One of the best ways to wake up your body in the morning is to slap yourself… repeatedly. Not in the face, mind you. This isn’t an Aqua Velva commercial. You slap on the arms, the chest, the abdomen, the thighs and calves.

How hard do you slap yourself?

In the beginning, not hard at all. Just a mild “love slap.” Enough to wake yourself up but not enough to hurt yourself or piss yourself off.

If you start with these light slaps, you begin generating vital nerve force, and as this force grows it paves the way for your love slaps to get heavier. Not in a masochistic way by any means, but in a way that you recognize something incredibly positive coming about from the process.

This sort of training is not just for people who want to be able to absorb hard punches and kicks when partaking in combat sports. It’s for people who truly feel fatigued on a regular basis, or those who want to take their training to the next level, wherein the tendons, ligaments and fascia are involved.

In my world famous Dao Zou course, I demonstrate a number of loving slaps to various energy centers of the body. As I walk I let the centrifugal force direct energetic slaps that wake up my nervous system to an entirely new level of sensitivity. With each love slap, you can see me smiling deeper and deeper. I’m having the time of my life, and nobody can take away this blissful state.

Going for a walk to put yourself into a good feeling state is a good idea – but walking in and of itself doesn’t even come close to the psychological and emotional well-being you derive from walking the way el Furecat demonstrates. I was told long ago that the type of walking I am teaching is “shamanic,” and after thinking about it, I agreed.

Walk the way I teach, add in a few love slaps, and all of sudden you’re dreaming in another dimension, and remembering bits and pieces from your past, gradually, that help you put the puzzle of life together in a way that makes sense. Each Dao Zou workout is an AHA unto itself. There isn’t another walking program even remotely close to what I teach.

Make sure you grab this program NOW and go, go, go.

It’s a life-changer in so many ways I cannot stop raving about it.

Kick ass – take names.

Matt Furey

Back in the day, some 22 years ago, when I first learned how to do Hindu squats, I did them every other day. Similar to a bodybuilding approach, I did legs one day and upper body the next. I made progress with this method, but was still unsatisfied. I believed I was destined for MORE, a lot MORE.

So one day I got to thinking. What if I do Hindu squats everyday? I had a sneaking suspicion that this would drive me to the next level.

I ran the idea by Karl Gotch, and he nodded, telling me that my idea was correct.

Later that day, when I was engaged in my workout, I made up my mind that Hindu squats were no longer a part-time exercise. I would work them full-time. I would do them everyday.

Within 30 days, my updated program began to work wonders. I was no longer hitting the same old sticking points. I was zipping past them, with ease.

After pushing past my old plateaus, I began to make improvements by leaps and bounds. My overall body strength improved dramatically. Even though all I did were two-legged squats and didn’t work on one-legged squats, I found that I could do them with little effort.

Within a years time, every day was a 500-Hindu squats day. And when I say 500, I mean 500-straight Hindu squats. Yes, in a row, without stopping.

When it comes to getting good at something, the key ingredient that most people miss is the idea that you need to DO MORE if you want to BE MORE.

As a young swimmer, I was decent when I trained once a day with my age group, but when I joined the older age groups for a second session, I improved so much that I couldn’t believe it.

My skills in wrestling followed a similar protocol.

Same goes for my training in martial arts.

In the beginning, I start out slowly. I give myself goals that are almost laughable.

For example, one goal when taking on something new is to do nothing but watch the videos everyday.

What good will that do me?

More than you realize.

It’s called “mirror neurons,” if you want to research it.

After about a week of watching, the impulse to DO reaches a point where it catapults me into action. Even though I am now moving, I continue to watch videos on the subject each day, including those I take of myself, so I can compare what I am doing to those I am learning from.

As I watch videos, I make adjustments and refinements. This is why the way I do Hindu squats today is not exactly the same as how I learned them back in 1999, when I came out with Combat Conditioning. In fact, I have multiple variations that I teach on my membership site.

The more I do Hindu squats, the better I get at doing them. But you have to be smart about how you go about your business. You do not just plow straight ahead and force yourself to do 500 each day. There’s a method to the mastery.

Anyway, keep this one idea in mind. If you want to get better at shooting free throws, you work on them each day, physically and mentally. Don’t expect to be great at shooting if you only practice a couple times per week.

Same goes with anything. You condition your body-mind to do the thing – and then you end up having the power.

