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  • Learn to be comfortable in precarious predicaments

    Let’s start from the bottom and build ourselves up   Lie on the ground and have a partner hold onto one of your legs – Move with your held and free leg to bring the partner down and free yourself Lie on the ground and have a partner drag you by one leg – Move…

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  • Morning breath work

    Many wake up and jump out of their bed. Here is a protocol to prepare the body for a smoother entrance into the day using breath and awareness. Remember – Take care of the mechanism First – breathe and listen for the pulse (placing your hand on the side of the neck or just being…

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  • Steps to have a better moving vessel

    Posture today seems to be a silly word. We expect Captain America to stand tall but fail to recognize that it is a significant part we can improve in our health, movement and even self-worth. The way we hold ourselves transmits our image back to the nervous system and it is a free healthy way…

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  • Location-Angle-Focus

    We tend to over complicate things. Memorize a thousand techniques,  Practice the technique ten thousand times and so on. Here is a simple formula to practice and widen your awareness to what is happening. 1. Location – Simply choose not to be where the attack happens – work with your entire body so you do…

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  • Wheelbarrow walks – old-school tech

    Walking on your fists is great. Walking on your first with a friend is even better. Enjoy both rolls in this movement and note how the body learns to move as one, once tension is healthily distributed throughout the body. Let the breath lead the motion and relax your arms on contacting the ground to…

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  • Notes from class: The basic roll

    Learn to roll safely and freely. Work the progressions and focus on quality. The quantity will come with consistency of working the basics.

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  • Awareness makes us graceful

    I like power. We all do, but power is not the answer against a blade or a verbal attack. One must work consistently on control and thus create a measure of awareness which guides the power and creates the final outcome. Power in impact can reach a point of diminishing return, Grace does not. Here…

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  • The hunter GATHERER

    Looking back in history and looking at roles in the tribe and family of old we usually focus on the warriors and leaders, the hunters and not the gatherers. It is a focus which takes a lot from your abilities and what can be had and evolved to aid in any work you take on…

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  • Ten simple tips for smoother movement in a conflict environment

    Some things are simple but run deep. Consistent practice of basics is the key.   Instead of clenching your fists in preparation, keep your body moving and your arms loose like chains. Close the fist fully only on contact and look up Kime and use this as a principle instead of a specific tip. People…

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  • Aligning the spine with the door frame

    Here is a sequence of movement and holds to align the spine by balancing the tension web inside us Stand inside the door frame and raise your arms to place the palms on the top of the frame. Extend up and down from your center and spread the pressure out for 60 breaths Stand before…

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