There are so many different vantage points that have influenced Pilates from what originated in 1888 in Germany by the founder Joseph Pilates. There isn’t one right answer as to how the form should be practiced while there are definitive principles, core competencies and movements that span various interpretations of the form. Pilates classes Northern Beaches builds strength, flexibility and lean muscle tone with an emphasis on lengthening the body and aligning the spine. The guiding principles from the founder transform a simple exercise regime into something exceptional and meaningful in a body reforming way. All of the principles are useful whether applied to Pilates or any other workout or sports activity. Pilates Principles: 1. Concentration Have you ever found yourself mentally distracted with a work deadline, personal issue, an idea or otherwise that when you approached your workout you were mentally not present? If so, you were cheating yourself. The connection of the mind to movement is a key component of taking health and wellness to another level. Bringing a precise and focused concentration to movements allows development of body awareness. This development leads to an increased ability to access precise muscles and incorporate the muscles most relevant to optimum performance and health. Performing a movement one time in optimum form will produce more dramatic effects than doing twenty reps mentally checked out and in poor form. 2. Control The human body has a truly amazing ability to adapt, default and recruit muscles as needed due to a phenomenon … Read more

No matter how exciting the surf contest but if you don’t have any app it’s useless. James C. Scott’s formulation, from his book Domination and the Arts of Resistance, of the “infrapolitics of subordinate groups,” is especially interesting in thinking about one of Hawaii’s greatest cultural and social exports, the art of surfing. If you surf, you are undoubtedly aware of the various unspoken codes and rules that govern the tribe. These codes and rules exist, in part, as both a kind of self-policing in the lineups as well as warning to outsiders, or “non-locals.” (“Local,” especially in Hawaii, is quite a loaded term, however we can limit it in our discussion to stand in for surfers who aren’t from the area/surf spot.) If you don’t surf, then what you think you know about these codes or rules is greatly filtered through the public transcript. However, the fact that there are, to varying degrees, different representations of the “surfer’s code” in both the public and hidden transcript, offers us an interesting window into how the hidden and the public collide. As Scott explains, infrapolitics “is a politics of disguise and anonymity that takes place in public view but is designed to have a double meaning or to shield the identity of the actors.” Surfers are notorious for rubbing wax on windshields, slashing tires, removing distributor caps and spark plug lines, siphoning gas, and various others acts surf terrorism to cars that they don’t recognize as “from” where they surf all … Read more