high oblique
8:41 Why upright positions are diagnostic in ways ground positions are not
9:25 Side plank as the extreme version of low oblique
10:05 Compensations to look for: shoulder rounding and cervical forward head
11:24 Advantages of oblique when foot contacts are limited
12:17 Breathing as an audit tool in reduced support positions
13:27 What measures suggest readiness for low oblique versus high oblique
14:34 Low oblique as early propulsion high oblique as late propulsion
16:36 The series of turns: into and out of the cut explained
17:06 Turkish getup as a framework for understanding the sequence
19:01 What happens when you load a system before it is ready
20:18 Why middle propulsive strategies create stability without mobility
21:40 Free courses and upcoming free assessment course
22:11 P&C and Assessment bundle and P&I Health course Nov 2026
23:16 Archetype specific considerations: wide ISA versus narrow ISA
28:20 The rolling sequence connecting hook lying through oblique to upright
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