Floorbenders Visual Library

A movement atlas for organizing, processing, and exploring Floorbenders video.

Floorbenders is a codified floorwork technique. This is a one-of-a-kind searchable video library of the 48 core movements with the ability to sequence them together into pattern-based phrases.

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Atlas

Searchable movement library

Browse movements by gate, aspect, realm, layer, orientation, and difficulty.

Media

Video processing pipeline

Raw uploads become clean MP4 files, GIF previews, and thumbnails for public display.

Taxonomy

Gates, aspects, and realms

A compact movement classification system powers filtering, badges, and phrase patterns.

Phrases

Movement path builder

Published movement tiles can be arranged, repeated, and studied as phrase paths.

Floorbenders Taxonomy

A movement language built from pathways, positions, orientations, layers, and notes.

Floorbenders organizes floorwork into a readable system. Each movement belongs to a gate, aspect, realm, orientation, and layer. In phrases, aspect and realm also combine into a note, creating a compact shorthand for seeing patterns across the whole atlas.

Gates

Transitional pathways

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A gate describes the transitional pathway the mover takes between realms. Most phrases stay within one gate, which keeps the pathway logic clear while the mover changes realm, aspect, layer, or orientation.

V-Gate

A direct pathway between realms through a kneeling position.

Z-Gate

A direct pathway between realms through a z-sit position.

L-Gate

A direct pathway between realms through a one leg straight, one leg bent, sitting position.

H-Gate

A direct pathway between realms through a hook position.

Aspects

Sky and Earth

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An aspect describes whether the head and face are oriented toward the sky above or the earth below. This gives each realm two readable sides, like white-key and altered-key versions of the same position family.

Sky

sky

Within a realm, when the head or face is oriented toward the sky.

Earth

earth

Within a realm, when the head or face is oriented toward the earth.

Realms

The six core positions

Realms are the six core position families of the atlas. Each realm has an orientation, a layer, and two aspect-note possibilities.

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Insect

Horizontal · Grounded

Supine or prone position.

Sky: do Earth: di

Reptile

Vertical · Grounded

Seated or shoulderstand position.

Sky: re Earth: ri

Mammal

Horizontal · Lifted

Crawling position.

Sky: mi Earth: my

Amphibian

Vertical · Lifted

Squat or handstand position.

Sky: fa Earth: fi

Bird

Horizontal · Supported

Cricket or bridge position.

Sky: so Earth: si

Fish

Vertical · Supported

Kneel or elbowstand position.

Sky: la Earth: li

Orientation

Horizontal or vertical

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Orientation describes whether the body is horizontal to the ground or perpendicular to the ground. This helps the atlas show large structural relationships between realms.

Horizontal

Realms organized around a more horizontal body position.

Insect Mammal Bird

Vertical

Realms organized around a more vertical body position.

Reptile Amphibian Fish

Layers

Grounded, lifted, or supported

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Layers group the six positions into three categories: hips grounded, hips lifted, or the body supported unconventionally. This makes the realms easier to compare across levels of contact with the floor.

Grounded

Realms organized around positions that are low and have weight grounded into the floor across multiple points of contact.

Insect Reptile

Lifted

Realms organized around having the body lifted off the floor and weight distributed equally across the hands and/or feet.

Mammal Amphibian

Supported

Realms organized around the body being supported unconventionally in difficult positions, such as with heads, elbows, and knees.

Bird Fish

Atlas Notes

Shorthand for aspect + realm

Notes are most useful in phrase building. They let you read a sequence quickly without saying every full taxonomy label. Sky acts like the white-key side of the system, while Earth acts like the black-key side, adapted to Floorbenders so each realm has a paired note.

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Aspect

Insect

Reptile

Mammal

Amphibian

Bird

Fish

Sky

Earth

Example

do → re → mi

Sky Insect → Sky Reptile → Sky Mammal.

Chord-like pattern

do → mi → so

Sky Insect → Sky Mammal → Sky Bird.

What it reveals

The Chord-like phrase is all Sky, all Horizontal, and travels across all three layers: Grounded, Lifted, Supported.

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