Dear Friend,
My name is Master Mikel Steenrod. When I was seven years old, a neigborhood friend, Steven, was getting ready to leave my house and walk back up the dirt road to his house.
Steven was 5 and hadn't yet learned to tie his shoes. He struggled with them, frustration building, at the door. My mother was getting ready to tie his shoes for him, but I stopped her. I realized that I could teach him how to tie his shoes. I saw that he was looking at the process of shoe tying as a single big lump and actually blending some of the steps. While his sisters had tried to get him to look at the steps using the rabbit in the hole method, his brain wasn't learning it that way. It was still caught up in seeing it as one big lump.
As his little fingers struggled with the big laces, I understood how he was seeing it. I broke up the shoe tying method in a way that he could wrap his head around. Bam! He had it! From that day forward, he was able to tie his shoes.
A Maniac is Born
I discovered, at that young age, that I had a knack for taking things that people found very difficult and making them doable to them. I also discovered that when a person latches on to something in a way that his brain can understand it, does he ever get good at it. Steven became a shoe tying maniac!
Martial arts is vital for safety and fitness, and I have never seen any physical exercise ever approach qi gong in its ability to heal and calm a person. That's not why I started a school, though. I teach martial arts and qi gong, because I believe in it. I have not seen anyone
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that was not bettered as a person when they got the right coaching and had the right experiences. Everyone becomes their own special shoe tying maniac.
I have taken the principle of making the complex doable in simple easy to understand steps, and built the school around it. All the school's coaches are trained to use this principle. Every teacher has heard the words, "Remember, this was meant to be doable by humans," from me.
Water Mountain's training programs make you healthier, stronger, and more powerful. It is Training that's about you, as it was shoe tying about Steven.
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