Christian Anderson: Exploration, influences, and creating

Christian Anderson's unique interests are wide-ranging; from martial arts and weapons training, to parkour, to art, to creating his own weapons and training set-ups. Christian shares his inspirations and process for learning and creating. He discusses teaching, landscape architecture, and his specific influences and role models. Christian unpacks his personal martial arts, weapons, and movement practices, and how all of them are creatively interconnected. Christian Anderson is a parkour coach, athlete, teacher, martial artist, and movement artist. He created his own parkour teaching program, pursues weapons training, and is an artist in other mediums, including drawing, music, videos, and bladesmithing. Christian earned his bachelors in Landscape architecture at North Carolina A&T University. Introduction  Christian Anderson; parkour coach, martial artist, Instagrams: @adept.anderson, @adeptations For more information visit moversmindset.com/podcast  Learning and creating  Artistically inclined from a young age - enjoyed drawing and design, developing an eye for things Magnificent Seven scene recreation Inspired by Kirosawa?, wanting to recreate more Creating videos of his work; Mirakawa dummy video Getting out of your own way creatively  Prioritizing  Moods, ADHD; doing many things, following interests High value targets, interim "break" projects Recharging focus, splitting attention to avoid burnout  Recharging  Go to the woods; relationship with greenways Hiking (to disappear into the woods), being alone Driving at night, road trips Anime convention road trip story, staying awake  American Rendezvous  Working with other coaches, no need for extra exotic ARDV stories  Coaching children  Kids unconscious attitude towards moving Learning by absorbing, but keeping focus Connecting to kids interests to motivate them Spirit is easier for kids, adults tend to analyze  Samurai movies  Akira Kurosawa - Japanese filmmaker Rashomon - story told from multiple viewpoints Seven Samurai, Hidden Fortress - story of going to the library as a child Harakiri, 13 Assassins Samurai Rebellion, Yojimbo  Landscape architecture  Seattle, Freeway Park, Lawrence Halprin Mother's gardening planted a seed Interest in making things, switched from engineering to landscape architecture - checked all the boxes  Role models  Innate curiosity, supported by his mom Brother, playing football, learning the love of training Uncle working around the house, fixing things, usefulness Absorbing his surroundings Rabbit aside  Practices, visualizations, mantras  Vision board and posters; imagery is important Outlining inspirations for training, design, and more Finding role models in fictional characters, but something to live up to  Creating space  Supporting your training with your life and vice versa Inspiring people to create their own space Mom's garden as her space; Guerrilla Gardening TEDxTalk Personal spaces of forest oasis nesting spots  Underrated Martial arts  Ninjutsu historical background Throwing weapons and shuriken  Travel  Japan, Eastern Africa, Brazil, exploring food, weapons, culture Much exploration through martial arts Learning about culture through their weapons and martial arts  Martial arts resources  Youtube tutorials (many, many) Book: Japanese Throwing Weapons Start with half spin, bull shuriken or spikes  3 Words  Insatiable, balance, exploration --- Hello, I'm Craig Constantine. 👋 In the Movers Mindset podcast, I talk with movement enthusiasts to learn who they are, what they do, and why they