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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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When working with a sword or any other long tool, it can help to consider your place in space. If you are training with a Katana or Shashka move as to not hurt your mates. For example if you need to turn and strike at the back, you can swipe from overheadin an arch that…
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Try this: squat and try to fell your friends (1 or 2 also squating) if one is fell than he should try to take the one that fell him with him. this is fun, builds a healthy body and movement and will teach you to work without leaning on others and taking yourself out of…
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hold hand in hand (fingers not interlacing so you have to keep the tension rather than rely on structure) and mimic the action of the push up, the pull up and all around the body. Keep the ressistance even and change direction as to which pulls and which pushes to work all angles. I have…
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Aliveness or density to me means that you Have awareness to all your nerves and tissues and are at a balance of posture and tension. Try this: shake your hands up and down like wiping water from them. Keep the movement in the hands and don’t have it afect the rest of the body. Now…
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Hip freedom: First with a friend have him put his hands on the sides of your hips and start to slowly move you. There should be no ressistance and he should move you up and down, side to side, tilting one hip up and out, thrusting and so on. keep the work multi dimentional and…
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Stand in front of a mirror and lift one arm. Shake your hand vigorusly and try to free the rest of the body so it will not affect the neck and other parts for example. The same idea can be done with some weight in hand such as a bucket of water before you douse…
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We are not even creatures. For example my left hip has more freedom than my right and my left hand is more agile than the other. We need to recognize our long and short comings inside and outside and live accordingly and develop. If I have a tendency to start juggling with my left hand,…
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An important thing my teacher said today “You have to teach so the beginner and the advanced both understand” To me that means staying humble and working with principle. he said it very elequently in my opinion.
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Sharon Friedman - Vigilance and Tranquility 