PDR

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On Saturday, November 19, 2011, the Be Your Own Bodyguard program was hosted by CrossFit Full Throttle in Tucson, Arizona.

Over 70 people attended this BYOB session and experienced the BYOB materials taught by Tony Blauer himself.

Thanks to Tommy Shultz for the review below on PDR 31.

Congrats to Tommy on scoring a 100% on his certification exam.

Attending PDR 31 was, for me, just as significant as the first Kung Fu class I ever took, the day I re-learned how to walk, the first time I ever hit an Armbar on someone, the first time I did CrossFit, and the day I got my black belt. I had a somewhat unique in-road to my PDR Certification: The martial art I train and teach, Mushin Dao, integrates PDR as the core of its self defense curriculum. My instructor got his PDR Cert in the late 90′s and has been teaching it as part of our martial arts classes ever since, so I have been continually exposed to the principles, bio-mechanics, maxims, and methodologies of Coach Blauer for nearly 7 years.

I’ve been in a teaching position, working with students, refining my own understanding of the curriculum, for several years now. I have, on my own, continued my education on Tony’s research; following him online and the wealth of information he has put out over the years. I felt like, as a coach, I had a pretty solid grasp on how to teach the basics of PDR… which I did; but I never could have imagined the wealth of data and detail that I would download during PDR 31. I walked in already subject matter expert, and Tony and our Coaches have given me the tools to become a substance matter expert. My understanding of PDR has gone from a group of associated drills, tools, stories, and sayings to a truly concise and cohesive System.

Coach Blauer’s “firehose method” of instruction left me so little time to think or react that after 3 days, I had only 2 pages of notes, which is unbelievable for me. I generally leave a 1 hour private lesson with at least 6 pages of detailed notes! I spent the next 4 days having “information bombs” go off in my head: I’d recall a maxim or phrasing or point of instruction and it would trigger a huge release of stored data, which would set off a chain reaction of ways to analyze it, ways to teach it, and realizations about the sweeping relationships between the different components and layers of the system; then I would have to run to my notebook and write several pages of notes. Like walking through a field of mental landmines.

The metaphor I used on my training partners was: “I feel like a kid who’s had a favorite toy for years, and suddenly learned 100 new ways to play with it, and 100 new ways to think about it.”

I cannot emphasize how grateful I am to the whole PDR Team for the experience. It was truly life changing.