Sports / Human Movement
Human Movement
Twelve years of climbing made me very good at a narrow set of things. Pulling, hanging, precise feet on vertical terrain. What was missing was almost everything else: rotation, impact, ground work, speed, moving with another person’s weight. I had spent a decade training one set of patterns to a high level and letting the rest quietly stop growing.Since 2023 I have practised at HiddenBody, with Rich Andoh and Jori Meijer — strength, coordination, acrobatics, partner work, awareness, and ways of moving that do not belong to a single sport. From October 2026 I continue through the five-year Human Movement Studies programme led by Marcello Palozzo and his team.
Capability
What I Can Do
Movement has no grades and no results table. What it has is a shared vocabulary of skills. This is what I can currently hold or perform.
Handstand on exposed edges
Awareness · Acrobatics
Press to handstand
Acrobatics
Handstand push-up
Physical Preparedness
Bat hang, toes only
Physical Preparedness
Elbow lever
Acrobatics
Front lever
Physical Preparedness
Leaving the Specialism
01
I built parts, never a whole.
Climbing training is analytic: isolate the weakness, load it, repeat. It works — it produced a body that executed one thing precisely. It also produced a body that could not reorganise itself for anything it had not already met. Capacity built in isolation stays in isolation. Nothing in that time required me to assemble it.
02
Starting over, on purpose, again and again.
Competence does not travel out of the environment where it was built. The only route across is to be a beginner in the unfamiliar thing, deliberately and often — which, after a decade of being good at something, is the actual difficulty, more than any physical demand. That is most of what my practice is now.
The practice is organised around six fields.
The Six Fields
Human Movement is organised around six fields: Athletics, Acrobatics, Dance, Fighting, Awareness and Physical Preparedness.
Athletics
Moving the body through space with speed, coordination and control.
Running · Jumping · Displacement
Movement practice was brought into the open largely through Ido Portal’s Movement Culture. Marcello Palozzo made it concrete through the six defined fields, which form the structure of the Human Movement Studies programme I start in October 2026. I have trained across these fields since 2023; I did not define them.
What a movement practice looks like
A practice usually begins with a warm-up, followed by a main practice built around two of the six areas below, and finishes with a cool-down. The emphasis changes from session to session depending on what I am working on.
01
Strength & Mobility
Building a strong, resilient body that can move freely through its available range.
Examples
Pushing, pulling, squatting, lunging, hanging and active mobility work.
Common in gymnastics, calisthenics, strength training and athletics.
02
Locomotion
Moving through space by continually shifting weight across the feet, hands and ground.
Examples
Sprinting, jumping, crawling, climbing, footwork, dancing and transitions.
Found across parkour, breakdance, capoeira, athletics and climbing.
03
Partner Interaction
Moving with another person, where timing, pressure and intention are constantly changing.
Examples
Mirroring, counterbalancing, manipulating position, evading, striking and responding to another body.
Related to martial arts, partner dance, acro-yoga and other forms of physical play.
Taking a partner off balance 04
Handstands & Inversions
Learning to support, balance and move while the body’s usual relationship with gravity is reversed.
Examples
Handstands, headstands, cartwheels, bridges, rolls and basic inverted transitions.
Common in gymnastics, breakdance, capoeira and circus practice.
05
Play & Games
Using changing rules and unpredictable constraints to solve movement problems in real time.
Examples
Reacting to commands, dodging, chasing, reading space, deciding quickly and improvising.
Seen in childhood games, football, martial arts, dodgeball and many forms of physical play.
06
Throwing, Catching, Kicking & Striking
Interacting with moving objects to develop timing, accuracy, tracking and coordination.
Examples
Throwing and catching balls, kicking moving targets, striking objects and juggling.
Found in football, basketball, tennis, juggling, dodgeball and racket sports.