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Start this drill with your hands naturally at your sides and hit each other all over noting and sharing how each strike feels and moves you. Try with open hand, fist, elbow and so on. Next raise the arms from the elbows to the common ready stance people take and repeat the process noting changes…
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Place your fist or hand on your partner standing up and lean on him. Feel were he tenses up and were he is relaxed throughout the motion and you will learn where and how deep to strike from various positions. Go for the legs, torso, arms, neck and use all the angles you can think…
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I have just returned from a seminar with both Vladimir Vasiliev and Mikhail Ryabko hosted in Bern. It was a wonderful event of meeting friends and making new ones from all over the place. We al learned a lot by talk and by movement. The spirit of the teachers stands above all with generosity and…
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A nice humbling way to teach yourself to receive and give (in that order) strikes can be this or a variation of this drill. you take the arm of your partner and he relaxes the arm and shoulder so only the form of the fist (just form no clenching) and the alignement of the wrist…
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This drill is taken from Vladimir: You create a path in a crowd using a two man team. One takes them off balance and brings them to his rear as his shadow who stays behind him takes the threat out so the forward can continue. Try to answer these type of questions with the simplest…
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A healthy comfortable posture. Sometimes we are required to stay prone or sitting for a long breadth of time. It can be outside or in an office building but either way you can make a difference. Check your posture: are you slumping without support and gathering tension in your lower back ? Is one leg…
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some bodyguard work: Walk with a person in school and better yet in the field or in the street and maintain a fixed distance from him as you go together and from time to time change the hour you are to him (in front 12, behind 6 to the right 3 and so on) Walk…
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Some more on group work: Lie in a row so your bodies touch from foot to shoulder and have one person lie on his back accross you. You roll together to pass the person along the line without loosing him to the sides and continue till everyone does this. form a line with hands across…
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A bit of team building: One person closes his eyes and his partner directs him toward a knife on the ground (or a bag it doesn’t matter) so he picks it up with his free hand (not his favored gun hand) and do this drill without decding on direction protocol in advance so you learn…
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A drill for two or more people. One person lies on the floor and the other squats next to him and pushes or hits off the body of the other in order to rise up to a standing position with the least effort. Try to either help the squater to rize with the right breath…
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Sharon Friedman - Vigilance and Tranquility 