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A shooting advance where a group lines up or forms a front and advances while shooting and reporting is a drill that needs to be learned and practiced. People who let emotion govern them can get carried away by the fear or rush and cause a rift or hurt the group. Try first to walk…
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To learn to breath through adaptation you have to do just that. Yesterday I spent a few hours learning with Rico Cortez from FCS Kali and the his spirit of teaching is good to have around. Teaching principles through drills is also a part of the Systema way and it is chalanging to adapt to…
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Awaness to everything starts at simplicity. Place your hands on your thighs and sit down and get up several times. It is possible for you now to push off your thighs with your hands as you get up which might not come to you as a thought if the contact was not there. The same…
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Balance a soft cover book on your head and place your hands on the small of your back. Start walking without stop and add sitting down and getting up all with the book balanced on your head and your frame upright and loose. Place the feet and relax the weight into them instead of pummeling…
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Have a partner hold your ankle or foot and standing on one leg and moving the least push and pull your leg slowly as you maintain your breath and posture as much as possible. Have him move around you and do drill to all sides. Do both legs and note if there is a change…
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The squat tells us if our back is relaxed and upright. To get there, there are many ways: Place a tennis or any small ball against the wall and start to roll it up and down and side to side using your back. Add another ball to extend your awareness and continue. Stand naturally and…
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Stand one in front of the other and start to move so you are facing their side or back. Walk calmly and after a while add more people to this so one has to face or note as many people as he can according to his own logic (share and compare later) and switch once…
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Place one hand on the hip bone and sit on your knees. Now roll over the other shoulder a few times as you switch shoulders and relax. now place one hand on your neck and repeat the drill a few times till you feel free with this. Move slowly so you can change your direction…
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Take a short stick like a window cleaner or a piece of hose and a heavy stick like a metal pipe or a hammer and work both hands at the same time originating from the body movements. Breath starts the motion in the body which goes to the legs and arms at the same time.…
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To learn to survive and work in your transfer from darkness to light and vice verca you need to experience it for yourself and that will also help you work when another is going through this adaptation. One way is to work on a drill with an eye cover and than go into a dark…
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Sharon Friedman - Vigilance and Tranquility 