Welcome to Operation Buttery Joints! (Must watch/read)

For all my beginners who are new to these concepts. There are 7 beginner videos listed in order. You’ll have to watch all of them before going to the classes. Reading the captions to the videos is also a good idea. Students who are already f...

Irradiation is a very important concept to master, and we utilize for a few reasons.
1. It allows us to create tension, and apply stress on lines of connective tissue. Our biological makeup of tissue responds to stress inputs. In weight training we utilize dumbbells, barbells, and other weighted ...

Here I want to touch on two joints, and two joint positions.
Shoulder and Hip Internal and External rotation. It will be important to learn about your body, and learn how to initiate movements specific to the areas you're trying to work. Rotation will be a huge emphasis, especially for the hips a...

Controlled Articular Rotations (CARs)

This is an introduction video and mostly educational, but I want you to try some of the movements you see and learn about them. In the next beginner video (4), we will do this entire routine as a follow along class, but here we must learn about the movements...

Here you can follow along and do your CARs routine like a class.

Do your CARs with good intent and focus. These movements are slow and controlled, while maintaining tension. Try to express your greatest pain-free ranges of motion. Reminder - never push through any pain. Back out of any range of ...

PAILs/RAILs - Progress/Regressive Angular Isometric Loading. This is a very important concept for the classes. Learn more about them here!

To put it short, PAILs/RAILs is just isometric loading. In traditional flexibility work, we go into a stretch, and we passively hang out there. When we do th...

Pain is a topic I can't stress enough. At no point, through any movement, do I ever want you to go into a range of motion that creates pain, or a sharp pinching sensation. Always bypass those areas that create pain or a pinch. We never want the nervous system to associate pain with any movement.
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Intra Abdominal Pressure is a concept we utilize to help irradiate more tension throughout our entire body, and to create more core stability. I'll cue this often in the classes, but if you're new to this give it a try here first.