End of digression. During the workshop, Scott introduced
us to incredible concepts, unlike anything I’d seen before.
This guy is amazing. I’ve seen a lot of extreme athletes. I
was Kung-Fu columnist for Black Belt Magazine for three years, and
I’ve seen the best—and in a crucial aspect of performance,
Scott was better than anything I’d ever seen. And here’s
that aspect: a LOT of people can perform at high levels in their chosen
sport. But Scott seemed to be able to make his body do whatever he
wanted it to do. Amazing.
He introduced us to a phenomenal concept called “Perpetual
Exercise,” and my head exploded. Let me explain:
For two decades, I’ve theorized that all of the different fitness
systems we know of: western calisthenics and weight-training, yoga,
Asian Martial arts, all of them—are merely fragments of some
older, deeper art. I suspect that this earlier art was about six thousand
years old, created at a time when human beings needed a deeper connection
to their bodies—not for vanity, or sport performance, but for
survival. My theory (and it was just a theory) was that if you connected
all of what we know from all of these different disciplines, you would
have a “Super-Art”, one that could improve any sport,
martial art, meditation, form of yoga, whatever.
Now, for years I’ve written about aspects of this art, but
had never seen anything that came closer to my IMAGINARY
art than Z-Health. In fact, I believe that these concepts, originating
in the Ural Mountains, are part of the “mother art” that
birthed both Yoga and the Asian Arts! I was stunned by the “Perpetual
Exercise” concept, and realized that in combination with yet
another Russian idea called “Neuro-Synaptic Facilitation”
it could form the basis of a fitness system that could actually achieve
powerful, serious, no-b.s. effects in only FIVE MINUTES A
DAY.
Stunned, I asked Scott if he understood the implications. He thought
about it, laughed and said “I’m too busy teaching other
stuff, Steve—why don’t you do it?”
Can you believe this guy? At any rate, I spent six months researching,
then created a “test tape”, sending out a dozen copies
to trusted friends for their evaluation.
IT BLEW THEM AWAY! So the next step was to make
the real thing. I contacted Lexington Films, the company with whom
I’d produced two previous martial arts instructional tapes,
and asked them if they’d be interested in co-producing the FIVE
MINUTE MIRACLE with me. Its president, a brilliant guy named
J. Omar Daggy, jumped at the chance. So everything was in line.