If you want the POWER, then make sure you get the Combat Conditioning book and DVDs, and NOW. They are game-changers.

Kick ass – take names.

Matt Furey

An 83-year old man recently became the oldest person to walk the Appalachian Trail; all 2,193 miles of it. His name is M.J. “Sunny” Eberhart, but most people know him as Nimblewood Nomad. 

If you think hiking such a distance is incredible, consider that when this same retired optometrist was 60 years of age, he walked from the Florida Keys to Quebec, a 4,400-mile trek. 

The key to walking such distances is NOT training to failure, or going out and giving it “everything you’ve got” each day. Accomplishments such as this are methodical and systematic. Instead of driving yourself to exhaustion, you choose a number of miles that you can consistently walk each day, and then you follow through with action. 

Along the way there will be some difficult steps, but the first step is, in many respects, going to be the toughest. This is why there’s a saying, “Beginning is half-done.”

When I first heard about doing 500-straight Hindu squats, I thought it was an impossibility. And 2,000 squats in a row, that was not a thought I would entertain. 

In the beginning, my thighs would scream around 40-50 repetitions, a far cry from the goal of 500. But I kept working on it. At times I felt as though I wasn’t making any progress. Then one day it all started to come together when I was able to easily crank out 100. 

Being able to do 100 repetitions in a row was a breakthrough moment, and when I think about it, it wasn’t long afterward before I could do 200, 300, 400 and ultimately, 500 in a row.

It took longer for me to get to 100 in a row than it did to go from 100 to 500.

Why?

Because going from 0-100 is when you’re laying the foundation. It takes a number of weeks before your tendons, ligaments and muscles are ready to go to the next level. You do not just forge ahead and force yourself to do 500. You are systematic and methodical, just as Nimblewood Nomad was on his 2,000-mile trek. The key is realizing that there’s some math to this business. 

Keep in mind that each repetition flows into the next in a circuitous manner. There is neither a pause at the top nor is there a bounce out of the bottom position. You might think there is a bounce and a pause, but there isn’t. 

In the beginning, one set of 10-25 reps is enough. Make haste slowly. Thoughts about doing 500-straight should be dismissed from your mind. But as you consistently work on these puppies and your numbers go up, your quest for the Holy Grail will most likely enlarge and expand naturally. 

If you haven’t yet begun doing Hindu squats regularly, make sure you have my Combat Conditioning book and videos, where I cover it. 

Once you’re in a groove and you want more details, then my membership site is the way to go. In fact, later this month I’m going to be revealing “the math” on how you can get to 500-straight Hindu squats to my members, so they will learn how to accomplish the goal with far greater ease.

I’m not saying the journey will be easy. It’ll be tough. But you will have accomplished something monumental by being tough on yourself. 

In so doing, you’ll get to feel that peace of mind that ole Nimblewood Nomad uncovered while walking the Appalachian Trail.

It’s real.

And it…

Kick Azz!

Matt Furey

About 30 years ago, one of my clients showed up at my training facility in California on a Saturday morning. He didn’t have an appointment but wanted to pop by and tell me that he was doing diligence, by going for a five-mile walk. 

“Whenever I wake up and feel a bit blah,” he says, “I go for a walk and it seems to help.”

I nodded. 

Fast forward 25 years. In conversation with a baseball coach, he told me, “Whenever I feel as though I’m coming down with something, I tell myself to walk it off. As a result I believe I can walk off anything.”

What do I believe?

I believe you can walk off negative feelings and signs of stress. You can walk yourself into an incredible feel good state. And while walking, you can find the answers, either to solve persistent difficulties or to figure out how to create the results you want. 

If you want to get answers as you walk, almost any way of walking will do.

But if you want to feel as though you’ve erased what was troubling you and replaced it with a calm, cool and balanced energy, normal walking won’t do it.

I’ve tested this out numerous times, on myself and with my clients. What I’ve discovered is that you need a way to unplug from the stress you are under, and this is difficult to do if your brain and nervous system are engaged in the same motor movements that keep you connected. 

This is where Dao Zou comes into play. You unwind and unplug your mind from the negative, not by changing your thoughts, but by moving differently, which ends up changing your thoughts (and feelings).

As you move and walk and breathe in a different way, your brain naturally and effortlessly begins releasing feel good chemicals. 

