by Recently, I’ve come across Ido Portal, a visionary from Israel. Ido started off with Afro-Brazilian Capoeira, but eventually started practicing “Movement” and is now the pioneer of the “Movement” culture.
What is “Movement”?
“Movement is big. Bigger than any specific movement discipline and it contains within it HUGE ‘worlds’ like the world of fitness, dance, martial arts, strength, flexibility, circus and more. Specializing is great – but beyond our specialties – we are all HUMAN first, MOVERS second and only then SPECIALISTS.” – Ido Portal
A movement pattern involves combinations of concentric, eccentric, and isometric contractions in some range of motion. We are all movers. Whether it be Rowing, Running, Basketball, Swimming, Hip-hop, or Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, we are all practicing on becoming the best ( whether that be the most powerful , the most efficient, the most controlled , the most graceful) at a specific movement pattern. Ido believes that it is important to get your head out of the gutter and to look around because there is so much you can learn about your discipline from studying others movers.
At first glance of this video you may find his practices to be strange but this man is a genius! You will also be surprised how hard some of these movements are. The movement he performs at 0:35 is called the lizard crawl. Try it for yourself.
I have a lot of respect for this individual and have been incorporating many of his practices in my training regiment. Be sure to watch his videos on Youtube since he provides a lot of good ideas.