Transmission Baseworks

In this episode, Patrick Oancia chats with Jozef Fruček in a reflective dialogue exploring Jozef’s upbringing amidst nature and and foraging trips with his dad in Slovakia, and the profound impact it had on shaping his insights into the dynamics of “communication” between living systems (including us, humans) and their environments. The discussion unpacks the philosophical and practical aspects of Jozef’s views reflected in the Fighting Monkey Practice, touching on the themes of authenticity, adaptability, vitality, creativity, parenting, and the interplay of art and athletics, all of which underscore his journey towards cultivating versatile forms of expression and pedagogy.

About Jozef:

Jozef Frucek is a movement practitioner, artist, and educator. Born in Slovakia, he graduated from the Academy of Music and Theater of Bratislava and completed a PhD thesis in 2002. For several years he was a member of Ultima VezWim Vandekeybus, and later collaborated with the Royal Flemish Theater in Brussels. Together with Linda Kapetanea, Jozef co-founded RootlessRoot in 2006, as a platform for their own productions, research and teaching. Together, they have been developing the Fighting Monkey practice.

Baseworks Transmission

These Baseworks Transmission conversations look at both the concrete and abstract realizations that emerge from a commitment to any kind of practice or pursuit to achieve life goals. The ideas get unpacked from their subjectivity, and the outcome of each transmission sets out to discover critical feature patterns and construct common recognition categories of physical and introspective experiences.

For time-stamped show notes, references to the topics discussed about Japan, other associated links, show transcript, full bio's, and the companion reflection access, visit: 

https://baseworks.com/podcast/jozef-frucek-fighting-monkey-practice-communication-adaptation

This is the companion REFLECTIONS transmission for the conversation Patrick Oancia had with Ryan Hurst, one of the founders of GMB Fitness. To get insights from the conversation and deepen your understanding, listen to the original episode first. You can listen to that ⁠here⁠.

In this Reflection, co-developer of the Baseworks Method, Asia Shcherbakova, unpacks Ryan's immersive approach to movement practice and his journey from gymnastics to martial arts. She also explores the synergies and differences between GMB Fitness and the Baseworks method providing valuable insights and correlations. You can get the show notes, associated links, and show transcript for this episode ⁠here.

About Ryan:

Ryan co-founded GMB fitness in 2010 with partners Andy Fossett and Jarlo Ilano and acts as the head coach and program director for the method. Since 2010 GMB has facilitated the delivery of its programming to over 100,000 students in over 100 countries. Among the thousands who have benefited from their programming, they’ve trained Olympians, world-class martial artists, and FBI Hostage Rescue Teams at Quantico. Ryan also holds black belts in Kendo, Judo, and Shorinji Kempo, a purple belt in BJJ, and came from a background as a competitive gymnast. Ryan has devoted his life to coaching others in strength and movement but always lets his philosophy of “training for a healthy life” lead the way. He’s married with two children and has lived in Japan for over 25 years. 

About Asia Shcherbakova: 

Asia is a co-developer of the Baseworks Method and a published neuroscientist studying the pro-cognitive effects of medium-chain triglycerides. Asia’s role as Baseworks co-developer is both to map the method applications onto known neurobiological mechanisms in order to improve the method’s efficacy, and to “translate” the pioneering applications in order to map them back onto common categories in exercise physiology, other movement practices and everyday life. 

Baseworks Transmission

These Baseworks Transmission conversations look at both the concrete and abstract realizations that emerge from a commitment to any kind of practice or pursuit to achieve life goals. The ideas get unpacked from their subjectivity, and the outcome of each transmission sets out to discover critical feature patterns and construct common recognition categories of physical and introspective experiences.

Transmission Reflections is a format that allows us to reflect on what was discussed during the Transmission Conversations, digest it, and perhaps even generate a new perspective on what unfolded during the talk. 

The On Japan, Movement Autonomy & Community conversation was recorded on July 6, 2022 To listen to the audio version or read this companion reflection instead, please visit here.

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In this episode, Patrick Oancia talks with Ryan Hurst about his immersion into Gymnastics in Wichita, Kansas, from a young age through to decades as a devoted martial artist and ex-pat in Japan.  

