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Do you remember primary school? The running around playing tiggy, 40/40, brittish bulldogs, football, swinging on the monkey bars, in the sand pit, or just skipping and doing cartwheels?
We spent a significant period of our lives like this.
So what changed?
We hit high school and all of a sudden if we played anything it was a sport, kick to kick, basketball, rugby, soccer, netball, etc. Unless we were awesome enough to play chance or 4-square. Other than that we would sit around, eat our lunch, talk about girls, boys and this weekends parties.
WHY?
Of course their are social and developmental cues that play a major role in how we act around each other (especially in high school), but there is 1 significant thing that changed from primary school to high school, that has a drastic effect on how we do things.
The words that we use.
In primary school, we have “PLAYtime”, so when the bell goes and the teacher says “alright boys and girls, it’s playtime, see you back at (whatever time)”, she has started the thought pattern of PLAY, we are now in a state of play every time that bell goes, and that’s generally what we follow it up with. Then we get to high-school it’s all of a sudden called “LUNCH TIME”. This, then creates a new pattern in our minds. Of course as year 7’s (the youngest at the school), we still have a habit that says when the bell goes, it’s time to play. But now, every day, that bell goes and we hear the words “LUNCH TIME”. What thought process do you think that will start to drive? Definitely not a playful one.
Then of course we get to UNI, TAFE or the workforce and what do we get? “LUNCH BREAKS” & “SMOKOS”.
Without our knowledge, the words that we use and that the people around us use can completely alter the thought process that we experience.
“What we think, we become”.
It does not matter who you are, what you do or what part of the world you live in. Your thoughts become your actions and your words become your thoughts (especially the words you use internally).
This is the reason for PLAYtime, & PLAYgrounds. For so long, we have lived an society that only associates fun and play with how children do things. If you want to help us create a change in the world then change the words you use. PLAY don’t TRAIN, go to the PLAYground, don’t TRAIN, DEVELOP, don’t EXERCISE.
I PLAY because it makes me feel good. I PLAY because it’s fun, I PLAY because it makes me grow in more ways than any form of “training” ever could.
Enjoy your day and PLAY 🙂
A UFT PLAYground is a place that people of all shapes, sizes and ages learn to develop their movement abilities through an infinite learning and development program. UFT PLAYgrounds have been created to re-inspire our natural ability to move, create, adapt, re-act, connect, have fun and of course PLAY.
PLAYgrounds have been developed to allow people to feel and explore their own abilities by utilising a multidimensional, infinite, creative and PLAYful approach to training.
We live in a world full of specialists and obsessions. At an ever increasing rate, people are specialising more and more, in their jobs, in their businesses, in their sport and in their training. The result, is a backward step in human evolution. By specialising, we limit ourselves to thinking that 1 particular way of doing things is the right way, or the only way.
We promote creativity, not only in movement and training methodologies but in thinking in general.
A UFT PLAYground is created to provide the general public with an opportunity to PLAY across multiple styles of training and moving, to be able to progress in the training methods that they become passionate about or that excites them and to be a part of a community that promotes more than just fitness.
The “fitness” industry above all others has brought about a need to specialise in order to achieve anything, and majority of what we do for “fitness” is for an aesthetically pleasing reason. We understand that aesthetics are nice and we too love to look and feel good. However a UFT PLAYground is developed to allow people to move better than ever before across a broad range of training methodologies and ideas. Aesthetics, therefore are a result not a goal of that system. We know that “If you train to look good, you will not always enjoy what you do, but if you PLAY a lot, and do the things that you love, you will ending up looking good”. Aesthetics should be a result not a goal.
For years now, we have recognised that the best movers on the planet are children. They are flexible, mobile & fit, they have better relative strength than a typical adult (and even most adolescents), they are the best creators and innovators, they learn faster, the adapt better, they interact better with other people, they are more connected to nature and most importantly, they PLAY more than anyone else.
As adults, we tend to believe that because we are taller and more experienced in “life”, we are better, and then we get to an age that says we are “too old to PLAY”. As we grow taller (and in a lot of cases rounder), we experience things that inhibit our ability to move, think and not think. We allow our experiences to limit our abilities as humans, whether it be a physical injury, a story that we heard or a youtube video that we watched. We also allow our emotions to control our behaviour because of our past experiences. Maybe it was the feeling of humiliation when we tried something new, regret when we failed or heart break when it was taken away from us. Because of this, we allow our experiences to control our future instead of learning from them and creating our own
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This is what UFT PLAYground’s are built on. The understanding that we as humans need to go back to the way things were before our negative experiences took over our subconscious mind and body.
A UFT PLAYground gives people the ability to re-learn what they have lost, as well as develop new sets of skills that will allow them to follow any particular passion that they uncover in PLAYtime. When we PLAY, we are simply, exploring. Through exploring we become curious and through curiosity we become obsessed or passionate about a particular thing. This is why in a PLAYground we allow people to PLAY across a broad range of training systems (minimum of 3), Through this system they are able to identify 1, their current limitations and be educated on how to overcome them, and 2, identify their passions and learn to develop, grow and excel in them.
UFT PLAYgrounds are also a development centre for up and coming entrepreneurs in the fitness industry.
Each PLAYground founder will have been trained and will be continuously trained in UFT’s Trainer Success System.
This system allows personal trainers, coaches, teachers, instructors, etc. to continue to develop in their fields of specialty (as they play they will find it) and in the philosophy of PLAYtime. They will also be trained in the business systems of UFT in order to have their own successful and profitable business.
See UFT Trainer Success System for more details.
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