Here are a handful of tasks emphasizing accuracy, rhythm, reaction, timing and speed, most of it I picked up from the ever creative Soviet boxing school and other sport fields, a few were my own discoveries in my daily play and research.

Talk is cheap, but each one of these tasks offer challenges that would surprise even elite athletes yet the point for me as a practitioner of movement is not to master the tasks but the skill set behind them.

You see just practicing movements is not the same as practicing movement.... I know it’s a confusing concept for most but try to think of it this way: every specialist gets good at what he/she practices but the generalist gets better at some areas that are not practiced as well.

Most definitely having ‘skin in the game’ (Nassim Taleb) and applying yourself to never ending changing circumstances and orchestrated challenges is the beginning of the journey into movement without which one should not assume understanding of the concept just like a practitioner of ‘combative movements’ like most traditional martial artists should not assume understanding of fighting if there is no actual and regular practice of non cooperative, ‘aliveness’ (Matt Thornton) driven fight sparring.

Unlike what most who speak ‘movement’ these days think, I do not believe practicing movements is enough to qualify as a comprehensive study of movement, as a core concept. On the other hand, applying movement principles each and every day in a process driven and organized but ever evolving fashion is an actual Practice of Movement in my eyes! One is ‘practicing movements’ while the other is a Movement Practice.

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