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The Athletic Movement That Might Change The World | Official Documentary

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Whatever your vision of yourself is as an athlete right now, I guarantee you that you're

capable of much, much more than that.

Put it in the bucket, first in the bucket, then walk.

What would it take to change how the world trains?

Or you know what?

What would it take to change the world?

You see, all the great cultures on earth, they had one thing in common, the physical.

They simply were more athletic than we are today.

They all had their dances, their combat sports, their physical traditions and competitions.

But we don't.

And you cannot build yourself, a great community, culture or whole society on a weak physical

foundation.

Luckily, I am not the only one thinking in this direction.

And luckily, there is someone who seems to have an answer to my question.

We're at a pivotal time in history for mankind.

And our athletic ability is at an all time low as a civilization, as humanity.

We need something different that's going to inspire people to improve themselves and to

enjoy improving themselves.

The best way to find that is to look at what naturally draws us to athleticism as children.

And for a child, there is a natural path that's followed.

This is Keegan Smith, the founder of New Athlete Project and former strength coach coaching the

premiership winning Sydney Roosters in the Australian National Rugby League and rugby

league players like Sonny Bill Williams.

He also was and still is mentor to many now popular faces in the fitness industry.

And since 2020, he's building athletic villages around the world where people can come, connect,

train and grow together.

We are currently in one of these villages, in Montenegro to be exact.

For Keegan, this is the perfect place to develop and share his ideas on athleticism and how to

improve upon modern training.

Modern training is advanced, but fragmented.

So if you get into one area, then by definition, you start to turn your back on the other area.

You fall in love with the weights and you're lifting bigger and bigger weights in the gym.

But then everything else starts to decline.

You lose the ability to tumble and fall on the ground or kick and throw a ball.

The modern paradigm of training is so fragmented that it's almost impossible to develop yourself

naturally as an athlete to be capable in all areas.

Thirdly, wearing the ability to mat, it seems like.

And there's some 잠깐 crossing when the boots is unbearable as an athlete has to be capable of.

Let's go.

At some point, every man wants to see what they're capable of physically, but then we tend to fall into a bucket, and whatever that bucket is, we stay in there for a time until we give up.

So I'm the boxer, I'm the distance runner, I'm the sprinter, I'm the whoever I am, even the parkour athlete.

You fall into a bucket, and then you're not really looking too much outside of that bucket.

Some sports use many archetypes.

But no matter which sport you play, there's going to be big gaps.

You say, oh, like the soccer player is pretty complete because he's a good baller, and then they're doing bicycle kicks, and there's some acrobat there, and there's like a bit of argy-bargy, so there's some combat.

And then they've got endurance, and they're fast, and they have some muscle mass, and they have to stay healthy.

So like soccer players are complete, but then you ask them to throw, or then you punch them in the face, or then you say, okay, instead of the bicycle kick, it's a corkscrew, or it's a macacow, or it's a handstand, and nothing, right?

So you can have a little bit of each of them, but they all have many categories within.

The seven archetypes that we use inside of New Athlete is modeled off this childlike natural development.

You have the acrobat, the baller, the combat dancer, the endurer, the fastest, the giant, and the health yogi.

These archetypes are athletic abilities that children will naturally want to develop.

As we've improved in any of these archetypes, our overall ability as an athlete, and our potential to achieve in any particular sport improves.

So to get the fastest transformations, we need to work on the skills.

Also with the endurer, the fastest and the giant, there's going to be a slower structural change that goes with that.

So with the first three, we can make someone a completely different athlete within five days.

And you're going to experience that here. There's going to be things where you're like, there's no way I could have done that, and then you're doing it.

So neurologically, we can become very different, especially within a year.

You think of like someone coming to see you for a year, and they're going to do some of this every day.

You can create a huge change in the way the brain is wired.

The big brain is primarily there for movement.

The brain lights up most with movement.

Mathematics and stuff doesn't light the brain up in the way that movement does.

So when we light the brain up again, we live again.

The brain lights up most with movement.

That's extremely powerful.

But I think that most people don't want to understand that nowadays.

If you are the one practicing skills like juggling in the gym, you can easily get ridiculed.

But why?

Of course it looks funny, especially when you are just starting out and you drop the balls all the time.

But the main reason why people make fun of skill training is, they cannot see a benefit.

Literally.

With juggling, you won't get a pump, you won't build muscle, strength or explosiveness.

At least not directly.

And here lies the problem of the modern paradigm in training.

It focuses only on developing the hardware.

Of course, the hardware is important.

Extremely important to be exact, and you would be a fool if you would say, juggling is enough.

But the reverse is also true.

You cannot only train for hardware adaptations.

There is so much to be gained working on the software as well.

Juggling has been one of the key tools for mental transformation of men.

It is proven in its ability to restructure the mind, build a deeper connection between the left and right brain.

More white matter, more grey matter in the brain.

There's a lot of research about this.

But what I know for sure is that when a man learns to juggle, everybody starts with difficulty.

Everybody starts not knowing if they can progress.

But with persistence and with maybe some of this restructuring of the brain,

by the time you get to five ball, you have a different perspective on your ability to learn.

You have a different perspective on your ability to persist with things.

And because there's no real physicality in it, there's no real risk, you can practice it anytime and it's really within your own control where you go with it.

I love juggling as this universal test of a man's persistence and ability to learn and desire for change.

And I know that it delivers well.

When you do the thing, it gives you an extra ability.

