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With a knife (a tool like all others) Move it around you in cuts and stabs. Remember how a bread knife works and apply what you learned there to this. You will not cut well in a simple arch. You have to draw the blade through it. That is why knives that have bellies (curve)…
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Moving from the core ? Lie on your back and place your arms along your torso. tense and relax each part of the arm and keep it solid from the elbow. meaning it nor stiff nor mushy. Just alive with the right amount of nerve activation (You felt this if you ever played with a…
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Don’t have a routine. It’s just another master that tells you what to do. If your plan doesn’t fit the moment and you want to work on something else or change the place, whatever, do what you belive in. Let the principle guide you and don’t feel sorry for yourself and by DOING the answer…
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Simple. Stand up with feet pointing forward and rise to your toes without leaning to any side and go back a few times. Be mindfull of even the tiniest tilt or roll. Now rise on your heels and afterwards do the same with feet pointing to the side. Take note of which parts of you…
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May times we will be concerned about our way. Does it really work? Am I spending my time properly ? Ask yourself these questions honestly and see what you come up with. Do not take this as a set course or something we do. For example if you had a bad day in class and…
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Many times the simple concepts are the hardest to apply. Today I let my students to hold and pin me and than released and returned. The purpose being to show that with natural movement and a calm mind you can see and do a lot in a place where others tense up. I also had…
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Notice as you squat: Do you back away your behind ? Try to squat and especially slow squat with a direct down motion with the end of the spine pointing down and the hips and behind muscles alive (as in you are aware of it fully) and aligned with the rest of the body. As…
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Getting lost can be a positive experience if you can keep the inner relaxation. Consider a tough guy with big muscle out in the desert. If he is free inside to navigate by the stars and realize he is mortal and move in the night and use for example his urine as liquid (living is …
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Sitting or standing, shake your hands for a while and than relax them and breathe. Feel the blood flowing through the hand and filling it. Once your hands feel heavy go up the arm and once the arm is heavy, lift it overhead without raising the shoulder to keep the movement economical and free and…
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Take a real knife and work slow. Bring the knife at you in a slash, stab or flat hit and with the other hand avoid being cut (to the body head or limbs) and remove the knife. Start very slowly and use this to become aware of the knife parts and the hand and how…
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