MovNat - The Workout The World Forgot

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Comment by puck on November 13, 2009 at 11:38pm

Natural Method looks pretty neat. I might try to incorporate some of these techniques and movements into my future solo training.
SafeNSure's quotes really do point out something important: there are certain movements and motions that typical parkour does not sufficiently cover. Working MovNat methods may actually improve my skill with parkour, as it introduces new ranges of movement.

One thing I gotta say though, this guy really needs to work on his slapout.

Comment by SafeNSure on June 25, 2009 at 12:14pm

Also (!):
"MovNat is a retooling, a modern and improved version of Methode Naturelle, in any case a much more comprehensive natural movement training than parkour, which is a specialized version of Methode Naturelle.
Despite what [some] affirm, swimming has never been part of parkour (I am friend with David Belle, founder of parkour, and he barely knows how to swim, what do you deduct?).
Lifting, carrying, throwing, catching and defending are not part of that discipline either, which is a lot of truly indispensable and potentially vital natural movement capacities missing.
I have trained many parkour practitioners worldwide, including David Belle or Thomas Couetdic and all have been really challenged in all the missing capacities mentioned and that’s why all of them have had a blast experiencing MovNat :-).
So no, parkour and MovNat are not the same thing ;-)."

[source: www.blueridgeoutdoors.com]

Comment by SafeNSure on June 25, 2009 at 8:24am

Also, please note Erwan Le Corre's respectable, and partly endorsable, opinion on parkour:

"MovNat has not much to do with parkour. First off, MovNat is extremely comprehensive as it derives directly from Methode Naturelle, while parkour, also originated in Methode Naturelle, is deprived of any element of lifting, carrying, throwing, catching, fighting or swimming.
That’s a LOT missing when you think with a situational mindset and then understand the necessity of broad movement skills to be able to face broad situations. If you have this situational mindset that is truly realistic, a broad training is a no-brainer, but if you don’t have it you just keep on refining a few moves over and over, which is what most parkour guys do, which is what every sport specialist does. They are not many to complement their training with what parkour is lacking of.
Secondly, the MovNat program has several training types to obtain specific results while parkour training is fully undefined, it is up to everyone to figure out basically, and how do you learn? You watch youtube video and try to do the same, with its share of trial and error and injuries.
You need to be very young and have a lot of free time to go this way.

There are thousands of parkour videos on youtube, but in the end, who practices parkour? 95% teenagers and 90% males. I believe something is very wrong here. It tells you something about a crucial and key point: this practice is failing in reaching a truly broad audience because it is way too intimidating to people and because it is still stuck in its rebellious underground image that male teenagers love but that just scares everybody else away.
There are many local parkour communities around the world that do a truly fantastic job in helping beginners to train the right way and provide lots of guidance, but why is that? Because they have no official coaching system and no professional coaches or very few so far."

[source: http://movnat.com]

Comment by SafeNSure on February 25, 2009 at 3:33pm

...interesting!
I think I would do (or have done) most of the tasks depicted -at my level!- aside of "running on the ledge of a bridge" and "wrestling in the sand", which I would contemplate only in a life-threatening emergency.

It's also true that the video doesn't encompass all aspects of the Natural Method training (as they say), which involves, i.e., survival techniques and wild food foraging...

Really "scalable and suitable for any individual regardless of experience, condition, or gender"...
Props to Human Beings!
:)