TAD 0-13

Teta Alpha Delta 0-13

Welcome to our Educational LAB 

In TAD 0-13 we believe in education first. We are a school focused on different aspects of the art of coaching and program design. We teach how to apply those elements in the strength conditioning field, to form a unique layout of knowledge and information to quickly and safely achieve individual or team goals. Training can be adapted based on sport-specific needs, or occupational requirements.

In the educational lab, we also have more the 50 GPP protocols designed to guide the novice coach during the first part of his professional development .TAD 0-13 has been built to be fully accessible at all levels. Anyone can approach it, from the untrained person just starting out, through to highly fit operators needing an advanced challenge.We use different tools and body-weight exercises, selected to stimulate variability, giving ideal neural activity and muscular adaptation. The user is taught how to train and maintain good health in any place, even without a fully equipped gym.We also educate the subject to investigate, then remove, excess tension, or other sources of restricting force that inhibit performance. This is achieved using mobility drills, correct breathing and an understanding of brain wave optimization during the effort.The training works right through to the “release” and recovery phases so that hormonal levels will gently return to an ideal state, allowing strength and performance to be improved.

The certification seminars will develop coaching skills and the ability to properly analyze and design specific protocols for individual needs and teams.

During the three days format, we'll undergo through lectures and physical applications.

TAD 0-13 we are not focused on teaching barbells techniques, we are building coaches from the ground up and teach how to program strength or conditioning cycles for team or individuals, based on occupational, sport or goal needs. We learn to analyze which tool is more appropriate, so as to achieve the result safely and without wasting time.   We strongly believe that is important for a strength conditioning coach to have a basic understanding of fundamental lifts, neurology, physiology, breathing, mobility, and recovery.

OODA FLOW

During the past six years, I have become increasingly interested in understanding how specific training, including both movement and breath-work, can enhance learning. The primary goal is using this knowledge to deliver a competitive advantage for individuals, teams, and organizations. 

Cognitive neuroscience

Cognitive neuroscience is the study of mental processes and their underlying neural systems. Broadly speaking, it examines how thinking and behavior are underpinned by the brain as a physical organ. Therefore, part of cognitive neuroscience looks at how the brain learns: encoding, storing, retrieving and using the information it encounters. It is through learning that the brain enables us to adapt to our ever-changing environment successfully.

Imaging

Increasingly sophisticated imaging tools have allowed researchers to study the nervous system in real-time. We are literally able to see the brain at work. As a result, today we know more about learning than ever before. This provides excellent opportunities for trainers and human development professionals to harness these insights and advance in their fields.

Learning is a physical process

Nerve cells communicate through a complex interaction of chemical release and electric impulse, similar to running software on a computer. Correct learning upgrades this software by changing the type, amount and timing of these signals.  

But, our brain does not only change its function. New connections form based on use, leading to alterations in brain structure. This is akin to upgrading our hardware. Our experiences continuously re-shape our brain and modify behavior over the entire lifespan (Neuroplasticity).

A variety of hormones, transmitter chemicals, and other growth factors facilitate the number and strength of these connections. We know from studies, over the past decade, that the availability of these factors can be enhanced. For example, specific exercise routines, optimal sleep, and “silencing the mind” can all improve the availability of desired growth factors. Poor recovery, chronically elevated stress hormones and suboptimal nutrition can negatively impact learning and in some cases degrade neural pathways.

Movement is part of how we learn and the TAD 0-13 Lab

Research also suggests that full engagement, including movement, is a prerequisite for ideal changes in the brain. Exercise boosts blood supply and the availability of key neurotransmitters. There is evidence that the size of our hippocampus (a key region of the brain associated with memory) increases with regular exercise. Changes in neural connections, which are fundamental for deep learning to take place, do not seem to occur optimally when the learning experience is not active.

This is why the TAD 0-13 educational lab supports all available movement systems. Our goal is not to compete, as there is a benefit in each approach. We are constantly researching new developments, to assist the entire training community, through increasing the amount and accuracy of applicable knowledge. 

