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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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To breath better under stress try this: Lower or hang your head on your chest and puff breath swiftly as you shake your body up and down with the breaths. Keep your mouth closed unless you exhale and inhale through the nose. With the rocking motion and the position you are in it will be…
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Compansating when something is broken or hurts is a good way to see what you can do with say just one hand or leg. Try going about for 5 minutes with just one eye and than the other. Now perforrm any usuall task on one leg and than on the other. Try to roll from…
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Sometimes it of use to know the distance between yourself and a car another person and the like. Take a few minutes to do this and you will have a tool to approximate this distance. Your hands have a fixed distance between this finger and that and a fixed distance to each finger and knuckle.…
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An easy addition to your work can be made by holding a stick between the arm and the body and turning it here and there with the other arm. Explore what you can do and how you feel the body work together to reach your goal. Check how many places you can snag with and…
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As a general note try to count your steps one day wherever you go. At least a few times during some activity you choose and it will help you use your body more completely and stay calm and analitical during a time you see as stressful. As an example count your friend steps as he…
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To keep yourself humble and aware try this: Stand in your own conversational distance from a partner (note that your good distance is not another’s so later switch and become aware of that difference in movement psicology) Now put your hands at the lower back and take turns with light slaps to the head and…
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Sharon Friedman - Vigilance and Tranquility 