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  • Try this: Press your hand, leg or fist to a wall. Do it so the muscles flex as they do when you attempt to move something that doesn’t budge. Now try to keep the tention on the contact point and relax the body from that point to the rest of the body. feel with your…

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  • Leg position and rolling: I watched a few people roll and playing with it got me this thought. I roll from my natural position with legs at 90 degrees to each other or I relax the hips and knees to allow my body to reach this position. Some roll with both feet pointing toward the…

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  • Without examples to draw you to my opinion, here are a few questions: Is it always good to react in the same manner. Is there one set that answers all possibilities. Do you react with the same intensity to a child that is bothering you and to a person who is armed and trying to…

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  • Consider a fist coming at you from the side (or you moving so it comes from an angle you want it to) Now raise your hand relaxed with palm down and allow it to drape under the hit and move it so it does no harm. Be mindful to create an angle that will not…

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  • Stand on your knees and place your feet close together so they form a triangle with your knees and lean forward. Does it cause tension in your behind ? It’s due to the push toward the middle each angle creates. Now place them parallel to each other and lean forward. How do you feel now…

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  • As you practice working without panic through a prolonged pause stage in breathin, you can change the situation completly by cupping a hand over your mouth or pinching your nose shut. Later on work on this with a partner. Being able to work calmly when a person is strangling you well will enhance your awareness…

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  • A simple drill to learn to move without attachement to the point you are pushing. Place your hand on your partner and raise one leg so it rest on the fingers (flex in ballet) and now swiftly lower the foot down and use that movement to push your ppartner without connecting the direction (vector) to…

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  • A little thing I explained a few times but this one was understood so here goes: To stand or to be at any point of rest we balance the forces that work. If you tilt forward the muscles have to pull you backwards, right to left and so on. Keeping aligned will lessen the work…

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  • Imagine you have the perfect partner. Your hight and weight. He moves well and he even showers once in a while. Will you learn much from that one repeating moment in time ? Even in this blog I sometimes give half answers and it is good both for me and for the people who read…

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  • First I want to say that what I write comes from my own experience and I do it before I talk about it. Naturally since we are different, some things work better for one type and others do not. This next one is universal since it comes straight from the gene pool of our past,…

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