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Bryan Michelson on Natural Movement, Hunting, Rhythm, and the Real Human Experience!
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This week, we welcome back Mr. Bryan Michelson! Bryan truly talks the talk and walks the walk! He’s back to share more about his philosophy when it comes to movement and living like a true human being!
We discussed so many cool topics this week, including natural movement patterns, the benefits of training this way, getting into that flow state, staying loose, moving in rhythm, sitting on the floor, and more! We also got into hunting! Bryan, being from Africa, hunts some pretty cool game. Growing up hunting and running safaris, he has lots of experience in this area!
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Transcript
Introduction and Returning Guest
00:00:01
Speaker
Welcome everybody to another episode of the Beyond Terrain podcast. I'm your host, Liam Dalton. Today we have, uh, the return of another fantastic guest, Mr. Brian Michaelson. Really looking forward to this chat today. Uh, we had a great chat last time. I loved it. It really kind of changed my life a little bit as we were just joking there before the episode
Sitting on the Floor and Natural Movement
00:00:20
Speaker
started. He was saying, yeah, I'm outside sitting on the floor. Now I'm not outside. He got that one up on me, but I am sitting on the floor and you guys probably know watching the the podcast every episode pretty well since our Our episode we recorded together back in, I think it was just the new year. Maybe it was before the new year. I think we recorded in 2023. And, uh, I've done most of the episodes now sitting on the floor and I do most of my work sitting on the floor. Now get him back to the ground. Um, it's had great changes. My posture, my biome can't everything it translates so well, strengthen my hips have opened up. It's just amazing. I could praise this man and his work all day. He's really opened up, uh,
00:00:59
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my, my, uh, perspective. And so I really appreciate him. Anyways, Brian, thanks so much for coming on today, buddy. I love that, man. No, thanks for having me back. I had so much fun last time and, uh, really cool. I didn't know that you kept the floor resting posture since I chat and they had such a big benefit. That's cool. Now to call them my work, like the floor resting postures and these natural, well, easy, you'll make me, you know, hell of a big headed there, but it's, it's so amazing.
00:01:28
Speaker
how it's just a return to what's natural. And you know, a lot of what you talk about a lot of what everyone's exploring and regaining health is returning to what's natural. It's it's pretty simple. Well, not a always you can go into the complexities of it. But the end of the day, the the practical things that we can all take away are so simple and sitting on the floor is one of those things, niggles, aches, pains, injuries, the way your body can just decompress and find its alignment by sitting on the floor is crazy. So to hear you keeping that up, um, and to having, to have the benefits, I'm not surprised about the benefits, but I'm just stoked that you, uh, you got into it, man. Cause, uh, that's, that's really cool. Yeah. how Well, I mean, it's kind of a way of life, right? Like, and when you are trying to align yourself with nature, you know, we, we obviously don't want to forgo all of the, the modern world, right? Like yeah we want to take the good.
00:02:22
Speaker
leave what we can, right? Leave the bad stuff and really integrate the natural principles into our lives. So when you hear about something so simple as, you know, moving down to the floor, I don't work in my office anymore. I i work in the yoga room on a little coffee table and I got a nice sheepskin under me and I just, you know, that's all I need that like, I'll do all my work here. It's a very simple shift that you can do. It doesn't alter, you know, the work that I'm doing. I can still work at my computer.
00:02:52
Speaker
but such a small shift that you're a little bit closer to living ah a natural way of life. And that's like what we're all about here. It's kind of bridged in that modern and natural world together, those natural principles, integrating into our lives. not whole lot you know Maybe not the originator, but you're certainly bringing light to this this very simple thing, right? And you you take from from nature quite a bit yourself.
00:03:21
Speaker
o yeah absolutely man absolutely and you know we can learn so much from just yeah reconnecting to nature and the way the way the body decompresses and gets back into alignment is just such a such a tangible way to to realize like ah this stuff works man and then you start to open up to everything else and you can go into all the realms of reconnecting to nature from you know movement and training obviously nutrition um and you know understanding mindset and you know one things that are sort of crept in to come back to nature but then again you know we we can't forget
00:04:03
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about our modern advances, there's so much that we can do
Posture, Mental Health, and Movement
00:04:06
Speaker
there. ah You know, everyone who's in the movement and biomechanics space, they kind of want everyone to be moving all day like we're supposed to. But the reality is, we can't do that. So there's this benefit of having a workout where you have this compressed time, where you really work on these movement patterns, realign your body and doing some damage control. So yeah, we live in, we live in the modern world.
00:04:30
Speaker
and mitigating a lot of these things that are creeping in, these inevitable you know toxins in the form of you know water, food, and that sort of thing. It's quite quite an obvious example. These things sort of creep in. So it's so much more important now to, yeah I say detoxify your body. ah you know Saying that to you, I don't know whether that's sort of the the right way to go about it or not. But you know essentially, you're you're having a detoxification. Same thing with movement.
00:04:56
Speaker
you are detoxifying your body you're moving patterns from holding these compressions these tensions ah that creep in because of the way we're moving or not moving and it goes as deep as as traumas um you know i'm sort of dabbling in that that's not my expertise i use the body um Specifically and look at movement to optimize performance get out of pain, but I've had too many clients come back to me and say like dude my confidence um You know these certain aspects and areas of life things that are like opening up in in my brain function I'm like oh dude. I've got to look into this stuff more because we're unlocking
00:05:34
Speaker
you know trauma's tensions in the body that are literally causing this person to you know have a certain personality, even the changes when you unlock the body. And then you have people who go the other way around, we're getting deep already here, but yeah people go the other way around, they have these experiences and they release certain traumas mentally, emotionally, and then their body unlocks and people are like, whoa, you're completely different, or you're no longer sort of holding over to one side, you're more open and upright.
00:06:03
Speaker
You know, someone who's more open and upright sits into their backside. They're typically more confident, forward moving, compressed chair, a little bit more withdrawn, not so sure of yourself. And I see that time and time again, I've been writing notes on clients when I do postural and movement analysis. And you know, I've realized what a gift it has been for me and I respect and appreciate anyone, any client who comes to me and allows me to analyze their posture and movement because I get to know so much about them.
00:06:33
Speaker
I guess it's now without them knowing, you sort of learn to and understand who they are from their posture and movement. And then spending time with them over the the weeks and months, even years that I coach them, you learn to you know, see if the your your assumptions based on posture and movement are true or not. So I've had all these experiments and these trials to see how tension is held in the body and how that correlates to a certain characteristic, even personality. So yeah, that's fascinating. But we're going so deep on that so soon, but you know, posture, movement, the body, obviously I'm sort of passionate about it, guys. So your listeners already is like, I'll dial it in, let live, create some structure here. But yeah, I'm passionate about this stuff, guys. and
00:07:18
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can change your life. Well, you can hear it in your voice too. And, uh, obviously you could see behind your eyes. So, um, but it's so interesting, man. And like that connection has been, has been talked about so much, right? And it seems to be overlooked a little bit too. Um, you know, ah I remember listening to, uh, Dr. Harvey Biggleson, big in the terrain movement, talked a lot about the connection between the psychological, between the physical.
