New Friends:
Hi! Welcome to Pramek. For more than a decade, we’ve been innovating the world of physical culture like few have. We started out as a bunch of martial art and chiropractic nerds in a garage in Atlanta, Georgia back in the late 90’s. Long story short, we are still nerds, still have a garage, but we’ve grown into so much more. From bringing one of the most secretive martial arts to the west and popularizing it, to leaving it to create our own thing, to developing products no one had ever seen and the first true martial art pedagogical (that’s teaching methodology)…we’ve been busy through the years.
We take those twenty years of lessons and apply them to life…what we call, self-defense against life. Life is busy, and on a mental, physical, and spiritual level – it breaks down even the best of us. So, Pramek is about making sure we are prepared to defend ourselves against those things that break us down, to survive, all that life throws at us.
So, if you’re new, welcome.
And if you’re an old friend…let me let you in on some news!
Over the years, I’ve been privileged to have you follow our journey as an organization and my journey as a teacher. A couple of years ago I was at a well-known MMA gym teaching in Albuquerque and was showing human equilibrium to those training. They enjoyed the instruction, began to put it into practice, when one of them asked, ‘hey, how can I be confident this will work?’ I explained kinematics, biomechanics, CLM, and the class went on. But, it made me recognize something…the techniques, the concepts, it meant little without a confidence in it’s ability to work. So, I began to work on a course, what I called ‘The Confidence Course’. A couple of weeks later, a USMC friend of mine say the course print out on a table and told me, ‘You should have me involved in crafting that, I ran confidence courses in the Corps.’
I explained to him that we were using the same word, but different definitions and concepts.
That led me to do what you know I do: rabbit hole.
I found a gap, just like I had found in teaching and I filled it with the CLM.
But, this was different – this was something that I wasn’t going to pigeon-hole with martial art. I recognized something, that in reality, what I had been doing for a while – with Pastless, UNDO, movement – I wasn’t just teaching self-defense against attackers….I was teaching self-defense against life.
As I wound down the physical side of martial art, I had inadvertently tapped into a side of martial art that we rarely focus on: applying it’s lessons in the rest of our lives. I had been adapting Pramek to this for a long time, but it was time to make those adaptations count – to evolve the system.
Welcome, friends, to that evolution.
A friend of mine asked me what I would do with everyone who doesn’t like this pathway – people around Pramek for 10, 20 years? I likened it to a musician, like Madonna – if you don’t like modern EDM Madonna, you always have 80’s hair Madonna. Or, Prince, or Bowie. I’m not timeless, I wasn’t going to stay on levers and Heq for another 20 years. This is the evolution. But, enjoy that side of Pramek, that side of my teaching, and more importantly – I’m a conduit, a place to look out from – I’m not the final destination. Go develop and explore it, work with it, create your own from it, make your own video, make your own legacy.
That’s why we are here.
I just got back from a much needed couple of weeks in Peru backpacking, and my confidence (pardon the pun) in these new products and programs we will be releasing has only grown as I put the principles into place with a group of hikers that I was with. If we could thrive in that situation based on the principles of Pramek…anyone can.
So, let’s get to it, shall we, defending ourselves from the things that want to stop us from having the best life possible – whether it’s reduce range of motion, a mugger, or a lack of confidence, it’s time to practice some self-defense against life.