LAIDO DITTMAR
CIRQUE DU SOLEIL PERFORMER, AUTHOR & HIGH-PERFORMANCE PRACTICE STRATEGIST
Dear Practitioner,
If you're reading this, chances are you're someone who is a high performer, or at the very least, someone who is looking to get an edge in their skill or sport and elevate their game to new levels.
That means we might share common goals...
Whether it’s mastering an instrument, excelling in a sport, or helping someone else refine their craft, you understand that achieving mastery requires more than just raw effort.
And you might have reached the point by now, where you already know that hard work alone or simply doubling your efforts—won’t necessarily bring the results you're after.
If you feel stuck at your current skill level or want to accelerate progress exponentially—saving years of struggle and frustration— what you’re about to "hear" might be one of the most important messages you’ll ever encounter when it comes to developing your skills.
But before you do, let me introduce myself and share how all of this came to be.
My name is Laido Dittmar. You probably haven’t heard of me before, and that’s by design. You'll soon understand why...
I’m a Cirque du Soleil Performer, Author, and High-Performance Practice Mentor. To those who know me, I’m often called "The Coach of Coaches"—or as some have put it, the coaching world’s "Best Kept Secret."
With years of experience performing at the highest levels and helping others reach their peak, I’ve dedicated my career to mastering and teaching what it truly takes to unlock true potential.
Through the Natural’s Method, I’ve helped countless coaches, trainers, and practitioners achieve breakthroughs they never thought possible—faster, easier, and with lasting impact.
I specialize in helping artists, athletes, and practitioners across various physical skills reliably double their progress speed by redesigning their practice strategy and installing a method that delivers results consistently every time it’s applied.
Whether it’s breaking through skill plateaus, mastering performance techniques, or transforming coaching practices, I’ve made it my mission to redefine what’s possible in the world of skill development and performance.
Helping students often achieve their potential 2-3 times faster, no matter how advanced they are, while giving coaches tools to guide their students toward breakthroughs more efficiently.
I achieve this by teaching uncommon yet universal principles—the fundamental laws of progress that are often found only among the habits of the world’s most “talented” individuals.
Principles I've discovered while coaching a wide range of practitioners, from athletes to artists, with some of the most diverse and demanding set of skills.
Especially helping those who might have already put in some tremendous amount of hard work and have already seen how difficult it can be to continue to progress once they are past a certain point.
Over the years, I’ve developed a replicable method to model these practical habits—habits that deliver results...
Every. Single. Time.
This isn’t theory.
It’s been tested, refined, and proven with over 450+ practitioners across multiple disciplines.
These principles not only work, but work no matter what physical skill or sport someone is pursuing.
Skeptical? Good. You should be. After all, you can’t believe everything you read on the internet...
Because the only way to know for sure… is to apply it yourself.
HOW USING A COMPLETELY COUNTERINTUITIVE MODEL CHANGES EVERYTHING …
The same Natural's Method that hundreds of coaches, trainers, and instructors from all over the world are now using to help their students achieve:
- RAPID BREAKTHROUGHS IN SKILL MASTERY.
- CONSISTENT PROGRESS IN LESS TIME AND WITH LESS FRUSTRATION.
- ALL WHILE ENJOYING THE PROCESS AND FOCUSING ON WHAT MATTERS MOST. PROGRESS.
Just Like Steve, who used the Natural's Method and soon after, here’s a post he shared in our private Community:
And even though getting progress is in itself is rewarding, that’s not the best part…
The best part is the hidden benefit:
The Natural's Method within my Art of Practice System does not only help teachers and students make progress—it also frees you from exhausting, outdated techniques and coaching methods...
No more repetitive drills or wasted effort.
The system allows you to not only achieve results efficiently but enjoying the process and seeing your students thrive.
And Steve isn’t the only one either…
Now, throughout my life, I've practiced approximately 20,000+ hours. And after more than a decade of experimentation, testing, and research, I can tell you that the reason why some people improve so much faster in a skill has a lot less to do with HOW HARD they practice but much more to do with... HOW THEY PRACTICE .
But before I even get into the reasons why those certain individuals progress much faster, let me ask you some simple questions to see if what I have might be of any importance and help to you.
Since no matter what background you may come from or what skill you practice, you’ve probably asked yourself...
Why Are Some People Improving
Immensely Faster Vs. The Majority ?
The majority that often even with hard practice, can't get half as much done, not even in twice the time, or even worse, with no progress at all?
Have you ever asked yourself...
