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Style And Glory

Style And Glory

On My High Trojan Horse
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I have not heard or read anything concerning VDV & his injury other than what Ange has said in pressers.
@ClemFandango seems to be more informed.

As long as he & Romero are not deliberately sitting out in protest of Ange...
 
The Cryptkeeper

The Cryptkeeper

The Aussie Yid
I have not heard or read anything concerning VDV & his injury other than what Ange has said in pressers.
@ClemFandango seems to be more informed.

As long as he & Romero are not deliberately sitting out in protest of Ange...

There are some reports around that we have offered to make Romero our highest paid player and extend his contract.

Whether this is a serious long term play or concocted to give us leverage when selling is anybody’s guess. But it doesn’t seem like something that we’d do if the guy was staging a mutiny.

I don’t doubt these guys are injured but why the mixed messaging from the club?

We are all being gaslit.
 
ClemFandango

ClemFandango

Lord High Chief of the Privvy
Founding Member
Ange has apparently set the record straight about Mickey.

 
Style And Glory

Style And Glory

On My High Trojan Horse
Founding Member
Ange has apparently set the record straight about Mickey.

That's very interesting.
Besides his body adjusting, he may need to "re-learn" how to run.

In my younger playing days, I always wanted to be the fittest player because I knew I wouldn't be the most talented. Always someone more skilled. So I trained hard. But I continually got hamstring & calf tears/strains.

The top sports physios & medical doctors that I saw simply tried to deal with the symptoms rather than the source. They kept hooking me up to machines to heal the damaged muscle.

After more than a decade of frustration, I found someone who was able to find the source of the problem which wasn't in my legs but rooted in my body's alignment. My right hip was ever so slightly higher & tilted forward than my left causing a misalignment of my leg muscles (some stretched more than others). However slight, it didn't take much for it to be physically disruptive. Specific exercises & yoga resolved the issues & haven't had a problem since (doesn't hurt that my daughter's a progressive kinesiologist).

At the highest of levels that VDV is at, these minor differences in degrees of misalignment must be even more pronounced with the demands involved, especially with Ange's style of play which demands more running & sprinting.

FWIW, when I was dealing with my muscle issues, I remember reading about AC Milan's player purchase / transfer policy. Before any player was brought in, he was put through an exhaustive physical which was so detailed that it included a test to see if their teeth were properly aligned. Because if they weren't, it would misalign their jaw, neck, shoulders, etc & all the way down to their feet which could cause future problems. That's when AC was on top of the footballing world.
 
Yid

Yid

Moderator
Founding Member
That's very interesting.
Besides his body adjusting, he may need to "re-learn" how to run.

In my younger playing days, I always wanted to be the fittest player because I knew I wouldn't be the most talented. Always someone more skilled. So I trained hard. But I continually got hamstring & calf tears/strains.

The top sports physios & medical doctors that I saw simply tried to deal with the symptoms rather than the source. They kept hooking me up to machines to heal the damaged muscle.

After more than a decade of frustration, I found someone who was able to find the source of the problem which wasn't in my legs but rooted in my body's alignment. My right hip was ever so slightly higher & tilted forward than my left causing a misalignment of my leg muscles (some stretched more than others). However slight, it didn't take much for it to be physically disruptive. Specific exercises & yoga resolved the issues & haven't had a problem since (doesn't hurt that my daughter's a progressive kinesiologist).

At the highest of levels that VDV is at, these minor differences in degrees of misalignment must be even more pronounced with the demands involved, especially with Ange's style of play which demands more running & sprinting.

FWIW, when I was dealing with my muscle issues, I remember reading about AC Milan's player purchase / transfer policy. Before any player was brought in, he was put through an exhaustive physical which was so detailed that it included a test to see if their teeth were properly aligned. Because if they weren't, it would misalign their jaw, neck, shoulders, etc & all the way down to their feet which could cause future problems. That's when AC was on top of the footballing world.
This 100%. When I was marathoning I slowly learnt that my mobility was 100% linked to the way I ran, my ability to cope with tiredness, stress and the accumulation of fatigue improved hand over fist once I figured it out...

I dropped under 4 hrs for the distance when I dialed in my stretching and mobility and prioritised it as much as my running and strength... It did change the way I ran, I was historically a plodder who slowed up hills and this work allowed me to open my legs and attack hills (up and down) with the result of my fitness flying through previous plateaus.

I'd always been a stretching advocate when I cured my own chronic back (caused by powerlifting... badly) pain with a daily progressive stretching routine that replaced my weights regime...

Everyone who bemoans a bad back would benefit from increased mobility even if it didn't solve their issues 100%... Trouble is people are lazy and want an immediate fix.
 
J.spurs

J.spurs

Well-Known Member
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Was talking to a doctor not long ago about this RE: my kid, who's having hip and hamstring issues, and he likened it to a car being slightly out of alignment--eventually causes damage elsewhere. Honestly, you'd think that medical staff (not just at Spurs) would've sussed it out earlier with VdV. He's still young, hopefully this is something he can fix.
 
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