Thread by @ErwanLeCorre

Fundamental lessons from martial arts:

-you don’t need to be fit to start practicing basic techniques.

-most of the physiological adaptions you need stem from skills practice alone.

-progressive difficulty

-adaptable application of techniques > knowing techniques alone.

The method I’ve designed for learning, practicing and teaching Natural Movement is based on those principles.

This system is called MovNat for Moving Naturally and Moving in Nature.
But what it really is is a method for the development of real-world physical capability.

The original purpose of martial arts is to develop an effective real-world ability to fight or defend oneself.

The primary purpose of MovNat is to develop an effective real-world ability to operate your body in situations that demands a physical response.

An overwhelming majority of people do not possess such capability, or in a limited way, or in a specialized way, but not in a complete way. It is probably your case.

In other words, most grownups today are physical INEPT. They’re physically inept because they’ve never been physically educated.

How would I know? It’s very simple, no PE program teaches real-world physical capability.
Some programs used to teach it...many decades ago.

Overall, very people have been through such programs, they’re now old and it’s anyway most likely that they didn’t keep training.

Those programs taught very little technique anyway, they were an obstacle course approach. In other words, a group would go through the obstacles with little to no technical instruction. The naturally athletic ones would do well, the majority wouldn’t.

Today you’d be hard-pressed finding any school with a program that teaches kids how to be physically capable in the real-world. So the question is, what are they actually learning, beyond the specific rules of specialized sports?

And most importantly, if they aren’t developing such capability, can we actually talk about physical EDUCATION? Isn’t the goal of school to prepare young people to being capable and self-reliant in the real-world as much as possible?

Therefore another important question is how come it doesn’t seem to matter that every year millions of kids get out of school on the verge of being adults and yet are still physically inept?

Ultimately, ask yourself: are you physically capable? Or are you physically inept?

Do you possess movement competency?

Do you possess physiological capacity?

If the answer is no to one of the two or no to both, ask yourself why? Doesn’t it matter to you?

Ask yourself not what it is that you can physically do, but what it is that you cannot.

Ask yourself if that is an issue to you or not.

I’ll share with you my personal take on this: I couldn’t fathom myself not being physically capable for the real-world. I can’t be inept. That’s not something I’d EVER accept from myself.

I can’t accept it for multiple reasons. For practical reasons to begin with: it gives me freedom of movement. I can imagine anything I want to do or that could happen and the physical side of it, what the physical demand is gonna be, and feel confident I’m decently ready.

Last, the awareness of such capability is a tremendous psychological booster: I have self-confidence in my body, in my posture, breathing, in my health, in my physical ability. I have self-esteem.

If, as an adult, you ever started to consider the importance of real-world physical capability for yourself, in your own life, know that that’s exactly what the MovNat method will teach you, and it’s the most effective method at it.

“Natural Movement” sounds pretty easy until you start training MovNat and ALL your movement and physiological deficiencies get exposed. You discover what you’re NOT capable of because of lack of skill, lack of mobility, strength etc...

You’ll discover that your physical ability is reduced. Trust me, many people who thought they were “fit” and then trained MovNat made the same realization.

Now you can forget all of this...or you can do something about it. You can choose to form yourself into a physically capable being...or stay inept for the rest of your life. That’s really what it boils down to, how much do you value your OWN physical capability in your life?