The big idea

Ideas popped up today to be part of a new fitness boom that I believe will naturally emerge from the walking wounded of CrossFit.
I started CF in 2004, and it was great. It combined the best concepts of myriad fitness modalities like gymnastics, Olympic weightlifting, kettlebells and short distance running. It trained all metabolic pathways by interchanging heavy training with endurance performance.
But where it fails is that it repeats a narrow set of exercises and applies only high intensity concepts while encouraging friendly competition and tolerating form breakdowns that result in a disproportionately high number of injuries.
I know, because I had all of those injuries. But I loved the learning of new concepts in motion and efficiency. I loved the purpose of it and the way that it had the potential to make my body feel practically bullet proof. It was a huge confidence booster to conquer the workouts even though some of them would be so intense that they frightened me. Yet, every day, I would suck it up, often alone, and often early in the morning to bust out a session and post my times to the discussion board. There was definitely something about it.

Now that I have quit, I rarely hang out with the people who do these exercises. Their whole demeanor appears to change - they become tougher, they mix with more militaristic aspects of the society, from actual soldiers (the Special Forces love this stuff) to the police, firemen and wannabes that flock to test their mettle in gladiatorial fitness at the Cross Fit Boxes.

But Kelly Starrett was launched through this growth as focusing on the rehabilitative techniques to help Crossfitters recover and maintain optimum performance.
The Paleo diet came out of this boom.
One thing that CF has is a focus on evolution - they test, they score and they either adapt it because it works or discard it because it doesn't. And that is a fair process.

So what about combining the modalities of the movements THEMSELVES from CF, those efficient, powerful and often beautiful motions with the pacing of a yoga class, the specific muscle focus of a barre method or mat pilates class, then varied intensity of spinning and the purpose and structure of kundalini krya segments. The focus would be to heal the body in a way that makes it stronger, that uses the same motions but changes the plane of the body to remove the emphasis on "pounds lifted, time scored or points given" and come back to the centered mindfulness of becoming the body.
No mind, all motion, powerful life results.
BAM.
40 year old fitness boom. Market segmentation, sell the classes to the CF boxes as trademarked, copyrighted fitness systems that is collaborative and combinatorial with CF objectives. Sell certifications, produce videos, get great music, convert the world to the new religion of feeling sexy, alive, beautiful, strong, happy and resilient.

Example of exercise: the motion of the Olympic Lift, but done to music, with no weight, with the same specific muscle and neurological sequence to fire hamstrings, knees and glutes backwards to activate posterior chain, then demonstrate that this is also the most efficient rowing motion of rolling the body up through the pull of the flywheel, but now change the plane of the body by having the participant lie on their side and complete the same motions using the same sequence but without the interference of their normal gravity or normal standing alignment.