Gruntovski in Kopaonik
This year we are having a special guest Andrey Vadimivich Gruntovski who will teach at Kopaonik during our annual event Above the clouds. Andrey will present his unique style of hand to hand combat called 'Skobar'. Try not to miss this since Andrey never teaches outside Russia, and we are really happy to have him over here.
Next seminar
| Norway, Tonsberg | from 14 Sep to 15 Sep 2013 |
Ola, Aksel |
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Homo Ludens Martial Arts
Combat, as a diverse conglomeration of specific practices of relations with oneself and others, necessarily implies movement as a horizon of more or less set possibilities. For each of us, the possibility of movement is so axiomatic and immediate that we almost never think of it. The moves that people make are most often instrumental in character – walking from part of the town to another in order to get to work, bending over to reach an important document in a drawer, sitting down to get rest, etc. The common thread for all these motions is that they are not an end in themselves, but rather aimed at some purpose exterior to the movement itself. On the other side, in the window of glorious human dignified practices are those that have taken movement to an art: acting, ballet, dance, etc. What does it mean? It is to say that within those practices the movement is not in the function of some immediate goal, but instead it rises to the fullness of its temporality, which realized its essential capacities through the play. Play, therefore, is not something we use to attain any other goal – it is a goal in itself.