His immersion into the Japanese culture was shaped by these and other experiences, and that all led to his co-founding GMB Fitness in 2010. 

About Ryan  

Ryan co-founded GMB fitness in 2010 with partners Andy Fossett, and Jarlo Ilano and acts as the head coach and program director for the method.   He holds black belts in Kendo, Judo, and Shorinji Kempo, a purple belt in BJJ, and came from a background as a competitive gymnast.   Ryan is married with two children and has lived in Japan for over 25 years. Visit the show page for a full bio. (link below)  

Baseworks Transmission

These Baseworks Transmission conversations look at both the concrete and abstract realizations that emerge from a commitment to any kind of practice or pursuit to achieve life goals. The ideas get unpacked from their subjectivity, and the outcome of each transmission sets out to discover critical feature patterns and construct common recognition categories of physical and introspective experiences.

For time-stamped show notes, references to the topics discussed about Japan, other associated links, show transcript, full bio's, and the companion reflection access, visit: 

https://baseworks.com/podcast/ryan-hurst-japan-movement-autonomy-community/

This is the companion REFLECTIONS Transmission for the conversation that Patrick Oancia had with Yuval Ayalon. It would make the most sense to first listen to that episode here.

This Reflection looks at Yuval’s journey from competitive gymnastics to contemplative handstand practice and discusses the concept of foundation in physical skill development. It also talks about the tendency of well-learned skills to escape our awareness.

To watch the video version or read this companion Reflection instead, please go here. 

As a recap, in the On Playing, Training & Challenge episode, Patrick Oancia chats with Yuval Ayalon about his transition from being a kid swinging on trees, right through to being a competitive gymnast, and performance artist, and finally ending up a globally renowned teacher of hand-balances.

The discussion hit a lot of interesting points on the development of skills, dealing with stress, and directing intentions and focus to where they need to be at each step.

And you can get the show notes, associated links, and show transcript for that episode here. 

Baseworks Transmission

These Baseworks Transmission conversations look at both the concrete and abstract realizations that emerge from a commitment to any kind of practice or pursuit to achieve life goals. The ideas get unpacked from their subjectivity, and the outcome of each transmission sets out to discover critical feature patterns and construct common recognition categories of physical and introspective experiences.

Transmission Reflections is a format that allows us to reflect on what was discussed during the Transmission Conversations, digest it, and perhaps even generate a new perspective on what unfolded during the talk.

On Playing, Training & Challenge: Yuval Ayalon

In this conversation Patrick Oancia chats with Yuval about his transition from being a kid swinging on trees, right through to being a competitive gymnast, performance artist and finally ending up a globally renowned teacher of hand balances.  

There's a lot of ground covered that relates to how to commit to a practice, the approach and attitude that one would take towards stress in competition and thereafter, trying to understand how to fit all these pieces into a type of life which can be fulfilling and positive.

Baseworks Transmission

These Baseworks Transmission conversations look at both the concrete and abstract realizations that emerge from a commitment to any kind of practice or pursuit to achieve life goals. The ideas get unpacked from their subjectivity, and the outcome of each transmission sets out to discover critical feature patterns and construct common recognition categories of physical and introspective experiences.

For show notes, associated links, show transcript and the companion reflection access visit:  

https://baseworks.com/podcast/playing-training-challenge-yuval-ayalon/

So we always try to clarify what the purpose of our form practice is in Baseworks. In this Quest 4 video Patrick Oancia highlight how the continuity of form practice can lead to a better understanding of movement all around.  

About Patrick Oancia:  

Patrick founded BASEWORKS. His approach to mind-body health is inspired by adaptive learning, fitness, scientific research, and metaphysics of different traditions. His mission is to promote a sense of coexistence with the environment, refining self-awareness, autonomy, and intuition. He is an avid athlete and a constant explorer of many physical modalities. He comes from an active background as a musician,  pursues interests in writing and architecture as well as interior, system, community, and industrial design.  

This Quest 4 was recorded on March 3, 2022  

Concept & Visuals: Asia Shcherbakova
Narration & Audio Production: Patrick Oancia
Music: John Connell

Go here for transcript and video version.