00:07:46
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um, how disease manifests, things like that. And you know, he was a great practitioner and the first thing he would do is watch how people walked into his office, you know, and he would watch their biomechanics. And he said that it alone will get you more information than you need to be able to handle and deal with these clients. You know, he said he could tell the whole story just on how they walk in, how they hold themselves, how they, you know, how you say hello, how you make eye contact. All of these things are telltale signs of,
00:08:14
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of one's internal world too, right? Um, so I think you're hitting the nail on the head there. I think that's absolutely so interesting. And you know, that movement piece, I, yeah, I just had the most phenomenal discussion last week with, uh, Daniel Roytus. And, you know, we, we talked about how with psychological traumas, it might not be the root root of the cause because, you know, ancestrally, we didn't Even though we experienced psychological traumas, we didn't have these modern diseases. So, you know, his piece, part of it was maybe there's something that's not allowing us to process this trauma properly. And I think movement is one of those things. We are chronically sitting still and we've discussed this, you know, we've discussed this in our last episode. If you haven't listened to that episode, go and listen to it. It changed my life. Um, but you know,
00:09:09
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We, we, we sit still and we don't move our bodies. And that is, is one of the things I think that is not allowing us to process this, these events that have happened to us. It's not allowing us to, to live the life that we're meant to live. You know, it's such a simple thing moving. And it doesn't have to be like we, like we're saying here, you don't need to be running around all day and night. It's as simple as, as sitting on the floor. If you're wanting to rest, you know, it's just a slight difference there, but All of these things are the way it it helps your body gain alignment and that alignment I think can allow our bodies to work properly.
Body Alignment and Trauma Release
00:09:48
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Um, that's what the osteopaths talk about. I think osteopathy is one of the coolest fields out there. Slight little adjustments to the body. Very, very subtle.
00:09:58
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but allowing that body and the energy to flow properly. And we could probably get into fascia and all of these different ways of explaining this and the way that the energy moves through the body again has been talked about for thousands of years through many different traditional systems of medicine and health, you know? So movement, I think is one of those missing pieces, you know, alongside the diet, alongside, you know, avoiding the toxicities, different stuff like that.
00:10:27
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It often all goes hand in hand too. For some reason, people start moving their bodies. They want to eat good. You know, where they start eating good and they want to start moving their body, you know, and then it just, everything always goes hand in hand. So you kind of got to pick one and everything. It's hard to really do it in isolation because everything always just comes together beautifully. And, uh, that movement piece though, I think is big. I think it's an easy one for people to start with because it's easy to get motivated. You want to move, you want to, you know, improve your posture, you know,
00:10:55
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It just looks better too, right? It looks more confident, even if you kind of fake it till you make it. Yeah, for sure. or Good posture. I mean, it's sexy the way you present yourself. You you can tell when someone walks in, you you see their posture, their alignment. ah And, you know, what you're touching on there, you know, it's... um our body, our mind, but you know everything's sort of connected, shall we say. I don't look into all of the nitty-gritty, but that that truly makes sense. They talk about how trauma is held in the body. It's not just the brain, the fascia and the tissues you know are all you know connected. ah
00:11:34
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Part of our ah brain, our network, you know memory, tension, trauma, held in different areas. So the the body needs to be clear and free and decompressed so that energy can move. Otherwise you're stuck, you're stagnant. When you're stuck, you're stagnant in your mind, you're holding in your body as well. As soon as you, you know, even your listeners, if you think about being stuck on a topic, you know, or worried, think about something in the past that upset you, you hold it in your stomach. For me, it's around my sort of rib cage, talking about my abdominals here. It's just like,
00:12:04
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You know, we we hold that, let go, decompress, move. And that's what the floor positions do. They decompress and realign you. And it's not like an active like stretch and you know, get down to these things. It's like, you know, find what, where you can decompress and continue to do that. And soon enough you are, you're relaxed, you're at ease down here. Sitting in a squat like I am am now, your whole body, upper body, your belly should all be relaxed and at ease.
00:12:30
Speaker
And that's the decompression. Now, the letting go of trauma dance used to be that, like cultures, communities, all valued dance. And part of ceremonies, you know, I believe all across the world, there was dance. And I truly believe dance is a way to, you know, get get rid of all of that.
00:12:51
Speaker
Um, and reset, realign the body and we've lost that. That tool so there's the floor decompression to, to realign decompress the body and then don't stand like, well you know, I think it's huge and.
00:13:07
Speaker
it's something you know I never used to dance and you know now like getting into this movement stuff you understand like ah of course we should be dancing and we should be sort of flowing moving um and you know we that that's our sort of get rid of trauma or any tension and it really works animals have that sort of ability when they get hurt to eventually when they're ready sort of you know shake things off So the things sort of reset and realign and then, you know, everything's sort of soft again. You know, we need to have that, right? And when you sit and you listen to your body, you get a little, you know,
00:13:41
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detachable like you can feel like oh there's a very particular point like underneath your scapula you will be able to work out that exact point yourself that a physiotherapist or you know any massage therapist I couldn't get into like you can feel that out and then it's like oh sweet it's gone so when you understand and really tune in feel your body oh you can learn so much and release so much
00:14:09
Speaker
So cool, man. It's kind of part of that know thyself maxim, right? Trying to learn about yourself, trying to tune into your own sensations, the feelings in your body.
Bodybuilding vs. Natural Movement
00:14:19
Speaker
You mentioned even like, if you are worried about the past, but some sort of trauma or whatever you want to call it, you could feel that in your body. Where do you feel it? You said kind of like on your rib cage area, I always feel it deep in my stomach. You know, if something's bothering me, you know, and kind of getting that The movement of the lower back even is something we're kind of taught in the modern, you know, approach to, you know, the gym rat, you know, you got to keep your back straight and locked all the time. Like yeah moving that spine has been a big thing for me. And that's been a big transition to try and learn my like to, to strengthen and move my spine. Um, you know, because it's something that I didn't do for so long.
00:15:01
Speaker
You know, I did the deadlifts and I did the bench press and the squats and everything, and it was always static as possible. And if my back ever bent at all, I was like, ah, I got to go down and wait. Got to make sure my back stays perfectly straight and locked in all the time. But I just, I don't think that's, that's the way. Any thoughts on that? Yeah, man. That a torso and that spine, when you unlock and you free,
00:15:27
Speaker
by bringing the tension more towards your backside, right? Like when you lengthen into the glutes and most people have these short tight glutes that don't want to work and take any load. When we lengthen into the glutes and those hips sit behind us. Now the backside of the body.
00:15:42
Speaker
mid lower upper back, all of this beautiful fascia. We're used to seeing anatomy pictures, that white tissue of the thorough columbia fascia. Many might know that, but there's this fascia all up our backside that's designed to hold this tension for us naturally without strain. So we've got our backside and everything up our back. It's designed to hold this tension.
