Above All Else: A World Champion Skydiver's Story of Survival and What It Taught Him About Fear, Adversity, and Success
World famous competitive skydiver and coach Dan Brodsky-Chenfeld presents proven tools and techniques for success and explains how they can be used in everyday life. Dan survived a plane crash from which sixteen of the twenty-two people on board were killed. He was left critically injured and woke up from a six-week-long coma with a broken neck, broken skull, severe head trauma, a collapsed lung, and other serious internal injuries. Against all odds, Dan recovered and went on to become one of the greatest competitive skydiver in the world.

With the love and support of friends and family, Dan was able not only to resurrect his life but return to skydiving to achieve greater heights than he could have ever imagined. His techniques and methods for excelling are applicable to all people, no matter their goals. Dan uses his experiences to teach the lessons he’s learned—as a competitor, coach, business owner, father, and husband—to help others achieve their dreams, overcome obstacles, and reach their peak performance.
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Above All Else: A World Champion Skydiver's Story of Survival and What It Taught Him About Fear, Adversity, and Success
World famous competitive skydiver and coach Dan Brodsky-Chenfeld presents proven tools and techniques for success and explains how they can be used in everyday life. Dan survived a plane crash from which sixteen of the twenty-two people on board were killed. He was left critically injured and woke up from a six-week-long coma with a broken neck, broken skull, severe head trauma, a collapsed lung, and other serious internal injuries. Against all odds, Dan recovered and went on to become one of the greatest competitive skydiver in the world.

With the love and support of friends and family, Dan was able not only to resurrect his life but return to skydiving to achieve greater heights than he could have ever imagined. His techniques and methods for excelling are applicable to all people, no matter their goals. Dan uses his experiences to teach the lessons he’s learned—as a competitor, coach, business owner, father, and husband—to help others achieve their dreams, overcome obstacles, and reach their peak performance.
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Above All Else: A World Champion Skydiver's Story of Survival and What It Taught Him About Fear, Adversity, and Success

Above All Else: A World Champion Skydiver's Story of Survival and What It Taught Him About Fear, Adversity, and Success

by Dan Brodsky-Chenfeld
Above All Else: A World Champion Skydiver's Story of Survival and What It Taught Him About Fear, Adversity, and Success

Above All Else: A World Champion Skydiver's Story of Survival and What It Taught Him About Fear, Adversity, and Success

by Dan Brodsky-Chenfeld

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Overview

World famous competitive skydiver and coach Dan Brodsky-Chenfeld presents proven tools and techniques for success and explains how they can be used in everyday life. Dan survived a plane crash from which sixteen of the twenty-two people on board were killed. He was left critically injured and woke up from a six-week-long coma with a broken neck, broken skull, severe head trauma, a collapsed lung, and other serious internal injuries. Against all odds, Dan recovered and went on to become one of the greatest competitive skydiver in the world.

With the love and support of friends and family, Dan was able not only to resurrect his life but return to skydiving to achieve greater heights than he could have ever imagined. His techniques and methods for excelling are applicable to all people, no matter their goals. Dan uses his experiences to teach the lessons he’s learned—as a competitor, coach, business owner, father, and husband—to help others achieve their dreams, overcome obstacles, and reach their peak performance.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781616084462
Publisher: Skyhorse
Publication date: 09/15/2011
Pages: 352
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Dan Brodsky-Chenfeld has been a national skydiving competitor since 1983. Dan’s extraordinary talent for bringing out the best in others has made him one of the most influential people in the history of skydiving and one of the most sought-after coaches in the world. Among his most recent successes is coaching the 2004, 2005, 2006, and 2008 Women’s World Champion teams to victory. As a competitor Dan has lead teams to sixteen National Championship Gold Medal victories and seven World Championships. He lives in Temecula, California.

Table of Contents

Part I Above all Else 1

1 Waking Up 3

2 Following Your Dreams 13

3 It All Starts at the Beginning 15

4 Finding My Passion 21

5 Growing Up 25

6 Another Passion 29

7 Defining Spirituality 33

8 The Process of Pursuing a Dream 37

9 It's a Sport? Discovering the Competition Sport of 4-Way Formation Skydiving 51

10 The Greene County Sport Parachute Club 57

11 The College Years 61

12 Greene County Fusion, My First National Competition, and Learning How to Reproduce My Peak Performance 67

13 Going into Business 73

14 The Game Changer 83

15 Wanting to Be the Best: Winning 85

16 Dreaming Big 89

17 A Goal with No Plan 93

18 When I Started Following My Gut 97

19 The Coolidge Fource 103

20 Finding Work 105

21 Discovering Arizona 109

22 1989 National Skydiving Championships 113

23 What's It All About? 117

24 The Fource 1990-1991 119

25 The World of Competitive Skydiving Had Changed Forever 123

26 Perris Airmoves 127

27 California Dreaming 133

28 Let the Training Begin 139

29 "Skydiving Plane Crashes in Perris" 145

30 Out of the Hospital 161

31 Back to Apache Lake 171

32 Losing my Halo 177

33 The New Airmoves 181

34 Finally, Back to Training 187

35 1992 U.S. Nationals—Game On 193

36 Moving On 201

37 Till Death Do Us Part 207

38 Arizona Airspeed 211

39 The Ultimate Power of the Human Spirit 221

40 World Champs225 Epilogue 231

Part II Playing to win 235

1 The Goal of Winning 237

2 You Have to Believe 241

3 Make the Decision 245

4 Overcoming Obstacles 249

5 The Team 259

6 Training for Peak Performance 285

7 The Power of Visualization 299

8 The Goal of Personal and Team Best 307

9 Competitive Magic 319

10 You Win the Competition before It Starts 325

What People are Saying About This

Tony Robbins

Dan Brodsky-Chenfeld is a class act and I am grateful to know him as a friend. I have so much respect for him as a man—he not only understands the things we both talk about, he has lived them through extreme stress and has contributed greatly to the lives of others as a result.

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