Well, I hope you're hooked on juggling now.

If not, I'm sure that other practices will get you into skill training.

New Athlete will help you to expand your skill set in three main areas.

Acrobatics, ball sports and fighting.

Fighting also includes dancing, because both require rhythm and a huge amount of body awareness.

You already know that Keegan calls these areas archetypes and that there are seven of them in total.

What you don't know is that working on the three skill archetypes will massively improve your ability to produce force.

Force means speed, stretch, strength and stamina.

This is why you can make such incredible improvements by working on the skills.

No matter if you're an elite athlete or the average person wanting to get back into training.

Generally, when we think about skills, which is the first three archetypes, the acrobat, the baller, the combat dancer.

Generally, we think about one specific sport of what's required for soccer or for basketball or for gymnastics.

And then we use the other three archetypes of the enduro, the fastest, the giant.

This is about strength and conditioning, the traditional world of powering up the skills that the individual athlete or that specific sport requires.

Most of the effort goes into the strength and conditioning model.

If the skills aren't well developed, then no amount of strength and conditioning will build an elite athlete.

This skills-based approach of becoming a more skillful athlete puts the strength and conditioning to work.

So it makes more sense for the average person to develop on their connection between brain and body than to simply think of themselves as a machine that needs to be powered up.

While the heart and the muscles and the bones, they're very important and they're going to be developed and we need to develop them.

But the thing that's going to develop them, it comes from the brain and the brain is the primary focus when you work on the skills.

They put the body to work.

I don't know about you, but this makes massive sense to me.

But I think there's still something missing.

Do you remember when Keegan talked about the natural path that children take to develop themselves?

I wonder, can we re-walk this path and learn as fast as children do again?

If yes, we can change and tap into our potential way faster, which is not only beneficial for ourselves, but also for the ones around us.

At least, as far as I understand.

But let's hear what Keegan has to say about that.

Our nature is to be the Swiss Army Knife.

He wants to be the Swiss Army Knife.

He doesn't want to specialize.

Okay, he's just kicking the ball, but he also wants to bounce the ball.

And he also likes to put his hands up like this and be like...

He's ready, yeah?

Anytime, he's ready to go.

Ready for a five.

The fastest time of development that we have as athletes is in the first five years of our lives.

When we're not being coached by anyone and we're playfully exploring our environment.

You can try and coach a baby, but they don't really listen.

They observe what's going on around them and then they go and have fun.

They test themselves and they try things and they constantly go on the edge of their comfort zone.

They're always falling down and dropping and failing in the modern athletic paradigm.

But that's how they play near their edge and they get better and better and better.

And they get better really fast.

And they laugh a lot and they have fun and they move from one activity to the next.

And it's the opposite of what professional athletic development often looks like in the modern time.

So if we can recreate that more childlike learning environment,

at least for some of our skill development and some of our training,

we can actually tap into faster rates of learning and develop.

You simply need to put yourself in the environment, be open to it, enjoy it.

And that's the best way to learn languages as well.

I've learned multiple languages.

You learn it by having fun with people, by playing with the words,

not by stressing about things and trying to follow some exact pattern of lists

and academic path to language learning.

It doesn't work for very many people in the schooling system.

What does work is when you have a girlfriend or you have friends,

you play on a sporting team in another language and you're playfully using that language.

The same thing happens with the skills.

You put yourself in that environment, you're playful and you develop fast.

I know this was a lot of information, but if there's one thing I want you to take away from this video,

it is the following.

You need to put yourself into the right environment to grow.

Athletically, but also anywhere else in life.

New athlete can be that environment for you.

And if you're still watching, you are probably a good fit for joining it.

At least you should try it.

Otherwise, you will never fully understand it.

But now, let's put it all together.

Do we now know what it would take to change the world?

I think yes.

Imagine everyone would start their own athletic transformation today.

Imagine everyone would expand their mind and body in a way that makes what before seemed impossible, possible.

I am sure that New Athlete will change how the world trains.

It already does.

But I also think that New Athlete, through its methods, has potential to change the world in general.

So, give it a go and become part of it.

But before you join, please listen to what Keegan has to say to you one last time.

Whatever your vision of yourself is as an athlete right now, I guarantee you that you're capable of much, much more than that.

What you've achieved athletically is a small fraction of what you could achieve.

When you achieve more of that potential, by doing something different, by getting yourself in a different training environment,

you create a different experience for yourself and life, for the rest of your life.

You change the image that you have of yourself.

And this is the most important thing that you can do.

When you know yourself more fully, you have so much more to offer the world.

So, stepping into the challenge of athleticism and taking on the possibility or the chance that you can be much more than you are right now,

it's the most important step that a man can take.

Thank you.

And now you eat them all.

Yeah, you cracked them all for us.

That's how you cracked them.

Yeah, exactly.

That's the strategy, man.

What are you?

Thank you, man.

You know, remove stone.

Perfect.

Best.

Maybe later you will say we need stone here, put it back.

Oh, yeah.

Together in the bucket.

I never see before.

Too much stones.

Oh, yeah, hold.

Watch it.

Oh, watch it.

No dancing.

Only one.

Oh, ho, ho.

I like to keep on.

Yeah.

Ok, let go.

Don't but how I got!

Gotta monkey.

Yeah.

Machine.

Stuff is too good.

Looks like you are missing.

That's some sun.

some Sun holy fuck we cannot put this into the commercial

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