Tak ! Try this first with closed eyes. Start pressing a finger into each other and you move without any ressistance not giving any support to the poker. Later move to two directions at once and remember that even if it is a wave of the arm it originates from the core. If you are…

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Try this, lie on your stomach and hold your heels with your hands. Now crawl forward and backwards and than try to roll right and left. If you feel comfortable have a friend roll you forward and backwards. This is just one way to let yourself know where you are tense at the moment. The…

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To move without being noticed you have to be calm on the inside. If you are afraid of possible outcomes or invest too much in it than you are creating tension within you and the other person will feel it. It manifest in the way you move and where you look. If you focus your…

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Try a few simple ways to move without your arms. It of course involves moving your shoulders and arms but without being supported by them. Try getting up and down to a sitting and than a prone position both on your back and chest. Move from prone to sitting by sliding on the hips so…

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One very nice way to use “invisibe hits” is to step away from an approach just enough but leave the leg or arm behind and so the person you work with. Do so with the thought to end the fight but don’t put too much in it because you may need to do more. Another…

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OK, There are many ways to relax under touch and in this case veriety is good so you do not categorise it and than exculde the rest from the “ok zone” so walk roll fall and hit in various ways and in different positions. If you have several people to give attention to one that…

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Try this movement drill: Step and hit but advance (meaning keeping the initiative, not moving forward blindly) without automatically retracting your arm or leg. This gives you both mental pressure on the people you work with and keeps you from missing on opportunities to finish and go home. One example would be to hit, grab…

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This is a very good drill to develop natural movement. Have two people hit and lever at you at a speed that is a bit over what you feel comfortable at and do this for a while with additions such as hands held together or legs tied with a string at a small distance. Vary…

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This is an example of a usefull mindset.  I was stuck in a post were you had to walk 35 km to and from every time you got out. We had to carry everything on us in addition to the regular gear so we kept it light. In order to make use of one small…

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A great movement I adopted and modified from a book about Russian ballet: Lie on your stomach and put your hands on the back of the neck with straight legs. Now lift up and look forward and go down. Modify by looking to either side and change the hand placement. Once this is done put…

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