Osteopathy · From the Caribbean to the Pacific

The body of a waterman is not a desk body.

The Lineup Method is an osteopathic approach built for kiteboarders, surfers, foilers, paddlers and freedivers — for the bodies that live by tropical water, where the shoulder, the spine and the breath carry a different load than they do on land.

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The premise

Island bodies move differently. They should be treated that way.

Years of paddling rotate a spine. A lifetime of duck-diving loads a shoulder. Humidity, salt and sun reshape how tissue recovers. Standard sports protocols were written for gyms and stadiums — not for the lineup, the reef, or the open ocean.

The Lineup Method reads the body of someone who lives by the water as its own category — and aligns it accordingly. Two meanings, one idea: the lineup where you wait for the next set, and the act of lining up the body so it can keep going.

The protocols

One method, four lines of work.

The Lineup Method breaks into focused sub-protocols, each mapped to how a specific island discipline loads the body.

01

Waterman Recovery

General-purpose recovery work for people who train, surf and paddle across multiple water disciplines — built for accumulated, mixed load.

02

Surfer's Spine

Targeted work on the lumbar and thoracic chains stressed by paddling, pop-ups and the repeated hyperextension of the surf position.

03

Paddle & Va'a

Rotational and shoulder-focused osteopathy for outrigger, SUP and prone paddling — disciplines that build powerful but asymmetric patterns.

04

Freediving Equilibrium

Thoracic mobility, diaphragm freedom and breath-load balance for the apnea body, where flexibility of the ribcage is performance and safety both.

The two-islands project

Developed between two tropical worlds.

Caribbean
Where it began
→
Pacific
Where it's headed

The same body shows up in two oceans — the surfer, the paddler, the diver — carrying the same loads under the same sun. The Lineup Method is being built across both: a method of the islands, not of one coast.

Where it was forged

Built at the top of the sport.

The Lineup Method didn't start in a classroom. It was shaped over a decade treating high-level watermen — on the French national kiteboarding setup, at the development squad in Leucate, and on the road as medical support on world-tour freestyle events (PKRA, WKL, GKA).

Treated Carlos Mario — reigning kiteboarding freestyle world champion — for a knee injury at the 2017 Mondial du Vent in Leucate, the day he landed the first ever 10/10 in the history of freestyle kiteboarding: a Heart Attack 7.

What a moment. Watch the run that made history — World Kiteboarding League →

Timothee Reguigne, osteopath, with kiteboarding freestyle world champion Carlos Mario at the 2017 Mondial du Vent in Leucate
Leucate, 2017 — with Carlos Mario at the Mondial du Vent.

Over the same years, the approach took shape alongside athletes who went on to become world champions, and across every discipline that loads an island body — surf, paddle, foil, freediving, windsurf. That's the ground the method grew from: real bodies, under real pressure, expected to perform.

The founder

Timothee Reguigne

A French-trained osteopath (D.O. France) practising in the tropics, working daily with the bodies of people who live by the water. The Lineup Method grew out of that practice — from treating surfers, paddlers and watermen and finding that they needed their own approach.

The work now extends across two oceans, toward a practice rooted in the Pacific.

  • TitleOsteopath, D.O. (France)
  • Founder ofThe Lineup Method
  • FocusWatermen & island bodies
  • BasedCaribbean → Pacific
  • LanguagesFrench · English