HOW CMD IS DESIGNED

TRAINERS PROGRAM

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Welcome To The Crazy Monkey Trainers Program-Overwhelmed?

Donʼt be!

This e-book will help you understand the fundamental building blocks of the Crazy Monkey Defense Online Trainers Program, the worlds first Martial Art-Life™ Performance Coaching System.

Crazy Monkey is a powerful martial art experience, transcending the ʻfightʼ, coaching itʼs Trainers in a holistic, positive, life inspiring martial art process. Trainers are taught ʻhow to coachʼ their clients to experience martial arts as more than just learning how to fight. Crazy Monkey sees the mat as a place to inspire skills that will enable its clients to perform at their best in life!

While we coach our clients in functional, real self-defense skills, and while some of our clients may compete, this is not what we are about.

Crazy Monkey is about using modern martial arts as a vehicle to inspire itʼs clients to become the best they can, not only on the mat, but most importantly in life!

Rodney KingCMDʼs Creative Monkey

“When we say we are changing the way modern martial arts is coached, viewed and experienced, we mean it AND we are doing it!”- Rodney King

Understanding How The Crazy Monkey Defense Program Is Constructed!

By Rodney King

Birds-Eye View Of CMDImagine for a moment that you are looking down at CMD and by zooming out you can see the entire CMD program. What would it look like? The image above represents this view.

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CMD’s 5-D GAME★Teaching★Coaching★Wisdom Environment★Conscious Business★Social Consciousness

G.A.M.E

What Ultimately Leads To The Crazy Monkey Defense Experience?

Lets get back to the diagram you just viewed. Moving from the centre out, lets begin by defining Crazy Monkey Defenseʼs G.A.M.E approach to experiencing martial arts.

The G.A.M.E approach informs the attitude CMD Trainers have within the CMD program.

The G.A.M.E approach integrates and applies all the core elements of CMD into the martial art experience we offer our clients. The core elements of CMD are the 5-Dimensional approach of teaching, coaching, creating a wisdom environment, applying conscious business strategies, being socially conscious and ultimately leading to a Martial Art-Life experience.

G.A.M.E

Conceptually the G.A.M.E® approach represents:

GROUNDING our clients in their strengths. CMD teaches and coaches from building upon a clients existing strengths instead of focusing on their weaknesses.

ATTITUDES that encourage success. Coaching in CMD aims to create powerful, solution focused, mental game attitudeS that build resilience and facilitate peak performance in martial arts, life and career.

MOTIVATION that energizes optimal performance. Through personalized coaching in an ego-free, non hyper-competitive training space. The core G.A.M.E elements promote our clients capacity for sustained, goal-directed motivation.

EXECUTING a plan for success. CMD Trainers and their clients jointly focus on executing a personal action oriented G.A.M.E plan to achieve the clients goals and peak performance in all areas of their life!

Simply the G.A.M.E represents a CMD Trainers attitude towards their clients when coaching them in CMD.

To summarize the main drive of these coaching attitudes are:

1. A focus on a clients strengths instead of their weaknesses, 2. Fostering attitudes within clients that lead them to create successful martial art outcomes, 3. Motivation that energizes clients to perform at their best, 4. And finally executing a consistent plan of action that continuous a clients success within CMD.

These 4 main coaching attitudes is what makes the CMD program stand out amongst other modern martial art programs available today.

The obvious question arises then how would a CMD Trainer ensure that the G.A.M.E occurs in the clients experience of CMD?

“I have had the opportunity to see and use what is considered by the corporate community to be world class online training. In my opinion the training resources available through the CMD online trainer's program are of comparable quality. The videos, marketing, business, and coaching materials provide all the information one might need to successfully coach the CMD program. In addition the message board provides access to the ideas, opinions, and support of the whole CMD Trainer community. The value far exceeds the price of admission.”Jon Moore, JD, M.S. (USA)

The first step is to ensure that ALL CMD Trainers implement CMDʼs 5-Dimensional (5-D) approach to running a successful CMD studio. This is achieved through our Online Trainers Program as well as at our Yearly Trainers Clinics.

CMDʼs 5-D Approach Drives The G.A.M.E

If the G.A.M.E approach is the attitude that a CMD Trainer brings to every session they have with a client, then the 5-D approach of CMD is the ʻaction stepsʼ that allows a client to experience the fullness of Crazy Monkey Defense. Without the 5-D GAME there is no Crazy Monkey Defense.