Does Mastery Depend ENTIRELY On
Talent And Genetics ?
Should we just be satisfied with what we can achieve?
Is there a universal way to progress and achieve skills fast, or does it depend entirely on just talent, and there's nothing you can change to make a difference, except practice harder?
Yet, when simply doubling your efforts doesn't seem to work, is there a key to effective progress? And if so, what is it...
What About Having STRATEGIES
And PLANS In Practice?
Have you ever felt overwhelmed by all of the next-level skills, drills, or moves that you wanted to learn? We know it's impossible to practice everything, even if you had all the time in the world.
So what is the best way to prioritize the things we have to practice, and then act to get maximum returns?
How long should I practice, and which things should get top priority?
How Can I Achieve Consistency ?
How can I keep progressing consistently in a way that lets me maintain my present skills, but also allows me to move to the next level continually?
Anyone can have a one off, some success here and there, but how do you achieve "Systematic Progress"?
How should I warm up, or choose the next drill to practice that will be right for me?
How much rest is necessary? How much is too much or too little?
How Can I Keep Up Motivation & Focus ?
How can you keep yourself motivated and maintain focus so you can stay in the best possible state for achieving results?
Are there ways to increase other similar factors that may affect my practice that are outside of it?
Now, these are a lot of challenges to deal with, regardless of what type of skill you are trying to learn and if we would need to summarize it into one big question that encapsulates all others, it would probably be...
How Do I Create A Practice Routine That I Can Rely On Working For Me Every Time ?
A system that gives me the BEST POSSIBLE RESULTS that I'm fully capable of achieving, knowing that I’m currently practicing the best possible way for achieving those results, regardless if I have a "good" or "bad" day...
Now Let Me Ask You: Have You Ever Had Any Of These Challenges ?
Did you ever want to have the answer to any of these questions?
If you answered "yes" to any of these, you are not alone...
These are the frustrations that seem to be the most personal, yet what we might all share and have in common with each other, but even though we all experience them, these are the things we lack the most clarity on, even if it causes us not to succeed in the first place.
Yet, when I see practitioners, people who have been practicing maybe even for decades, I see them making the same mistakes that I had and the frustrations I’d gone through.
Often in the process of them giving up their dream of becoming who I believe, they were meant to be...
Who Am I To Speak On This?
You see...
The reason I know the challenges so well that I've mentioned is because those questions were created from my personal experiences that I needed to deal with throughout the years.
Truth is when I started out I used to be terrible at practice. And when I say terrible I’m really talking about a whole other level of dysfunction.
I know how the struggle feels since I too tried everything that you could think of to become better.
I would brute force my way to seeing the slightest of progress, only to become burned out right after, without having much to show for it.
Since most of the things I've tried didn't work at all...
And ironically, the only reason I could think of for my lack of progress was not working "hard enough", while practicing often 8 hours a day.
That's why nobody would guess that the sudden change in my progress came from applying simple rules and processes that made me progress in a faster way than usual.
So what enabled me to make this transformation?
A transformation that helped me to compete or even share world records with someone who started the very same skill at the age of 4 while I started at the age of 18?
It's a couple of things.
It's because certain systems I had and certain mindsets I had helped me get past those blocks that allowed me to dominate over my progress.
Yet more than anything, it involved having to change how I believed practice works to what actually worked.
Since what I didn’t understand at the time is that if we're practicing in a way that is against the fundamental laws of progress, we won’t get any better no matter how hard or how much we practice.
And the lesson that I still had to learn was…
Practice Alone, Won't Make You Perfect, But Perfect Practice Will.
It’s imperative to understand that behind every accomplishment, behind every success is a process.
Some people are better at what they do than others, and it’s not simply by chance that they got better.
And as I found out throughout the years, the basic rules of the successful are surprisingly uniform and predictably divergent from what the rest of the world is doing.
Now, it's important to mention that I did not come up with these rules, I did not invent them.
So where did I get them from?
The simple answer is...
I've discovered them.
I've discovered them from modeling, imitating, and synthesizing the behavior of pro's that I call “Naturals”.
The people with "talent"... We like to put people like this on a pedestal, and tell ourselves the story that they were destined to be great, and that they have some mysterious power.
But in reality, that’s not the case at all.
The best of the best think alike and the fundamental unwritten rules they are practicing by is what allows them to progress to incredible heights, but the thing about those rules are that they are also often very counterintuitive.
Meaning what often makes sense in the moment is not what usually leads to success...
Often, the things you wouldn't think will work and go unnoticed are the things that will, but those are things almost nobody does.
