Swivel Technique

Well my range of motion during the swivel isn't extreme enough to cause damage to origin of the Gastrocnemius, which connects behind the knee on the femur. Feel the upper more outside quarter of your calves while performing the swivel. It should flex on and off. If you're feeling pain in the ankle or knee try relaxing more. You should focus only on the plantarflexion movement of the talus in your ankle. As in only worrying about stepping back up into heel up. The heel down motion is a relaxing step. I just let my leg fall into heel down to only be thrown back up by the pushing motion off the ball of my foot.

soooooo, if there's pain in the front of your knee, relax, you're probably focusing too much on lifting your foot and activaiting the Tibialis anterior muscle. the muscle by your shin. Relax! drumming isn't about forcing a lift. relax relax relax

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Education

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• Drums
• Heel
• Down
• up
• Toe-heel
• Heel-toe
• Swivel
• Axis
• Brennen
• Lesser
• Vic
• Firth
• Mapex

[PMontanaro5]

nice.... how do you know so much about knees and muscles and what not?

if that was you in this vid you're pretty awesome at this!

[brenzig]

I'm a fitness trainer. Yes it was I in the video ^_^

[xGAVENx]

It seems like you care a lot less about teaching the technique as you do about proving its not bad for your knees.

[brenzig]

I totally don't care, right? That's why I've I tried making these as quick and as easy to learn as possible. I had a lot of crap comments about it was bad for knees so I defended it by giving a full description of what muscles to not incorporate. Sometimes learning to relax certain muscle groups will help focus the involvement of proper muscle groups for specific motions.  I find this technique obsolete now though. Once you get the motion completely relaxed, it's a lot like the moeller.

[DagonMetalMusic]

George Kollias has said that the swivel will eventually damage your knees. It all depends on how you do it, if you swing out with your knees, or at that height, you could mess your knees up... rather swing out by the ankle and you should be fine.

[XxStrongDrums1996xX]

@TheDeathplague Heel toe doesn't sound like shit. That makes no sense.

[TheDeathplague]

@s3rTing no, sounds like shit and is not single stroke

[skaterfan105]

Is the pearl eliminator worth buying?

[Kierank30]

@s3rTing Only for doing quick doublets, with swivel you can keep going. But i suppose its personal preferance.

[s3rTing]

heel toe is better than this technque

[WARLOCK70]

Nice! Thanx B sure to check out my unique style as well.

[mathir2002]

may i know the cam colour and the beater angle?and tjhe spring tension

[scaxxomaxx]

@brenzig really man,it's not about 12 yold gay Kollias fans,it's about what doctors,Dave Weckl,Virgil Donati and Kollias said.You can get the same results with the ankle motion,you really should. Think about it,I don't want to have an argument with you!

[Supertax2]

@brenzig It looks like you use more of arange of motion then I do tduring my swivel, so thats comforting to know it wont cause damage:), great vid! thanks for posting.

[punkrockdrummer1990]

awesome vid, my fave technique,..but fuck i sware my right knee is hurting badly from yesterday....maybe its something you get over