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Learning to use your feet well by doing it wrong. There is a low abrasive shufle drunks and very tired people use and yet they do not fall. Try this: Start moving forward from the hips to the thigh to the shin and than roll the foot forward slowly rolling the foot still on the…
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Knife drill: Consider what happens when one leg has been taken out, broken or otherwise. If you only stand on one leg than your movement is limited and keep in mind which hand holds the knife. The one on the side of the standing leg or the other since your axis is different now and…
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Tension: Try to tense up and relax the muscles in various ways. First from the feet moving up to the head and relax in reverse. Than from top to bottom and relax. Now tense up indevidual parts and in different ways. Notice how if you tense the fist than the biceps tenses too and in…
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Setting roots: Many times a day we position ourselves in a way that pacilitates stress. Watching the news on the television as we are sitting leaning forward and our neck warped or eating too much in one mean and carrying that load around all day sweating and bloated. Taking care of ourselves is not just…
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Stick holding and placement. There is a nice joke about sword manuals saying apply sword to other… As for the stick start with yourself. Hold it very tightly in your hand or hands and stay till you tire. Now check hich level of hold allows you to move without extra effort and move from there.…
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Relaxation via tension. Consider this: Do you trust blindly what your teacher has to say ? Does he want you to ? I hope we all want to know more and understand through living. God can tell us to do and than understand and we should leave this unto him (err her it ?) .…
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I have wrote about this before but here is another pointer. Try to walk slow doing the job of a hunter and see using 1 minute steps how the step originates from the hip rather than the foot. It is of course important to be aware of all your parts but the core is the…
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One thing you can always use is taking away some freedom to find out how much more you can do with the rest. closing your eyes is the first and obvious one. You can limit you other sensory input by wearing thick gloves and much more. In the realm of mobility working with hands in…
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Beware of a dead man: To survive and live after a fight you have to bring it to the end. If you shoot, break. hit, choke or lock an person or more than it does not mean they are out of the game. Even a man with a bullet through the heart can still operate…
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Being able to be both proud and humble is a tricky job. Start by being tense and relaxed at the same time. Have a partner come at you with one tensed up attack (a rigid hand striking hard at the head for eg) and one relaxed one (a whip hit to the groin) and simply…
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Sharon Friedman - Vigilance and Tranquility 