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Kyocho undo [協調 運動] coordinated movement.
Comes from a freebie video by Safety Concepts (Glossary) and it triggered some thoughts in my mind on how I could reference coordinated movement in self-protection, much like in the Safety Concepts video. It reminded my of the tactics we learned in the military, emphasis on four man team movement. Caveat: remember, this is NOT about military tactic’s per say and it is about using such sources to learn about how one coordinates movement of two or more people to accomplish an objective like resource predation, etc. Take what you learn in such sources then compare that to observations out in the wild of your environment and see what come up. Also, youtube is a good source of seeking out more about this topic along with a membership in Safety Concepts.
To be successful as a four man fire team, the members must train and practice to a point where all members can perceive how and why they move the way they need to move in order to accomplish some mission-objective. This is not that far off to what two or more predators do to segregate a target to an environment, etc., where they can be processed for either resources or for some nefarious process.
Then it occurred to me, after growing up watching Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom series, that all animals, including us humans, move in coordinated rhythmic movement especially to safeguard, secure and survive in those very ancient days when predatory animals, as well as other humans, would hunt us for dinner and I don't mean to invite us to sit around eating a good meal and drinking a good drink.
In these most modern times we all have had this ability socially conditioned out of us as something unnecessary, since we are supposed to have evolved to not need violence or to deal with others who would apply violence to us as individuals or as a group. We have NOT changed all that much since hunting and gathering in the Serengeti so many hundreds of years past. It would be nice if we had evolved that much but, guess what, not yet folks.
Until that wonderful day arrives we have to deal with stuff, even if we really don't want to believe it is so. Now, as to coordinated movements, this is something to study and learn to recognize along with stuff like what is normal and what is abnormal behaviors so that we can recognize when one, two or more folks are moving and acting in ways that would put us in danger, so we can act to avoid, escape and evade or deescalate things to survive.
Understand, much like the theory that most Chinese martial arts are derivatives of animal behavior, if we observe the wild, animal and man, we can discover that coordinated movement appears in all of us whether in a conflict or when in a daily work effort. Look at it as another type of "tell" that should trigger your spidey sense and get you to thinking in lieu of texting, face-time or twitter we focus on how the other animals in our environment move and use that to stay safe, secure and alive...
Think of that regimen or habit or pattern you set that becomes comfortable, seems safe and secure and is the most expedient means of travel or getting something done. Think, visualize it as you already do in practice, how we all perform patterned habits that soon become instinct-like, i.e., we perform naturally and without conscious thought, and you will find that it is this type of patterned behavior that gives us away and gives others away to us if we learn how to see them, analyze them and then act on them in an appropriate way.
This ain’t rocket science you know man!
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