I’m going to get an MRI later this week to be sure, but based on wishing super hard not to have a spinal injury and the similarity to a bruised rib I think it’s a strained or torn intercostal muscle.
Leaning that direction. The specific change is hard to explain without more of a vocabulary, but it was multiple things at the same time. It involved lag, relaxing my wrists, taking a divot, and shallowing. The last one seemed odd since the video analysis indicates that I don’t have a problem coming over the top. Anyway it more than I could be intentional about, and my tempo and sequence got all fucked up.
Where I wound up was turning my hips with trail forearm perpendicular to my hipbone and my torso bent over to the side at impact with the ground which felt very out of sync and uncomfortable.
The results were pretty terrible and he kept saying things like “better” and “almost” and that’s when I asked him about it not feeling natural.