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"No jump is good if the landing is bad."

"You need to have a mind-body-nature connection."

"A tiger is a powerful, graceful animal simply by doing what a tiger does. This practical, real world approach is what we have lost, and what natural movement can restore."

"It was all practical stuff. Why? Because that's the way you train soldiers: practical stuff. Soldiers don't freaking need to do a flag, you don't need to do handstands. You need to run and sprint and …"

"We're all zoo humans to some extent, even me."

"You can never master the context where you physically and mentally operate; you can only learn to master how you will operate through it."

"You never see your dog running nonstop around and around in a circle for an hour. If he did, you'd think there was something wrong with him. Instead, he'll chase something, roll around, sprint, rest, …"

"Natural Movement is the universal workout the world has forgotten."

"Your body will never be more connected to your mind than when something is at stake. That's how you measure the value of a movement: by its consequences. Climb a tree, throw a rock, balance on the edg…"

"I meet men all the time who can bench 400 pounds but can't climb up through a window to pull someone from a burning building. I know guys who can run marathons but can't sprint to anyone's rescue unle…"

"If you want to become a force of nature, you need to interact with the forces of nature."

"Oxygen is an accident. Breath is intentional."

"How would you train a panther to be fit? Not on a treadmill."

"Do we function in sets of ten in the wilderness? How do we know how long we will have to do something?"

"Adaptability is the holy grail of MovNat. This is what we have done throughout human history. But we have lost touch with the world that created us."

"9-minute video lecture by Erwan Le Corre at NASA"