00:16:05
Speaker
And then the whole spine is relaxed and at ease. The front side of your body isn't holding the tension because it doesn't have to. The tension's where it's naturally supposed to be. And now your spine can flow, move, shoulders can dance, you can throw, strike. It's beautiful and movement um you know gets unlocked. Now, when we go into the gym, we think we're training that backside, right? And people are like, oh, i'm I'm training my glutes, I'm training my hips.
00:16:30
Speaker
But what are you teaching them to do? You're teaching them to squeeze ex externally rotate and thrust forward. Okay, so you know that sounded like a lot, but essentially they're just squeezing and tightening and thrusting forward. Your shoulders are reaching back. Now what's happening? Yes, you're like you're creating all this tension through the backside thrusting you forwards, but now your your hips are going to be thrust forwards.
00:16:52
Speaker
Even when you walk and run, people have this sort of heel strike and all this tension is now having to be held through the front side of the body. So not only are you shortening and thrusting those glutes forward, now there's all this tension on the front side of the body. Hey, let's make it even worse. Let's do some pec deck and let's do some crunches. Hold the abs so tight. Now your torso is being crushed, you know, the hips thrusting forward, not only sort of gravity doing its thing, um you know, on your, on your lumbar and your lower back, because your hips are right below your shoulders instead of hips back and everything decompressed. So we've got gravity, and then we've got the front side of our body holding short, back side of our body trying to sort of play catch up. And then let's say you go do some lat pull downs and things like that, or you're doing things to train your lats. Now you're being crushed from both sides.
00:17:46
Speaker
Now think of a coke can being crushed, right? it's it's It's going to also go to one side. So all these asymmetries that we see in the body, people like held their torso over to one side, is it's because of this torso compression and tension we see it often in bodybuilders who train symmetrically all of the sort of right muscles, very sort of scientific about it, but they end up asymmetrical.
00:18:11
Speaker
And they they themselves can't understand why, because all this torso pressure and tension. But then I'll take that same bodybuilder or power lifter, Olympic weight lifter cross of which I've worked with a few, ah we we decompress, we lengthen into the glutes, you know allow that backside to hold the tension, soften through the front side, get them flowing and moving. And all of a sudden, when they're at rest, they're way more symmetrical.
00:18:38
Speaker
And they they like that, they're like, oh, wow, I've been trying to chase the symmetry for forever, but you know here it is doing decompressive work. So yeah, I went hard down that because the spine and the you know the the bodybuilders,
00:18:54
Speaker
guys hitting the gym, they give their spine a beating and yeah, it's gonna catch you. it It catches you, it caught me, caught me. Yeah, I ended up sort of could have started with this story, but I was nearly paralyzed. like deadlifting you know it was a real mess nearly yeah yeah bad i was going down the bad route yeah deadlifts clean swing snatches getting those glutes so short and tight training the abdominals my back went one day you know doing a deadlift not even heavy i was meticulous about form then that lower back just said enough could feel nothing for about 20 minutes i was just lying on the floor
00:19:32
Speaker
thought it was paradise man. And that's what it was this real like understanding, Hey, I'm doing something wrong. Cause I was big, Jack ripped fit, fit, but fragile. So fragile, but yeah, man, you went, you went that route as well, right? Definitely, man. I was, you know, got my first waist set when I was like 14 years old. And I was like, gotta go to the gym, man. Got to get big. Got to get huge. we get jacked I was just a scrawny little kid.
00:20:02
Speaker
Yeah, but you know, like, it's funny how, how things change over time too. And, um, it depends on your goals, right? Like, you know, my goal was to put as much weight on as possible and to get as big of muscles as possible. And you, you you can do that, you know, but it at least needs to have a little bit of balance of like natural movement patterns, biomechanics, you know, proper, proper form, you know, you can,
00:20:31
Speaker
And you can still get big kind of like doing this natural way of moving, man. There's some beasts out there that are, you know, living the ancestral lifestyle, you know, like they're, they've always been around, you know, you don't have to do bench and deadlift and squat. You know, probably depends more on what you eat more than anything. If you want to get big, um, if you're living that natural way of life and you're moving, you're going to sculpt your body properly. Um, like you said, that, that symmetry piece is a big one.
00:21:00
Speaker
I couldn't get symmetry in the gym, man. And I was like obsessed with it. I was obsessed with trying to become symmetrical, you know, and that's what all bodybuilders kind of, kind of want. But, you know, through really playing toying with that, those subtleties of the body, man, like when you're really feeling into your movements, you know, ah right I'm an, I'm a centimeter ahead on this side, you know, you could feel that it's amazing. Once you really tune in and, um,
00:21:26
Speaker
One thing that I kind of developed, even in my old, like when I was bodybuilding, when I was younger, like high school and university and stuff like that. Yeah. I tuned into this mind muscle connection where in between sets, I would visualize myself doing the set. And then when I was doing the set, I wouldn't listen to music or anything. I would just like focus in and I would like pretend that I was the muscle that I was moving. And I would like, I would like pretend like I was like,
00:21:53
Speaker
feel it as much as I possibly could. And that I think is good as a as a as a framework, you know like really trying to tune in with your body and and just feel it. Yeah, that ah mind muscle connection piece you're talking about, it's really interesting because there's an element of control and awareness of your body that that gives you. But when it's taken too far, like bodybuilding,
00:22:18
Speaker
you know, that real mind muscle connection. I think you you're you're probably quoting Arnold there like be the muscle be like in the muscle, you know, he was famous for that. exactly And, and that bodybuilding creates this neural connection with your with your muscles and how to, you know, create tension in each one at one time. And when that's taken too far for bodybuilders and you know, those who get into that style of training,
00:22:45
Speaker
I see a neurological like waste and when people are are moving around, they end up quite clumsy and awkward because all of their neural sort of effort, awareness is is stuck in in each of their muscles and they'll be so aware of where their quads and their hips are, but they lose this true sense of balance and alignment because the true sense organs and know Of course, we know our mouth, nose, eyes, ears, um you know we have this sense there, but our hands and our feet, they are part of the sense organs as well. They're actually in embryology, which I've done you know a little understanding, but they all evolve from the same area. There's this particular
00:23:36
Speaker
you area. I used to know the name but it should be my mind. But you the the nose, the mouth, the eyes, when that embryo forms, everything comes from that same spot and the hands and the feet are involved in that area. Now that is just to tell you how important these are as sense and awareness. And when you've got your hands, your feet on the ground, you're sort of, you know, moving, you've got this this awareness and this alignment the way where your head is and you know your balance is, that's so important. And when you attach to your pecs, your chest, your biceps, there's this interference of true athleticism, awareness and spontaneity, the ability to react and move. And um bodybuilders, typical gym goers, lose that sense and fluidity.
