go to the top hold the big toe go to the top crease and you're just going to push so then you can find where that joint is and that what what we want to be standing on is the the end of the fangi that is the long bone that's more heel side than big toe side of where that buckles when you Buckle it you'll actually kind of press your seso bones into your finger okay and then even just lift your big toe and feel how you get a little bit more kind of pressure like that that MTP joint presses into the finger there and then do the same thing with that pinky toe so you can get a sense of that fifth many of us will have a little callous where that fifth is too and get a sense of like the slope on your foot of that transverse Arch because it isn't it isn't straight across the underside of the toes ah cool um pretty Arch too yeah yeah okay so we've got a sense of now that MTP joint we've got a sense of what our up leg and our down L scoot the chair out of the way and come to standing and so that that MTP joint it likes to have it likes to be able to kind of press down into the ground it it doesn't if I have shoes or I'm standing on a surface that pushes up that end of the bone it doesn't like that as much because it breaks that lever can you see that so if I have shoes that don't have enough structure um or I'm like walking on rocks in a river bed if if I'm getting pressure here it it it's not as as happy to have that happen it likes to be able to reach down if you will into the ground so just in standing have a sense of kind of going back and forth on each leg or being on both legs and really feel this kind of like nestling into the ground at that MTP joint okay can you feel how if the end of your big toe pushes into the ground do you feel how that takes you off of it yeah yeah yeah so it takes it off of the ground okay now why does this matter this matters because that point is a point that I can rotate around so pick a leg have a sense of that point and then this sense of it's spinning like your body can rotate around it right do you feel how secure that feels opposed to if we're not on that MTP joint if we dig say the end of the big toe in it's like do you feel how that same movement you did it's not as clear it's like your system is trying to figure out what you want it to do so what I'm I'm like starting to figure out is that MTP joint and when we organize our movement around it it it is very protective for our system which means we don't have to have protection kind of ramp up