I'm continuously trying to think of diverse and creative ways/games/"movement situations" to stimulate my son Quincy into different movement qualities without making it too much like training or exercise. But as he gets older and more interested in his craft that keeps him more sedentary (animation & filmmaking), I've been trying to slowly introduce the idea of targeted practice and training to complement his innate drive to move and play. For me, the challenges of a modern and predominately sedentary world require multiple tool bags for a varied approach so that we have different strategies available. Only play and "enjoyable movement", for example, is not enough. Just as only training and exercise or having an active job are not enough. It is advantageous to have elements of all of those approaches available to apply them to our unique context.
Let kids play. Don't coach them too soon. Yes!! Easy for me to let it happen as I home school, Quincy. He can have as much movement throughout the day as he wants and needs. But in addition to his interests keeping him still, he will also be going back to school next year. So I feel I would be doing him a disservice if I didn't give him different strategies to adapt to more sedentary days at school. He won't be able to get up and move whenever he wants to. And so, we are gently building him a toolbox of more targeted ideas. It's early days of course! I'm mainly using a constraint led approach.
On this occasion, it was to move with the camera in a very particular way to harness his love of filmmaking/animation/storytelling. First, we mapped out the framing and movement of the camera (see the second video). Then I explained to him that the camera does not have stabilisation, so his body has to "be the gimbal". So it meant he had to keep his arms, i.e. the camera, steady whilst doing all the work with his legs, like a kind of ballroom waltz with the camera. The result is that he made my movement much more graceful than it actually was.
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