JOHN MEANEY
Links to places I find interesting
Body and MIND...
www.mckenna.com Paul is the UK's number-one non-fiction author and a household name from his TV shows. He's about to take the US by storm with a major TV series, I Can Make You Thin, debuting on March 9 on the Learning Channel. Watch out for my wife Yvonne on the programme about exercise.
Paul won't be doing any more live training events in the UK for the foreseeable future. (There's only run of each type of event over the next few months, and then he's gone.) He's a different kind of self-help expert, he's the world's best-known hypnotist, and he teaches neuro-linguistic programming alongside the field's creator Richard Bandler. I recommend Paul's products 100 percent, and if you have a chance to experience a live event with him, do it.
Mind and BODY...
www.mattfurey.com Matt Furey's bodyweight exercises are in many ways the heart of my personal conditioning programme. Whether you like his marketing style or not, his system is excellent, used by elite martial artists and by people who simply like a routine they can do anywhere, even in a hotel room.
www.rmaxinternational.com SF writer Steve Barnes considers Scott Sonnon to be a physical genius, and he may be right. He has exercises for people who may be very heavy, and will want to do a shallow knee bend by holding onto a chair, and get full exertion and benefit from that; and he's got sophisticated agility routines that blow the minds of leading martial artists and free runners -- yes, the parkour guys, too, rate him very, very highly.
www.morrisnoholdsbarred.co.uk For real fighters... Until he pissed every one of them off, Britain's top karate guys proclaimed Steve Morris the best martial artist that the UK has ever produced. But Steve abandoned karate long ago for harsher and more realistic training. He's now in his 60s and can rip professional MMA (no holds barred) fighters apart. If you're a male student of traditional karate who trains in a British church hall or an American McDojo, and imagines himself a samurai (having read Shogun and Shibumi, perhaps) then you don't want to visit this website, because it'll leave your illusions in tatters.
His techniques are based on biomechanics and neurology, and his attitude is a deliberate berserker psychosis. And his partner is renowned SF writer Tricia Sullivan.