The fist: To grow and maintain a healthy strong hand there are many good drills. Here are a few of them: Do the static push up on the fists flat on the floor. Do not lock your elbows to keep from harming yourself and spread the mass on the whole fist. Walk on your hand…

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If you get up with stiff shoulders and tensing and relaxing them with breath still leaves some untouched spots, try this: put your hands together at the back and put them on a wall a chair or whatever can support them and let your body  lower itself and start to move in that lowered position.…

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Doors. Most of us “encounter” this contraption in many form throughout the day. Each time we go through a sliding door, a regular hinged door, a revolving door and even an electric eye door we get a chance to learn about ourselves. As you go for the handle check if you are standing in a…

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After each roll there is a get up at it’s proper time. Experiment how you do so on a regular roll over the shoulder and than add to it. Try rolling with straight legs so you end up with legs ahead of you on the ground and see if there is momentoun you can use…

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Try breathing as loudly as you can like a horrid clearing of the throat. Now slowly lessen the sound you are making till there is none, you hear and repeat. It’s the same as tensing up to learn to relax only audiobly rather than muscular. Another thing would be to open hand slap your sides…

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A very simple drill that will help you relax when working with tension and let’s face it, your own tension. Tense up the body in different forms. On the ground, hands before you and at the sides and back, head bent and so on and as you relax and breath move in a wave like…

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The way you align your fist and forearm when you hit depends on what lines you choose to follow. When we approach a person walking we usually reference ourselves in space in the direction and distance between ourselves and object and the people. If you rely on a person to gauge your place in space…

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One last note: Consider moving away from an attack or creating a void to suck in the other party and than hitting that space. do so by yourself and see if you are leaning into that created void yourself. It is a good practice with the body and with tools too.

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The bridge and back bridge which I started to explore a few weeks ago are good in introducing you to new tensed places in your shoulder hips and neck. Make sure you act with care as you place your weight on your neck and grow into it gradually. an easy way to do this is…

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As easy way to learn to walk freely with your lower body free from the direction of the upper body is t ostart wallking slowly and lowering the torso while upright so you are walking low. The advancing leg should be brought fingers toward the direction you intend to move no matter where the body…

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