The Critical
"Counterintuitive"
If you look at 80% of what "talents" do, you can say, “Yeah, I understand that because it’s really intuitive.”
You can make sense of that because it’s the logical and obvious thing to do, but it’s the other 20% that’s counterintuitive.
Those counterintuitive things are always present in the background, and often, one little shift, just one simple change, is all it takes.
I saw firsthand after observing and practicing with some of the best performers in the world, that it wasn't the strength or physical powers that separated the good from the best.
It was their mostly unconscious approach and mentality that looked dramatically different from the rest.
So, what are these actions that most people fail to see even if it's hiding in plain sight?
The "NATURAL'S METHOD" is the philosophy and the system I created to answer that question…
Once I started to shift my own practice into this direction the way "Naturals" do, I started to understand how the little subtle differences they made in practice had enormous impacts on their progress.
The little things they were doing that the majority never did, or did in an opposite way because they didn’t seem important or went even unnoticed...
Yet those very things were the things that made it work.
And it's the reason why no matter what skill you practice or what field you are trying to advance in, truth is that the underlying laws of why humans progress are universally applicable.
They will keep being universally applicable since the reason why we humans progress are EVERLASTING and NEVER CHANGING.
And if you understand the theory and you understand the cause and effect of why "Naturals" do things in a certain way, you can create a million variations of how you want to use these rules in your favor, since these principles are by their very nature, universally applicable...
Thanks to these principles, I've learned that the best way to shortcut your progress enormously, to get results faster, easier, with less trial and error, fewer mistakes, and less stress, is to borrow the methods of "Naturals" and apply them to what you're doing.
And that’s exactly what I did.
WHAT THIS METHOD HAS DONE FOR ME
AND I'M NOT THE ONLY ONE...
.
This breakthrough method has been applied for the most diverse set of skills, including: acrobatics, tennis, hand balancing, golf, basketball, dancing, playing instruments, climbing, and many more and your competitors have already started using the advice I’ve laid out to huge success…
"IT GAVE ME A MUCH DEEPER UNDERSTANDING WHY THE THINGS I DID WERE WORKING AND WHAT I DIDN'T NEED TO INVEST AS MUCH TIME IN"
Testimonial By Milla
Ballroom & Latin Dancer
"I USED TO BE THE LITTLE GUY THAT'S SURPRISING, NOW I'M THE OLD GUY THAT'S SURPRISING... AT 55 I'M BEATING FOLKS OUTSIDE MY WEIGHT CATEGORY"
Testimonial By Kurt
Martial Artist, 7th Degree Black Belt in Kajukenbo & Jiu-Jitsu Practitioner
"I WAS A COMPETITIVE ATHLETE SINCE I'M 12, I JUST WISH I'VE HAD THIS INFORMATION 10 YEARS AGO... IT COULD HAVE BEEN SO MUCH MORE EFFICIENT"
Testimonial By Kasia
Ice Skater & Professional Artist
"HIGHLY RECOMMEND TO BUY THE BOOK, TOTALLY WORTH IT, IF ANY OF YOU TAKE PRIVATE PIANO LESSONS IT' DOESN'T EVEN COST A QUATER OF THAT"
Testimonial By Aaron Alfonso Petit
Professional Pianist, Private Piano Teacher & Composer
"The principles of practice the way that yoU've explained it and the way that you recommended that the practice occurs—it's very clear that it works, there's no bullshit."
Testimonial By Alex Krstic
Former Policeman, Firearms Instructor & Pro Axe Throwing Competitor
"Despite my elite education and numerous master classes, practicing Laido's method for just ten days has already transformed my playing more than anything I've ever tried."
Testimonial By Rocco Panzanelli
Drummer from Italy
"You can get through all of the 10,000 hours you would need to get to mastery in a much quicker way, these strategies will help you from day 1"
Testimonial By Brandon Birchak
NCAA National Champion, Coach & C.E.O. of 6 Foot Creations
"I recommend it to anyone who wants to become the best version of themselves, both in physical practices, but also in a philosophical way."
Testimonial By Eliza Pistone
Using The "Art of Practice" Against Chronic Fatigue
THE NATURAL'S METHOD
[ CASE STUDIES ]
THE NATURAL'S METHOD IS SIMPLY A SHORTCUT
From being a pro basketball player to a pro musician, dancer, or being a circus artist like myself, EVERYTHING NEEDS PRACTICE.
Skill is built THROUGH practice, but it has to be done RIGHT.
