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In this segment we're going to continue to talk about protecting the knees. In the last
segment we talked about forward and backward movement. In this spot, I'm going to talk
about how to protect your knee while you are turning. If you do not turn your hips and
waist, your knee will do the job of the hips, which it's not designed to do. So as Ray sits
down, as he shifts his weight from one side to the other, he wants to make sure that his,
once again, his knee and toe are in alignment. So as he came in this direction and turned,
you could see his knee is turning outward because his waist is not doing the turn. So
if he brings his knee, as he shifts his weight, brings his knee in alignment, and then turns
his waist, his hip instead, his knee won't take the pressure. Now if he shifts his weight
over and brings his foot in and goes to step out to the side and touches, (keep your weight
back at the moment), as he keeps his steps out, keeps his weight here, if he turns in
this direction, if he doesn't turn his hip, (keep your weight back), his knee will also
take pressure at a bad angle. But if he keeps his weight here and turns from his hip joint
without turning his knee, it won't take any pressure.