| Date: 02 June 2011, 06:20
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“Hello my friend,
I'd like to speak candidly, without any hypeorstatistics.
Just you and I - for a moment - before you come inside and check out what I've created for you.
If you're a first-timer, and you don't know who I am, allow me to introduce myself as one of the world's leading researchers (and guinea pigs) on the nature of flow.
By “flow” I don't mean the kind of ethereal, nebulous kind of energy that people inthe healing disciplines discuss. I'm not disrespecting them, or you if you're from them; just stating that I'm not going to be sharing with you anything about any unseen forces. By flow, I'm referring to the concrete, quantifiable science of pain-free, effortless quality of movement.
My job is serving those who serve us and protecting those who protect us. It's my honor to do this job. And in the process of doing this work, I've had the privilege of studying with great masters around the world.
I've spent the past 30 years exploring different movement modalities, the past 20 years studying them exhaustively, and the past 10 years refining my coaching skills to share the library of movement I've learned from around the world.
I've tested this out on myself first. I've put it under the most difficult trials possible, placing myself in one combat sport after another - at an international championship level - to debug all the problems and plug all the gaps. And the data that I've received from
my personal application, as well as the ongoing feedback I receive from the agencies I consult, has forced me to evolve my coaching to the point of publishing Tactical Gymnastics.
TACGYM can appear to have elements of Russian Systema, Chinese Bagua, Indonesian Silat, French Parkour, Persian Zurkhaneh, Brazilian Gymnastica Natural, and Indian Vyayam. However, after all these years of synthesis, I cannot remember where I first learned any one movement, which held primary influence or even how to differentiate movements any longer. And in many cases, I had to graft components
together to form new movements to meet the fighting needs of my students.
It's easiest for me to refer to it as “our gymnastics” but since it appears too ambiguous a title, I adopted tactical gymnastics in honor of the martial heritage of my coaches. For me, there's only incremental progression, biomechanical efficiency and specific preparedness: baby steps, flow and purpose. These three concentrations united all of the broad shoulders I stand upon."
TACGYM, I can say without reservation, is the pinnacle of my career in consolidating the principles and concepts of the science of flow into concrete, easy to follow, simple to progress building blocks of movement. I cannot promise you that you'll become an overnight snake eater, or Musashi in a month. I cannot guarantee you that you'll be able to levitate, throw fireballs, or teleport either.
No hype. No buzz. No BS:
• You will increase your ability to express power while decreasing how much effort required to do so.
• You will recover much more rapidly from sudden changes in movement, accidents, collisions, destabilizations, and forced translations.
• You will be smoother in everything that you do, all your exercise, recreation and even job-related activities will be done with greater suppleness and grace.
• You will feel much more energy throughout your body, and throughout your day, and that will have a dramatic impact upon your mood, attitude and perspective.
• You will reduce and eliminate acute and chronic pains that may be riddling you, leading to improved quality of life.
• You will prevent injuries from happening, and lessen those severe injuries which may occur, as your connect tissue strength, joints, and response time improves.
• You will be able to navigate obstacles and challenges with ease and imagination as your body learns to adapt to new physical skills at an accelerated rate.
• You will become keenly sensitive to movement, position and force / tension, as your bodily awareness improves.
• Of course, this will improve your strength, cardio, flexibility, agility, endurance, stamina, et cetera... No doubt. But many things will do that. Very few disciplines also offer the above.
How Does TACGYM revolutionize your fitness?
If you're one of the few who see a martial artist, gymnast, boxer or wrestler and think, “I'd really love to be able to move with that kind of silent power,” then TACGYM is probably for you. There will be, of course, the unstated premise: “if I was pain-free, if I didn't have the injuries preventing me, if I had the mobility and range of motion to do so...”
This premise distinguishes TACGYM. Many roads will get you to graceful power. Only a few paths will get you there uninjured. This isn't a sink or swim method, like many of the units I've trained with use. My approach focuses on the 85% of you who, like me, cannot succeed in spite of improper coaching. Because of my childhood disabilities, I still need to exploit every training technology useful in order to keep my teams ahead of the bad guys who are willing to throw 20-something cannon fodder into the meat-grinder.
My men and women are invaluable, the most precious virtues of our society, so I cannot fail as a coach. I must not. That's why I continue to refine, and rework, and research, and test it all out on myself first, before sharing only what repeatable, consistently, sustainably works for everyone, not just the meager 15% who could do well in spite of poor coaching.
If you're looking to burn fat or bulk up, sure, you'll build muscle and lose body fat practicing tactical gymnastics, but these are not their primary goals; much like the warrior physique is merely a by-product, not the intent, of fighting efficacy. The appearance is not the destination; just a part of the journey.
However, there are ineffable qualities, elusive virtues, which tactical gymnastics - like its father, martial arts - concentrate upon. Power and the ability to express it are not mutually compatible. You can appear to have a massive, powerful frame. You can look as if you could withstand any crisis. But without the malleable form, you will lack the ability to express that power. You will remain encased in a prison of muscle. I've alluded to the difference between “show” muscle and “go” muscle.
This distinction works well. Too often, I've had to work with very enthusiastic young athletes, who because of their prior training, were completely incapable of translating power outside of the short-range, machine-dictated exercises they had been advised to perform. If you want to look like a statue, that's fine; but take care that you don't become one.
Honestly, I probably cannot help you if you have not, somehow of your own accord, developed the fire to desire moving with power, rather than merely appearing powerful.
Power means nothing without the ability to navigate unknown and surprise obstacles and resistance with ease and imagination. And even if you or your coaches have ignited your warrior spirit with the will to regain your heritage as the most potent creature God has ever graced the world with, you may not have the patience to develop at the appropriate rate.
How Does TACGYM make everything you do better?
Tactical gymnastics are like “flow yoga with a purpose.” They help you develop movement efficacy to navigate on, around, over or through obstacles.
They have specific purpose. If you consider the 4 Day Wave in TACFIT, you can insert your tactical gymnastics into the low or moderate intensity sessions. It is not possible to perform them with no intensity, like your mobility days; and not advisable to perform them at high intensity due to their complex nature, even if you scale down the complexity to simple movements.
You should leave your tactical gymnastics practice smiling, sweaty and sore: a good, deep sweat which allows you to loosen the muscles, lubricate the joints, work
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