Why Multi-Planar Mobility?
Multi-Planar Mobility™ (MPM) is the key to CST and to RMAX. This is because it enhances real world performance in three dimensions: frontal, sagital, and transverse, and also because it helps to prevent joint pain and injuries.
All dynamic movement and real world performance occurs in three dimensions. We exist in three dimensions; we move in three dimensions. Health, success, and movement freedom all occur in three dimensions. That being the case, it only makes logical sense to play, think, and train ourselves in three dimensions. I believe that failure to train in any one dimension creates a weak link in our performance, as well as the likelihood of joint pain and immobility. I also believe that linear strength training is truly impossible, because we CANNOT move in a straight line, nor can we forcefully isolate ourselves in one or two dimensions. It’s utterly insane, unrealistic, and downright dangerous for our long term health and performance.
People who do conventional linear strength training experience joint pain and immobility because of their one- or two-dimensional enclosed training. What these folks fail to understand is that it’s impossible for them to move linearly, and it is in their failure to develop tri-planar mobility that they are imprisoned.
Tri-planar mobility develops rotary and angular/diagonal strength to assist the primary movers. It increases stability, enhances injury prevention, multiplies force production abilities, and stimulates the neuromuscular patterns required of athletes. All of this can be attained through the use of Clubbells, with none of the lame and funny circus stunts or Sea World animal acts of the "functional training" camp. The functional training camp is better off than the bodybuilding camp in terms of trying to develop tri-planar mobility, but they, too, still attempt to move linearly.
How does tri-planar mobility reduce and prevent joint pain and immobility? Basically, tri-planar mobility can be studied through daily practice of programs like Warrior Wellness™ and Body Flow. These programs should be practiced daily, because they provide "food" for your joints. Your joints are fed not through blood but through synovial fluid and that comes through movement. When joints are fed daily in all six degrees of freedom, they attain youth, health, and stability. Mobility training bathes your joints in synovial fluids, which help to remove scar tissue and calcium deposits. If you don’t move your joints in all three dimensions, your joints don’t get fed, they grow hungry, develop scar tissue, and build up nasty hard material -- and then they grow weak. You move like an old person and you wonder "How Stella Got Her Groove Back." Do Warrior Wellness™ and Body Flow, and you will get your groove back.
MPM has helped me to recover and to coordinate my movements and has helped me to overcome right shoulder joint pain that developed over time through Wing Chun training and linear strength conditioning. I am pain-free in that area, thank you LORD!
I came to RMAX and CST looking to be free and to increase my performance in Wing Chun gung fu. I couldn’t figure out why I was a bad Wing Chun student. I now realize that I failed, because I was working within a linear movement paradigm, and I wasn’t doing any MPM conditioning, which added more dirt to my already messy slate. I am now able to perform all of the refined movements found in Fisticuffs, Shock Ability, Softwork, Body-Flow, CST, and Sambo. This was nearly impossible for me before I started back on July 4, 2004.
I used to carry density in my upper back, and I’m still working on it. However, by applying MPM and the theories of myofasica and tensegrity, I have learned to release my density and to keep that tension away. I have been doing Warrior Wellness™ daily for some time now, and I see how much it has increased my performance in Sambo, CST, Rmax, and my Wing Chun practices.
Warrior Wellness: http://www.rmax.tv/warrior.html
BodyFlow: http://www.rmax.tv/kinetic.html
Yours in CST,
Bao Tran
"The time for change is now and again we as a tribe are here to service you and support your bliss because your success is our success."
"Your body is the subconscious mind." Candace Pert, PhD
Hanuman, a siranjaeevi, is the monkey God, strong, full of valour, with various skills and powers. He is seen as Veera Hanuman, holding the mace (a Clubbell® in Bao's eye) in one hand & the sanjeevi parvatham in the other