This is something I wish I knew before my enlistment. To get good scores on the pull up and sit up tests you don’t have to do many of those but do them over a legth of time. For example. To reach the minimum score of 20 in the pull ups you don’t have to…

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Here’s a short vid from class about developing sensitivity the Systema way. Any comments are welcome: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4611943141893512703&hl=en 

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1. have a person stand with his back to the wall and you on the ground in front of him. Now climb up and down using your hands to grab what you can (gently …) a few times and than do the same with the face to the wall. Have him or her do the…

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The two men con… A simple dril you can evolve by yourself as you wish. Start with one person standing in a set place like a man waiting for a bus or a cab (depending on his income) and have two or more walk past him. One of them is the attacker and he has…

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Two good drills to widen your scope of the field. First navigate though people and have them come at you at will. Your focus is to keep the attacker at the edge of your sight as you look for more attackers. This is meant to free you from the fixation we have on big movements…

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Names: We have names to give credit and station to things and people. In systema I try to avoid giving drills names or any distinction. The reason is simple. A thing with no name can be had and used by everyone and no one will care where it came from.  A great man once said…

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A simple drill to learn economic movement. First tie your ankles together with a string and navigate away from people coming at you. After that add a string to tie your wrists together (with about a foot of freedom) and continue. Note that we do fall or get hit from time to time and only…

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Searching states of mind. Consider you are in a mall or a big store and looking for a specific item. The mind is matching what you are aware of in your line of sight and discarding everything else. It is easy to overlook a friend standing very close to you in this state of mind…

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Stand at a comfortable distance between you and start to hit each other once each. The partner has to stop the hit with a strike of his own that effects the body but does not affect the arms. After a while do the same for the legs alone and after that combine the two and…

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Attention: Many times we see videos of fighting and things seem to be fixed in the way of having a person not move his feet even though they are free from levers or a guy not moving with only one hand on him. Keep in mind in your work and your movement that we have…

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