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Learn to hit without giving support to the partner: Stand on one leg and have one or more people come at you with their bodies. You need to either push them away with your fists or hit them so there is no will to advance or the structure is gone. It is easy to do…
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Rolling with tension: When we roll in class we choose the place and length of the roll and make our bodies pliable. When we roll out of need there is a tension from the initial ressistance to the force applied on us (body or what we think we see). To learn to be more relaxed…
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Consider the options you have in a state of tension. You can funnel the energy toward relaxation and awareness and you can freeze in terror and many other stations on the way. You can have the picture of a young healthy you to feed your nervous system and healing or you can focus on the…
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Lie on the ground and place your arms at your sides. Have a partner walk over you with his fists (he keeps his form and places his fists so they fit and do not slip) and than you return the favor and do the same drill as you are on your stomacks. After that relaxing…
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From time to time work using uncomfortable grips with a knife or any other tool. For example see what you can do holding the blade instead of the handle of a knife. Hold it in the reverse grip to what you feel is comfortable and work relaxed from there. Another example can be to work…
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There is an advantage when you are not seen. With one person on the ground and one free to do as he wishes have them try to reach a point where they see the other but are unseen to him. You can hit, pull or anything else but keep your breath constant and don’t focus…
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This is not a drill this time. I wanted to thank all the people who read this blog for what it is. I started one year ago wanting to give something back for all that I got and to meet good people on the way. I learned a lot and met a few nice people…
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To deal with strikes to the head you have to move as one. Start by moving each other while standing and walking about. Push the head jently and the partner will move his body as one piece to move with the force. Than Relax the neck and let the head ride the waves of hits…
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Take your shoes off and put a sock or anything like that on the floor. Move it around using your heel alone and than using the toes. Pick it up with your toes and place it someewhere else and than repeat the other foot. Now close your eyes and throw the sock away. With your…
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Take a chair and climb on top of it. Now look around and check what is avaiable to your sight. Note details and pass them over to register new details and avoid categorizing things as this or that. Now climb off the chair and check what is it that you saw before and now don’t.…