(D-1) CMDʼs Teaching GAME:

CMDʼs Teaching GAME is all about ways to teach the physical skill sets of the CMD. The Teaching GAME also covers all the physical techniques, from the CM hand defense, to an elbow strike. Sparring strategy is also included in this game. So simply put, if you are talking about teaching the physical skill sets or techniques

CMD’s 5-D GAME★Teaching★Coaching★Wisdom Environment★Conscious Business★Social Consciousness

of the CMD, it is all contained within the Teaching GAME. As a side note, this is what most martial arts programs are comprised of. Very little consideration is ever given to the other 4 GAMES we will discuss in the following pages.

The Teaching GAME in CMD has 2 main components:

(D-2) Coaching GAME:Unlike the teaching GAME that deals with delivering the physical skill sets of CMD- or what most people immediately notice about martial arts which is the martial technique- the Coaching GAME is about developing the interpersonal relationship between client and Trainer.

No matter how good you become at teaching the physical skill sets of CMD, clients will naturally become frustrated when they feel they are not learning fast enough. Some clients will hold unrealistic expectations of themselves. All clients will bring a life time of past experiences to the mat.

Whichever one a CMD Trainer has to deal with, teaching one more technique or one more advanced strategy a client can use to win, will not help. It is at this point that a CMD Trainer requires the ability to ʻcoachʼ. The coaching approach needs a way to communicate with clients thatʼs both productive and positively reinforcing. It also needs to be a method that understands a clientʼs psychological and emotional needs. We call this the Coaching GAME in CMD.

The CMDʼs Coaching GAME consists of two main components that enables our Trainers to deliver what has been defined above:

Physical SkillsTeaching the physical aspects of

CMD.

These are the techniques, drills, strategies and tactics of the CMD.

How To Teach The Physical Skills

How to teach the physical aspects of the CMD. To this end we have 3

Teaching Models to accomplish this. Namely the Newtonian, Pavlovian &

CHAOS Teaching Models.

POWER CommunicationHow you talk to and listen to your client is often far more important than what you teach them. Communication is a skill that can be learnt. In the Trainers

program we teach you how to accomplish this.

Strength-Based CoachingCoaching from your clients strengths is

far more rewarding than constantly working from their weaknesses. In the

Trainers program we teach you how to accomplish this.

(D-3) Wisdom Environment GAME:

“The environment informs behavior” Rodney King

The environment informs behavior. The Wisdom Environment GAME is then a way to elicit the right behavior from our clients in the training environment. It is about creating an environment that is healthy, embraces creativity and freedom to make mistakes- while avoiding the pitfalls of hyper-competitiveness, ego and unhealthy attitudes.

I always loved Rigan Machado's sign on his gym door that stated,

“Leave Your Ego At The Door”.

Just saying that though means nothing. Ironically many schools that say they have no ego, often have the most.

A zero ego policy is nothing without it being reinforced.

This begins from a top down approach. Our Trainers have to exemplify the behaviors that they are asking their clients to observe.

The creation of a Wisdom Environment in CMD is mainly informed by what I have termed the Warriors-Journey. I have drawn much of my inspiration for this from Joseph Campbell, who was a comparative mythologist.

All clients will go through the Warriors-Journey or what Campbell called the mono-myth. It represents the psychological stages of psychic crossing that is required by each client to move to the next stage of learning and discovery. Without it positive growth in a clients martial art game is impossible.

We coach all our Trainers in the CMD Trainers Program how to implement the Warriors-Journey and there by creating an amazing training space, built on fun and play- while been divorced of unhealthy ego and hyper-competitiveness so prevalent in most modern martial art schools today.

“I have found the trainers program to be the most comprehensive self explanatory program I have ever come across in all my training. I have found that it has helped me to build confidence & re-assurance both as a coach & within my own training. Never before have I experienced such a transparent system that allows you to challenge it & get answers timelessly from more than one source ( worldwide connection of professionals). From a business point of view, the network & material available to our clients is priceless & exposing new clients to it makes our job of giving them a new MA experience so much easier.” Renaldo Pio (South Africa)

(D-4) Social Consciousness GAME:The Social Consciousness GAME is both an attitude and a philosophy of how we want the martial arts to impact the lives of our clients, the community and our planet in a positive way. Social Consciousness in martial arts simply means that you care how what you teach, both affects a client personally but also that clientʼs relationship with the world. If you are teaching violent action, but care little how that action is used by your clients on the street or how it impacts them psychologically, then you are not being socially conscious.

I really believe this part of martial arts is largely overlooked and there tends to be a sense of taking money from a client, then teaching martial art skills to them and thatʼs where it ends. Just letting someone out on the street with what you taught them, without caring how it will be used, I believe is wholly irresponsible.

It is easy to understand then why we have drawn from Positive Psychology for this aspect of CMD. Positive Psychology is a recent branch of psychology that "studies the strengths and virtues that enable individuals and communities to thrive". Teaching people to be more aggressive, paranoid or afraid is not positive and will have a direct impact not only on that clientʼs life, but the lives of his or her family, friends and society.

