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Coach's Story

-The Brief-

Kwey! (Algonquin for 'Hello') I am Coach Ahanu Waters, and I want you to achieve the potential residing beyond your current capacity-regarding physical ability and self-preservation aptitude. 

After many years of self-defense training, fitness training

 and first responder training, I have found that the times are such that good people are increasingly concerned with both their mental and physical response-ability, while often also falling behind in their physical development and maintenance goals.


-The Balance-

As an over-fifty mobility athlete and avid participant in demanding physical challenges and long-form training evolutions, I have found the Athletic Truth Group's philosophy and approach to extreme range strength and structural balance remodeling and rewiring to be the Rosetta Stone to overcoming imbalance-triggered injuries (3 knee surgeries, 1 Achilles rupture, shoulder, and elbow challenges) - with levels of strength and mobility that I haven't had since grade school! After one year following ATG, I am pain-free and stronger throughout far deeper, childlike ranges of motion. 


I am also currently in training as a Foundation Training Instructor, with the expectation of Student Instructor Certification June 2025.  Foundation Training emphasizes the posterior chain, which includes the muscles up the backs of our legs and around our spine. It uses a series of isometric poses, postures, and breathing exercises to strengthen and elongate the body's core, activate the posterior muscle chain, and decompress the spine, while reeducating the muscular system and the diaphragm. The goal is to counteract the negative effects of modern lifestyles, such as poor posture and muscle imbalances caused by sitting for extended periods and hunching over devices- 'complacent adaptations'.


 Additionally, I offera unique take on cadence & tempo as adopted from the research of Ken Hutchins, including the Super Slow protocol, and Timed Static Contractions. The combination of ATG and Super Slow/TSC creates a one-of-a kind, safe, pain free, path to muscle inroading in what I have found to be the most efficient, effective and challenging way possible. I can't wait to share this with you!


-The Bag-


Additionally, as a Recognized Educational Partner of the Committee on Tactical Emergency Casualty Care, (and a former EMT-B), I can help you to better understand, navigate, & use an IFAK, guided by the principles of the sMARCH-E algorithm- in everyday life up to and including unexpected catastrophes and violent encounters. With this algorithm &fluency with the IFAK interventions, I am excited to equip you to Be Your Own First Responder!


-The Ballistics- 


Tony Blauer's SPEAR System is the most comprehensive study and options package for dealing with real world sudden violence, and how to navigate the body's physiological response to an ambush. This includes fear management, stress inoculation, physiology, psychology, kinesiology, and proprioception. We even explore the role of the Reticular Activating System (RAS) as part of the understanding of fear and stress. In a nutshell, 'those who manage their fear, manage to fight' (Coach Tony Blauer). For 40 years Coach Blauer has been refining and teaching the tenets of the relationship between stress, fear, and performance. It works, and all of the science around these concepts consistently proves that to be the case. Fear management is life management, and it (fear) can be the fuel required when your "Instinct, Intuition, and Intelligence" motivate you to "choose safety".

 I have also trained under the Urban Combatives system of Lee Morrison, I am a former instructor for Civilian Tactical (C-TAC) under Sifu Alan Baker, studied Keysi Fighting Method (KFM), Gracie Jiu Jitsu, achieved Leader rank at American Cane Self Defense, and currently practice Krav Maga (KMA). 

VALUES

   balance  

 courage

 discipline




SPECS

  • SPEAR® Personal Defense Readiness (PDR) Coach
  • SPEAR® Evidence Based Scenario Trainer (EBST) Coach
  • Level 1 Coach in Training, ATG Exercise System™
  • REP (Recognized Educational Partner), Committee on Tactical Emergency Casualty Care
  • Brown II, Krav Maga Alliance, HMA Hendersonville, TN
  • BLS (CPR+AED) provider, American Heart Association, 255413943989
  • Divemaster, PADI
  • EMT-B (inactive 7807-2823-2656) 
  • BA Psychology, Duke University





MISSION: To narrow the gap between capacity and potential


Outside of the FossoriaI Co. and its related activity umbrella, I am active as a servant of the Holy Spirit, a homesteading, homeschooling father of two, a husband, a handyman, an aspiring archer, a novice farmer/gardener, a dirt cyclist, a native flutist, a pursuer of balance, a rope flower, and a juggler.  


I commit to serve as a beacon of courage and joyful gratitude to the targeted and the fearful, and to share with them the perspective of challenge as Divine Gift.

Journey well!

Coach Ahanu Waters

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Frequently Asked Questions

Please reach out to ahanu@thefossorial.com if you cannot find an answer to your question.

From the Latin 'fossor' meaning digger. One that is primarily adapted to digging and which lives primarily (but not solely) underground. The honey badger being a prime example, and a model of our ethos- balance, strength, and a relentless will.  It is known to savagely and courageously resist the threat of predation and death.


We train to remain humble, balanced, and 'gray' or 'underground' in our proficiencies and development, while able to immediately dig into ferocious, indigHone  response-ability.  How aligned is your physical structural balance so as to maximize your mobility, flexibility, stability, and thus response-ability? Are YOU on course to dig in? Are you willing to Be Your Own First Responder?


We also dig into our own relationship with fear, in both its psychological and physiological expressions. This is a practice not a terminus...

Ahanu is an Anishinaabe/Algonquin word meaning 'he laughs'. 

At The Fossorial Co., we will often use the term Self-Preservation as a catch all, to include balanced fitness, self-protection, and Tactical Emergency Casualty Care. 


Self-Protection, akin to how an advance team in asset or executive protection would build and modify a holistic protection package, would consist of you doing this for yourself. Being your own bodyguard. Data security, location and resource OPSEC, movement and pattern of life diversification and counter surveillance, situational noise, light, smoke, and scent discipline, and TECC/First aid are some aspects of Self-Protection. So is eating clean, EXERCISE, seat belts, etc.



Studying under Coach Tony Blauer, who has been a trailblazer in fear management regarding violent encounters and the introduction of sudden stimulus for over four decades has helped tremendously. His KNOW FEAR® program, along with the groundbreaking practice of ECT (Emotional Climate Training), his Timeline of Violence roadmap and protocol, including deep, evidence-based analysis of the human startle-flinch response and 'flinch conversion', and defining 'The Fear Loop', to pressure testing and drilling 'Ballistic Micro Fights' have all created a deep well of resources for the modern chaos surfer to adapt scientifically rooted and proven means to better manage fear (into fuel), and to reduce the gap time between a stimulus and responose.


"Those who manage their fear manage to fight."- Coach Tony Blauer


One also needs to develop the 'animal', the 'state', or flip 'the switch'. Listen to Urban Combatives founder Lee Morrison explain this concept here in this 6 minute audio.


                                                          Building your BLITZKRIEG Battle Plan Dynamic

At The Fossorial Co., we align to the definition of 'Exercise' as produced by Ken Hutchins-

"Exercise is a process whereby the body performs work of a demanding nature, in accordance with muscle and joint function, in a clinically controlled environment, within the constraints of safety, meaningfully loading the muscular structures to inroad their strength levels to stimulate a growth mechanism within minimum time."  Exercise vs. Recreation by Ken Hutchins

What are the benefits of extreme range strength and physical structural balance?


Who can respond faster than YOU as your 'first responder'?

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