Renegade Training: John Davies: Neighborhood




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John Davies
Founder, Renegade Training International

The industry vanguard, John Davies is the founder and creator of the Renegade concept of fitness, sport and life force coaching based upon his incredibly diverse background in business consulting, athletic coaching and artistic endeavors in various mediums. He is a well-known advocate of ethical practices in sport and lives a voracious life surfing, skateboarding and snowboarding around the world, defying age against those half his age. Additionally he has served as consultant behind-the-scenes in every level of sport from professional teams, to over 50 top NCAA institutions and hundreds of high school programs not only across the country but worldwide. Throughout the country’s Football community, the Renegade system is seen as and is the most influential training methodology as it is continues to produce unstoppable forces.

Mr. Davies is in the author of four highly regarded books ("Renegade Training for Football," "Xtreme Sports Training ~ Renegade Style," "R Factor for Golf" and "The Mark of R; Part II - The Rebirth of Honor") and over 600 articles ranging in varied topics such sport training, his love of skate and surf culture, dark noir, inspirational choices in life, dwindling corporate ethics, the slide of the health system in America and fund management. Many of his more thought provoking artistic voyages appear exclusively at renegadestyle.com, which is scheduled to gallery his artistic collection in 2006-2007.

The winter of 2005 will see the release of his next book, tentatively titled "She," an in-depth look at the destruction of body image, pornification and the abandonment of respect towards women in our culture. The following year, the anxiously awaited "Destined - The Renegade Chronicles" is planned to be released. Additionally he has appeared in nationally syndicated radio shows, over twenty major DVD productions and is the most sought after writer and spokesperson in the health and fitness industry. In the winter of 2004, the re-tooled R-Style apparel of young women's and men's clothing line emerged under his design eye and quickly became an underground success.

In the fall of 2004, he launch the Renegade Certification Program for fitness, health and business professionals to teach the "R" philosophies, and to use one of the company’s mottos "make a difference." Quickly this program has grown by leaps and bounds and like all Renegade systems is a defiant success. This summer/fall of 2005 he has turned his attention to developing the first dedicated Renegade personal and executive training services located in New York. These services will provide individual and customized training and coaching services for discretionary business leaders with focus on personal health, team management, motivation, diet management, and a wellness regime that will not only fuel continued career success but life enrichment.

THERE GOES THE NEIGHBORHOD

“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”
—George Santayana (1863–1952), U.S. philosopher, poet. Life of Reason, “Reason in Common Sense.”

Dragging some of the snow together, I built up the sides and height of the kicker and the little jump was no-so little anymore. Walking up to the top of the steep snow-covered hill, I stared down at the jump I just finished with and got ready. Stripping down to just a t-shirt in the warm morning sun of an even odder warmer north-eastern winter, I tossed my jacket to the side, snapped the tail of my new Burton snowdeck into the snow. With the great ad copy that seemed to be written for me, “there goes the neighborhood” I ignored a mangled ankle and not so gingerly placed my right foot on the tail. Thinking for a second…just a second, I bent the back leg as prepared to hammer the lead leg down to start the run.

To some the risk of falling, of re-injuring an already well mangled ankle would be a further condemnation of not taking enough rest…of not learning from the past. To some, failure is lurking around the corner ready to leap out at the first chance. To some, opportunities are shunned in fear of obvious failure. But the obvious isn’t so obvious when failure isn’t an option. To succumb to the “what ifs,” to the fear of mistakes is the death sentence of forgoing opportunities and wasting chances of a lifetime. In fact…to remember the past is not a sentence to fear but an opportunity to digest errors and make sure they are eradicated. Remember the past to change today’s course.

So just like in that second, in the same split second of indecision that caused the injury, I realized the missing ingredient was just that not-so little thing; “commitment” to the point of no return and seeing only success ahead. Slamming the left leg down, good posture, just chill… deck and I ripped down the hill towards the jump for tasty piece of air and found the missing ingredient, that magical elixir to hitting the jump was crushing fear and heading straight at where I wanted to go along.

The direction you are looking is the direction you are going.

Dialing in the run came fast but with the snow evaporating as well as horrifying sledders, it was off to rehab this well abused ankle. Now typically any mention I make of a pool, is an empty one to skate but this time it was off to a local pool, yes incredibly, full of water. Aquatic training can be one of the most effective exercise mediums but goes to another level when in conjunction with the water-proof Xvest™. Throwing on a 20lb Xvest™ and jumping into shoulder deep water to the bewilderment of lifeguards, who likely muttered “there goes the neighborhood,” I headed into four “basic” eight minute sets of simply threading water over 40 minutes for generalized and core strength and overall fitness. Once done, with the Xvest™ soaking wet, a simple 30 minute walk on the Indo Board to assist in regaining the strength and flexibility in the ankle.

Leaving the gym … it’s just too nice to resist … I head back to the hill to work on those jumps a little more.

Note: future installments will review how you can make use of the Xvest™ for aquatic training whether you’re leading a exercise class, using for elite athletes or rehab work.