My 3D Performance Pyramid Manual

[Scott Sonnon]

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Some people don’t care to see any more of a connection between their mind and their physical performance than psyching up to get a few more pounds on their bench press, or telling themselves to push it a couple more minutes on the treadmill. Some people don’t desire to go any deeper into exercise than sweating. This manual is not for those folks.

I’ll explain how this manual wrote itself, and you can determine if it’s the Guidebook to Total Physical Culture, as it has been for me, and my clients around the world.

Exercise is a simple thing, and doesn’t require any philosophical banter in the exhilarating physical challenge of it. But many people want to understand how “it all fits together.” Many people want to maximize their efforts, minimize fluff, and see consistent development and progress. Those more lofty goals require a level of sophistication in approaching what old-timers turn of the last century called “physical culture” – which is basically a yoga-like philosophy creed integrating all physical activities, from boxing to weight-lifting to swimming.

Many people crave in their physical culture the sophistication of yoga or martial art. If you’re one of those people, then this manual may be of use to you. It’s my ‘formula’ for learning how to progress from the novice’s thrill of beginning to the master’s clarity of precision in any sport, discipline or exercise.

Many people are like I once was - just a simple person craving some substance in your physical journey. If this describes you, then this amalgam of my 25 years of competitive sports, exercise and coaching may help you navigate more efficiently and more expediently to avoid pitfalls and accelerate development.

If you’re a doubting Thomas cynical of the “hottest trend,” then you’ve found the perfect manual for maintaining healthy skepticism while launching your abilities sky-high by jettisoning the baggage of unnecessary frills.

I wish you all the excitement, adventure and progress your physical odyssey can unfold.

For ordering, go to Three Dimensional Physical Preparedness Manual (http://www.circularstrength.com/3dpp.html).

[admin]

In years to come, people are going to point to the 3DPP and say how natural, how obvious, how simple it all is. Yah, right! That must be why no one else has presented it before. Right.

Well, such is often the fate of visionaries and people in any creative endevour who are way ahead of the pack, ahead of their times. Coach Sonnon's 3DPP is the quintesence, the distillation of a very advanced and insightful understanding of physical culture and martial arts. To not know about it, to be ignorant of its depth and help, is not something any discerning athelete can afford to be. Nor in the future will be. This is uncommon wisdom...offered to anyone for a fraction of its true value.

As Coach Jones said better than any other words might, "This manual is Golden!"

Thanks Coach!

[Randell Waddell]

by Randell Waddell, Australian Teacher:

"I have had the great honour and pleasure to have worked with many of the best, forward thinkers and innovators in the world, in many diverse areas. This is across a wide assorted spectrum of different subjects, ages and abilities in Education, Martial Arts, Sport, Fitness and Health.

I have been exploring Scott Sonnon’s material for only the past 21 months - I wish that I had discovered his materials years before.

His ability to analyse and evaluate situations, do the necessary theoretical and physical research, to synthesise these findings and then present them often as a new paradigm, I find refreshing, exciting and quite simply awe-inspiring.

He explores and illuminates the unknown, leading by personal example. People utilizing his resources (be this in video, text and/or on-line forum support) are introduced to basic, prerequisite skills that develop and sophisticate, empowering that individual to also forge ahead and test their own, often self-imposed boundaries.

Scott’s latest manual release Three Dimensional Physical Preparedness for the Combat Athlete (3DPP) continues to provide further direction for these people.*

I related to the material in 3DPP on several different levels: the Martial Arts, Sports, and Personal Perspectives:

1. The Martial Arts Perspective
From the basic Martial Arts perspective, this is the book for which I have yearned many years.

I have found it amazing how many people have stayed within some of the “External Systems” for well over 20 years or more, quietly questioning whether that system really had “the answers” only to conclude when they have reached the exalted heights, that it really wasn’t ever there. It is sometimes only then (after they often discretely start training in one of the Internal Arts and exploring the “soft work” that Scott encourages) that they start to discover higher insights and abilities in their training.

From the other perspective, it has been frustrating working with people from the Internal Arts, who diligently pursue the “soft work”, of some famous Master, expecting that in a dire emergency, some sort of near magical skills will come tumbling forth, the bad guy will be cast onto the ground, he will become scared and then run away, having learnt his lesson not to pick on vulnerable people. When pushed to ascertain whether they really believe this is possible, they quote the escapades of their immediate or past Master, who was very handy. Unfortunately, they often choose to ignore that these same Masters all had an extensive “hard style” background prior to commencing the “soft work”. (I have probably upset quite a few good friends and people who have given me open door access to their systems by saying it, but I do not know of even one of the accomplished Internal Masters who didn’t have the “hard work” experience.) The balance appears very necessary.

I believe Scott’s 3DPP material helps to put the Martial Arts approach into a better perspective, and will encourage people to question their training, and seek a better balance from the start.

2. The Sports Perspective
From a higher level, I think of the application of these concepts of training to any sport. I believe the 3DPP and Awareness Dome based on his Performance Diagnostic Trinity (PDT) and Training Hierarchy Pyramid (THP) is applicable across any sporting endeavour.