00:24:30
Speaker
yeah and and you see it with people who just yeah know just play sport their whole lives. They're snappy, elastic. When you play a particular sport, your body morphs and evolves to that. So we need to watch out for that, but that you know that's a separate topic because when you continuously do something, your body adapts to it. Swimmers have a certain shape and posture. Typically power lifters have a certain shape and posture area, they hold tension. ah Tennis players, obviously that sort of tension and build over to to one arm, the dominance of one side. And when you go hard on a sport and you essentially specialize,
00:25:07
Speaker
you know you will you will lose a certain natural rhythm and default movement pattern that leads to niggles, aches, pains, injuries when we we don't you know have that default. So everything that I'm trying to do with my systems and you know all the awareness around natural movement is bringing us back to what is the actual human species
00:25:33
Speaker
consistency around movement. How are we evolved to move? Because you look at and and a gorilla move. From a baby to an adult, they move a certain way. Look at a lion, cub, mama walking next to each other, they move the same. Elephant, baby, adult, they move the same. They have a certain sort of rhythm and flow. Now with humans, it gets a bit It gets a bit funky because we we crawled when we were first kids. And then kids, young kids move a certain way.
00:26:06
Speaker
you know um Early teens, once they've got this sort of coordination awareness of their body, they're pretty elastic fluid, especially if they had a good childhood. They were you know crawled crawled well, spent time on the ground. They weren't up in chairs to too often and their parents you know didn't put them in chairs too much, they were able to interact with the ground, then they have this certain elastic rhythm and flow. You see in indigenous tribespeople from childhood to adulthood, they they sort of keep the same movement pattern. Now, in the modern world, we lose that movement pattern.
Teaching Natural Movement Patterns
00:26:41
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And I think a large part is because of our detachment from the ground. So the floristing postures themselves, retune and reshape our body to its natural alignment. And then we need to learn to to move and flow. I literally teach clients how to crawl, then walk, then run again. And the movement patterns that you feel in the crawl, that sort of flow of your spine, the head aligning over the sort of loaded leg, you know, it's it's sort of your knee when you crawl.
00:27:09
Speaker
And then that should be your your foot when you walk and run. And then we have the same elasticity, rhythm and timing in the run. And when you have that you know agility, cutting and turning, you know it's just it's all spontaneous because you're in the natural movement pattern. Not only that, that spontaneity, fun movement, play any sport and you know be be fairly good at it.
00:27:35
Speaker
or able to pick it up, you're not you're not getting injured because your joints are moving as they're designed to. No niggles, aches, injuries, your ability to even take contact if it's contact sport improves because you're you're putting in yourself in a position to absorb force. So it's just epic to see from endurance athletes to agility coming and turning like non-contact sports, you know football, basketball,
00:28:00
Speaker
um you know, then you know even contact sports, rugby, wrestling, BJJ, you know, throwing, striking. You know, we we improve, we help athletes or we help people learn those sports without, you know, picking up the injuries. That's just from the basics. It's really like, I don't teach anything but the basics over and over and over and over again. And just people don't need to be up on a, on a wobble board, a balanced board with an upside down kettlebell, you know, it's like, dude, just get back to the floor, relearn certain movement mechanics. And then, you know, we can, we can build from there. So.
00:28:40
Speaker
Yeah. It's moving away from compression tension that we hold in the body. That mind muscle connection might be good for awareness, but true athletic sense comes from, you know, being in your entire body, not one segment of your body at a time. That's it, man. Yeah. It's so, it's so key to just, you know, get back, get back moving. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's cool, man. I think you make a really great point as to how this can help pretty much anybody, right? It it doesn't matter the sport. It doesn't matter what you're doing. Um, you know, that fluidity that, that is something that is lost. You know, it's funny. and What popped in my mind that we went, my wife and I last year in the winter, we went sledding and we went to this huge Hill in Halifax. It's quite a steep Hill. And we're like, we bought these little magic carpets and we're like, all right, we're going to go rip the sleds. And there's like, obviously a bunch of kids there.
00:29:40
Speaker
And they're all like, you know, 12 years old or 10 years old, or maybe even younger, and maybe a little older. And they're flying down the hill, like the steepest part. And they're eating it at the bottom. They're flying off the sleds, you know, they're rolling off these sleds and none of them are getting hurt. You know, none of them are getting hurt. Um, they're able to really like unconsciously almost like flow with the ground once they're like rolling down the hill. It's so funny, man. There was this there was this ah one of the parents there. He was funny, man. He was he was like probably in his 40s or something, and he kept joking around like with Kelsey and I. and he was like
00:30:23
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He's like, yeah, you know, he's like like, once you tense up, that's when you get hurt. Once you tense up, if you wipe out, you just got to let go. You just got to be loose. You know, you got to be loose. You got to stay loose. And that's what he kept saying. He's like, you got to stay loose. You got to stay loose. And like, it's just funny, man. That guy had the wisdom and he even went down a couple of times and he was like, you know, he was at his forties, but he was still moving well. Like you could tell that he still had a little bit of that fluidity. He wasn't scared of going down the hill and tensing up and you know,
00:30:54
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Worrying about injury, right? He could flow with the, whatever happens. And, uh, the other thing that kind of pops through my mind here is like drunk drivers don't get injured as much as people who are. Intoxicated like, you know, when, when, because their body is so loose, right? Like therere they're, they're kind of able to let go of that tension. Yeah. More accidents, but but if you when you.
00:31:24
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Yeah, not getting hurt in that accident. So let's make that clear. All right. Good. All right. Great, great point. Liv is not saying, you know, get, get drunk and drive. No, but it' be it's a funny observation. You'll be banned so quickly, right? Yeah. Appreciate that, brother. You take care of me. like ah but But it's true, you know, less injuries, more accidents, but less injuries. Often the, the, the,
00:31:51
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ones that are drunk are the ones that survive these really unfortunate incidents. Right. And, and then the people in the other car, the innocent people who were sober all past, even though it was the same accident, right. It's just because they were, they were able to be loose. Uh, and they absorbed that, right. They were really loose. And that's what, um, that's what they kind of say there, but that that's staying loose. That's staying fluid.
Relaxation and Movement Efficiency
00:32:13
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Even if you're not a top athlete, you know, even if you're not a basketball player, if you're not a football player, hockey player, whatever, you know,
00:32:21
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I want to be able to go sledding with my kids and not have to worry about getting injured. You know what I mean? That's, I want to be able to play with my kids and run around with my dog and climb trees. And if a branch breaks, I'm not going to die or break my whatever. Like, you know, things happen, things can happen, but you know, I don't want to sprain my ankle playing around with the kids in the yard. You know what I mean? Like that's these, it's not just top level athlete stuff here. Like trick, like moving these.
00:32:51
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these basics that you're talking about, getting to the fore and crawling. Yeah, that that's an interesting point. I didn't know that about you know drunk drivers you know in a collision, not getting hurt as much as the you know is the other yeah the party.
