Originally Posted by
Sal Canzonieri
Let me say one thing.
I've been in the hospital for like a month, I've been out a few weeks. I had major surgery in my abdomen, huge scar from them cutting through my abs and removing a whole section of material (food poisoning from bad fish infected a section of my intestines).
I've taken no pain killers since I have been home.
I am in serious constant sharp pain as it all heals up.
Yet, as I practice my routines, I feel no pain whatsoever, I even showed my surgeon at a follow up appointment, since he didn't want me to do any form of exercise or lifting for the next few months.
No pain when doing routines, why? Because of correct CMA body mechanics.
AND, I was told that from October last year to when I got this last operation (2nd) I was in danger of dying at any moment if there was an organ rupture and the material could have infected the whole inside area.
They said it was a miracle, since they didn't know things were that bad til they opened my a few weeks ago, and I had been doing my CMA teaching and practicing and jumping around on stage with my band. At any moment any of that could have caused the rupture.
BUT, thanks to all the Shaolin Neigong I practiced, nothing had happened. In fact some weird thing occurred inside that prevented it, even the surgeon called it a miracle.
But, I know it was because I practiced correct CMA body mechanics and core movement.
It wasn't "humility" that saved me. It was CMA.
Now I am healing with no pain killers and already out and about and driving and so on, only two weeks since the surgery.
Elitist? What does that even mean here? Why even say it? I think I am better than you because I know something you don't? To even say that means that you are projecting and feeling "inferior". It automatically says that you know it is something SD doesn't know. You don't have to feel bad about it, nor do you have to think that I think I am "better" than you. Especially since I have never said even once "I am better than you all because I know something you don't".
No, that is people feeling guilty or foolish projecting this on to my words"
When I have ever said anything to make people personally "feel hurt"?
It's a case of either "the truth burns" or "if the shoe fits, wear it".
All I have ever said is, "SD is not teaching correct CMA body mechanics and core principles". That's all my words said or meant.
That's it. Nothing personal. Nothing Elite. Nothing Un-humble.
So far no one has ever proven to me otherwise.
There's plenty of ex-SD that have agreed over the years though.