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My True Origin Story: Why the Darazi Method Had to Be Born

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Survival forced me to build something real — the Darazi Method.
This isn't just a story about training.
It's a story about dreams, collapse, survival —
and rebuilding something real when everything else was stripped away.

The Darazi Method wasn’t an idea I invented overnight —
it was something I had to live for, break for, fight for, and finally rebuild from the ground up.

 

Section 1: The Dream (15–21 years old)

From the age of 15, I lived and breathed to become a world champion fighter.
Everything I ate, trained, read, and did was focused on one mission: peak performance in the ring.

I studied fasting, nutrition, anatomy, and real training principles — not to look good, but to dominate.
But at 21, a devastating knee surgery shattered that dream.
Not just physically — it broke something inside me.

 

Section 2: The Shift to Business and Responsibility

After the surgery, I couldn’t keep chasing the same dream when my body wouldn’t follow.
I tried everything to get back — I even fought professionally and won —
but deep down, I knew I wasn’t the same.

I saw my mum sacrificing for us, working herself to exhaustion.
I couldn’t let her keep doing that while I chased a broken dream.
So I shifted.

I built a bricklaying business.
I built a gym.
I fought to become the best at something else.
I put the same warrior spirit into work and business.

But deep down, I never stopped searching:
"How do I rebuild myself properly?"

 

Section 3: The Covid Crash and the Deep Search

Just as the gym was rising, Covid hit Melbourne.
Two years of shutdowns crushed everything I’d built.
But instead of giving up, I went deeper.

I studied the body harder than ever — anatomy, structure, breathing, functional strength.
I started piecing together the first early version of what would become the Darazi Method —
a full-body system, not just a training plan.

I didn’t fully realize it yet,
but I was laying the foundation for something far bigger.

 

Section 4: Collapse, Coma, and Survival

A year after losing my gym, my body broke even harder.
After food poisoning, I was rushed into emergency surgery, placed on ECMO, and put into a coma.

When I woke up — scrunched up, frozen, trapped in survival mode —
I had no choice but to start moving again.

But the old ways didn’t work anymore.
I had to refine everything I’d learned — or I wouldn’t survive fully.

 

Section 5: The Discovery and Evolution of the Darazi Method

Through two years of deep self-rebuilding —
through mistakes, experiments, movement, breathing, and finally finding ways to unwind the damage —
I realized the core truth:

The body needs living pressure —
anchored through the feet,
springing through the legs,
floating through the pelvis,
breathing through the ribs,
and rising through the spine.

Everything connected. Everything breathing. Everything alive.
The body must breathe, float, move, and live — as one living system.

This is the Darazi Method.
Born through survival. Sharpened through suffering. Now ready to be shared.

 

Ending

This blog isn't just about fitness tips.
It’s a living document of survival, rebuilding, and the pursuit of true strength, breath, and freedom.
For myself.
And for anyone else who’s ready to rise.

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