00:33:10
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um But that staying loose is so important. And what it allows like for your listeners to kind of understand
00:33:18
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We're relaxed. We're at ease and you can move subconsciously without much thought with instinct, right? And when you fall, your body knows what to do. It knows how to sort of roll and move. You know, you can spend some time training it. You might have to sort of be a bit conscious when you first learn it.
00:33:37
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but but eventually you know your your body knows what to do you can you can catch you know you' you'll start to do things that that shock yourself you jump on that tree you know how to sort of roll and absorb that force and the same thing like you say sitting down the hill when you lose your body can roll with what's what's around you when you try consciously move you're moving awkwardly you can't be as quick you'll miss that ball if you try like actively you know kind of all right shoulder up you know hand you know it's too much you've got to relax watch that man yeah you know relax be focused
00:34:17
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sure You know, you know, you know, there can be a sort of focus on the ball. Like that's cool. But it's almost like a relaxer confidence and ease. And you're there. You can't start to think like, Oh, this is what I'm going to do when I catch the ball. This is what I'm going to change. If the ball goes here, I'll make that. No, no, it's it's you're you're limiting yourself to too few options. And you can't be spontaneous because in sport, you know, there's there's too many things that could happen. So you need to be relaxed, at ease in your body, and then you'll be sort of spontaneous. And that performance, that ah those ability improves, those abilities improve, and then you're you're you're falling, you're interacting with the ground. ah You can just do that so much better when you're relaxed at ease.
00:35:00
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and lengthening into that backside, decompressing your body again, learning to breathe into your belly. That's all a way to sort of decompress, feel less tension, be less conscious, you know, in, you know, sort of areas of your body and just, you know, feel abilities.
00:35:17
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those hands, those feet, your balance for. ah the The thing that I love about this sort of training is I spoke about the basics and things being basics. I think that's what's important. But the progression is infinite. You can go take a sport once you learn this balance and alignment. And let's say you do like the bow stuff. You know, when people like flick the stick around, I love to watch people doing that. It's just like, you know you might learn to spin it in front of you like this with both your hands.
00:35:46
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And then you learn to spin it on the side. Then you learn to spin it on the side with one hand. Then you learn to flick it through your fingers instead of roll around your hand. Then you learn to throw it. Then you learn to throw it and spin it. And then you learn to throw it and spin it twice. And then it's like, whoa, ah you know, there's infinite opportunities. But then you'll go watch a video and there's someone throwing two sticks, one in each hand spinning and flowing and moving.
00:36:09
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but they're also, you know, do a friggin backflip halfway through. And it's just like there's infinite ability of skill and coordination and timing um and expressing this stuff and dance is and dance is an example of that because dance is kind of infinite. You can't really say like, oh, that was, you know, the perfectly executed um You know thing that was you know ten kilos better than you did last time and we like these sort of you know Progressions in the gym. It it doesn't make sense that like, you know mechanical progression that we make in the gym It can only go so far and eventually those same movement patterns that over and over again. They break us But when we look at movement
00:36:49
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You can experiment forever, your entire lifetime with different forms of movement. And if you keep these basic principles in mind, lengthening into the backside, softening you know through the front side of your body, you know being loose, understanding the shoulder mechanics, the way they're designed to to flow and move, you learn that from the crawl. You can apply that to anything you want. um And it could be you know a particular sport, a style of dance, martial arts.
00:37:17
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That's where I start to respect that stuff more, look into that stuff, dance, martial arts, because there's a never-ending progression, fluidity, timing, coordination that you can gain. Whereas the gym, you think that's like progressive overload, that's the true way to progress. No, there's a limit there. You've never seen anyone stick to progressive overload forever, otherwise you'd see someone have deadlifted, you know, 10,000 kilograms, you know, that maths is true. i Yeah. Yeah. It's, yeah it's, great point it's, it's fascinating. But yeah. Um, that being, uh, yeah. Oh, definitely. Definitely. Yeah. You know, I want to draw an interesting connection, kind of bring a full circle a little bit.
Stress, Flow State, and Performance
00:38:06
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Um, this,
00:38:09
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this tension that we're talking about in the body, an interesting observation that, you know, I've kind of been making. And again, there's a lot of, a lot of people talking about this kind of stuff, but I find it interesting that sometimes like when people get stressed, their neck gets really tense. That's like a common one. Their traps, they tense up their shoulders, go up to their ears. You know, the way that stress can even affect our,
00:38:36
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our muscles, you know, and our, our, our bodies in general, um, disallowing us from being in this flow state, this, you know, free flow movement where we are, we're, we're able to be loose at will. Um, I think that's ah something that, uh, is it really interesting to, to bring into this conversation. Uh, because when we're talking about that flow state and the ability to, you know, roll with it and kind of tune into the moment, you know, focus is important like we're saying, but not,
00:39:06
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You're not consciously playing the sport. You know, you're kind of trying to let your body body go on, on autopilot and tuning into that focus and that rhythm, that flow state, you know, like the best tennis I ever play is when I'm just locked in everyone, will everyone knows they play the best sports when they're locked in, you know, they, like what does that even mean? Right? Like, how do you lock in? How do you even do that? What are you doing? You're just, you're in this flow state. You know, you're just rolling with it. You know, you're, You're focused, you're tuned into the moment and these, these psychological stressors can take us away from the moment. You're focused on the past. You're focused on that, that bad play that you just made, you know, that'll take you out of the moment. You'll, I'm sure you'll play a worse shift because you're focused on that last play, you know, or you're worried about the next play. You need to play that, the, the, the one right in front of you, you know, being tuned in. That's when you'll play best guaranteed to ask any athlete, ask anybody that does anything.
00:40:03
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It's that flow state they'll talk about and they'll, they'll call it a bunch of different names. Um, but that psychological component to all this is really interesting. Now, you know, back thinking back to the, the start of this conversation saying, yeah, like trying to heal these psychological stressors, you know, one of the ways that we could do that is, is trying to get into this flow state, you know, moving our bodies, you know, these, this is one of the things that we've, that we've lost and that that I think it's like step, it's like an easy step one. You got to will up the the willpower, I guess, to go out and crawl around in your front yard and all your neighbors are going to think you're that weird guy crawling around and the dude in your backyard or something. I do it in my front yard. All my neighbors think I'm wild, man, but, um, funny man, like, uh, you know, like must turn up the willpower there to just move your body.
00:41:03
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you're going to get that fluidity back. You know, and that fluidity, that feeling, that bodily ability is going to translate psychologically too. You know, if your, if your mind is fluid and your body will be fluid, you know, your body's fluid, your mind will be fluid. It goes hand in hand. Is there a right way to approach it? Maybe if you are psychologically stuck, you need to address that first, perhaps. Uh, but I think everyone can benefit from,
00:41:33
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working these natural movement patterns that get us into this proper flow state, these movement patterns that we've lost. This is exactly lost. And this is exactly what we're talking about here. So cool, man. I just, I just love it. This conversation's just motivating me. I'm going to go out and crawl for the rest of the day, I think. Yeah. I love it, man. Yeah. rest the day yeah It's, it's amazing. And you know, you're kind of like,
00:42:02
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you were, you know, contemplating the question there, which comes first, um you know, the mind, the body, hey, which whichever works for you, you know, some people need to go sit and meditate and and clear their mind that works for them. Some people That doesn't appeal to them. I think everyone should be able to sit still and you know do nothing. But movement is a great one because you're just focusing on your feet, your crawl, the movement. um you know If you're if you're you know flipping a stick or doing rope flow or something, you're just focusing on that timing. And you are in the present. You can't be thinking about the past, the future. And it's just amazing. it's ah It's a meditation. It's a healing.
