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  • It is simple that if we see an angry face or a happy face we will feel more angry or happy ourselves. The same goes for relaxation and tension and for breathing. For example if you stand close to someone and for a moment clench your throat and tense up he will do the same…

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  • Place your hands on your hips or in any way you feel relaxed and lift one foot off the ground so it hovers very low without getting any suport from the ground. Now move with your body without moving the supporting leg off the ground or changing the angle or hight of the hovering leg.…

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  • Clothes are great tools for grabbing, blinding and hitting. For example you can grab the belt of a person and fall on your behind and he will follow swiftly. you can choke using the jacket or shirt simply by wraping your fingers (start to roll the fingers in from the tips toward the palm just…

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  • A very simple drill to learn awareness to knives: With at least three people have two leave your sight and come back with one of them with a knife on him (in some cases one of them has to take the knife off for that) and you have to guess according to how you feel…

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  • Completing a task sounds logical and nice. Consider what is the task at hand when you go to complete a movement or anything else. For example if you are striking with your right fist to the neck of a partner of someone who wants to harm you and miss, you can complete the task of…

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  • Many times when you wish to get out of the way you end up with one limb or turned trunk in the way. It can be becasue haste (fear) workes to change our upright form (in many ways takes our humanity away in form and function). To learn to move as one try this drill:…

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  • It is easy to forget the difference between the clothes people usually wear and the training clothers. Check on yourself right now if you have a metal pen in your chest pocket. Do you wear shoes that have sharp points that can be used to assist in your defence of maybe your clothes constrict your…

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  • To learn to take hits and place hits properly on the head and neck you always have yourself. Stand sit or walk and start to place and push your fists on your own neck and head and let the head follow the motion without jerking or countering and allow the body to lead and assist.…

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  • Survival or confort gear is limited only by your imagination. For example if you carry 2-3 big industrial trash bags (orange if you are a civilian who wants to be visible) than you add perhaps 15 grams to your kit and hardly any bulk but the operations grow much more: for example: Carrying water to…

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  • Know yourself also means to know when to quit. If you are practicing chocking and you know you can take more than is given don’t try to prove anything to yourself. See what is in front of you and enjoy it. Also if there is a small temptetion like a candy you are thinking about…

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