Jorge Colon
06-02-2004, 07:25 PM
3 DPP: Coach Sonnon’s new book on Combat Performance
First, I want to begin by thanking Scott for writing this book and allowing me to review it. Scott has begun the task of writing down his immense knowledge of performance in combat and martial arts. I say begun because if you know Scott, or have trained with him or watched him in any of his 40 videos, you will know that no one book can capture the total of Scott’s experience and knowledge in coaching performance. But this book comes close.
3 DPP: Three dimensional physical preparedness for the combat athlete is another testimony of Coach Sonnon’s position in this industry - far ahead of the pack! We are in a unique phase in the industry and evolution of martial and combat arts. We are progressing beyond our awe of the East’s delicate efficiency and our excitement with the West’s brutal effectiveness. Now comes Coach Sonnon, with 3 DPP, joining the East with the West, efficiency and effectiveness - in his words “efficiently effective”. Ironically, Coach Sonnon’s training was influenced by the Russian’s (Soviet) extensive research into the world of combat and martial arts. More importantly, while Russia is the country that merges the East with the West, the United States is the place of innovation. In 3DPP, Coach Sonnon has taken the Russian’s research, his own research, various scientific disciplines and innovated them in a way that has and will continue to lead the way in the evolution of performance in combat and martial arts.
Each page I read, I jumped up out of my seat in sheer excitement as I saw the unique genius of Coach Sonnon’s innovations. I am comforted by my own observation that the average thug will never, I repeat NEVER, truly understand the depth, breadth and genius of what Coach Sonnon is presenting in this book. Coach Sonnon generously presents the fruits of his hard-earned knowledge in this book. He does it succinctly, concisely and thus much easier to follow than some of this previous works. But no matter how generous he is, only some readers will grasp the true wisdom of his research, experience and this book’s remarkably practical knowledge on combat and martial performance. If patents were awarded for this type of innovation, Coach Sonnon would OWN the future of combat and martial arts – at least for about 15 years.
The book exposes the folly of modern and ancient educational models of combat and martial arts using practical and real examples based upon Coach Sonnon’s own experiences and the science of cutting edge human performance technology. Coach Sonnon merges the vast sciences of human psychology, physiology, and biomechanics, to show the way forward from the archaic Master driven models of education to the freedom of self-exploration and true creation on your own path.
Many people want to create their own way, but lacking the practical tools with which to break free from the OLD, they languish in INERTIA. Many eager students pay heaps of money to paper tigers or brutal thugs to show them the way – their way. Scott Sonnon once again leads by example and provides a COMPLETE and COMPREHENSIVE manual on breaking free from this tyranny of the old. But Coach Sonnon makes no promises of an easy path to freedom from old paradigms. A coach can provide the tools and design the environment for your optimal experience, but he is clear that the path to growth (the goal of performance) is your own unique adventure and by necessity requires dedication and commitment.
In 3DPP, Coach Sonnon explains in an easy to follow manner the different tools that make up 3 DPP, including drills from static to fluid to dynamic and soft work versus hard work. These concepts alone will change the face of this industry in the next five years, as it has changed and enhanced the physical performance of anyone who has used them.
Coach Sonnon further exposes the old paradigms when he explains the relative values and virtues of reaction-based and reflex-based approaches to training and their exclusive reliance on either soft work or hard work. He goes on to present the response-based approach to training. Although the name speaks for itself, in this review, I can’t give enough credit to Coach Sonnon for his personal discoveries and innovation with the response-based approach. No one publishing right now in this industry has explored and discovered at the depth Coach Sonnon has the response based-approach.
Decades from today, this book, and hopefully any following volumes, will be the manual guiding those of us who seek to break free from the old and to create our own unique paths in combat and martial performance.
I must emphasize that Coach Sonnon did not personally carry out all the research on every aspect of the technology he presents in this book. However, like the Wright brothers, who did not invent aerodynamics, paper or combustible engines, Coach Sonnon has INNOVATED sound, proven and time-tested principles, thus creating an unprecedented technology that will change human performance in combat and martial arts for many years to come.
