Archive for the ‘learning’ Category
Saturday, January 2nd, 2010
One of our CST nation asked a great question which deserves repeating.
"Hi. I've been watching with interest Coach Sonnon's TACFIT Groundfighter workout videos recently. Clearly they are an excellent resource, whether for follow-on by the gifted or adapted for mere mortals such as myself. However, I was wondering whether it ...
Posted in nervous system, practice, bodybuilding, Compensatory Movement, TACFIT, biomechanics, motor development, MMA, development, skill refinement, training, groundfighting, USA Team, programming, peaking, periodization, physique sculpting, martial art, combat, fighting, learning, progress, conditioning, Circular Strength Training, grappling, kickboxing, toughness, Sambo, sport specific, performance enhancement, competition, education, fitness | No Comments »
Wednesday, December 30th, 2009
Finishing 10,000 hours of training in my 10 year goal today, I felt that I needed to share my reflections on the journey...
Many of you know my story, and have read why I got started in martial arts and tactical fitness. I had amassed a great deal of guidance and ...
Posted in development, training, goals, accountability, challenges, learning, gratitude, practice, progress | 7 Comments »
Wednesday, December 16th, 2009
Now, I know what you're thinking. And you're probably not far from the truth. When we're talking about states of euphoria, the sexual orgasm lights up the brain's neural circuitry like a Christmas tree. The only endogenous (deriving from inside the body) phenomenon close to the sexual orgasm are the ...
Posted in mastery, Mental, development, peaking, hypnosis, change, fear, progress, learning, wealth, abundance, success | 5 Comments »
Sunday, December 6th, 2009
You're often told that practice doesn't make perfect; perfect practice makes perfect. Unfortunately, this redundant cliche lacks meaning and guidance. Firstly, even if you could practice a perfect technique, the body always adapts neurologically, so technically... perfect practice would make perfect-er.
But that's not the problem is it? The difficulty isn't ...
Posted in mastery, challenges, development, skill refinement, patience, education, pediatric, progress, learning, success | 6 Comments »
Friday, September 25th, 2009
Many of you are developing in your Circular Strength Training (CST). Some, coming to understand that linear training doesn't even exist: just "good" CST and "bad" CST. Lately, I've been receiving valid questions from you why the books and videos in the CST Coaching Development Program cannot be purchased beforehand, ...
Posted in career development, biomechanics, language, workshop, education, certification, Circular Strength Training, learning, coach | 4 Comments »
Wednesday, July 8th, 2009
Have you ever noticed that what you once valued falls out of attention, only to become valuable to you again? Ideas, trends, fashions, even beliefs... We seem to move from one aspect of practice to another, both in individual periods, and also to a degree, in collective periods.
As your goals ...
Posted in challenges, accountability, social networking, development, mastery, career development, education, change, motivation, leadership, learning | 1 Comment »
Thursday, July 2nd, 2009
Have you ever heard the comment about relationships that "it's better to be happy than be right"? It sounds plausible, but it application it's a problematic fantasy. Asking two quarrelsome parties to forfeit trying to prove their point and just acquiesce to the other is like asking wolves to wear ...
Posted in suffering, mastery, gratitude, courage, challenges, toughness, motivation, learning, empowerment, love, change, progress | 6 Comments »
Thursday, March 26th, 2009
Kai Sonnon takes on his much more seasoned (but still good looking) father in a round of fisticuffs... because the Son got scolded but Dad was wrong, so now... is payback time.
I try to not teach my kids martial arts believe it or not. We only play. We've been playing ...
Posted in boxing, education, Familial, parenting, kickboxing, martial art, kids, pediatric, learning, children | 13 Comments »
Sunday, March 22nd, 2009
My mother helped me seek out many alternative educational approaches as a child. But due to my rampant forms of dyslexia, I found great difficulty in comprehending language, understanding concepts and internalizing ideas. So often did I have that glazed over look in the classroom that my teachers nicknamed me ...
Posted in Sambo, parenting, culture, courage, challenges, language, dyslexia, education, inspiration, kids, children, pediatric, learning, martial art, empowerment, success | 8 Comments »
Friday, February 27th, 2009
Fitness has become a quandary of "working out" - a bubble-rapped gerbil wheel whose monotony you must endure through distractions like loud "duff-duff" music, neon strobe, and television mounted equipment. From a sports psychology perspective, everything possible is being done to distance you from the internal experience of the movement, ...
Posted in mastery, practice, freedom, flow, progress, learning, clubbells | 2 Comments »
