Understand the practice.
Crazy Monkey is more than a collection of exercises. It uses a clear framework to help you notice more, solve movement problems and work with people, objects and the environment.
In seven short steps, you will experience the framework before seeing how everything fits together.
Every skill grows through a loop.
A handstand, push-up, crawl or partner task demands technique, strength and attention. Each attempt also gives you information: you read the situation, organize a response and use what changed to shape the next attempt.
The Crazy Monkey Practice trains the whole loop.
Experiment 01 / 07
Write one thing you noticed in the experiment.
Step 04 / 07
Your senses shape what you can perceive.
You do not respond to everything around and inside you. You respond to the information your nervous system detects, combines and makes available.
Perception guides action. Action changes the situation and creates new perception. Movement emerges from this continuous loop between you and what is happening.
The Crazy Monkey Practice trains this loop. Clearer perception helps you notice earlier, adjust sooner and stay available when a situation changes.
Every action changes the situation and creates new sensory information. The loop continues.
The Crazy Monkey Practice.
The movement task is only the visible part. Underneath it, the practice trains the continuous relationship between perception and action.
How it all fits together
Three sensory channels provide information in the here and now. Every channel feeds every capacity. The capacities compound over time, until you can increasingly direct your own practice.
Read your own body, build useful situations and keep progressing without waiting for someone else to provide every answer.
Sense what is happening and build a clearer map.
Organize and adapt under changing constraints.
Coordinate with people, objects and environments.
The world around you: surfaces, space and people.
The body in space: position, effort and balance.
The world within: breath, tension and state.
This is the framework inside every part of Crazy Monkey. Strength work, inversions, locomotion, coordination, object work and partner work create different situations to solve. They are vehicles for the practice, not the practice itself.
Perception guides action, action creates new perception, and the loop continues. Because every sensory channel feeds every capacity, no exercise belongs to only one box.
You cannot adapt to what you cannot perceive. When everything changes, you can too.