Well done, Coach Sonnon, and thank you.
Jorge Colón
First, I want to begin by thanking Scott for writing this book and allowing me to review it. Scott has begun the task of writing down his immense knowledge of performance in combat and martial arts. I say begun because if you know Scott, or have trained with him or watched him in any of his 40 videos, you will know that no one book can capture the total of Scott’s experience and knowledge in coaching performance. But this book comes close.
3 DPP: Three dimensional physical preparedness for the combat athlete is another testimony of Coach Sonnon’s position in this industry - far ahead of the pack! We are in a unique phase in the industry and evolution of martial and combat arts. We are progressing beyond our awe of the East’s delicate efficiency and our excitement with the West’s brutal effectiveness. Now comes Coach Sonnon, with 3 DPP, joining the East with the West, efficiency and effectiveness - in his words “efficiently effective”. Ironically, Coach Sonnon’s training was influenced by the Russian’s (Soviet) extensive research into the world of combat and martial arts. More importantly, while Russia is the country that merges the East with the West, the United States is the place of innovation. In 3DPP, Coach Sonnon has taken the Russian’s research, his own research, various scientific disciplines and innovated them in a way that has and will continue to lead the way in the evolution of performance in combat and martial arts.
Each page I read, I jumped up out of my seat in sheer excitement as I saw the unique genius of Coach Sonnon’s innovations. I am comforted by my own observation that the average thug will never, I repeat NEVER, truly understand the depth, breadth and genius of what Coach Sonnon is presenting in this book. Coach Sonnon generously presents the fruits of his hard-earned knowledge in this book. He does it succinctly, concisely and thus much easier to follow than some of this previous works. But no matter how generous he is, only some readers will grasp the true wisdom of his research, experience and this book’s remarkably practical knowledge on combat and martial performance. If patents were awarded for this type of innovation, Coach Sonnon would OWN the future of combat and martial arts – at least for about 15 years.
The book exposes the folly of modern and ancient educational models of combat and martial arts using practical and real examples based upon Coach Sonnon’s own experiences and the science of cutting edge human performance technology. Coach Sonnon merges the vast sciences of human psychology, physiology, and biomechanics, to show the way forward from the archaic Master driven models of education to the freedom of self-exploration and true creation on your own path.
Many people want to create their own way, but lacking the practical tools with which to break free from the OLD, they languish in INERTIA. Many eager students pay heaps of money to paper tigers or brutal thugs to show them the way – their way. Scott Sonnon once again leads by example and provides a COMPLETE and COMPREHENSIVE manual on breaking free from this tyranny of the old. But Coach Sonnon makes no promises of an easy path to freedom from old paradigms. A coach can provide the tools and design the environment for your optimal experience, but he is clear that the path to growth (the goal of performance) is your own unique adventure and by necessity requires dedication and commitment.
In 3DPP, Coach Sonnon explains in an easy to follow manner the different tools that make up 3 DPP, including drills from static to fluid to dynamic and soft work versus hard work. These concepts alone will change the face of this industry in the next five years, as it has changed and enhanced the physical performance of anyone who has used them.
Coach Sonnon further exposes the old paradigms when he explains the relative values and virtues of reaction-based and reflex-based approaches to training and their exclusive reliance on either soft work or hard work. He goes on to present the response-based approach to training. Although the name speaks for itself, in this review, I can’t give enough credit to Coach Sonnon for his personal discoveries and innovation with the response-based approach. No one publishing right now in this industry has explored and discovered at the depth Coach Sonnon has the response based-approach.
Decades from today, this book, and hopefully any following volumes, will be the manual guiding those of us who seek to break free from the old and to create our own unique paths in combat and martial performance.
I must emphasize that Coach Sonnon did not personally carry out all the research on every aspect of the technology he presents in this book. However, like the Wright brothers, who did not invent aerodynamics, paper or combustible engines, Coach Sonnon has INNOVATED sound, proven and time-tested principles, thus creating an unprecedented technology that will change human performance in combat and martial arts for many years to come.
Well done, Coach Sonnon, and thank you.
Jorge Colón