My story

My name is Nathan Newman

Who am I and why should you trust me or my method?

MY Mission

To provide everyone with a route to enhance their body control functionality, and overall wellness.

To assist individuals in achieving proficiency in their selected discipline by clinically addressing biomechanical concerns. Support current athletes and artists in improving their physical capabilities and overcoming plateaus in their specialty by enhancing their training with functional strength and mobility.

Empowering people to be stronger than necessary, rather than just meeting their basic strength requirements. Invest in your physical well-being for long-term health, functionality, and injury prevention.

Vision

To enhance the fundamental understanding and appreciation of body control, skill development, health, and wellness, ultimately leading to the improvement of people's unconscious competence.

A training environment where methodology can be separated from ideology, granting practitioners freedom to grow and diversify.

Encourage a community of athlete thinkers, rather than athletes or thinkers.

Journey

My journey started at 16 with Martial Arts and transitioned to Circus at 27. At 33, I embraced Dance and Yoga, adding Pilates at 35

I became a Stunt Man at 36 and at 39 I am still learning and developing more than I ever have.

This journey has spanned 9 counties, countless cities and thousands of unique individuals.

I have learned and trained alongside people from all walks of life ranging from absolute beginners all the way up to Bonafide master's and consummate professionals.

My journey has positioned me well to help guide others. I hope we can become part of each others journey.

Martial Arts

My interest in martial arts began before the internet, leading me on a global journey to find master's to learn from.

Like many Australian children in the 90s, my introduction to martial arts begun with Karate at the age of 16 and persisted for 6 years.

Soon after I discovered Capoeira followed by Chinese Kung Fu. These I focused on for 12 years. As my mind, body and understanding of martial arts developed I sought out Muay Thai and Boxing.

Even though my focus has shifted from Martial Arts, it still features in my life as a stunt man and performer. This includes many years of play in Taekwondo, Silat, Kali, Parkour and so on.

Circus

Capoeira introduced acrobatics and dance into my life and body. I was fascinated by the complexity of these skills and how the attainment of each seemed to permanently upgrade my physical capabilities and understanding of the body.

Amongst the more difficult things to learn and often couched in ideology I was forced to go to circus school to gain a deeper insight and time to practice.

My interest and specialties included

Hand balancing

Aerial Straps

Tumbling (Doing flips 'n' stuff)

During this time, I was fortunate enough to have access to multiple coach's full time for 3 full years. I was able to train beside Gymnasts (Rhythmic and artistic) Trickers, Breakdancers and many other practitioners.

Classical methodology allowed me to refine my abilities, strength and active mobility.

This skill and knowledge lead me to Las Vegas to perform, coach and train full time. Often beside the best in the industry.

Dance

Capoeira also introduced my body to dance and its concepts. Musicality, shapes, cadence, timing, groove and movement connectivity, to name a few.

My curiosity and desire to develop upon these things lead me to explore dance cultures. My interest in art, music and linguistics made me a natural fan of Hip Hop.

Dance allowed me to explore the spectrum of movement between movement. I discovered that Choreography combined with complicated movement patterns and polyrhythms, dictated by an outside source, challenges the brain and the body in a way that is difficult to replicate.

These skills became central in my transition from Martial Arts to Stunts

Yoga

Since its introduction into Australia

in the 60s and 70s Yoga has appeared as a staple to many individuals interested in holistic health and wellness. I was no different. Yoga is often employed to teach an athlete reflection, stillness, breath and recovery. A way of managing the software to optimize the hardware.

Due to its global popularity, it is easily accessible

and requires almost no infrastructure to practice.

All of these factors combined meant Yoga is and has been a part of my journey since the beginning.

I used the opportunity afforded by COVID to pursue Yoga more intentionally and became teacher certified.

strength & Fitness

I was blessed to be born in a place and era where Gyms and weights were becoming more commonplace and popular. This gave me access to a training space from early on in life.

This is the humble beginnings of many coaches. Without the internet we were left to explore the equipment and experiment with movement This curiosity eventually led me to pursue personal training with a focus on power development.

As I continued with my physical journey, I realized that many professional movers at the time supplemented their specialty training with resistance training.

My specialty as a coach very quickly became helping Dancers get strong and lean in a functional way which also developed desirable skill and body control.

calisthenics

After many years of chasing aesthetics, power and strength, and having left the circus industry as a performer, my ability to continue finding time to train my specialty skills became increasingly trickier. I realized that my history in training set me up well to pursue Calisthenics. Afterall it is the estranged second cousin to Gymnastics and Cirus. Skill oriented training that has clear (and many not so clear) progressions. It allowed for the gamification of training which often improves adherence.

Attaining a new skill was tantamount to upgrading one's physical and proprioceptive capabilities permanently. Especially if one continued to refine the finer details of each skill.

Calisthenics is the public portal into high level skills and strength and as such is the perfect starting place for anyone wishing to develop their physical capabilities.

Pilates

Post pandemic, I was lucky enough to have the opportunity to work in a Pilates studio teaching hybrid athleticism. This is where I met my Pilates mentor who introduced me to both Mat and Reformer Pilates which I practiced and taught for two full years.

While Reformer equipment was commonly available in training facilities, many were unsure how to utilize it effectively.

It took me only a single class to realize the benefits Pilates offered to function and control.

Pilates has heavily influenced my style of teaching and understanding of developing functional mobility.

Mobility

I have explored various approaches for developing strong, mobile, and adaptive athletes. They all shared a common issue: excessive setup, often entangled in layers of ideology or overly specific outcomes.

Having students from many backgrounds and often training without equipment meant I had to extract and apply the components of these methods I found most useful.

I call this simply 'Mobility'

Its purpose.

To create adaptable, mobile, strong and supple Hybrid Athletes

Stunts

I didn't realize it at the time, but pursuing physical culture that I loved, set me up well to become a Stunt Performer for film and T.V.

Stunts requires Body Control, fight skills, timing, cadence, explosiveness. It requires all these things and more when you least expect it under circumstances you could never anticipate. The industry draws many of the most talented athletes on the planet. Masters of all shapes, varieties and disciplines. This makes it a great ecosystem for continued development and challenge.

Body Control

Simple. Inclusive.

Control your body better for any situation.

Improve your unconscious competence. Refine your skillset.

Become a Hybrid Athlete.