THE DIXON DISCOVERIES

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Last updated 8/2/03
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Jim Dixon
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Dixon’s Discover Two Ways to Manage Movement
The body contains Three Types of Muscles. Movement from place to place can be managed two ways. Skeletal muscles can be told when, where, and how to move by the athlete or muscles can be supervised automatically and only told when to move. Athlete ability is affected by the method used to supervise skeletal muscles, the condition of the muscles, the movement intended and the attitude or desire of the athlete.

Skeletal muscles move your bones. The Skeletal Muscle System is made of voluntary muscles because you decide when to move them. According to the link below you have more than 400 skeletal muscles. Athletes may choose from two systems to supervise or control skeletal muscles to cause body movement from place to place.
The job of the cardiac muscle, or heart, is to pump blood through your body. The cardiac muscle is involuntary; it never stops working during your lifetime.
Smooth muscles control your internal movements, such as moving food around in your intestines. These muscles are also found in the blood vessels, where they assist the flow of blood. Smooth muscles are involuntary.
The Engine: Over 400 voluntary skeletal muscles that move the bones.
Engine Supervisor: The control center, computer processor, that coordinates skeletal muscles according to an inborn plan.
Self Supervision: Telling the bones when, where and how to move through feeling the muscles and the movement. Supervising movement of the bones with conscious thinking according to a reasoned plan. Kinesthetic Feedback.
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Skeletal Muscles Can Be Managed Two Ways

1. Automatic Movement System: (Involuntary fulfillment of place to place movement) You choose the activity you need and when to begin. The movement is fulfilled automatically by the Engine Supervisor self-acting according to an inborn plan. The movement is done for you by the Engine Supervisor. This system accounts for Plan A movement. Movement is graceful, easy, balanced, injury free and exceptionally productive. 100% of the muscle count is used. No thinking about how to do the movement is required.
2. Manual Movement System: (Voluntary fulfillment of place to place movement) You decide where you want to move, when to start, and how you want the bones to move. You self-supervise the movement according to your reasoned plan. You do the movement yourself. This system accounts for Plan C movement. Upwards of 50% of the available muscle count is used. Movement is tension filled, unbalanced, moderately productive and injury prone. The athlete chooses the intended activity and fulfills this activity for himself with his arms and legs. He self-supervising the voluntary skeletal muscle system according to his reasoned plan. Movement is supervised by feeling the muscles and the movement. Kinesthetic feedback.

Athletes may choose to use either system to supervise the movement. Great athletes choose the Automatic Movement System.
Body Type and Attitude: Athlete ability is affected by the method the athlete chooses to supervise skeleton muscles. The Dixon Discoveries find that the two movement systems operate separate muscle circuits in body. The athlete may exhibit physical and psychological characteristics as a result of the movement system habitually selected. Plan A athletes may have small calves and muscular torsos. They may exhibit a carefree attitude toward performance under pressure. Plan C athletes may have large calves and quads, moderately conditioned torsos and exhibit a serious, apprehensive attitude toward performance under pressure.

Working Side: The Plan A Swing or Delivery works off the front leg while Plan C Swing or Delivery works off the back leg. Plan C movement causes the swing or pitch with the arms and legs that have no power themselves unless leveraged against the back foot. The key to the Plan C system is to “stay back”. Since the arms are powered by the torso in Plan A the key to this system to get away from the back foot to a position of mechanical advantage on the front foot, so the torso can produce the leverage the arm or arms need.

Intentions: The intentions of the Plan A Swing or Delivery are different than the Plan C Swing or Delivery. Plan C intentions are to stay back and whip or drive the bat or ball with the arms. Plan A intentions are to get to the front foot away from the back foot and change directions on the front foot with the front side of the torso. The arm(s) are to be powered by the turning torso.

The Plan: Plan C uses one of several popular plans to shift the weight back, then stay back on the back foot as you shift the weight forward. Some advocate moving forward as far as possible by pushing and pulling with the legs with the goal to get as close to the target as possible while staying on the back foot. Drive or whip the arm(s) with the arms to the target. Plan A uses no plan for how to do the movement but depends on the Engine Supervisor to fulfill the movement intended, the intention. The intention is to turn away from the target with the front side of the torso, then turn toward the target with the front side of the torso.

The Evidence: Proof of Plan A movement is the fact that a boy 5’8 can hit a baseball 450’ or throw a baseball 100 mph. Additional proof is that in an emergency the body will move us out of harms way without us thinking about the brake pedal, feeling the legs to jump over a snake, feeling the feet to catch ourselves during a fall or feeling our legs to move us away from danger. When in danger, the body is able to cause miraculous activity that points to the existence of Plan A movement and the Creator who made the human body,
Thankfulness: Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex! Your workmanship is marvelous—and how well I know it. Psalms 139:14 New Living Translation of The Holy Bible