Let me tell you right now that ElasticSteel Warrior Strategy is not about positive thinking or about believing that you are the best (No offense to Tony Robins) . It’s about achieving complete dominance over your opponent by mastering the control and awareness of your own body; about knowing what to do in any situation, against any type of opponent.  It’s about being able to actually carry out your plan, learning, mastering and picking the best mental strategy. It’s about having the physical attributes to carry out this tactic; and finally about combining the right strategy and physical ability to make magic.

How do I know this? Here is how… As a teenager training in martial arts, I was an excellent technician. I had explosive and powerful kicks. I had fast and devastating hands. Yet, there were some fighters that I just could not beat. I could not beat them in point fighting; I could not beat them in full contact.

I did all that I could and sometimes would get a kick or a punch in, but most of the time I would lose the match. Forward a decade later. Now having an education in the science of human movement, having access to high speed equipment and cameras, I had decided to answer the questions I had once and for all. No one else was going to answer it for me, so I decided to do this myself.

At first I would watch many champions in slow motion sometimes dozens of times over and over again, trying to figure out what they did. Exactly how much their front foot moved when they made an angle, exactly how much weight was on each foot. I studied the timing of their attack, the distance they were from their opponent, and the maneuvers they used to control their position and distance. After a few months of spending hours in front of the screen I began to get answers. I also began to try them out in the ring both as a fighter and as a trainer.

The more I got into the strategies of top fighters, the more I began to realize that many strategies begin five, ten and sometimes even thirty seconds before the punch or kick makes contact. Sometimes the set up for one technique would take one or two rounds. Everything was very suddle and a very tightly kept secret.

Trying to apply these strategies to my trainees and myself, I realized that, some things can’t be done by everyone. Certain footwork or fakes required specific strength, balance or speed not everyone had. Those modalities had to be developed. I began experimenting with different kinds of conditioning and transfer-over exercises and finally, after finding the right ones all of a sudden, the impossible strategies became possible!

The more I learned, the more I wanted to learn. The next big hurdle I had to tackle is the applications of different plays in relations to different fighters. Some fighters are too short, some are too slow, some are too big, or small to pull off certain strategies; what works against one opponent, doesn’t work against the other one.  After thousands of trials and errors I finally began to see what plays to recommend for one type of fighter against the other.

Amazingly I began to score on what I consider to be more experienced opponents. Scoring turned to dominating. After all, I don’t spend 5-6 days in a ring, since I write, research and teach a lot. Compare this to people who train at least 3 hours a day, almost every day of the week. Having not sparred for a while, I began to enjoy it more and more. I also began to participate in many specialized competitive drills with top athletes. Hey, when you can easily out-spar the person who is faster, stronger, more agile, and younger than you, just because of your superior combat analytical ability and specialized training, the game becomes so much more fun.

Armed with years of experimentation, experience and research, I set out to put together a seminar that would blow anyone’s mind, even the most experienced of masters. Over the last year and a half, I conducted small group, private seminars to the most advanced masters of combat strategies that I had contact with. Two things came out of this. One, I was happy to see that most of the information I presented was new to people who I truly consider my superiors in martial arts. Two, despite having armed myself with large amount of knowledge, I got to learn many interesting bits and pieces, that I did not already know. I also got a ton of a high level informed critique on the information that I presented.

After having done many revisions, I finally molded the ElasticSteel Warrior Strategy Seminar into a form that I am happy with. It’s my privilege to say, that I am truly convinced that this is the best seminar that I have put together so far.

ElasticSteel Warrior Strategy Seminar is divided into three parts, each part lasts 5 weeks.