Scott Sonnon – Grapplers Toolbox

Description of Grapplers Toolbox

Flow Makes Flawless

The Rebirth of the Hall of Fame Award Winning Martial Art Conditioning Program designed by Distinguished Master of Sport, former USA National Sambo Team Coach and Champion, Scott Sonnon.

Martial artists all admire natural grace of masterful grapplers from Jiujitsu, Judo, Sambo and Wrestling. To an extent, much of that ferocious fluidity is learned. For movement masters like Scott Sonnon, learning didn’t come easily. Persistent, he traveled the world to find and formulate the right methods to match up with the learning requirements of the non-gifted. His unique approach stands on the broad shoulders of his Olympic and national coaching and international success on the mat. Coach Sonnon designed these “biomechanical exercises” as a powerful form of specific physical preparedness which:

• creates a safety valve for when movements deviate from the expected, like they always do in the chaos of and fighting, so that when you or your opponent move too far, too fast, too hard, you can safely recover and stay on target. three-dimensionally strengthens connective tissue (the “outer bag” of your fascia and the muscle it contains, and the “inner bag” forming the joint capsules and holding in the precious synovial fluid, ground substance, and of course your cartilage and bones.)
• provide a movement model for your nervous system to improve your technique without a partner, like a form of “shadow grappling” – probably the most under-estimated form of practice in modern day gyms.

If you practice these as a warm-up, before your practicing the technique with a partner, of if as your form of off-season conditioning, you’ll skyrocket your performance on the mat. Practice consistently for 60 days and you will completely rewire your nervous system.

Meet your Team Leader

Scott was “Born to Lose, but Trained to Win.” Against all odds, Scott became a champion, and has shared the discoveries he made along the way.

Scott Sonnon is most known for being a martial arts champion in Sambo Wrestling, Sport Jiujitsu, Submission Grappling, Amateur Mixed Martial Arts, and Sanshou Kickboxing. Sonnon capitalized upon advances in applied biomechanics, stress physiology, exercise endocrinology and coaching psychology to become a multiple-time USA National Team Coach. Sonnon trained for six years with the former USSR Ministry of Internal Affairs (MVD) and Special Operations Unit (Spetsnaz) Physical Conditioning and Performance Enhancement Specialists at the RETAL (Physical Skill Consultant Scientific & Practical Training) Center, and became the first American to be licensed by the Russian government in these studies. He is also one of a handful of individuals outside the former USSR to earn the coveted “Master of Sport” -the highest athletic distinction recognized in the former Soviet Union.

Scott strove to these athletic accomplishments due to his severe learning disabilities – dyslexia, dysgraphia and dyscalculia; using martial arts, fitness and yoga as a means of educational therapy, which ultimately led him to become a keynote speaker for prestigious institutes such as TEDX and Mensa.

Sonnon’s peak performance enhancement methods are on the scientific cutting-edge teaching how to use exercise not merely for increased physical capacity, but as a means of injury- prevention, illness-prevention and longevity; as the world’s number one killer is not guns, knives or bombs, but stress-related disease.

He consults for the United Stated Department of Defense, United Stated Department of Justice and the United States Department of Homeland Security.

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