After a weekend workshop developing the Programming and Interventions course, one finding kept showing up across every practitioner in the room. The most common mistake was not arresting the forward and rightward projection before attempting to move from right to left. Even experienced practitioners with years in the model were skipping or rushing through this step.

This is not a positional episode. This is about the single most important starting point for intervention sequencing and why getting it wrong undermines everything that follows.

If you have ever put a client into a left front foot forward split stance and wondered why measures are not changing, this episode explains exactly what you skipped.

What we cover:

What the P&I workshop revealed about a universal gap in practitioner sequencing
Why arresting forward and rightward progression must come before any left-side projection
The late ER shape and why it does not become early propulsion without IR superimposition
Right low oblique as the starting constraint most people skip
Why right foot elevated split stance comes before left foot elevated
Phase constrained versus phase integrated activities explained
How taping a foot into ER creates the exact failure pattern this addresses
Why improving ER measures without IR improvement is a red flag not a win

Leave a comment: have you been defaulting to left-side-first activities without establishing the right-side constraint? Tell us what changed when you flipped it.

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Timestamps:

0:00 What the P&I workshop revealed

1:30 Better recognition of what practitioners are actually seeing

3:00 The common deficiency: not arresting rightward forward progression

5:30 Why the late ER shape does not become early propulsion without IR

8:00 The cutting analogy: decelerating before changing direction

10:00 What it looks like when the right side constraint is missing

12:00 Right low oblique as the starting point most people skip

14:00 Why rushing to left-side activities adds compensation on top of compensation

16:00 Right foot elevated split stance before left foot elevated

18:00 How to check: do your IR measures change after the right-side intervention

20:00 Phase constrained versus phase integrated activities

22:00 Achilles and hamstring injuries as consequences of forced ER strategies

25:00 Why taping a foot into ER creates the failure pattern

27:00 The general sequence: create space then slow down then project

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