This post on lifting technique wraps up our four part series on Body Mechanics. Here’s what we know so far: Body Mechanics is defined as ways in which the body moves and maintains balance while making the most efficient use of all its parts. Posture is simply the way your head, torso, arms, and legs …Continue Reading

Who’s ready for some more useful and easily applied tips about body mechanics? Our focus this week is on Muscle Groups. Let’s break this down a little bit. The major moveable parts of our bodies are the head, trunk, arms, and legs. Depending on your point of view – medicine, weight lifting, martial arts, etc. …Continue Reading

All About That Base of Support! That’s funny! Let’s acknowledge that the joke was low-hanging fruit and continue working our way through the four main areas of body mechanics, shall we? Last week was all about Posture. This week, we’re going to talk about the Base of Support. A “base of support” is the area …Continue Reading

Last week we defined body mechanics as ways in which the body moves and maintains balance while making the most efficient use of all its parts. This week, we’re going to get into the first of the four main areas of body mechanics: Posture. Posture is simply the way your head, torso, arms, and legs …Continue Reading

Mark got back from IAVM’s VenueConnect in Toronto yesterday. By all reports, the show went very well. Because Mark was scheduled to host two Arena Rigging BootCamp Sessions about Body Mechanics and Overhead Rigging in the afternoon of the first day of the conference, longtime friend and colleague, Harlan Lipschutz, went up north with him to …Continue Reading

Our friend and colleague, R. Duncan MacKenzie, retired today. I asked a handful of folks who work with Duncan regularly to share how they met him, their favorite story, or a hallmark of working on a project with him. The following three comments sum up the many impressions I collected: “He is one of the …Continue Reading