CMDP SUCCESS STORIES

My CM Success Story: Hi everyone, I’m pretty sure that everyone involved the C.M.D.P has a not just one success story but several success stories. With my C.M. experience I have had a fair few success stories, one of them being the training and winning my second world title in Thailand for Thai boxing in Lumpini Stadium, Bangkok. The advice and the tools, physical and emotional I had received from Coach Mr. Rodney King and the support from the rest of the people in the C.M.D.P. were to me. On of my proudest experiences though with my C.M. training includes a story with my wife. Let me tell you a little history about my wife’s experience with martial arts before deciding to take up Thai boxing professionally. She only had close to three years of BJJ training and that was it. She then decided to try her hand at Thai boxing but with only the intention to get fitter and to try something new; from there she wanted to compete in professional Thai boxing matches in Thailand. You could only imagine how I had felt; ‘training’ in a combat sport and training to ‘compete’ in a combat sport are a little different to each other especially when you are doing the combat sport in its home territory, in its home crowd and it’s your wife! So I immediately started coaching my wife in the C.M. that I knew. The tools that I had learnt and also had learnt how to coach those tools were and I’ll say it again, were ‘priceless’. To cut a long story short, my wife using the C.M. tools that she integrated into her Thai boxing game had helped her win three out three of her Thai boxing matches. Thank you Mr. Rodney King and to the people involved in the C.M.D.P.

Adam Shahir Kayoom
TnT, World Muay Thai Champion, 76 kg, 2006-07, Muay Khmer Champion, 2006.

I came about the CMDP and CMD Trainer program after ''adopting'' a club when my trainer had succumb to family commitments. After seeing how efficient is was, I threw everything else in the bin, and once I found out about they had a trainers programme I joined that as well as I wanted to become an excellent trainer, not just an athlete in front of a class. Within the two years I have learnt more about myself than the rest of my life put together. I have accepted my faults, and made them my strengths. I know who I am, and what drives me, and so I deliver that in my coaching. Through this process I have now been surrounded by clientele with similar goals, mentality and disposition. The Manx Monkeys are growing in number, and people are staying for more than just martial arts. This has transferred to my life and career, with me being happier with myself (through accepting myself), more in love with my wife that ever before (though becoming more emotionally intelligent), and my career as a Nurse going from strength to strength, and for the first time in my working life, I finally feel I have a ‘career’ (though gaining focus, drive, and a ‘not making any more excuses’ attitude). It has not been easy, but very worthwhile, and I think the journey is only really getting started. Thank you to Rodney and to everyone in the CMDP for your input, discussions, and challenges.

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