Unlike regular walking, where you need three to five miles to get a sense of mild euphoria, with Dao Zou, you can be in an elevated state within a few hundred steps. You don’t need to walk three to five miles to feel better. In fact, less than a mile will do your brain and body a whirld of good, and it will go way beyond your standard walking procedure. Less mileage – less time – better results.  

I’ve been putting people on the Dao Zou program for more than 15 years, and it blows peoples’ minds in short order.

As one client told me, “It’s mystical, magical and miraculous.”

Order Dao Zou today and begin the practice. Quite quickly you will realize that I am under-stating how incredibly valuable this program is.

KATN. 

Matt Furey
 

A few years ago, a big league ballplayer attended one of my  seminars. He arrived late (per their custom of Big Leaguing others), observed the group already performing the first walking exercise, and with no instruction, figured he knew what to do.

“This is what they’re doing, right?” he asked, as he mimicked what he perceived was happening.

“You have an idea,” I responded.

He smiled, thinking I paid him a compliment. So I added, “About 10 percent of the general idea.”

My barb got his attention and that led to him humbling himself a bit.

On the second day of the training, the ballplayer showed up early instead of late. He had a yellow pad to take notes along with a bunch of questions.

My answers made him consider everything he’d previously practiced, including the exercises that were destroying his body over time. He was barely 25 years of age, yet his hips and knees ached.

When I demonstrated how to move, he marveled, not only at the mobility but the fluidity.

“This is why my knees don’t hurt,” I stated. “My knees used to bother me, off and on. And that’s par for the course with almost every former collegiate wrestler. It’s virtually inevitable that you’ll be banged up for life and the longer you go the worse it gets.”

“What did you do to get out of pain?” he asked.

I gave him a 2-part answer:

1. The Hindu squats I teach in Combat Conditioning. They strengthen your knees because you’re building the tendons and ligaments, not just the muscles, by allowing your knees to glide way past your toes (the opposite of what the fitness police tell you to do).

2. The seemingly shamanic walking exercises in Dao Zou, that give your body the action it needs to create balanced development while eliminating pain. 

Here’s what’s amazing: After telling the big leaguer the above, he smiled and said, “That explains why my knees and hips feel so good today. This is the best they’ve felt in two years and I just started yesterday.”

“What does that tell you?” I questioned.

“It tells me that these exercises work,” he answered.

“Correct. And the reason they work is because you’re not just working the muscles anymore. You’re working the tendons, ligaments and fascia by moving in ways you’ve never considered before.”

The big leaguer left the training a changed man. And unlike so many of his contemporaries, he’s avoided the surgeon’s scalpel and extended his playing career.

If you want to help your lower body heal itself with exercises they don’t teach in the Fitness Police School, then you owe it to yourself to grab onto Combat Conditioning and Dao Zou and see what happens.

Kick Azz – Take Names.

Matt Furey

There’s a big push in the feelings department these days.

“How does that make you feel?” and “How’s that feel to you?” are the buzz questions that many so-called coaches ask. 

Taking into account how something feels can be useful information; it can also be horribly misleading.

Reminds me of the time I watched a Pete Rose video on hitting. “Get into a stance you’re comfortable in,” he advised. “You can’t hit unless you’re comfortable.”

Sounds good, doesn’t it? But as simple as this advice is, you’d be amazed how many people don’t understand what Rose didn’t say. He did NOT tell you to get into a stance that makes you feel 100 percent comfortable.

Since when is getting into an athletic stance comfortable? It isn’t. But there are degrees of comfort in those stances. Some positions cause you to exert too much energy while others allow you to maximize your performance. 

Similar misunderstandings happen in the practice of martial arts.

“Relax,” says the teacher.

You do your best to relax. You are then advised to relax even more. You relax more than ever before. And what’s the next round of advice? “Relax more. You’re still too tense.”

When many athletes and martial artists hear the word “relax,” they think they need to get into a position where they are 100 percent relaxed. This is wrong think. This is why I coined the phrase, “Let there be tension in your relaxation.” You need some tension otherwise you have no structure. 

When doing Hindu squats and pushups, for example, there is a balance of opposites going on. Without sufficient relaxation, the technique looks bad and is bad, no matter how you FEEL about it. The same goes with the level of tension. Your movements must have a degree of tension, otherwise there’s no power. But if there’s too much tension, you run out of steam much too fast. 

How an exercise feels when you do it is one factor to be analyzed, but it’s not necessarily better than looking at the results you can verify with your other senses. 

