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Stand and look around you. Now close your eyes and step 10 paces forward. Turn half way to the right and step sideways 6 paces. Turn half left and take 4 steps backwards. Now still with your eyes closed work back and see if you can reach the place where you started. This teaches how…
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Go up and down a flight of stairs with these directions in mind. 1. With your eyes closed 2. with one leg off the ground and you cannot place anything on it 3. using your upper body with the lower body completely relaxed 4. without use of both feet and hands. They cannot touch anything…
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Stand and shake your hands as if you are trying to shake water off them. Let the motion stay in the hands and forearms and avoid tensing up against the movement to stay in place or keep a form. Now shake from the elbow and down and repeat the aware relaxation in the body. Now…
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Place a hand on the wall and push yourself off it so you have to take a step to remain upright or turn. Do this from different angles and heights and do this on the fists and than on the elbows (forearm) and the shoulder. This will help you move as a whole and to…
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Position yourself in the push up position on your fists and have a friend use a shovel or any other hard tool push and pull on your body from all sides as you move the least possible to keep your form and relaxation. Later have him place his foot on you and try to stand…
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I have opened a group for systema students in Israel. Join us and learn more about this art: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=16042875173
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People tell you things about themselves all the time with no attention. For example the persons car will tell you if they have small children, if they are smoking, if they are tidy and so on. Go outside and check a few cars and try to work out how these people choose to live and…
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Stand and have a partner sit or lie on the floor next to you. Have him push your shins at first and try to stay in place as much as you can. Relax your hips and add slash like kicks and pulls on your legs. If you have more people to help you relax your…
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Take the hand of your partner and stand at a comfortable distance for you. Now have him try to approach and by this contact and changing the tension and working the small angles between you. Work slow enough to learn from this and than fast to learn to relax through tension and breathing. After you…
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A few tips on strikes: Work on pushing without tensing up by using your breath as the wave and by letting the movement come from your body as one unit, but relaxed so there is no attempt to keep a certain shape despite your senses telling you it’s a bad idea Fall on your fists…
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Sharon Friedman - Vigilance and Tranquility 