00:42:45
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And the more you you start to feel any tension that you're holding, as you you know do more complex moves, you'll you'll notice things and learn to let go link go of that. And you'll have you'll have these tools, right? you'll You'll start to learn that lengthening into your backside helps decompress you. You're learning to breathe into your belly helps decompress you. Spreading your feet and grabbing the ground helps create a certain alignment and you You can do that while you're you're sitting in a car, um but you've got to learn it in a quiet place. right you got You can do that ah apply that if you're sitting in a stressful office.
00:43:23
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You can use these tools that you've learned. and You learn so much about yourself, how to you know decompress, relieve tension. and yeah that That psychological side of things and a way of thinking, I'm starting to get more and more interested in um you know unnatural ways we've we've learned to think.
00:43:41
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and everyone worries about what other people think. I bring this up because you know you you've obviously overcome that crawling in the backyard. But people worry worry about what other people think is so is madness. right So there's one thing that's going to cause stress and that's you overthinking something. Now,
00:44:05
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yeah you know yeah yeah We shouldn't overthink, but you know that that's one thing. Now overthinking about what someone else is thinking, but probably isn't thinking about you, that's true madness. And that's a way to be angry, depressed, you know and go through it all. So it's just, yeah, it's we we got it we got to get that mind quiet and relaxed and control control the way we think.
00:44:37
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And this this movement piece is a tool, it's an aid in that. So, you know, which you've got to attack and go after, not attack, you know, you see, I've got that, I've got that mind of like attack, train it out of you. I'm trying to like alter these ways of thinking, because it's the way I've thought for so long. So even this conversation is like, it's a vulnerable one for me, because i'm I'm learning how to think differently myself. But it's worth bringing up because it's,
00:45:03
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It's so important, man. yeah we all We're all stuck in, I think, in the
Integrating Natural Lifestyle Elements
00:45:09
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wrong way. And essentially, yeah, it's it's it's so simple. And coming back to the way we're designed to move, natural movement.
00:45:22
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yeah try not to get too caught up in these these unnatural ways of thinking. and you know Lifestyle nutrition, we haven't touched on that yet, but you know that's all stuff that can ground us, bring us closer to nature, have this healing and effect on your your psychology mood and even your movement. When people take care of nutrition and they're getting grounded, they're sleeping well in the morning, they're properly hydrated,
00:45:48
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Now your fascs and your tissue your your fascia and your tissues work with you. There's less limitations and restrictions. so It all ties in. and you know This is exactly what you started with. that you can't just pick one of these things. Once you're open and you you understand it's a return to nature that we need, it's nutrition, it's lifestyle, it's training and movement, and then you know the the side of things that I'm not so there with yet and don't sort of coach myself, but know are important are you know the psychological side of things. you know We can talk about faith um you know within that, but definitely nutrition, lifestyle, training, movement, that's those are three things that I've seen people
00:46:28
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When we take care of those three pillars and that's sort of how I coach and um you know what I promote, things get so much better in other aspects of life, man. um So it's just everything, everything returning to more natural state. you know A point I want to make is that you know sometimes it is difficult to quiet the mind out of the blue. you know We do live in this.
00:46:55
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dopamine heavy world where stimulated constantly, you know, work is stressful. We work jobs that we don't care about. Uh, we're constantly watching consuming, you know, the news and social media and all things that are meant to instill negative, negative thoughts and beliefs into us. Right. Um, I just, I've noticed that it is a lot easier for me to do a little meditation.
00:47:21
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at the end of a movement session. That's why they have shavasana at the end of yoga. That's why they, you know, it's easier. I find very much easier to quiet the mind after movement. Um, and I think that says a lot. I think that says a lot as, you know, and again, like you said, yeah there's no right way to go about healing and health. You know, you got to kind of do it. And at the end of the day, I truly believe that everything goes hand in hand. So, um, but yeah, that movement piece, if there is a first step, that's what it is, in my opinion.
00:47:51
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Um, if we can generalize anything as much as we can generalize everything with knowing that there are outliers out there. Um, yeah, that movement piece is big. Um, yeah I want to ask you just, you know, what you've been up to,
Brian's Personal Journey in Africa
00:48:09
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man. Like we kind of got right into it and I didn't really get to get any updates. Like what, how's life going, man? Like, uh, how's it dog? You know, how's everything going?
00:48:18
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Yeah, things are going well, man. i um yeah Big shift happened last time we we chatted. I was based in Portugal, and I knew you know Africa was you know calling me home. I grew up you know in Africa here in Zambia, which is you know where I'm based now. Born in South Africa, so African you know born and raised. so You know, that and that never leaves you and well, it never left me. um So, you know, being in Portugal, being in Europe, I felt like I was like out on this tether. I was so far away from like my my roots and it was great because I went out, you know,
00:48:54
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completely new skill set, different way of thinking. And I've sort of come back to Africa, with you know, as ah as a different person, but now coming back to Zambia. It was a real like, you know, back to my roots coming home, reconnecting with with family, especially, you know, with my dad, ah you know, i'm back close and, you know, living out with him. um You know, at the moment, while I'm sort of, you know, first first back here in Zambia, but Dude, we're going out but going on hunting. you know My first memories were going out hunting with my dad. My dad was actually a professional hunter um you know when when we were growing up. And he was running safaris, hunting safaris, as well as photographic safaris out in an area called Luwangwa, which is a great sort of yeah beautiful wild area here.
00:49:42
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in Zambia and just coming back to hunting was a real like return to my roots sir and so you know everything we hunt we eat um of course during the safaris there were there were people you know trophy hunting I didn't sort of agree with a lot of that but you know it's what you know we were involved in when we were growing up But yeah, even first couple of weeks I got back, I went out and hunted in Impala, which is, you know, this beautiful antelope. It was actually the first antelope I ever hunted when I was eight years old, hunted it with my dad. And then I sort of came back after seven, eight years away from Africa. I was like, right, I'm going to hunt in Impala with an old friend of mine who I grew up hunting with. So, you know, we went out hunting.
00:50:23
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stocked the freezer with some good meat and you know shared a lot of the meat with but family and friends and I've been doing that I've hunted ah a kudu and a bushbuck which are also you know small to to medium-sized antelope in Africa and they're just it's just beautiful to guard hunting doing itself part of part of the whole process um and sharing the meat with with family and friends man and it's just like a reconnection to hunting has been Just, yeah, a real reawakening, a revival of of of me. Yeah, dude. It's been great. It's been great. So I'm back in Africa. so Yeah. Yeah. You know, hunting is, is one of those things that you want to tune in to to nature and and talk about health. Yeah. You know, the beauty about hunting is you reconnect with the land and you know, you're, you want to eat it locally.
00:51:21
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you You want to eat locally? Shop at a farmer's market's all right, but going and harvesting your own food. Not only you're eating the most fresh prime game out there that's local to your environment, but it connects to you, man. Like you're, you're harvesting that yourself. You, you, you really value that food. Like when you work for your food oh yeah and you, you sit down at that first meal, like what's that feeling like? Dude, it's, it's incredible. When.
00:51:52
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you know that You know, first of all, the hunting and yeah being with the animal there, you know as as a as it sort of passes, the last hunt, I was, um you know, I hunted a bush buck and when you shoot an animal in the shoulder, you go you shoot it through its lungs and its heart. And that the animal only dies when the blood is so sort of pumping through its body into its brain. So even if it's a perfect shot, and unless you're shooting it in the brain, that animal's alive for a little while. so um
00:52:23
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you know that That's that's the the way of things, that animal's dying naturally. I sometimes think a hit on the head and just like bang gone is unnatural um because that heart and lung shot, whether it's with a bow or with a rifle,
00:52:40
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that animal you know dies dies gradually. And if you can be there, there's select few times where I've sort of been there with the animal as it passes, right? Like that can be dangerous because a wounded animal can hurt you. We'll talk a bit about that because there's been yeah a couple of crazy stories.
00:52:54
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ah people getting hurt by animals like that recently but um you know i was there with that bushbuck as as it sort of passed this last animal hunted and there's just something amazing like your hands are on the animal like as it sort of passes and it's just they're like you were right there with that animal whose life you took and anyone who sort of knows that you know there's something so special there as as a hunter and you know that that meets that you know life given has given meat to you, your family, your friends, and and sharing that with others or creating a meal for others or you know around here with the community. If someone does something for me or lends me something, I'll i'll give them a package ah of meat that that I've hunted. And it's that for me, there's not there's no better feeling than that, like giving giving someone you know that package of meat that I've spent that effort hunting.
00:53:48
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ah eight years yes It's just such such ah such a beautiful feeling. As a man and as someone who was like, I think I was put here to to do that. I literally have a lineage of of hunters in in my family, my dad, um you know my late my late uncle. um you know They were hunters and they they grew up hunting and part of that.
00:54:15
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They grew up in Rhodesia, which is now known as Zimbabwe. So that the the family history there is quite interesting because Rhodesia was you know a group of people who sort of went off into North Africa to create a sort of colony in in North Africa. And they were those strong, like hardy people. So you know my my family, and my blood came from that.
00:54:40
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ah so So it's really special to to go out and hunt again. My uncle, who passed two months ago, he hunted his whole life. And he was he was killed by a by a buffalo, by a wounded buffalo. They were following a wounded buffalo. and you know he was He was killed. And you know it's obviously you know sad and you know quite a shock. But that's that's hunting and that's real life. Like these these things happen. and I have the utmost respect and I think my uncle would have been so, well, i' I'm proud of him and I think, you know, there's no better way to go as a man doing what you love, doing your sort of life's purpose, life's passion. You know, literally hunting hunting the animal that sort of he specialized in.
00:55:37
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and you know dedicated his life to to hunting you know and and that's that's how he went like you know as a man doing what you love you know that's that there's some power then there's some there's something incredible there uh so africa's really sort of taught me brought me back to to the reality of of life and death. And a lot of us are so disconnected from that. And it's strange, we should be more connected to that. So many people are like fear, fear, death, and worry that, you know, these little things that you do are, you know, scary or starting a new business, quitting a job. It's just like, man, we were always meant to be, you know, taking risks, putting ourselves out there. Not unnecessarily, but you know, life is,
00:56:30
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Yeah, life's life's beautiful and so so is so is is death. And it's all part of it. So, you know, that got real deep real quick, but that's what Africa and being back here sort of unlocked in me. You know, the realities of real struggle, like I'm around real struggle around here. Like I walk around even just sort of in our neighborhood here. And when I can, I try to get packages of meat donated and I'll go out and like give meat to some people in the local area.
00:56:58
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Because they can't afford meat here. It's insane. like the They live on vegetables and maize starch. Especially right now there's severe power outages and power cuts. So living in the town now, they obviously rely on refrigeration for any meat. And now all everywhere the local shops that stock meet, especially for the poverty-stricken, you know, township areas, they've all closed down. So, you know, these people can't get meat, can't get eggs. And the way the the health is sort of going to deteriorate in energy. I mean, literally, you know, it's it's sad. these These are real problems. And, you know,
00:57:41
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It's in Europe, I was detached from real problems. So little problems became big problems. And now coming back to Africa, it's just like, there's a real understanding of respect and respectful struggle in in life. And yeah, I went on a lot there and it's obviously, you know, but sort of emotional, just stayed a bit open there, but it's, ah yeah, coming back to Africa is has been something, has been something.
00:58:09
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Well, thank you for sharing that brother. I mean, that's, that is powerful. And I think you really highlight some of the beautiful, beautiful parts of life that, that so many people are missing too, right? Like that, that humility, that nature teaches, you know, that need for bravery, you know, it's, it's quite a, quite a beautiful thing. Um, it it's, uh, it's amazing what, what nature can teach us.
00:58:39
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when you truly experience it, you know, there's plenty of people that are out there that, you know, uh, get back to nature, get back to nature, live like this, live like that. And, you know, maybe they're trying to sell you a supplement or something, but getting out and and really experiencing it, you know, and, um, that's, that's where these lessons can be learned. And I think yeah you highlighted that really well there. I just, I really appreciate you sharing that brother. I really, um, I think that's amazing. I'm glad that you're home.
00:59:08
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Thanks, man. Thanks. Yeah. So I covered a lot there, you know, hunting and, um, you know, sourcing your own meat, I think is something everyone wants to be able to do.
Hunting in Nova Scotia and Africa
00:59:18
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And I wonder if that's something you've sort of been able to do out by you or something you plan on doing. Is that, is that sort of on the cards there? Yeah, it's the goal. I mean, I went out with my dad when I was a kid, we had some birds and stuff and we never got too lucky with it. I mean, we were huge hunters, but Uh, there's a big game out here. There's a moose is is fantastic. Um, and bear, they hunt a lot of bear in Nova Scotia. There's quite a, quite a problem of, uh, uh, bears actually in a lot of communities here. So they're, they were trying to open up the the bear season to have a spring season. And, um, just, we just have black bears. We don't have grizzles or anything like that, but they still, they get into the garbage and they kind of torment the the towns a bit. and But anyways, the, the, you know, the.