“The layout of the pro site makes it an absolute pleasure to go online and work on my CMD game! Rodney and his crew have laid out everything in a way that allows you to look at the program as a whole, while still being able to narrow your focus and working on specific aspects of your game. I love this approach, because it allows you to see how everything connects to everything else in the system. This is a valuable lesson for life as well, and what I love most about the CMD Trainers Program is that there is such an emphasis put on using these techniques as a means to improve one's entire life - not just their CMD or MMA game.”-Jon Kellet (Canada)

“As a positive psychology researcher I am impressed with Rodney Kingʼs intuitive grasp of peopleʼs strengths and hopes. Rather than building a martial art around fear of attack, testosterone-based competition, or external rewards King introduces the best aspects of performance psychology to help people achieve their own goals.

In a field steeped in tradition, King artfully reimagines both the dojo and the martial arts business mentality. At long last, we have a perfect union of proven martial arts techniques with cutting edge approaches to teaching and personal development. As a martial artist myself, Kingʼs methods are a breath of fresh air.”

Dr. Robert Biswas-Diener, Dr. Philos., CMC, Author of Positive Psychology Coaching

(D-5) Conscious Business GAME:Conscious Business is a term used to describe CMD as a business that seeks to be aware of the effects of its actions, and to consciously affect its clients and the environment in a beneficial way. Conscious business is closely tied to the Social Consciousness GAME. We are not out to take people for a ride or to do anything we want to make a fast buck. We care about how our business is perceived and we want it to be first and foremost focused on our clientʼs welfare and the world we operate in.

Martial Arts-Life Approach

The G.A.M.E attitudes and the 5-D approach all lead to what I have affectionally called a Martial Art-Life™ philosophy.

When you bring the components of the G.A.M.E attitudes and the 5-D approach together, you create a very unique martial art experience. This experience can only be a positive one. The experience a client gains from this approach will inherently teach him or her how to connect what is delivered on the mat to their life and career.

Martial Art Life Approach

The MA-Life approach is therefore not about preaching to our clients on how they should live their lives (A big mistake martial art instructors make) or about directly correlating all the lessons from the mat to their life- but rather is an experience that grows organically simply out of the CMDʼs unique approach to teaching, coaching and the martial art experience offered. This is why we refer to CMD as,

Changing The Way Modern Martial Arts Is Viewed, Coached & Experienced!

Finally We Reach The Crazy Monkey Defense Program

The Crazy Monkey Defense as a program, is therefore a seamless combination of the G.A.M.E attitudes, the 5-D approach and an MA-Life philosophy. All these aspects create what I have defined as an irreducible complex system.

In other words, CMD is a single system of modern martial arts which is composed of several interacting parts (G.A.M.E, 5-D approach, MA-Life) that contribute to the

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basic functionality of CMD, and where the removal of any one of these parts will cause the system of CMD to effectively cease to function.

You therefor cannot have CMD without all the components outlined earlier.

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“I've  been  with  the  Trainers  Program  since  2006,  and  it  come  along  in  leaps  and  bounds  since  it's  incep>on.     The   program   is  now   organized  in   such  as  way   that   people   are   able   to  work  though  things  in  a  sequen>al  order  which  helps  to  not  only  develop  the  coaches  understanding  of  CMD,  but   also   helps   the   coach   to   teach   their   clients.     The   Trainers  Program     is  not   just   a  bunch   of  techniques,  cool  moves  or  seminar  footage  online.    It   is  designed  to  aid  you  in  becoming  a  world  class  coach  though   not   only   learning   the   physical  aspect   of   CM,   but   also  how   to  communicate  effec>vely,   build  a  healthy   training  environment   in  which  new  clients  feel  supported  rather  than  anxious,   and   how   to   run  a  business.   It   has  really  become   easier  for  new   coaches  to   digest   the  informa>on  and  see  how  all  the  parts  and  processes  fit  together  to  create  the  CMD  Program.

The  online  resources  and  trainers  forum  is  coupled  with  an  annual  Trainers  Clinic.    Again,  the  clinic  reflects   the   online   material  with   sessions   and   trouble   shoo>ng   on   the   physical,   mental,   and  business  aspect  of  being  a  CMD  Trainer.    The   camaraderie  experienced  within  the  tribe  will  oNen  see   coaches   traveling   to   different   regional   Coaches   Clinics   as   well   as   regular   get   togethers  throughout  the  year  to  spit  ball  ideas,  coach  one  another  and  generally  monkey  around.

Joining  the  CMD  Coaches  Program  is  more  than  just  learning  CM  and  being  a  bePer  coach,  you  are  joining  a  family.    Welcome  to  the  tribe.”

Chris  Bishop    (Isle  of  Man)