We do this in order to learn how to use movement correctly, not just in recreational, aesthetic or acrobatic type training, but as a powerful tool to improve health and acquiring advanced cognitive skills.

Emotion

Neuroscientists believe that emotions greatly affect our interpretation of information. One of the earliest advocates of this was Plato, who wrote more than 2,000 years ago that "All learning has an emotional base." 

Motivation in the brain is driven by emotion, which also determines what we focus on in a situation. Individuals are motivated to engage with situations we perceive as having an emotionally positive valence (being enjoyable or attractive) and seek to avoid those with emotionally negative valence (things seen as harmful or aversive). 

Research findings indicate that two people could be in the same situation and walk away with completely different learning based on their emotional state. We activate different brain regions and encode different parts of the information based on the context it appears in. 

Using this gives the possibility of driving a subject through a specific routine of parameters to stimulate the optimal emotional state for the type of learning required.  The ideal pathway often goes through a sense of “struggle” to a “release and growth” stage. 

A well-designed protocol takes the subject, or team, through these emotional steps, allowing them to improve rapidly and trust the information they are engraining is correct. Over time, subjects are better able to deal with complex decision making, re-call information under pressure and problem solve effectively.

Attention - Control

A sustained focus has been found to be mostly an unconscious process, but it is essential for performance, learning and creative thinking. We utilize scientific techniques for actively silencing the mind through controlled attention (focusing on the essential senses while breathing deeply), or open monitoring (actively allowing incoming stimuli without reacting or responding to them). When applied correctly for 20 minutes per day, these go a long way toward enhancing the abilities of sustained attention and “laser-focus” as needed.

OODA flow uses specially designed and tested protocols of movement and breathing, with different degrees of complexity and variability. These are integrated with unique applications of challenging cognitive drills. The level of challenge and type of drill is based upon the effect desired and skill of the subject. Selected correctly, they make use of evolving scientific knowledge on codifying information. Using our body and breathing, we are able to train the brain as a potent tool in a scientific way.

Club Strength

The Club is an ancient training tool, redesigned to empower our ability to produce strength, in angles and through ranges that cannot be achieved using conventional machines and equipment.It has the unique training actions of traction andleverage, which creates incredible torque in the training subject. This is the most powerful, yet misunderstood concept of force generation in the conditioning and weight- lifting communities. Training to utilize torque builds rugged strength in all planes of motion.Club work can enhance speed, explosiveness, agility, endurance, centripetal power, maximal and relative strength. Developing these will lead to a more complex understanding of the use of force.Thanks to the pulling effect, they do not load joints and tissues with excessive compression. Rather, they improve separation within the joint, which assists correct synovial fluid production and circulation. Over time, connective tissues become layered in a way that improves their elasticity and a healthier structure is gained from work.

The Club is highly transportable and can be easily integrated with other training tools or machines. This boosts progress while lowering injury risk, by directly compensating for high loads and allowing us to overcome weak points in our movements.

TSJJ

It is a system that has been developed after years of teaching and application for elite units and security operators. Is based more of principles and applications of those under a physical and psychological stress and we are not talking of arousal of a competitive game where if my % of mistake will lead to a loss but with the primary goal in mind that % of success is critical when life and death come in to place and a robust, successful response and decision is a must to take. We are working on codifying the software ( brain ) of the individual so he will be able to adjust is “ justified “ offensive response to the different scenarios of threat. We are building the human from the ground up to be able to cope with stress at different levels and to operate bare hands, cold and hot weapon devices from a tactical application and skills like driving, close protection, etc.

ONSET MINDSET

" Fear is with me every single day. I do not see it as a wall but as a closed-door that changes lock every day, I just need to have " passe-port out software to unlock it " Cit. myself 

“ We take over the planet not adding muscle to our skeleton but adding neurons to our brain “

We were the weakest animal walking on the earth, we did not have the weapon to defend or offend, we were easy food for any other predators, but we did develop a unique weapon that made us able to be around today while others species are extinguished. Thanks to this weapon we were able to hunt and fight bigger predators and we were able to organize us in a team to overcome any struggle and be able to grow.