01:00:04
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liberals or whoever, you know the environmentalist in quotation, um they they shut that one down. So no spring season for us, for the bear. But yeah, there's plenty around. Where I'm from ah at home there in PEI, there's no big game. We don't have bear, we don't have deer, we don't have moose, we don't have anything like that. It's all been hunted out of out of existence. and ah because It's just a small island, right?
01:00:29
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Um, but there's still lots of deer here. There's still lots of bear and less moose, but, uh, there's still, I think there's still, I think they do it by tags here. So you get your tag and, uh, you can hunt moose, but if you go up to like Newfoundland or even New Brunswick, they, there's a ton, a ton of big game around and it's good too. Unbelievable. Yeah. so yeah Those big animals are what we got to chase, because we need that fat man. like Those big animals that have more fat, like or we can't survive without that. i don't know far you You know me, I'm sort of like big into animal-based way of eating. um and it's where When you go that route, you start to understand, like if you're just eating lean meat, even like these animals that I've hunted, they're quite lean animals.
01:01:10
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and that lack of fat is is a problem. There's something called rabbit starvation. It's quite a cool story because it you know helps people sort of remember this. If you're on an island and you've got thousands of rabbits and they're obviously not going to run out, they're sort of breathing, you will eventually starve to death because there is not enough fat on them to sustain you. So that sort of energy source of the the the fat is important.
01:01:37
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So that those large animals that have fat, it's it's a much more... Yeah, much more much more valuable meat. um So that sort of moose and the the larger animals, they say we as a species evolved hunting the the megafauna, right? Like the mammoths and the big sort of large animals, and they obviously had a lot of fat, so that makes sense. um You know, here we've got some remaining sort of large animals in in Africa, of course, you know, the giraffe, hippo, elephant, rhino, buffalo. They're sort of big, big fatty animals.
01:02:10
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a couple on that list you can't hunt of course ah but the buffalo That's what we were actually going to hunt in in early November. So we we grew up hunting. It was something my dad and I always spoke about, even from the age of 18. It was kind of this like undone rite of passage for me that I've never done is hunt my own buffalo. I've been on buffalo hunts where other people have sort of hunted the buffalo. But when you're the one who sort of stalks the animal, takes first shot, it's it sort of your buffalo.
01:02:40
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So now and at 21, I was supposed to do it. At 25, there was an option that I didn't get to take. And it sort of evaded me this whole time. But now in November, we're going out to hunt buffalo. And hopefully, you know if all goes to plan, if sort of God wills it, we'll come back with them you know with with some good fatty meat after that. Yeah. Well, we'll have to keep up because I'll be eager to hear how that goes.
01:03:06
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Yeah. 100% mad. is it Is it pretty restricted there? like how's the like Or is it fairly open? like Is there animals that are off-limit? you know like Is there like a patrol? and kind of We have like ah um you know like Department of Forestry, you know different things like that that that regulate it all. right and you know They'll kind of still hunt you down and if you're not hunting up to par. How's that work in in Africa?
01:03:33
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Yeah, yeah, there's sort of rules you got to stick to this certain quotas. They look at each area and they look at the population, then they determine how many buffalo or certain any antelope that are available from a particular area. So if
01:03:50
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Luwata, an area in Luwangwa, has a population of buffalo. Of course, they might be 2032 to go and hunt that year. um Otherwise, you know the numbers are small. they they won't The quota know might not be open. There might be no and buffalo available. um So they they look at the the ecosystems. They determine what's going to be available. And then those licenses become available to hunters who apply, have the right sort of permits and licenses for the right size rifles to hunt that game can apply for, you know, Buffalo licenses. And then each year they they go into a raffle and a draw to see who gets these these licenses. And that's how the residence permits work, but you can, you know, go through and um go to go to private areas or or pay
01:04:44
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a larger fee for, for hunting these animals, but it's all through the Zawa Zambia Wildlife Authority. At least that's what it's used to be called. I don't know what it's called now, but Zambia Wildlife Authority.
Brian's Philosophy on Movement and Future Plans
01:04:57
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Cool. Really cool, man. Awesome. Awesome. Awesome. Well, brother, I think, uh, we could probably wrap this up and put a bow on it here if you want to give us some final thoughts on the episode anything that you want to add or that you want to that you think we might have missed anything anything at all no no I love it Matt I think just to just to recap that like connection to movement connection yeah is connection to everything else man and there's just these amazing tools to decompress the body get back to the floor
01:05:27
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learn the sort of correct mechanics of the crawl, try apply that to your walk and run, feel out your own body through the breath and and meditation, to feel any sort of tightnesses that you yourself will subconsciously know how to release and then dance to move energy through the body, man. I think if there's three things, it's that, it's that, let's get back to the floor, decompress, crawl, use those biomechanics and and dance, move, be spontaneous and enjoy.
01:05:53
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um because you can take that to any sort of discipline, whether it's sort of outdoors, hiking, moving, you know, hunting like I am, whatever sport you enjoy, sort of tennis, spontaneity, decompression, the relaxed mind and and body is is ready for movement. You can have more fun with it. isn Yeah. Awesome, brother. So how can we learn more from you? Where where can we find you?
01:06:19
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Yeah, Instagram's a good place, man. Thanks for asking. um Yeah, Instagram's a good place. fit dot.coach, underscore, Brian. um playing and playing around with all that because if, you know, fit coach Brian, it's kind of what I've been for a while, but, you know, revival and revival fitness is a sort of new program and coaching that I'm starting. And that's integrating not just the movement and corrective exercise, which I've done for years, but that's the the nutrition lifestyle and movement and training all coming together. So, you know, I'm sort of moving into that. um So that revival fitness is something that'll be sort of up and coming, um you know, challenges and, you know,
01:06:57
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commitments to to taking care of yourself will, you know, be available, you know, coming into the new year. But yeah, fit dot.coach underscore Brian is my my Instagram. Cool, brother. Yeah, that's awesome. And man, you ever think about doing YouTube videos? Because I'm sure I'd love to hear like long form content from you. Like these podcasts from you, man are awesome, dude. Like do you do other podcasts, anything like that? Because You know, ah almost the Instagram videos aren't enough for me at least. Right. No dude, like ah YouTube is something I always say or I'm getting it into getting and into it. So I'll release my first YouTube this weekend and then consistently into next week. How about that? That's a go brother. Yeah, I'm happy. I kind of started that for you. I guess not. 100%. That's awesome. No dude, that's great. All right. Well, good to connect with you man. We will keep in touch.
01:07:53
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Always. Yeah. Yeah. Thank you very much again for your time today. Yeah. Love it. Love it. We'll get you out to Africa at home stage. One of these days, I'm sure. Yeah. We'll have to, we'll definitely do that. That would be so cool, man. Definitely. Love it. All right. I want to thank y'all for listening. You should all know that it's not medical advice for your informational purposes only, but also remember we're all responsible, sovereign, being capable of thinking, criticizing, understanding absolutely everything and anything we do people and greater force are together, self-healer, self-governable, self-teachers, and so much more.
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