D.O.T. Running
Dancing On Trails

www.dotrunning.org

Martin Svaneborg has in association with Sceneindgangen developed DOT Running as a way to teach running technique that is based on how we are naturally built and designed as runners. It is based on his experience from a lifetime of running, competative athlete as well as professional dance training and physical education of young dancers. It also serves to rid the myth that dance and running does not go together. You can be a dancing runner.. or a running dancer!

Martin is a trained professional dancer and co-owner of Sceneindgangen, but was a competative runner around the 3.30 min/km area in his youth before becoming a dancer. He has always been running, but it took his first ever running injury in 2008 to understand that just like in the dance world, you have to learn what you are doing and learn proper technique. Even when it comes to something that seems so simple and straight forward as running, you can not just put one foot in front of the other without the risk of hurting yourself. Running is the biggest and most popular form of exercise on the planet, despite the fact that between 65-80% of all people that run as a form of regular exercise get injured... EVERY YEAR!
This is due to the fact that the natural talent for running that we are born with, as part of our survival instinct as Persistance Hunters*, gets lost. Children run everywhere and all the time. In shoes or out of shoes. When we grow up we usually stop running.. it´s childish! We put on shoes and start walking. However when we as adults, sometimes many years later, decide that we need to exercise, we assume that we still know how to run. But that instinct is usually long gone.
This combined with the past forty years of misleading from the running shoe companies trying to persuade people that they need big, expensive, technological "running shoes" as the ONLY true necessity for running. Otherwise you will get injured. Therefore you can experience the paradoxical sight of parents trotting heavily around the lakes of Copenhagen in full superhero running gear and state of the art shoes, looking like they are in so much pain and agony that they have been thrown into Hell itself. While the six year old child is running along side in flip flops with a big happy grin on its face.
For some strange reason it has become the norm to seek advice about running from people that are ultimately just trying to sell us shoes. Does that not sound fundamentally just a bit NOT logical? However the modern running shoe has only existed for about forty years and before that we have been running not just fine, but as the most efficient endurance running animal on the planet for close to two million years. No running shoe have ever, or will ever be able to either prevent or cure an injury. If you get injured, stiff or just uncomfortable from running it is because you are running in the wrong way.

As it has been proved that long distance running is in our genes and something we are very capable of, the fact that 65-80% of all runners, hobby or elite, gets injured every year must also mean, that 65-80% of all people who run, runs in the wrong way, and even the ones that we generally regard as having good, strong, energetic running style do not necessarily have it right either, as they fall into the 80% too and get injured. The most common mistake among runners is a misconception about what good running style is.

So here is the deal!..
- If you get injured from running it is not because you need better shoes. It is because you need better running form and need to learn.
- If you run regularly for the exercise but really do not like it, find it boring and wished it was more fun, it is because you need to learn.
- If you dance regularly and want to run for extra cardio workout, but can not because you keep getting tense and stiff, it is because you don´t know
how to run, and need to learn.
- If you are already a serious competative runner, but always looking to break that personal best, then learning to optimize our running instincts will
save energy, which you can use to run faster or longer.

DOT RUNNING is about finding that natural born runner in all of us. It is based on effortless movement and when we find that, the running will feel like dancing and become the joy we all wish it to be!

A Runner´s comment:
"A new world of running has opened up to me after being taught by Martin Svaneborg, and I am looking forward to explore it. Running makes so much more sense now, and feels so much more natural. Now I can finally enjoy it"

Prices: Running classes cost the same as regular dance classes at Sceneindgangen.


CLASS DESCRIPTIONS

It does not matter how far or fast you can run or what your motivations are for running, because DOT RUNNING is not a running club. You do not get trained for the Marathon, you get taught how to become a better runner. Whether the result of that to you means becoming faster, being able to run the Marathon or just finding a greater love for running, that is your choice. Running is for EVERYONE!!

DOTrunning in 2012 will be held as workshops. More information will be posted on exact workshop dates during the spring.
However Martin is always available for personal sessions. For personal training contact post@sceneindgangen.dk

WORKSHOP SEMINARS
Martin also travels around teaching running workshops to clubs or other running groups, which is based on a 3 hour session devided between a theoretical introduction to how we have developed through history as runners, and a practical introduction to basic running technique, based on the genetic design of our body. A basic guide to which technical aspects you need to master first as a runner, before you can start to focus on speed or endurance.
For more info about workshops visit

www.dotrunning.org
write to: post@sceneindgangen.dk

*Persistance Hunting
It has been scientifically proven that the way the human species have been able to to survive and evolve through the past two million years is through what is called persistance hunting. This basically means that humans are through endurance able to run other non predatory animals like deer to death, and thus getting a high protein diet that we have needed to develop the brain size of the current Homo sapiens. Search "Persistance Hunting" on Youtube and you will particularly find a clip from a BBC documentary by David Attenborough about the Kalahari Bushmen of the Namibia desert that will hopefully leave your beliefs, that running is bad for your body or that Marathon is a long way to run, forever shattered. Enjoy!