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Train for
Strength and Fitness

A Message From Publisher Phil
Elmore

Fitness
and conditioning are important and often overlooked aspects of self-defense
training. Coach Scott Sonnon, internationally recognized fitness expert
and Sambo champion, first contacted me before this publication was born.
Earnest, amiable, and amazingly humble, Coach Sonnon asked if I would be
interested in reviewing some of his products for PhilElmore.com.

I accepted, knowing little about
Coach Sonnon or his work. When I finally started going through the
material, I could not get enough. I liked what I saw. More
importantly, however, Coach Sonnon’s material really helped me. (His Leg
Fencing tapes, for example, helped me develop the skills I needed to earn a
new rank in one of the martial arts I study.)

I had the pleasure of editing an early version of
Coach Sonnon’s book, Body-Flow. While I was primarily responsible
for changing structure and content and therefore had no control over the final
version of the book, it was a real treat to get such early insight into what has
become one of the cornerstones of Coach Sonnon’s performance enhancement
curriculum.

While Clubbells and their associated training
program are the items probably most closely associated with Coach Sonnon, no
exploration of his programs is really complete without a look at Body-Flow and
the groundbreaking work he’s done on the topic.

As this is is an online publication, at least in
part, it’s important to point out one thing: Coach Sonnon is the target of
some of the most intense examples of online harassment,
trolling, and even stalking that I
have ever seen. This is due primarily to the fact that people who
accomplish a great deal automatically become targets. If you’re online and
you read negative comments about Coach Sonnon and his work (or even The
Martialist and its publisher), keep this in mind.

Coach Sonnon’s RMAX organization is
The Martialist‘s officially endorsed source for physical fitness and conditioning information
and products. Specifically, The Martialist endorses Coach Sonnon’s
Clubbell curriculum.