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An important principle in systema is do no harm and keep that in mind for this next tactic. Approach from the wrong angle. Consider a stab from the side and move towards it as you conceal your knife withing the body movement and than slide the knife on the body frame to the people you…
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Here’s a silly trick. Hold onto your foot with the opposite side hand and roll on the shoulder of that hand holding onto the leg. Nice eh ? Try simply to place the foot on the floor and than rolling at start and later as you give your battle cry and holding something with the…
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To learn to be relaxed and solid yet free with your hits, try to walk on your fists and feet with belly up. It will both give you endurance and free your shoulders and neck if you pay them attention and will teach you to hit well since you need to do this quietly. No…
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Stand in front of a mirror and station your head in relation to the space you have, so and so from this point and so on. Now change your perspective to your head in relation to your body as you move the body but keep the head imobile. Switch from one perspective to the next…
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* reverse vector is a term taken from navigation. It means the opposite direction or going back on your tracks. Ig you are rolling forward than point your fingers to where you are going. They don’t have to be rigid unless you find it useful for your movement or they can point to where you…
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There is one girl in my ballet class that has natural flexibility that is amazing. She can do the splits in the air and a bridge without effort. She is also pretty and a great person but that is not the point right now 🙂 Consider this if you are rolling and finding that you…
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To relax and learn to move freely try this. Lie down and sink each body part as you inhale or exhale into the ground. Move the neck free from the head. The forearm free from the hand or shoulder and so on. This in itself has a good effect on you but try this too…
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Try this. Relax the diagfram down and let the air come in. Let it rest inside and when you feel the time is right relax it again in the other direction. This is the least amount of effort and a very relaxing way to breath. Expand this to the rest of the body in slow…
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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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Sharon Friedman - Vigilance and Tranquility 