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You’re Doing It Wrong: Worse Still, Supination Can Ruin Your Technique When it comes to mastering performance—whether in sports, music, or physical discipline—technique is everything. Yet many athletes, musicians, and even professionals make critical mistakes that sabotage their progress, often without realizing it. One of the most insidious yet frequently overlooked errors is supination—a subtle postural or movement flaw that can severely undermine your form, efficiency, and results. ### What Is Supination, and Why Does It Matter? Supination refers to the overuse or dominance of the outer part of the forearm and wrist, where the hand tends to rotate inward, and the wrist pads bear more pressure than the heelometacarpal joints. In everyday terms, it’s the tendency to “hold” movements in a way that favors the thumb and pinky side, rather than balancing force across the hand and forearm.