Scott encourages one to consider many facets pertaining to allowing your best performance to evolve. These facets include:

Toughness, Effectiveness and Efficiency
Fear Reactivity and Bound Flow
Appropriately selected Static, Fluid and Dynamic Drills
The Chemical Cocktail being triggered / induced / accessed
Redefining the role of Competition
Factors that enable an athlete to perform consistently at an elite level
Transitioning between the different levels of the 3DPP
Investigation of Flow and the Upward Flow State Performance Spiral
(contrasted with the Vortex Downward Performance Spiral)
Aspects of the Awareness Diamond for specific tasks

Consideration of the above culminates at the Awareness Dome, the pinnacle of the 3DPP – where one is approaching and realizing one’s true potential in your chosen sport.

I would be very comfortable giving this manual even to friends who already represent Australia in their chosen sports – it is multi-layered by nature and I believe upon each reading, it will continue to yield further insights for the dedicated athlete.

3. The Personal Perspective
The last level I would like to address is quite personal and what I fob off and call off-handedly the “space cadet stuff”. This is where the concepts processed cognitively and through attention to the above in movement, are uplifting my personal journey through life.
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Scott suggests the inherent qualities in the 3DPP can assist in one’s development in increasing Flow State – helping one to achieve one’s realization as a dynamic, living creature. I concur and have no problems at all with this assertion. I endorse his concept of the Awareness Dome, (and tied in with nutritional rebalancing) already work daily towards attaining a better life for myself, family, friends and those in my care.

I have also been trialing aspects of this material with the students that I work with. The developments in many of these students (that range from 4 to 18 years, from* those with learning disorders such as being diagnosed with Intellectually Impairment, Autism and ADHD through to those deemed to be Gifted and Talented, from the “couch potatoes”* to* athletes competing at Australia’s elite levels) has been heartening. The profound changes sometimes experienced and reported by the students themselves, have been substantiated by their teachers, parents and significant others.

I would suggest to you that in 3DPP, Scott Sonnon has provided yet another tome that will continue to blaze new frontiers and to forge new paradigms in the Movement Sciences."


Very, very few people in the world have the aptitude and talents to both "do it" and to be able to "teach it to others".

Scott is an amazing gentleman, and with the release of 3DPP, I again pay great respect to his abilities.


Cheers
Randell :D

[Dan Chomycia]

I would be very comfortable giving this manual even to friends who already represent Australia in their chosen sports – it is multi-layered by nature and I believe upon each reading, it will continue to yield further insights for the dedicated athlete.

I agree I have trained under and worked with Coach Sonnon for years now and I still found great benefit from the Three Dimensional Physical Preparedness Manual!

He has distilled, and refined his material to produce deep, yet simple understanding of how to find you way through to your goals.

Quite an achievement!
Thanks Coach!

[HerbM]

The links don't seem to be working to purchase the 3DPP Manual and I am trying to recommend it to others (over on [URL="http://www.combativestraininggroup.com" www.combativestraininggroup.com[/URL].

That forum is mostly for guys with local combatives training groups, and is somewhat directly associated with AMOK! training.

You may not know this, but Tom Sotis the AMOK! originator explicitly adopted the 3DPP and fully credits you (Scott) with this innovation.

Some of us (AMOK! trainers) have these and many of us our fans and customers of yours separately.

I am been Google searching your sites and chasing links with no luck so far.

Can people buy it still?

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HerbM

[Coach Clavijo]

Never heard of AMOK! I'll have to look into that...

I hope this helps you: https://rmaxinternational.3dcartstores.com/The-Three-Dimensional-Performance-Pyramid-Manual_p_60.html

[HerbM]

I will be happy to explain a little bit about AMOK! if you wish, but I don't want to turn this into a commercial.

We have a loose association of "combatives groups" especially in Central Texas that do a lot of AMOK! using this methodology developed by Coach Sonnon.

We aren't restricted to AMOK! (largely about knife defense and skills) but also include a lot of other methods....

Thanks for the link.
Several people want to buy a copy and we want to put up a permanent link to it.

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HerbM

[HerbM]

Ok, so a lot of folks on the CombativesTrainingGroup.com forums were taking our recommendations on the 3DPP book -- and then I suggested the other book on "forming a local training group".

I used these books to help me form my Austin Combatives group 2 years ago.

I seem to remember that this was not Coach Sonnon's book but rather one of the other coaches. Can someone figure out what book I am referencing and give me a link to finding it so folks can buy some copies?

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HerbM

[Coach Clavijo]

The RMAX Training Group Manual by former Faculty Coach Ryan Murdock. The RMAX shop seems to have stopped carrying the book/DVDs that he created. Since it was an RMAX product, i'm not sure you'll find it anywhere else. Good luck on your search though, maybe ebay might have a copy.

[HerbM]

Thank, I will pass that along.

Is there an appropriate way to contact Coach Murdock to see if he can sell copies?

[Coach Clavijo]

I don't know how "appropriate" it may or may not be, since he doesn't push the "Coach" thing much there, but you might try his website ryanmurdock.com.