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  • Take a real blade and hold it in front of you in a comfortable position. Keep the hand as it is and start to move by walking and moving your body to defend yourself. Switch hands and positions and than do this drill with a practice knife with a friend or more who attack. This…

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  • Start by tensing the body as you walk, go through the body and note where one tension creates another. For example for me if I tense up the lower belly my ankles also tighten. Than form fists in different positions (arm forward, to the side, toward up down and so on) and close your eyes.…

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  • Not all practice is done by sweating. for example walk with a friend outside and begin by walking behind him at a comfortable distance and pay attention to anything that happens around him. From time to time circle around him and return to the rear as you maintain your distance and making sure you do…

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  • Here are a few drills to help create a healthier whole body: Solo: Walk in a normal pace and slowly lower yourself with the torso upright and than back up again during the walk several times. Roll from one side of the room to the other and back with just the hips touching the floor…

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  • This is a good drill to unwind the body after a long time with armour or heavy gear on or just a lot of standing. Lie on your back and bring the knees to the stomach. bring the feet toward the head and grasp the bottom of the toes with your hands. Now breath in…

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  • Walk with your eyes closed and arms overhead. Have partenrs stnad in your way in various ways and hights and have them place things in your way like boxes bags and the like and note how you react and how you change your reaction as time passes. Later start on one side of the location…

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  • Have a partenr hold your foot or place it in a loop hung on a post or wall and find out how you can do full circles both ways. Try with and without sitting down to turn the rest of the way and find your own way to get from A to B. Squat with…

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  • Looking at things from the other end. Consider wall walking. You walk with your fists up and down the wall and most of the time your head is in your fists. Do the drill with the focus on the placement of the feet and the support the body gives through its needed form along the…

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  • In the army we were tested on going through the drills and shooting our rifles and other tools with a coin balanced on the end of the barrel and so on. You can do the same for yourself and balance a coin or anything else on the back of your hand as you walk and…

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  • It is very easy to get cought in the beauty of the motion and to force smooth round movement even when there is no need or purpose for them. Try to swing something heavy and strange in shape. A garden chair (not near your mothers glass collection) will do as you first swing it around…

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