Scott Sonnon
07-13-2005, 03:20 PM
"While proportional force would make logical sense to many who are athletes or a student of a sophisticated discipline, this has caused many disagreements and controversy for me in teaching CST and Rmax. The problem is many people in the gym are not athletes or students of sophisticated disciplines. To the many sincere and skeptical folks, I have suggested that they use their own eyes, intuition, and common sense and go to the gym floor and watch the breathing, structure, and movement of the average Jane and john lifter or cardio treadmill users, then I asked them to recall their favorite athlete or an extraordinary dancer or martial artist in motion. They soon realized that none of their favorite athletes or idols breathe, move, or look like the body builders, power lifters, and/or the average Jane or john lifers inside the gym. Do you want to tap in the same performance of your idols or do you want to develop habits that bring you nowhere close your idols? I am not a hater or jealous the popularity of the physical culture of bodybuilding or power lifting but these cultures is not the true representation of optimal performance or for that matter health and fitness. The average Jane and john admires the grace, the power, the flow, and physiques of their idols, but the sad fact is their form, breathing, and movement is 100% opposite of their heroes. WHY? They been brainwashed by the physical culture of bodybuilding and power lifters through mass media and certain health and fitness experts has taught them. Once the smarter skeptics soon realized there is a HUGE difference in their own breathing, movement, and structure and their idols, they become more open and earnest in what I have to say about proportional force in CST."
As you can see from Bao's exam, he may be one of the strangest cats I've ever met, but he's also among the most passionate, dedicated and sincere. He walks the talk and goes first before asking it of others.
There's much that I could say about Bao beginning with his courageous embrace of the inaugural Softwork seminar, to his daily diligence in practice evidenced by his superlative performance at CST Eta. You may be able to approximate some of the movements if you haven't practiced, but you won't be able to improvise, follow lengthy chains without batting an eye, and you especially won't be able to explain WHY to do something as opposed to doing something else. Bao's a helluva coach, and NYC is lucky to have him!
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As you can see from Bao's exam, he may be one of the strangest cats I've ever met, but he's also among the most passionate, dedicated and sincere. He walks the talk and goes first before asking it of others.
There's much that I could say about Bao beginning with his courageous embrace of the inaugural Softwork seminar, to his daily diligence in practice evidenced by his superlative performance at CST Eta. You may be able to approximate some of the movements if you haven't practiced, but you won't be able to improvise, follow lengthy chains without batting an eye, and you especially won't be able to explain WHY to do something as opposed to doing something else. Bao's a helluva coach, and NYC is lucky to have him!
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