And without knowledge, without a strategy... there is no power.
I’ve always felt that by understanding the process, you could have more control over the outcome.
It’s this understanding and control that will lead to the skill that you see in top performers.
Strategy is also the part of your practice that is most often under utilized while being also the area where you can typically get the biggest returns for the smallest time and energy invested.
Since whenever you practice anything a certain way, whether consciously or unconsciously it’s because you think that’s probably the best way and the way it should be done, but "You don't know what you don't know".
Some people have better systems, some have less effective ones...
But your strategy is the very thing that sets the entire context of your choices on what you will spend hours, months, or even years in your future.
There’s currently a system in your mind that’s similar to a software, and consciously or unconsciously, that system installed is what dictates how you approach getting better, based on what you think will work and make you progress and achieve success in the end.
Now, everybody has a system in their mind, as said some people have better systems while others have less effective ones, but everyone has something that I call our mind’s “Practice Blueprint”.
Yet whatever that system is, there is no system that couldn’t be overwritten. And the way to overwrite it is by changing your "practice strategy" based on what actually works.
Most people spend 95% of their energy and attention working solely on their outer game, their outer execution.
They think about the movements: how high they should be, how low or how fast, etc., and though it’s true these things are very important, they are all merely just an effect of whatever "practice strategy" people use.
However, they hardly ever focus or try to improve their system or strategy of their practice.
They just have a system in place that they don’t even think about and since that’s the most thought they can give to it, they only focus on that 95%.
But what would actually create a real difference for most athletes, musicians and performers or anyone practicing a skill is the 5% that most people don’t spend any energy on, even if it decides what you will do externally in the first place.
And simply to get different result's we need to be working "on" our practice instead of just "in" our practice.
Now, having mentored hundreds of practitioners over the years, I've learned that we are only 3-5 subtle changes away from real change and getting the progress we want or not even coming close to them.
My system teaches about 20 so you go further.
Often these shifts seem like just a small alteration in direction, but if you look closely, every choice is just like an arrow that you shoot...
Minor changes, even a couple of inches, can alter the destination tremendously, the further the arrow gets shot.
And a bad choice or a choice that you aren't conscious off can still set your trajectory off by just one degree today, but over years the error can become incredibly magnified...
It's Not About How Fast You Progress, It's About Who You Become
Now, if you wanted to, you could try to figure out all this stuff on your own.
I know because that's what I did.
And knowing the work it took, I truly wish there had been a better way...
A way that can save and without doubt shave off at least 5-10 years of struggle in your life...
That's what this method is meant to accomplish.
Giving you a method that is duplicable, replicable and will produce the consistent desired result every time it is applied.
Not just once or twice, but consistently, predictably and forever...
• I have already read hundreds of books on psychology, success, and achievement.
• I have already spent two decades researching, testing, failing, and iterating different styles and strategies of practice from my 20 years of experience as a performer & coach.
• I have already put in the work to integrate different schools of thought to provide you a set of condensed theories and tools that will help you achieve the results in your situation.
I haven't learned this from someone, I didn't copy it from someone... It's the result of more than 20 years of experience, research and achievement.
This isn’t a rehashed, regurgitated, and diluted training that claims to have all the secrets but tells you nothing.
This is me sharing what I've learned in a LIFETIME after years of EXPERIENCE and TESTING.
Condensing the essential wisdom over several years that works.
YOUR COACH
LAIDO DITTMAR
CIRQUE DU SOLEIL PERFORMER, AUTHOR & HIGH-PERFORMANCE PRACTICE MENTOR
After more than 20,000 hours in his own practice, Laido became best known for creating the "Natural's Method", helping practitioners of any physical skill or sport rapidly accelerate their progress in their practice.
By teaching uncommon, but fundamental laws of progress he was able to establish a name for himself not only as an award-winning Cirque du Soleil artist but as a "Practice Mentor".
"OUTSTANDING HUNGARIAN ARTIST OF THE YEAR AWARD" 2022
An esteemed accolade celebrating an individual's significant impact on Hungarian arts and culture.
"HORTOBÁGYI KÁROLY" AWARD 2024
A prestigious state decoration conferred by the Hungarian Ministry of Culture, honoring exceptional contributions to the elevation of circus arts both nationally and globally, underscoring the recipient's pivotal role in enhancing the art form's prominence and appreciation worldwide.
THE "YOUNG STAR OF THE STAGE" AWARD 2017
Award of exceptional stage performance and contributions to the live entertainment scene.
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