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Is there something really small and petty so we are not to pay attention to ? Here are a few ideas: Once the fist is on the flesh of your friend turn the fist using your body movement and twist it in. See how this affects. You can do this to yourself to give you…
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Listening. We often move unnoticing how loud we sound or how noisy is our movement. It can be fun and beneficial to listen to the noises we make for example while setting the table. (are you dropping the plates and silverware on the table?) To the sound of your walking and to the sound of…
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Specific stuff : The feet and hands are ususally neglected so here is a bit just for them: Sit on the shins with feet at point (look it up) and hands at the sides of the knees with feet together. Rise up so you pivot on the feet fingers till you pass through and the…
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Small insight. Today was my fathers 60th birthday and during the party I came to uncorck a bottle of wine and broke the top of the bottle of with my hands. I didn’t go for that but still it broke in my hand. This goes to show you how we sometimes store tension and it…
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Working the sword with people: Start slowly on a standing person as you lie down. From below start to move the sword so it either cuts or slashes and still be able to move. Avoid for example rolling with the sword so you cut the ankles of the other but than are stuck on him…
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systema sword play: Start very slowly with a wood sword or whatever is in hand. Simply pass the sword from hand to hand and around the body. Keep the blade toward the world and start to move the sword in big arches. The movement has to come from the body and the hand soft with…
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Another drill to develop whole body movement. With a partner push a finger into each other in turns. Do not give with one part but move as a whole with both the push and the movement. For example if you are heavy and alive in the body than a poke will rotate you rather than…
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Move as one: Most of the time we (me too) move as rag dolls with one limb doing one thing and the head something else. It can be useful and moving as one can also be usefull. You have to decide for yourself how and when each comes naturally. Start by standing evenly and hit…
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systema plyometrics: (the funny word means spring like movements which are preceeded by a contraction of the opposing muscle group) In systema there is no mention of this tendon work by name but it still here and also is added work on the breath muscles of the diagfram and pelvic wall using the same reverse…
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There are also things to be learned from stories and poems. A good spirit is vital to a good life and practice. Here is my favorite poem. Richard Lovelace 47. To Lucasta Going to the Warres TELL me not (Sweet) I am unkinde, That from the Nunnerie Of thy chaste breast, and…
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Sharon Friedman - Vigilance and Tranquility 