FREE TO MOVE with the Intu-Flow Longevity System Paperback – September 23, 2008

This is the second book by Sonnon I have read. Being a fan of his DVD's and a faithful reader of his sites I did not expect a lot of new information. I was, however, surprised. A great intto to joint mobility it also offers something for the long time practitioner. Insightful, it presents as much theory as it does practical use. A great addition to any Ageless Mobility or IntuFlow library.

Scott Sonnon is an amazing teacher and advocate. You can't go wrong! Listen to him on TedTalks. He is a wealth of information

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I loved the first half of the book and found valuable, thought provoking information in each chapter. I read them a number of times, underlining, writing in the margins, and quoting to friends and family.I am usually bored by and avoid reading testimonials and anecdotes, but Scott's life story was informational in a practical way a well as inspirational.The second half of the book informs my preparation for the various physical activities that I enjoy: yoga, swimming, rowing, racquetball, biking, dance, hiking, etc.Packaged exclusively to a martial arts, "warrior" market, I, a middle-aged recreational athlete, might have missed the opportunity of learning this technique, and of sharing it with my (peer) clients.

HiI found this book quite interesting, it was well laid out and produced and looked good.I like the premise, gentle movement and joint manipulation as a path to long term health.But, Scott Sonnon, 'Get over yourself !" A lot of the text appears self serving and ego centric. Lots of people have a less than ideal start but are probably less driven to continually share the experience with the general public.The crux of the book are the excercises. Simmilar principles and excercises are to be found in pavels book - however i would say that where Pavel offers a few simple joint movements Sonnon offers a much more wholistic approach. I also like the fact that offering this frame work addresses some muscle imbalances and will get you to gently work neglected areas.Sonnon also likes to name drop and I notice a previous review commented that one of sonnons alleged teachers actually died in 1966, before Sonnon was born I believe. This makes me question Sonnons credibilityWhilst Sonnon presents many of these concepts as his own - they are not. I understand that the concepts and background principles are dervied in Russian matyial arts, Sonnon however presents many of these concepts as his own.In short - the book is overpriced and self serving and contains some questionable psycho bable -but the exercises are effective - just over hyped.

This is not the first product of Scott's I have used. While I like his material, my experience after over 2 years of consistent use is the products do not live up to the hype. The exercises in this book are good but are basically a rehash of the old Intu-Flow DVD with a couple of exercises left out, perhaps he felt the need for a name change. The exercises are both useful and functional but do not deliver the promised incredible changes. Like everything else they do require hard work, which is good, and it takes about 30 minutes to properly do the set of exercises. One deficit is Scott frequently refers to the importance of breathing but does not specify how in the book - one has to purchase another product! As well, though his products are promoted as unique, as far as I can tell from web research, his Russian breathing secrets seem to be the same as the Russian Systema breathing - though I can't tell for certain as I did not purchase the breathing products.Overall worth purchasing if you are prepared to do some hard work. If you don't have a movement or martial arts background purhcase the DVD with the book.

This is a book of joint mobility exercises from Scott Sonnon.Cons:The first half of the book was a waste of paper and my time. This autobiographical/"motivational" part contains a large number of chapters about a couple of pages long each presented in a font that a blind person could see and decorated with author's full page pictures/portraits. It seems that the purpose of including those pictures is no other than self-admiration of the author. In each chapter for whatever reason the author has to complain and whine about the problems he had in his childhood, and then brag how he has "overcome" them. He throws in the names of great people he associates himself with to add to his own credibility, but if examined many of those associations turn out to be non-existent...One quick example... Sonnon claims N. Bernstein (the author of "Dexterity and Its Development" book) to be his teacher. Bernstein died in 1966... so Sonnon never met him and all the teaching-learning would in reality have to come from reading his book, not learning from the teacher. The difference is rather subtle, but this seems like a pattern: self promotion with half-lies, partial presentation of facts to lead the reader to the wrong assumptions. The BS filter needs to be turned on when reading this stuff...Pros:I liked the second half of the book; it lists and describes in details joint mobility exercises. Nicely detailed pictures are provided. Those who are familiar with Sonnon's earlier works (Warrior Wellness series) will not find anything new though. Same good old stuff he learned from Russians back in the day is re-packaged and re-branded here.