That weapon becomes so powerful that we could also learn to communicate with other tribes, read animal languages and explore other planets.

We did survive and became who we are thanks to the ability to grow our brain.

Yes, the weapon you all possess …is your BRAIN.

The problem is that although you have it, most of us don't see it as a "weapon" to be used either for good or for evil.

The modern society with new discoveries and research gave us resources and software that made our lives easy but also made us very vulnerable, and in one way we become prey again.

The problem is that also the  "evil" person (even though they probably don't realize) they have the same weapon and somehow they learn to tap into its "potential" to do harm.

So, if they have this "weapon" and you have this "weapon" is it possible to tap into its potential to fight back those who choose to use their potential for evil?

The answer is “YES.” 

The process is not simple, but the solution is not to just learn a specific number of techniques or a mix of combat arts. First We must re-code the brain in order to process any sort of information under a psychological stress innoculation….AKA when you are under attack and fear! 

Evolution, research, medicine, science, and continuous discoveries have led us to be "perhaps" the most long-lived and healthiest human's generation exists. But we are bombarded with fears of all kinds, terrorism, war, drugs, economic depression, politics, sexual predators, mortgages, religions ... Fear grows in the minds of many, irrational most often and sometimes with tragic consequences. OnsetMindset & TSJJ  a  journey through fear with the aim of dissecting it and analyzing when it is real, known, irrational, false, manageable but above all a meeting to learn how to best conscience and make it manageable. The workshop will have two sections, one in the classroom and one in physics and is open to everyone. 

The seminar is good for martial artists and people who never practice ant combat style. We will cover material that is not been seen in a combat sport or dojo and we will go over different scenarios so to un-lock misconceptions and learn who we really are and what we are capable of.

 RR2G

‘RR2G’ means release, restore to grow. By using the expressions ‘releasing’, ‘restoring’ and ’growing’ , we want to identify three different phases in the process that characterize the health status of an individual and his physical-athletic condition. The first phase ‘RELEASING’ Its purpose is to analyze, identify and remove the problematic limitations of the body in order to receive all the benefits from the additional driving forces generated by the “fitness effect” of movement training. Therefore, in this phase we want to research and reach the ideal state of equilibrium in the body by eliminating all the inevitable impediments that would tend to increase slowly over time and would lead to further limitations in the performance and health. If adequate attention is not given to this important phase, all the imbalances in the body would increase to the point of revealing problems of different types such as tensions, discomfort, pains and then injuries. Before facing a workout or program and even after a period of intense training, we want to go back to that state of equilibrium described above, and to do so, we have to analyze the body and its movement in all directions, 360 degrees in space, to be certain that all limitations are identified and neutralized. The release phase, on a practical level, is composed by different types of interventions on the body and different types of practice that the practitioner can experience in a passive or active manner. These different approaches, combined together, lead to an optimal result. Here we will dealing, in particular, with all those practices in which the subject has an active role in the release phase. The second phase ‘RESTORING’ This phase has a dual purpose indeed the expression 'restore' takes on a different meaning. The first can be explained by 'reconstruction - activation’.The second relates to 'relaxation - regeneration'. The ‘reconstruction - activation’ is about educating the body to learn and consolidate 

the correct movement patterns around which all movements develop, from the simplest to the most complex, with the aim of learning how to produce and transfer force in the most efficient way possible. For many people, due to the most diverse reasons - related to compromised health conditions, type of working life or specific physical activity - the ability to control the body and consciously activate certain areas of it, is compromised. Developing these abilities is crucial to produce improvements in the physical-athletic condition. The 'relaxation - regeneration' is all about resetting the nervous system. The final goal is to bring it back to a state that can promote a rebalancing of the body's hormonal levels, accelerate recovery and put the practitioner in a position to be able to heal or at least to decrease the effects of stress. The third phase ‘GROWING’ This is the last phase in which, by expressing the maximum potential, it is possible to reap the benefits from training and movement practice. It is closely connected to the two previous stages. The improvement, the growth of a person, from the performance and athletic standpoint - but also for health - can be facilitated and speeded up by a careful work that develops, in practice, the concepts described above.