The Static, synonyms of immobility, is of little
importance in our minds since we are beings of motion, a notion of the
utmost of importance for sports and high level arts. Thus, if
gesture, motion and action put on the show and command admiration, if
they are key concerns when technique, performance and body control are
involved, they can only exist with a correct static equilibrium. A bad
support, a positioning error and the action is missed with sometimes
an injury as a consequence.
A valid argument is then that the static state does not exist since
gesture and action are an interrupted chain of motions, that we are
always in motion even if still : as a matter of proof the continuous
swaying of our standing body around its gravity center. This is
however not fully true if the motion is considered as a sequence of
positions in space. As for the cinema where a film is only a sequence
of fixed pictures.
The Static can therefore be defined as an instantaneous sequence
of motions that can be summarized under the posture term.
