Smallz, I have a couple of comments on what you said. Please understand that this is a discussion forum and not some attempt by me do make judgements on you as a person. People can sometimes take things on this forum a little too personally.
Here it goes
If you are a strength coach interested in only “hard core” S&C, that’s fine. But what happens when one of your athletes gets injured?
I refer out. As a C.S.C.S, I personally realize there is a definate line between what I do and what a licensed PT or MD would do. I realize the amount of training and schooling that those professionals need to go through to have the knowledge base to successfully treat there clients. It is not a knowledge base, that I have found, can be taught in a 10 day seminar. Asessments such as gilletes test and sensory dermatones are best done by licensed and trained PT’s and doctors, and not by chek practioners. If you want to do those kind of asessments, go to medical or pt school, not the chek institute.
Also, in any given set of circumstances we should all seek to read, learn, absorb, disregard, and apply anything we can get our hands on. If you take a course or certification that does not live up to your standards, then at the very least that course has served to intensify the convictions that you have for that which you already know and believe to be true and right.
I couldn’t agree with you more, well said. However, I will say that it is much easier for me to be “Zen Like” in my thinking if the experience didn’t cost so much. If I get a bad book that cost $50, or go to a bad seminar that cost $200, then no big deal, I can afford to get all warm and glowy inside about the situation being a learning experience. But after $3000 tuition, $1000 in books and reading materials, $1500 in hotel and travel costs, $500 in meals, and another $500 in equipment, I have 6500 more reasons to be pissed off about the experience than I do to be enlightened by it.
Another point to be made is that the “H” in CHEK stands for Holistic. Paul’s Program goes WAY BEYOND functional biomechanics and applied kinesiology. The information in the CHEK Institute’s NLC Programs are on a whole other level, not really suited for the close-minded.
I have a point of disagreement here. When I signed up for the intern, the H stood for High Performance, not holistic. Maybe Chek has changed this, I don’t know, but as you can see this is one of the reasons why I jumped in thinking that I was going to be able to create Defranco like athletes with this stuff. As far as the NLC, I agree that it is important to have an open mind, but not a mind that is so gaping that your brains fall out. When I was at the you are what you eat seminar by paul he said and did some pretty outlandish things. I am not talking about quigong (sp) and things like that since they have some basis in science, but when he (chek) pulled out that string with the weight on the end of it, put it over the food and started doing that clockwise, counterclockwise, aura stuff with it, he looked like a snake oil salesman and a nutjob. I really feel that it is lack of formal education (which he so gets off on telling you how unimportant formal education is) that sometimes leads him to not be critical of some of the stuff that he preaches. whenever chek says something I always cross reference it to Dr. Berardi, to find out if the stuff is legit. When Dr. Berardi agrees that animal’s feed effects the fatty acid profiles of the meat we eat, then I pay attention. Until berardi starts talking about the evils of tupperware and the aura in food, I will stay close minded and pass.
This field of strength and conditioning is very multi-disciplinary and requires that same kind of appraoch. In the end, I believe that we all have common goals and are ultimately on the same page.
well said!
