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Premier Paintless Dent Removal Training Why learn from us? We have a successful teaching method that unconditionally ingrains in you, the fundamentals of PDR Basics. We are aware that there are great trainers in the world that are worthy of your instruction. Frankly, their reputation for training within the industry is what has fueled our teaching innovations. The scrutiny to withhold the integrity of PDR, from other technicians and trainers alike, has pushed us to create a program that will yield a fine technical operator. If we have the opportunity to teach you PDR, we will not take what you’ve asked us to do lightly. In many cases, you are asking for the training that will have direct impact on the quality of your family's well-being. We have a plan for your growth and know how to implement it. We know how frustrating it can be to do the simplest tasks in PDR. It is so frustrating in fact that we’ve decided to dedicate our entire course curriculum to those simple tasks. We feel that anyone is pre-wired to perform PDR. We just need to install our own five star applications. We intend to do this through repetitive exercises in all the applicable procedures of PDR. Through our continuous exercises, our method is meant to trigger a subliminal response from the trainee. When you see a dent, you will grab a tool and fix it. The beginning phase of PDR learning will feel awkward and unnatural. You’ll be sore, you’ll see dents in your sleep, and you’ll be confused about your life choices. Thankfully, the end result of our process will produce smooth and effortless simple dent removal. Eventually you will repair dings without conscious effort. We are training your body to evoke PDR Muscle Memory. Our theories for teaching, learning and growing within this great automotive trade industry, lies within our signature instructional method, referred to as PDRMM (Paintless Dent Repair Muscle Memory.) We are going to break down the dent repair to its individual elements. Each element will then be taught through the hand to eye relationship that trains your brain to perform any skill or function. Then, through repetition, slow exaggerated movements and fun applications of the fundamentals, we will piece together this entire process. It will be intense as well as frustrating; but, it will be possible. We will live in a world of slight discomfort as you reach everyday for a larger piece of your goal. We believe the finest learning resides in this place of struggle. We are meant to be working in an uncomfortable place. As Daniel Coyle states in The Little Book of Talent, (and I’m paraphrasing) this uncomfortable area of training is known as “The Sweet Spot.” This area is where the brain is learning at its finest. This is your brain creating circuitry for this new task or talent. There is evidence of this in every “hot bed of talent.” A “hot bed,” as Coyle calls it, are the facilities worldwide that consistently produce great swimmers, tennis players, golfers, violinists, etc. Their success, he contends, is not a result of naturally blessed prodigies, but because of the “hot bed’s” daily commitment to deliver perfection in their performance of the fundamentals. PDR Basic’s is in full agreement. The only goal there is for a PDR Basic’s trainee is: A career of continuous defying of perceived limits, through the execution of perfect PDR fundamentals. Let us now begin.

PDR Dent Guy and His Satellite Radio

I'm going to get to the specifics of my relationship with satellite radio in a bit. First, I'd like to explain one of the many reasons I love being a PDR technician simply because the thought of satellite radio makes me think of it. I travel throughout the New Jersey towns and neighborhoods. I visit people's homes and make repairs to their cars. Unlike doing work for dealers, auto auctions and body shops, I'm dealing with the person who owns the car and may feel a real personal attachment to the vehicle. These people really love what we do for them and show it with some form of appreciation even if it's only a smile. This is easily the best part of my job. In large dealerships, I've never felt this. You're lucky to get a head nod, and more lucky if they look to see the work that's been done. This is what allows the dealerships to be a training ground for incompletely trained or lazy technicians. Anyway...satellite radio.

"The dent guy and the satellite radio" is interesting to me because of the amount of time and where I listen to it. I listen in the car, at lunch, and while I'm on the job. I do all this from my vehicle that serves as my office, cafeteria and toolbox. As a mobile PDR technician, I have the ability to work on cars at people's work, home or just about any parking lot that the client desires. So, the lack of censorship is playing havoc with my image. I tend to zone into my work so deeply sometimes; I fail to notice the curious people around me as great obscenities flow from the mouths of Howard Stern staffers and other personalities on satellite radio. The embarrassment goes away but the situation often repeats itself at the next stop. I hope these people won't think less of me as I could never live without this great source of media.

To conclude this drivel, I will leave you with this. Every now and then, there comes that special car or truck with a large yet easy repair and Howard playing after I turn the key allowing their battery to shoulder the load for a change...if only for a moment. These are the simple things that are real symphonies for me.

Shopping Carts are Unavoidable

I went to the butcher shop with a friend of mine who happens to be a cop. He was driving a cosmetically rough pick up truck at the time. While we were exiting the shop and heading toward the truck, we observed a woman emptying the contents of her shopping cart into her car's trunk (Cop talk.) This lady was parked about seven empty spots down from us and we were parked out pretty far away as well. When she finished loading, she heaved the shopping cart down the driveway in the direction of the store. Unfortunately for her, the shopping cart wasn't alligned properly and was pulling to the right...right into this off duty cop's truck. This guy mind f&^%$d her in a way only cops and school teachers can really do. This lady was so frazzled by the mental beating she took; she didn't know if she should dislodge the cart from the tailgate, cry, leave, or just continue looking stupidly at us.

In the end, she removed the cart from the truck in disgust whispering something along the lines of "I gotta waste my time on this junk." Classy lady. It was all pretty funny, but also sad. Here I am, a Paintless Dent Repair Technician, and I can't even enjoy the actions of one of my industry's most loyal supporters. She was one of those types that park really far away to avoid cars opening their doors into her door and this is how she acted to other people's property.

Point is ...There isn't much of a point except this...Even if you park far away from others, eventually someone is probably going to Hail Mary a shopping cart to the deep spots. But if you leave it in the driveway, acorns will likely rain upon your roof or a freak hail storm will target your yard. The garage isn't safe either as it is bicycle handle and skateboard turf, let alone the teenager attempting to back it out against the sides of the house.

FEAR NOT. The good news is that Knockout Dent Removal can make these repairs using Paintless Dent Removal.

Daily Sermon

It is February 12 and my hail earnings have been gone for a couple months. The snow is falling and the outside working conditions are pretty effin lousy to say the least. Work in this metro area and you already understand working indoors is unlikely. Hail is soft and quick money is out of the question. Underpriced crushed door ding to underpriced crushed door ding appears to be my call until...Wait...



The Weather channel predicts winter storms and wind will not cease.

That means doors will be flying open and shopping carts will release.

When they approach, what will a little car do?

They drive every lane, but the spaces are few.

The operators will push for every inconceivable spot.

Regardless of any aggression, you shall fear not.

If you simply pull the handle and your door should fly open,

Simply call KODENTs, for they will be hopin

That every door will be damaged

and every fender be samaged

Let the cart roam......................

May all that money come home...

I want to hear the beautiful sound...

of cart to quarter panel...may they're surfaces be bound.