I want to keep this training as varied and live-near as possible. Many trainings are heavily inspired by Methode Naturelle. This means we will be outdoors all time, we will often train “natural human movement”. We will do many things while balancing (since it is a great tool for getting into the moment). We will walk on all fours or climb around on something. We will carry stuff or our training partners. We will jump and run.
But we will also do lots of “maintainance work”. Joint Mobility, Joint stability, coordination. Injuries are a big joy-killer, I want us to avoid them.
Goal
In its core, this is still a survival training. Get fit for whatever comes in our lives. From a punctured raft or a flat tire or sprained ankle in no-man’s-land to helping when the shit hits the fan. Get to know our bodies and minds, know what we can do and what we can’t. Also when the weather is not fine. If we didn’t eat enough or sleep enough. If we don’t know when we will have the comfort to sit in the couch again.
Thus we will also train “circumstances”. Heat, cold, darkness, wetness, height, depth, hunger, thirst, tiredness… – always finding the ways to enjoy it anyways.
Self caring and hard training
We will do lots of self-observance in training, but that does not mean not to train hard. It just means letting yourself be pulled to the physical limits by couriosity (to experience it), instead of pushing yourself to it with eyes closed and grimace.
An aspect which is important for me is to get into hard training without harming ourselves – not only physically. There exist lots of so-called “motivational quotes” which use fear, anger or insults as driver to push one to the limit. I wish that we reach our limits because of joy and couriosity (Although.. very well-dosed insults can be fun sometimes :D).
When you force yourself to go to the limit in a skill you don’t like, every time you train it, you are basically training to hate it. In your brain the road to an awful feeling becomes bigger. It becomes a habit. Even if you can get very good at this skill, this will be an obstacle, if you get thrown into a situation where this skill is heavily needed.
Unorthodox trainings
Over the year, I want to re-test a couple of “unorthodox trainings” I did or held in the past:
- We all play the characters in a (very strenuous) story I tell.
- Training in the dark (or even blindfolded?)
- Training throughout a whole night
- Training with selfmade music or singing (following the example of fishing or working songs)
- Training in silence
Train Joy 