One of my hobbies is playing around with a variety of whips. I have some standard stock whips and a pair of Indiana Jones style bullwhips. I also have a 10-foot bullwhip that was made in Siberia. Let me tell ya, when that puppy cracks, it sounds as though a .357 Magnum went off. 

Anyway, cracking a whip involves a certain feel, but you also verify your performance by sight and sound (especially sound). I might feel that I cracked the whip correctly, but if the sound barrier isn’t broken, I need to disregard those feelings. I need to LOOK at my technique and make an adjustment. When I make an adjustment, I take note of whether the sweet sound of success rings through the air. If not, I make yet another tweak. 

This is how it works, my friend. 

Look at the exercises you want to do. See them in your mind’s eye. Start doing them. Get the feel for what you’re doing, then use your other senses (or a coach such as myself), to verify whether you are spot on or way off.  

By the way, before I sign off today, I wanted to make sure you’re aware that I now have a spiral-bound edition of Combat Conditioning available, and although it should cost much more than it is currently listed for, you can currently get it for the same low amount as the previous perfect-bound edition. 

Additionally, as a special marketing test, I’m going to give everyone who orders the spiral-bound edition today a free copy of my book, Kick Ass-Take Names. 

In fact, I’m going to send a copy of KATN to everyone who also orders a copy of Farmer Burns Lessons in Wrestling and Physical Culture today as well. 

Best,

Matt Furey

Think about this. A rabbit jumps, humps and runs around all day, only to live eight to twelve years.

A tortoise takes its time, does nothing fast, and some species live more than 200 years.

Is there something a human being can learn from this?

For starters, jumping is good for humans. It keeps us young, moves the blood and lymph and strengthen the bones and tendons. If you overdo it though, the way the rabbit does, you’ll pay a price.

As for the tortoise, taking time to move slowly is just as important as being able to move fast. Being able to respond quickly can be a lifesaver; then again, the same can be said of moving slowly.

When you move slowly, even going to the extreme of super-slow, you rejuvenate and recharge your body.

Moving slowly helps unwind the mind. It helps you destress and decompress.

This doesn’t mean you should do everything in slow-motion, but it is wise to take a stroll in the Dao Zou fashion each day, and doing so will change your life for the better.

As great as animals are, they cannot touch the overall athleticism of a human being who works on mobility.

No human can match a gorilla in strength, a cheetah in running speed, or a kangaroo in jump-ability. Then again, a monkey, the world’s greatest imitator, cannot do a reverse triple-gainer with a twist off the high-dive tower.

Likewise, horses cannot ride bicycles, camels cannot surf and dogs cannot be kick boxers.

This means that we human beings, as bad as we are at times, are still the greatest of the great.

We can move fast, slow, forward, backward or around in circles. And we can be wise about when we engage in any of these activities and how often.

When you learn to move deliberately in a slow manner the way I teach in Dao Zou, all sorts of other physical and mental possibilities begin to manifest – without even trying.

See what I mean by clicking the link shown above.

Matt Furey

There are two things you can do to eliminate fear:

1. Turn off the news.

2. Rewind your mind.

The first is easy to do.

The second requires a bit of action, but oddly enough, nothing strenuous.

All you need to do is get off your duff and move in a way that eliminates negative emotions from your thinking, and “rewinds your mind” without even trying to do so.

This method of moving doesn’t require you to “think positive” or to change or “shift.” It happens to you naturally and spontaneously. You simply move your body in a way that the shamans throughout history recognized as a type of healing “tonic” for mind and body.

This Shamanic method of walking helps you blow off steam without an eruption.

You don’t need to hit a heavy bag or lift heavy objects to get unwanted thoughts and emotions out of your system. Nor do you need to run for long distances or practice yoga.

I first learned this method 18 years ago and it has served me well.

Now it’s your turn.

Jump on this offer NOW and be amazed at the difference it makes.

Matt Furey

17 years ago, I looked out the window of my 21st story condo on China’s Hainan Island,
and I couldn’t believe what I was seeing.

It wasn’t a typhoon blowing the palm trees to ribbons – but I could definitely feel that
something BIG was in the air.

The vibes were incredible.

What I saw when looking out the window appeared to be nothing more than a vibrant
older man walking in an unusual way.

When I first observed this unique pattern of Taoist walking, my reaction was a bit conflicted.

I asked my wife what the man was doing. She told me it’s called Dao Zou. She didn’t know
how to practice it herself, but she mentioned that in China it is considered one of the secrets
for living a long life.

