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  • four breath drills to thrive each day

    Here are four drills to use throughout your day. They come to make your systems work better with one another and offer smoother sailing without extra energy involved. When you intend to speed things up or expect the need to move under pressure (running up the stairs or facing an enemy in the ditches), Increase…

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  • Ask smaller questions – be faster, deeper and healthier

    What does it mean to ask smaller questions? It means to find a heading instead of a destination, a way of life instead of a martial art and joy instead of fear. The martial artist prepares the body for combat, prepares the spirit for the clash and the heart for trial. The one who lives…

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  • Three methods of hand/wrist work

    In this piece we will explore three methods of hand work for a more capable and healthy hand and wrist. Wall work Stand a step away from a wall and place the flats of your fingers on the wall. Press your body gradually to the wall with increasing activation in the hand and wrist to…

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  • hunting with your kid

    Here are several drills to practice with yourself and with your child or friends. These come to open your mind to the input of the senses and to allow the connection between you and your surroundings to thrive. Walk with your kid and choose an object to find first. First choose one item such as…

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  • Crowd Knife work

    Crowd Knife work

    Here are ten knife drills to do in a group: Place a knife on your body without your partners seeing (blade on body is not advised) and walk calmly. Have your partners work to bump and touch you while walking in a casual manner and find out where the knife is. You work is to…

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  • Ten books to open a window to your soul

    Here are ten books to open a deeper portal to yourself. Through knowing ourselves we achieve freedom and are able to bring more good to our lives and the lives of those who surround us. Diary Of A Baby: What Your Child Sees, Feels, And Experiences – Learn the process of formation and patching things…

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  • Empty

    Empty

    At times we find ourselves with no reserves. No luck or shoulder to fall on. A moment of emptiness and void. A singularity with no shade as it casts no light. Sometimes time drags us out of the void and sometimes the gear wheels of habit take us forward but not beyond that moment. Trauma…

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  • building smoothness

    Here are eight partner drills to build and hone your efficient and effective movement patterns. