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"I know and admire Dan as a a man of deep integrity. His heart-felt story of courage and love inspires me."-- Jerry Lynch,Ph.D... author and available at wayofchampions.com"Dan's story is one that every human being needs to read. It's about the power of the human spirit and it's ability to overcome seemingly impossible odds.  This is a story that everyone can benefit from reading."Chet Holmes, Best Selling author of the #1 sales book, The Ultimate Sales Machine and CEO of Business Breakthroughs

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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 sky- diving 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.

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Product details

Paperback: 352 pages

Publisher: Skyhorse; 1 edition (September 15, 2011)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 1616084464

ISBN-13: 978-1616084462

Product Dimensions:

6 x 1 x 9 inches

Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)

Average Customer Review:

4.8 out of 5 stars

206 customer reviews

Amazon Best Sellers Rank:

#456,203 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

"Above All Else" is an incredible story than anyone and everyone should read. It is without a doubt one of my favorite books of all time. Dan's conversational writing style combined with his seemingly superhuman tale of survival and success makes for a gripping read that you will find difficult to put down... I finished it in one sitting myself! Additionally, although I have never met Dan personally, I can confidently say he is an extremely humble, personable, and genuinely kind man. After finishing the book, I went on Dan's website to send him a message simply to thank him for sharing such an inspirational story. He quickly replied and after exchanging a few messages, he even invited me out to his drop zone in California for a few jumps if I am able to visit sometime! If that isn't a cool and classy move, I don't know what is. I would highly, highly recommend this book to anyone capable of reading comprehension. It will not disappoint!

The main biographical story in this book (70%) is followed by a smaller (30%) section on playing to win. So you get two smaller books in one package. I felt the bio section was interesting, and the winning section was somewhat useful.The biography part was fairly routine as biographies go, telling the story of how the author grew up loving sky diving and how he devoted his life to it. The book makes it clear that skydiving was everything to him, #1 in life, above all else (including living conditions, relationships, people, and so on).This seemingly self-centered philosophy of life (me and my sport/issue/love/job above all else) is found in many top achievers in many disciplines in life. The author makes it clear that when any life decision was involved, the first (and often only) consideration was "what would be the best for my skydiving love/habit (and later..goals)?" It reminded me of a line from an old Vince Lombardi book, where Vince said something like "Once you truly get your priorities in order (in his case, coaching football was everything), all other decisions are easy."And so the author tells the story of his life, which for decades was focused on the goal of being a winning competitor in national and international skydiving competitions. After achieving that goal, he's still focused on competitive skydiving, but now as a leading coach.This part of the book is generally well written. The narrative story moved along well (I think I remember one slow spot), and the sentence structures, grammar, and spelling were all fine. The content (the topics, issues, thoughts, and events from the author's life) seemed appropriate too, although somewhat routine after a while (hop in the van, drive to a new jump zone, live in the van and jump and train until the next competition, then hop in the van, and repeat).However, I felt there were a few too many places that were really too heavy with "I this.. I that..", such as thinking that it was a valued achievement for the school teachers to have the author finally get himself together enough to pass his routine school exams. Perspectives like that do characterize the author, so I think the book does a good job of communicating the author's views in those areas.I thought the second part on winning made the book a better book. The author is clearly trying to explain his views on chasing dreams, making teams, and winning in both life (by chasing your dreams), and in competition by winning.First the bad news in this section--there were so many completely unsupported (and I felt unrealistic) claims in this section that I think it affected the integrity and believability of the section as a whole. Thus I found myself skipping over many of the "fluffy" (my opinion) claims and paragraphs in search of paragraphs and points that made more realistic sense. For example, instead of limiting himself to saying "X worked for me, and for 2 other teams that I know of," the author repeatedly goes beyond his direct experience and claims that "X will work for you, and for everybody, including salespeople."A second piece of bad news in this section, at least for me, was the author's constant repetition of the phrase "trust your instincts, trust your instincts, tyi, tyi,..." This point--which he clearly thinks is important--completely escaped me, given his rational advice on documenting your best performances, analyzing everything, asking all the questions, visualizing, practicing, debriefing, planning, and so on. Clearly he does NOT believe that trusting your instincts and raw talent are good enough to win competitions, so I think he creates confusion for the reader by saying on the one hand, "trust your instincts" so many times, yet simultaneously saying on the other hand, "document, analyze, visualize, etc." At the very least I think the phrase "trust your instincts" needs a far better explanation and contrast with the ideas of relaxing, remaining calm, etc.Now the good news in this section--there were more than a few sections that I highlighted because they made so much sense, and were sometimes fresh and original (at least to me). In particular, I think he does a good job of (1) contrasting the ideas of winning in life by chasing your dreams and by enjoying the journey of improving your own performance vs. winning a competition event, (2) building momentum one little decision at a time, (3) doing your best vs. being the best (at some moment in time at a competition).I thought the section on teams was not that informative or useful; it certainly echoed the author's experience with skydiving teams, but I had almost zero highlights in that section. I thought the best parts of this section were the ideas of having a disciplined communication plan and a debriefing plan (disciplined processes for improvement).I think the book would have been better if the author had provided more detail on the plane crash, because the crash was a large and pivotal part of the author's own story about overcoming obstacles (losing team members to death, breaking his body, his recovery) and continuing to live his life by chasing his dream. The author still works at Perris, so I can see why he included only one sentence to suggest the cause of the crash: "No problem. They simply called in an outside vendor to truck in fuel." But I think his omission of the full story weakens the book by leaving an important part of the story out.According to the LA Times and the NTSB, apparently the plane was overloaded by 1600 pounds (that's 8 people too many @ 200 lbs each) on a 9900 maximum load (16% overloaded), the center of gravity of the payload (the skydivers) was positioned too far forward of the center of lift of the wings (no positioning seatbelts were being used), making the plane unstable (nose heavy), and when the right engine quit (possibly due to bad fuel with too much water in it from an offsite vendor), the pilot feathered the left propeller (possibly to reduce asymmetric thrust), causing the plane to lose thrust from its only good engine, and to ultimately crash, killing 16 people. "Pilot error," said the NTSB, who also blamed Perris Aviation (who leased the plane) for not enough pilot training on the Twin Otter plane (although the pilot had apparently been flying successfully for many years).All in all I think this was a competent biography, with an extra section on the author's views on "Playing to win." I think the author's views must be respected because of his track record, but I found about 1/3 to 1/2 of what he said in the winning section to be unsupported/unrealistic (strong claims beyond his direct experience) or "un-actionable" (trust your instincts).For the Kindle price, the book is an interesting story (but it omits central plane crash details) with some useful, actionable information on playing to win in life and competition, written by a world caliber skydiving coach and champion. I would recommend this book to anyone who likes biographies and adventure stories.

