Jun 20, 2022 · 2 hr 33 min · 24 segments
My guest is Ido Portal, the world’s foremost expert on human movement. Ido has spent a lifetime studying, combining and evolving elements from an enormous range of martial arts, dance genres, athletic…
Andrew HubermanHost
I've been looking forward to sitting down with you to talk for a very long time.
I was first exposed to your work from a post or a podcast, I believe, of you had a group of people walking down handrails, literally the handrails along stairwells.
And as a, I don't want to say former skateboarder, once a skateboarder, always a skateboarder.
But I was really struck by, first of all, uh, the incredible range of skill that people had, and yet their willingness to do this, right? I think of handrails and walking on handrails or skateboarding on handrails as a potential hazard, and yet some of the incredible proficiency that some of the people there, including yourself, had.
So like many people, I was drawn to your practice and your work initially through a, a wide-eyed wow.
You know, they're doing some incredible stuff on natural objects, much as skateboarders or parkour folks do.
But over the years, we've been in communication, and I've come to realize that you're a true intellectual of the topic of movement, and I define an intellectual as somebody who can understand a topic at multiple levels of granularity, detail, general, specific connections, et cetera.
So to start off, could you share with us your conception of this idea of movement? You know, w- obviously, movement involves translation through space.
But when you talk about a movement practice, what are you really thinking about? What are you...
I've been looking forward to sitting down with you to talk for a very long time.
I was first exposed to your work from a post or a podcast, I believe, of you had a group of people walking down handrails, literally the handrails along stairwells.
And as a, I don't want to say former skateboarder, once a skateboarder, always a skateboarder.
But I was really struck by, first of all, uh, the incredible range of skill that people had, and yet their willingness to do this, right? I think of handrails and walking on handrails or skateboarding on handrails as a potential hazard, and yet some of the incredible proficiency that some of the people there, including yourself, had.
So like many people, I was drawn to your practice and your work initially through a, a wide-eyed wow.
You know, they're doing some incredible stuff on natural objects, much as skateboarders or parkour folks do.
But over the years, we've been in communication, and I've come to realize that you're a true intellectual of the topic of movement, and I define an intellectual as somebody who can understand a topic at multiple levels of granularity, detail, general, specific connections, et cetera.
So to start off, could you share with us your conception of this idea of movement? You know, w- obviously, movement involves translation through space.
But when you talk about a movement practice, what are you really thinking about? What are you...
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