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MASTERS OF MOVEMENT WORKSHOP REGISTRATION NOW OPEN

October 19, 2015

On November 7-8 I’ll be taking part of a brand new workshop series called Masters of Movement, occurring in New York at Halevy Life. This workshop will feature 4 half-day presentations from myself, as well as Charlie Weingroff, Chris Duffin, and Leo Totten.

The basic premise of the workshop is talking about how to become the best coach possible for working with how well people move, prevent injuries, improve performance, and generally kick ass at life.

Leo Totten is a level 5 senior international coach for USA Weightlifting and has spent over 30 years training athletes, including working with 2 Olympic teams and 5 World Championship teams as well as many high school and collegiate programs.

Charlie Weingroff is a Doctor of Physical Therapy and strength & Conditioning coach in Manhattan and New Jersey. He is also one of the team strength coaches for Team Canada basketball, is a master trainer with Nike, and a level 4 instructor with Equinox, and has previously worked in the NBA and United States Marine Corps. He’s also achieved elite status in 2007 as a powerlifter in the 220 pound weight class.

Dean Somerset is a trainer, author, and international public speaker whose main area of expertise is injury and medical dysfunction management through optimally designed exercise programs. While this is cool, my main calling is making people stronger, fitter, faster, more Kanye-er than they thought possible, even if they’re recovering from major or minor injuries, or while dealing with medical disorders.

If your familiar with myself and any of these gentlemen you will realize that this seminar is exactly as billed, “Masters of Movement.”

These half day workshops will give you a chance to see very different perspectives in how to make people stronger, move better, and perform at a higher level, and give more depth and breadth than a simple conference session. The presenters will have time to lay out their entire thought process on a topic instead of rushing through to get things covered, and you’ll get to hear what works and what doesn’t from people who train people, and have more than a collective 90 years of training others under their belt.

There’s a couple of different registration packages available, whether you want the entire weekend, just one day, or feel like balling the hell out with dinners out with the presenters and some extra goodies to make your trip home extra sweet. There’s limited seating to the event due to facility size and layout, so you’ll have to act quickly to save your spot. This is going to be one of the best events to hit the east coast this year, so clear your schedule and book a trip to New York before it gets too cold to feel feelings.

LIFE INSULATION – VOLUME 1

“Life Insulation”, volume 1.

Whether it be physical or emotional, true strength is a demand.
Not a request.

If you are asking for it, waiting for it, or even praying for it, you have misjudged its fundamental nature; It is elusive and hard to come by, and won’t politely join by request those without the will to grab it by the throat, and squeeze until it cooperates.

Wishing you were strong is like simply wishing you were rich, or wishing you were a super-athlete genius; All the want and wish in the world won’t develop, sharpen, and civilize your mind or break down, build up, and make savage your body. Once you’ve mentally and physically built and insulated yourself with blood, sweat, and resolve, then the once fragile house of cards becomes and stays an anti-fragile house of bricks.

There is no one but yourself to look to for lasting strength- and the only question that needs to be considered is “Am I willing to live one day/ week/ month/ year without being physically and mentally stronger and more capable than I was in the previous?”

If the answer is yes, then… move along. This is not a place for you. We don’t understand you, and you certainly won’t understand us. Or, stay, with the awareness that until you adjust your mindset and actions you are being judged for condemning yourself to mediocrity* and sitting idle among your unrealized potential. If you’ve decided to stop putting pressure on yourself to progress as a human being, then step to the side so those NOT simply waiting to die can charge through the middle, and set a good example for all those that see them at work.

If the answer is no (as it should be), then embrace the mindset of a strong person, and leave the wishy-washy requests to those that don’t yet have the clarity to bite down on that which you have already begun to digest.

*The cop-out way to read this is “I’m being judged for not wanting to devote my life to lifting heavy weights and beating myself into the ground.” That is not what is being said. Physical strength is but a component of a well-rounded individual, and looks very different for almost everyone. Condemning yourself to mediocrity = Having more mental and/ or physical potential than you are willing to use based on convenience, minor discomfort, laziness, self-deception, denial, or just general ignorance.

This volatile world will eat the weak, and starve the complacent… if you’ve voluntarily chosen to be either, no one wants to hear you complaining when it does.

By: Greg Walsh

Wolf Brigade Gym & Kabuki Strength Team Member

KABUKI MOVEMENT SYSTEMS – MOVE BETTER, TRAIN SMARTER, & GET STRONGER – JUST RELEASED!!!

Welcome to the Kabuki Movement System!

Before we get into the specifics of what KMS is, here’s what a membership on this site will provide you with:

• Access to KMS video library containing over 100+ videos (more being added weekly)
• Guided tutorials created by KMS coaches, outlining proper movement progression and common programming solutions
• Discussions and access to KMS coaches (Chris Duffin and Co.) via comments on individual videos or the forum
• KMS programming outlines and sample programs to help you in creating your own programs
• Private video content with some of the most recognizable names in the industry – discussing relevant topics

​So then, all that being said…what exactly is KMS?

Kabuki Movement Systems (KMS) is a groundbreaking approach using basic loaded movements to determine deviant movement patterns, underlying issues, and how to fix them. You will learn to identify these issues, use clinically supported corrective measures to resolve them, and understand how to coach these movements using methods based on basic human Operational Mechanics. This integrated system will allow you to quickly identify and improve your performance, or your clients’. This method is not only innovative, but also grounded in science – pulling from multiple respected and developed disciplines. Once the basic operation mechanics and related postural/recruitment patterns are understood, we can use the core barbell lifts as both the assessment and corrective tools for movement issues. KMS covers a large variety of correctional movement patterns yet never deviates from our core tenant – basic movement patterns to improve human function, get stronger, and live better.

This website is intended to teach you how to use these movements and tools on yourself or your clients in conjunction with our Guided Tutorials and training templates. The Kabuki Movement Systems portal is an ever-changing and continuously-growing resource for your ongoing training needs that can be used as a well-indexed quick reference video encyclopedia or as a systematic video ebook on the KMS approach.

Background on this Approach

KMS was founded by world-renowned coach and powerlifter Chris Duffin and his team at the Kabuki Strength Lab. Chris has been a strength coach for over 15 years and has coached more all-time record setting powerlifters than nearly any other coach in the world. He also owns several world records himself in his 25 years as an athlete. Chris combined this experience with his background in engineering and a constantly-learning mindset developed during his industrial leadership career. He sought out the leading rehab and sports clinicians in the world, learning directly from them and then refining and testing this approach with his team through years of gruelling work under the bar and in the weight room. He has also lectured on human movement in many university/college settings and has been a contributor to PhD-level curriculum. Numerous professional and college sports teams have consulted with Chris and integrated the KMS principles into their own programs to much success.

“I learned more about how the body operates under load in 2 days than during the 4 years of my Kinesiology degree”

– Anthony Zhang

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