The principles of Motion of Systema Colonel Maksimtsov’s are principles taken directly from the laws of physics and human biomechanics and used to obtain efficient movement.

The third principle of motion says that efficient movement is continuous. If you remember Newton’s law of inertia, bodies remain at rest or moving straight ahead at a constant speed unless an external force is applied to them. This means that every time we start or stop a motion we need additional forces.

Nature itself uses continuous motions, such as the motion of the planets, the tides, the water cycle, etc. And that is why the basic movement in Systema Colonel Maksimtsov is Figure 8, which is a paradigm of continuous motion.