Final Coaching and Motor Learning - DAP 301 Foundations of Movement - Syracuse University

Anchoring

Provides stability to one body part through active connection with another body part in an opposing direction. Not the same as grounding.

Countertension

Movement in a direction that opposes the primary pull, and provides stability universally.

Core Support

Active central organization that supports physical weight-bearing and dynamic interaction with the environment. The absence of core support present as overexertion of external muscles or passive collapse into gravity.

Grounding

The relationship with the earth with weight-bearing.

Hollowing

The initiation of movement at the end of exhalation. This engages the pelvic floor, lower internal abdominals, and psoas in sequence.

Intent

The neuromuscular motor plan that precedes and determines the course of a movement phrase.

Kinetic Chain

The group of muscles engaged to produce support or movement across multiple joints.

Phrasing

The organization of movement into perceivable units. There is a preparation, initiation, main action, follow-through, and recuperation to every movement.

Body Attitude

The persistent torso organization from which all movement develops and returns, and is a psychophysiological indicator.

Vertical Thoroughness

A clear, energized pathway through the central axis from the earth to the top of the head.

Spatial Pull

Using the space available to the mover.

Three-Dimensionality

A movement that creates a changing volumetric form shifting in the three planes.

Weight Sensing

The proprioceptive awareness of the weight of one's own body parts relating to gravity.

Sequencing

The movement that flows through the body in organized, patterned sequences moving between the core and distal body.