“It changes your brain in a big way,” she told me. “People who practice it have incredible
memories. They look young when they are older. It’s also believed to be helpful in treating
certain illnesses.”

Huh?

How could something that looked so simple do so much?

But then I thought to myself, “Fure-cat, maybe this man knows something you don’t. Why
not go learn from him before you cast judgment.”

I took the elevator down to the courtyard where the man was training. I observed him closely
and did my best to follow his lead. As I did so, I INSTANTLY KNEW I was on to something
LARGER THAN LIFE. At the same time, I realized there was a lot more to the story.

Let me tell you, the man’s energy field was so strong I could feel it from the 21st floor. But
as I drew closer, I felt as though I was surrounded by a cloud of soft cotton.

I wondered how this was happening, but the man would not give me any answers.

This made me even more determined to discover more.

I truly wanted to learn more about this type of training – but I quickly found out
there were no classes for it and no one was coughing up any “how to” about it,
including the old man I saw who sparked my interest.

When I asked him questions, he flat out refused to answer.

Not to be discouraged, over the next few years I searched for more information on
this type of training. Although I didn’t find anything that specifically addressed
what I saw that day, I managed to put a few pieces of the puzzle together.

A couple years after getting my first glimpse of this exotic training program,
I peered out a hotel window in Ningxia, China. Several floors below I saw another
“old man” training this way.

And once again, I could feel the positive vibes all the way up to my room.

From what I could tell, this man was light years ahead of the man I saw on Hainan Island.
He wasn’t just exercising – he was changing the world around him in some way. I’m telling
you, he had an aura of energy surrounding him that beckoned me closer.

I sprinted down the hallway, pressed the elevator button and prayed the man wouldn’t be
gone by the time I made it to his station. I prayed he would teach me what he was doing.

When I blasted through the front doors of the hotel, he was still there. I breathed a sigh of
relief as I walked toward the man. As though compelled to do so by an outside force,
I interrupted his training. I asked the man if he could teach me what he was doing and
how it works.

To my astonishment he stopped training – looked at me with a soul-stirring smile and began
to explain the details of what he was doing and how to do it. My brother-in-law was there to
help with translation, whenever needed, and I made sure to remember and write down every
detail being shared.

The man, Master Hu, was 75 years young. I would have guessed him to be about 50. He moved
with the grace and ease of a cat – and one thing I quickly noted about him that we rarely see in
this world …

The MAN WAS ALWAYS SMILING.

No, he wasn’t a politician or tele-preacher who is paid to smile all the time. Not at all.

This was simply a man enjoying life to the full – as Forrest Gump would say, “for no particular
reason.”

I spent the next couple days observing, asking questions and learning from Master Hu –
then I was off to another province and “on my own.”

Over the next month I did exactly what Master Hu told me to do. I did it without fail and
the results I received from this type of training did far MORE than boggle my mind.

After 30 days of training the way he told me to train, I was in awe of the results.

When I first began learning this system, I experienced many profound benefits.

In the first 30 days alone, I knew I would be following this program for LIFE.

The program is more “energetic” than physical – but you still gain the energy by
doing something physical.

You do not need to be in great shape to begin this program. There’s absolutely
nothing strenuous with the beginning portion. If you’re a total beginner, you’ll
do fine. And if you’ve been lying around on the sofa for years, you can start
out slowly and add steps as you make progress.

Everyone I have ever taught this program to has been blown away at the profound
difference in energy he or she experienced.

The guidance I give you on the set of 3 DVDs I created on Dao Zou™ will astound you.

You may even wonder, at times, “How did anyone ever figure this sort of thing out?”

I’ve often posed this question myself.

This program will help you de-stress almost instantly.

Dao Zou also helps to improve memory and heighten your awareness.

As you follow this program you may find yourself smiling – for “no particular reason.”

You may even develop the serenity and peace of mind of a Zen master.

Many of my students have successfully eliminated knee, back and hip pain with this
method. They have also improved their posture and overall sense of well-being due
to their stress levels being reduced from this type of exercise.

There’s also a good chance that falling asleep at night will be easier than ever before.
Your dreams may become incredibly lucid, positive and memorable.

The results of Dao Zou are that powerful. They are mind-expanding and mind-blowing.

When you get this program today, you will be taking a new step in a new direction.

Order Dao Zou NOW and shift your life for the better.

Best,

Matt Furey