Sorry Mel, but arn't YOU the big guru who claims to know it all... ;)
Isaac
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Emne: GURU TERMININOLOGY KITS 2
Thanks to the persistent use of morphogenetic functional kinesic linguistics
in various fitness and therapeutic circles, the time has come to create
another Guru Terminology Kit, like the first one I devised some years ago
and
which appears in my "Facts & Fallacies of Fitness" book (Siff MC, 2000,
p184).
For those who are unfamiliar with my Guru Kits, these are plausible and
often
impressive-sounding collections of terms, concepts, exercise notions and
claims that you can throw into your presentations when writing articles,
training clients, delivering seminars, or answering letters on the Internet.
These basic kits are entirely free to any aspiring gurus who need to
enhance
their self-esteem and marketability.
For the advanced kits, you have to sign up for $10 000 for the Supertraining
SuperInternship that we will be conducting at our reduced gravity base on
the
lunar (loony?) surface because we have found that this environment
facilitates the formation of supermemory engrams, besides facilitating 16ft
high plyometric leaps.
The latest Guru Terminology Kit appears below. Using it is very simple -
all
that you to do is to randomly assemble a term from three successive cells
from each column, such as A4, B4, C8. Read off what this represents
(namely,
"Active Morphic Therapy") and really impress the blazes out of your interns,
hangers-on, patients, associates or whatever you choose to call those poor
underlings whose strokes make you feel really worthy.
GURU TERMINOLOGY KIT 2
A B C
1 counter tension kinetics
2 inverse myofascial isometrics
3 retrograde neural dynamics
4 active morphic balancing
5 passive proprioceptive rhythm
6 pulsed ballistic release
7 transverse harmonic stretching
8 modulated postural therapy
9 synchronized energetic syndrome
10 intermittent isoinertial coupling
For those who have no aspirations to gurudom, have some fun with the gurus
and periodically punctuate your communications with them by casting your own
Guru Kit terms into the discussion. Who knows what might happen to you!
By the way, this lighthearted linguistic sidetrack may also remind any of us
to be a little less inclined to throw all sorts of abstruse jargon into the
discussions when perfectly adequate simplifications might do the trick just
as well. After all, is it not Einstein who said something like: "If you
cannot explain the most complex concepts in science to a child, then you
don't really understand it yourself." ?
Dr Mel C Siff
Denver, USA
http://www.egroups.com/group/supertraining
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