I just finished reading an incredible moving book of a skydiver legend by Dan Brodsky-Chenfeld "Above All Else". It took me three week to finished the book. Not that I am a slow reader. The reason was that I wanted to know everything what Dan was writing about. Everything about all his friends and family. This is in the first place a motivational book, however the author's deep and sensitive narrative talent takes you on the fantastic journey of his life. I can honestly tell you during reading of some parts of his book, I had tears in my eyes. As 62 year old still active skydiver I not only appreciated a life story of one of a pioneer of the modern skydiving, I also had to admit that many things Dan is talking about, can be applied in our daily life. Also I hope, that with Dan's drama study background, I would like to have this book as an audio book or in the form of movie. Vlad Rybicka, Calgary, AB, Canada

What an inspiring and helpful book. Dan writes with every bit of passion as he skydives with. The layout of this tragedy to triumph is unique and captures the readers interest from the very first chapter. This story of a journey to become the best you can be - a champion of champions - and to do whatever it takes - and to count all the costs - and to overcome all odds is "over the top" motivating. The ensuing chapters that teach us how we can be that person is a "How to become great at WHATEVER you do" - 101 primer (skydiving is not necessary). And, "above all else", it is TRUE and doable as testified by this magnificent story! I know it to be true, because Dan was my very first tandem jump master, and just like that first jump, I was "hooked" on this book from the first page. I witnessed this entire story over a period of 10 years, and it was Dan that continued to inspire my life over that time! The joys and the pains of life are palpable in this testimony, and I would give it 10 stars if I could!! This read will give any reader the "lift" in life to achieve your dreams! Thank you, Dan for being such an awesome witness! (Sandy (Baumann) Cravens

My name is AL Biggs, I am an amateur skydiver out of Perris, one of the biggest dropzones around. Dan BC is my home dropzones manager and I had seen him around there coaching people. I wanted to get to know him better so i purchased this book and began reading. Not only well written, but a lot of important wisdom to shared. Dan is living proof that having a dream and the courage to pursue your goals can be done. From the bottom of the barrel, to a world champion. His persistence to succeed in skydiving ended up carving a full time career. You don't have to be a skydiver to enjoy this book, the lessons apply to life in general .

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