Movement Camp - Day 1

We are now on Day 2 of the Movement Camp in Singapore. I feel incredibly blessed to be training alongside such incredible movers from all over the globe. We had a great lecture from Ido this morning on isolation and integration. Of course, when we first learn a movement we isolate, but Ido's message was that far too often we stop there with the movement itself and bracket it off from other movement. So we took the simple pistol and we worked on transitioning in and out of it with other movements.

Yesterday we worked on the muscle up to backwards roll as well as "kip ups" (no, not the kipping pull up) but a way to fall back on your back and spring back onto your feet. We also did some breakfalling and aerial cartwheels.

We had a great lecture by Frank Forencich last night titled "The Primate's Predicament". We briefly discussed the science of epigenetics as well as the concept of "mismatch". We have succeeded in such spectacular scientific and technological advancements but at the cost of creating a very unnatural body. The body remembers hundreds of thousands of years of evolution - of running, jumping, swinging, pulling, throwing, etc. The body was designed to move, but our modern luxuries have in many ways, destroyed the necessity for movement. We have, in effect, created a zoo for humans - an unnatural and deeply sorrowful way of living that is out of step with our primal roots.

Darci