Give a person a fish and they will eat for a day. Teach a person to fish and they will eat for life. That's a great summary of what KSI does and has been doing since 1986 - educating people on how to think for themselves in physical training decisions. In the absence of commercial and cultural bias. The fact that you can make and sell more strength devices than stretching devices is not adequate reason for strength training to be promoted and flexibility training to be demoted and mystified!
As we wrap on 2008 our focus in 2009 will be again on education. The highlight activities in 2009 for those who seek to learn to improve their own training with be the KSI Training Camp in August 2009. The highlight activity for physical preparation coaches and others who seek to develop their professional abilities in physical preparation will be the KSI Coach Intern Program 101, 102 and culminating in the 103 camp, also in August 2009. We will be releasing more information on these key activities shortly. If 2009 is to be the year of your new beginning, you will be at these events.
We now share the insights from one of our veteran coaches, whose industry involvement spans back longer than most. He shared this with us and we have chosen to share it with you.
The KSI Way
A veteran student's perspective
In every field there are those "leaders and gurus" who enjoy a level of popularity and success and to their credit are amongst those willing to use new information. Then there are those who actually precede the "gurus", through creating new experiences. The ones who have the courage, creativity, and wisdom to develop the skills of change, not for change sake but in a quest for never ending improvement. The natural consequence of this action is original thought which has the power to propel entire populations forward. Ian King is one of those individuals.
At the commencement of the Coach Mentoring Program there was no information available to base my decision on whether to commit or not. Gratefully, I made the decision to commit and began with the inaugural group. At the time I made the comment, "I have no idea what to expect but I know to expect it will be great". Imagine, more than five years of continual improvement for myself, my family and my clients.
More than five years of weekly sessions, balancing, individualizing and challenging on many levels. Opportunities for immerse hands on training sessions including travel half way across the planet to work with him on his home turf!
I'm sharing this with you to help you understand the perspective I bring to my observations of what I'm about to share. I'm a veteran student continually learning to improve. I've gone to considerable lengths in time, energy and expense to experience and learn as much as possible in order to improve.
Having said that, even after all this time, focused learning and exposure - its happened again! In "The KSI Way" seminar, Ian takes another jump ahead of the industry (by at least a decade). The question you have to ask yourself is, "am I ready for this information?"
Are you ready to be challenged to rethink, retrain, drop old beliefs and paradigms that are less than optimal? Do you have the courage to ask yourself, " is what I'm doing now making me better or making me worse" - Do I have the courage to change, who I am, what I'm doing - to let go the ego that says "oh I work so hard so therefore I must be right"?
You can dismiss these questions as marketing info from an obviously biased coach. Or you can take this information from a seasoned coach and veteran student, who, even after years of close mentoring, has not even come close to exhausting this source. The impact of the content of this course will not be duplicated for years to come - however - highly likely that it will be mainstream content a decade from now.
Your choice to experience now and reap the benefit or wait for the collective to give it their blessing - thus riding the backside of the wave. Seminar junkie-wannabie guru's, and other short-term thinkers need not apply.
--Mike Pimentel
Ian King
