Bodyweight Flow Basics
Floor based activities such as Animal Flow, Floreio or Capoeira can offer fantastic opportunities to build strength, balance, coordination, rhythm and so much more. Learning to load and move around on all fours is not something that happens much in many areas of life or training but it can have so many awesome health and fitness benefits. However there can sometimes be barriers to entry for those with injuries or chronic pain. And for those of us already on the journey to solving our issues, some of the movements can reinforce the patterns or postures that lay at the root cause of our issues. So in this 8 week course Lenny is going to create an entry point for training with these fun and challenging approaches in a way that takes into consideration the body as a whole. We’ll start with the basics of base positions and balance and ultimately end in building a repertoire of movements and choreographies that will be fun and rewarding to complete.
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Week 1 - Base Positions, Basic Transitions, Loading & Troubleshooting Positions
To kick off the course we learn about base positions, essentially different static poses we use as a foundation to move from. We're going to discuss different strategies for accessing these position and how to troubleshoot common limitations. Finally we'll begin to explore how to move in and out ...
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Week 2 - Form Stretches & Intro to Locomotion
After carefully learning how to load and stabilise our base positions in week 1, we now begin to increase the repertoire of ways to move in and out of them. We'll also be looking at locomotion from some of these bases and how we use them to crawl. We'll finish with our first full flow utilising a...
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Week 2 - Final Flow
Use this video if you would like to keep practicing the final flow of week 2. It's a great way to learn the choreography. Then if you'd like to progress it one step further you can move away from using the video and try to remember the routine without the guidance. This in turn offers you a chan...
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Week 3 - Intro to Kicks & Locomotion Continued
Building on the work of the previous 2 weeks we introduce some more locomotion this week as well as kicks. We'll also play around with tempo and speed changes. We'll finish with another fun flow at the end.
EQUIPMENT:
All you need is some floor space, approximately 2 metres by 2 metres would be ... -
Week 3 - Final Flow
Use this video if you would like to keep practicing the final flow of week 3. It's a great way to learn the choreography. Then if you'd like to progress it one step further you can move away from using the video and try to remember the routine without the guidance. This in turn offers you a chan...
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Week 4 - Kicks & Locomotion Continued, Intro to Pops
This week we finish off leaning the various kicks we can add into our flows. We also learn how we can explore locomotion from the Ape base position. We continue to build on the strength required to move well on the ground and finish with a fun flow at the end.
EQUIPMENT:
All you need is some flo... -
Week 4 - Final Flow
Use this video if you would like to keep practicing the final flow of week 4. It's a great way to learn the choreography. Then if you'd like to progress it one step further you can move away from using the video and try to remember the routine without the guidance. This in turn offers you a chan...
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Week 5 - Advanced Transitions & Intro to Jumps
At this point in the course we have a decent size catalogue of movements and hoepfully our response to the callouts during the flow is becoming a little more fluid. So we can continue to explore the basics of slightly more dynamic movements that we touched on during the last class. Jumps, pops, l...
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Week 5 - Final Flow
Use this video if you would like to keep practicing the final flow of week 5. It's a great way to learn the choreography. Then if you'd like to progress it one step further you can move away from using the video and try to remember the routine without the guidance. This in turn offers you a chan...
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Week 6 - Intro to Levitations & Building Strength with Ground Based Training
In the sixth class of the course we really start to explore the different ways to be explosive and dynamic by introducing a couple more jumps into our repertoire. We also look at ways we can begin to build sufficent strength to float or what's know as levitate during those jumps. To help us do th...
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Week 6 - Final Flow
Use this video if you would like to keep practicing the final flow of week 6. It's a great way to learn the choreography. Then if you'd like to progress it one step further you can move away from using the video and try to remember the routine without the guidance. This in turn offers you a chan...
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Week 7 - Strength Training Continued
We now have a foundational library of movements to create from. We also know how to load and adapt each of them to suit our specific needs. The final two weeks of the course is about refining skills, building strength and working on some of the more complex elements in structuring flows. This wee...
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Week 7 - Final Flow
Use this video if you would like to keep practicing the final flow of week 7. It's a great way to learn the choreography. Then if you'd like to progress it one step further you can move away from using the video and try to remember the routine without the guidance. This in turn offers you a chan...
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Week 8 - Rhythm & Flow
The final session introduces the concept of rhythm to our movements and flow. Using a click track we'll play around with trying to coordinate both our movements and the timing for additional complexity both physically and cognatively. Of course, as always, we'll finish the session with our final ...
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Week 8 - Final Flow
Use this video if you would like to keep practicing the final flow of week 7. It's a great way to learn the choreography. Then if you'd like to progress it one step further you can move away from using the video and try to remember the routine without the guidance. This in turn offers you a chan...
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Week 8 - Rhythm Section
Use this video if you would like to keep practicing the rhythm section from week 8. It's a great way to practice the timing required whilst creating a pace to stick with.