One of the most significant contributors to mitigate injury in the aspiring and/or active professional player/athlete is the ability to integrate functional movement into your game. The ability to adopt a stance that is open to and accommodates functional movement is a head start that most developing players are deprived of and in turn not taught until well into their formative years when they’re on the cusp of potentially turning professional. The draw back here is two fold — one, the player/athlete needs to recondition their current technique to incorporate functional movement, and two, are more susceptible to developing an injury due to their repetitive motions to movements not aligning with functional movement principles…
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