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Another interesting way to learn good posture is to sit crossed legged in front of each other and trade strikes. Very soon you find the openings slumped shoulders leave and the pit a croocked lower back create. Do this face to face, side to side and at ones back and you will learn good posture…
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A good way to learn to move well and hit well: Stand head to head and hit each other below the sight line. You have to keep the shoulders calm and below the line people see when they look straight ahead. Next put arm on arm in the known palm hit game and attempt to…
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Relaxing and letting the lower back align. If you feel tension in the lower back and are stuck at an arch down there. Try getting into a prone position on the ground with your back on the ground. Now relax your legs so they turn out (ballet talk for legs together straight and feet pointing…
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Protection is usually a case of replacing some of your points of protection with another in the inner circle or the people who are close to the VIP. The most obvious is the term body guard which means a moving guard in human form. For people who work other jobs the protection comes in handy…
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Perception and posture. Jest as we can put our hips under our shoulders for alignment (try it) we can also put the shoulder blades back in the seath of the flesh for a balance between the forward and backward pull of the shoulders. Check if the blades are sticking out of the long muscles of…
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A few drills with a knife. Start with the knife in hand. Just roll with it and don’t cut yourself. next roll with the knife held with both hands and stay safe. After that roll as you cut a person on the ground or standing /moving do the cut inside the roll wheather you are…
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Learning from chance. Many times we change our routine without concious thought. You do A before B or use the other hand and so on. If you pay attention it will pay back (horrible pun but hay I like it) Your body and sometimes your brain (the nerves extend to the entire body and it…
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a little thing about the aligned squat. We put a lot of emphesis on relaxing the spine and the thigh muscles but as Mikhail pointed we are a complete system (yea I know Echo echo) Try to do a few complete slow squats and each time focus on relaxing another part. The ankles, shins, knees,…
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I read a lot on this field and others. A nice article I read yesterday mentioned a wise advice. A big part of keeping healthy is to avoid the bad stuff. For example too much drinking and smoking. Doing bad exercise of no relaxation work afterwards (holding on to the tension built). Many people train…
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After a long day of walking with a load or just a day in the office on a bad chair it is good to open the back. Try this: Either with a towel draped over a sturdy door or a good pull up bar, suspend yourself and move according to your breath. A 30 breath…