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  • A breath in between

    Time is going by us all the time ๐Ÿ™‚ To make ourselves more resilient and mobile at the same time, we can choose to take a simple breath in between to make things last longer. Examples: Start doing pushups. Pause for one breath on the top position between each push up and gain more awareness…

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  • rope strong

    rope strong

    Strength makes life easier. We choose paths and follow them. Choose one that makes you strong in all your faculties and take your friends and loved ones with you. The cost of being weak is heavier… 1.ย ย ย ย ย ย  Tie the rope to a tree trunk. Climb the rope from laying down prone and see who can…

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  • |What are we not hearing?

    Much of the intuition and sixth sense comes from seeing and hearing and smelling things that we only somewhat acknowledge. It is not that we are asleep, it is we are conditioned to handle one thing at a time and thus we lower our high brain functions. We can easily negate this practice by working…

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  • One a day

    One a day

    Here is a simple way to cover all bases. Take one movement and one time interval and do this everyday. You only have to make one choice and then you are done until tomorrow. Choose what you least want to work on and you will progress in the fastest manner. We shy from our weaknesses…

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  • How to learn and improve from injury/illness

    We are sick and injured from time to time and it is a hidden gift in reminding us of our mortality and we learn to move with and around those areas and come out of the tunnel even stronger and in better neural and mental shape. Examples: The cement mixer: torso Sit on your behind…

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  • Tense to relax!

    Tense to relax!

    Many ideas work. Many ideas do not work at the same time. ๐Ÿ™‚ Our job is to find and make up what works for us right now and see what does not. But further, We must understand why things do not work so we can learn from them. Only then, we can move past them.…

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  • Podcast 4 – Making friends with fear

    Topic โ€“ Important points in the whole Text: Litany against fear from the book Dune “I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past, I will…

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  • All the rage

    All the rage

    we train on controlled environment for safety and to gain self control. Achieving higher levels of self control comes from destabilizing from inside so we unravel the ability to ride the wave of rage both up and DOWN. We all have things that bug us, that annoy us, that bring the rage in us. Use…

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  • Hard contact

    Hard contact

    There is a buffer between real violence and training and there has to be one to allow progress both mental and physical. Many martial arts today rely on padded surfaces and body padding. This allows for higher throws in practice and greater force exerted in contact in striking and impact. There is however also negative…

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  • An inclusive take on everyday training

    Time is the true commodity. Here are eight drills that hide within daily actions to sharpen and hone the movement ability of us all. 1.Slowly increase the distance you take to throw the trash into the trash bin (Be extra careful with weird shaped objects, they fly differently) 2. Walk up the stairs at night…

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