Last post for a while. To help people from suiciding rolling into rock using their heads you simply ask them to roll with one hand on the top of the head and by that they will learn to roll on the soft tissue.  A block in the way can be a boon if you make…

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To protect the body from harm and move well you need to know how things work together. Try this: bring your arms forward in front of you and rotate the arms so the little fingers point to the heavens. Now add the head forward and all together rotate all three back so you end up…

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Today I gave a lesson with two children and it was a lot of fun. They learned to fall and roll quit well, to think under stress “oh it hurts when he sits on me…. So move” and to move in more directions than one at once. Demonstrations and calistenics are also a part and…

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Habits ? All habits are inactive in some way and they contribute or harm without too much thought that goes into it. Can you recall how you brush your teeth ? Get out of bed in the morning ? Pick up the phone from the cradle ? It is very hard to be aware of…

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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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