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  • More on shoulder freedom: Hold hand in hand and keep them straight. Now move them as a unit around and use the locomotive movement as in each shoulder is like a pivot point while you are drawing a big elipse. We do that in systema too, Walk and draw shapes and words with your feet…

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  • OK, Today i woke up tired. Very tired. I allowed for more sleep till I had to get up and as I waited for the water to heat (for the shower, I don’t drink the black stuff) I made the bag for work, bought and ead the paper, made breakfast and lunch for work, got…

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  •  One: walk regularly and start to lower the upper body slowly but keep it perpendicular (I like big words) to the floor. Go till you reach the lowest point you can reach and slowly go up from there, all while walking. This builds endurance and tendon streanth allong with stability. If you have a partner…

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  • Expectation: Let’s assume we can do something and than try to do it ? Maybe it will go fine but maybe not. To me our set of beliefs are like a filter we view the world with. I don’t mean your values but the, I am better than him or green is better than tan…

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  • Last thursday I say something very inspiring and it motivated me to follow suit. A girl in my Ballet class can go down to a bridge, do the splits in the air and most impressive, can hold hand in hand and rotate them from front to back. When you see something like this live is…

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  • I came upon this as I was going to Korindo class and was going down the elevator with my Jo(I opened the evevator door with the end of the Jo). Take a stick and hold it at the end. Start to push objects with it but avoid leaning into it or tensing any part that…

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  • If you have a pull up bar or anything that serves you as one you can enjoy the benefits of rope climbing by using towels. Just wrap two or one around the bar and do pull ups from them. As you and your grip become more comfortable you can climb a long one that was…

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  • Ah Nothing like cold water to wake the body up. If you are tired and need a fast wake up, Just wash your face with cold water or better, douse yourself with a bucket of ice cold water. It will jolt your system and bring up the core heat to a high for a short…

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  • I am assuming you know the Chinese balls routine. The small metal balls that have bells within. You can work on lots of stuff with them. For one you can do the original rolling in the hand having them not touch and make no sound. You can hold them and rotate them with the hand…

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  • Spring or bounce action: There are many ways to load the tendoms in power so you can resue or diver power. As you run or walk you can (with little practice) divert the enrgy or hitting the ground from hip to hip if you move with the breathing rythem and feel the bounce from the…

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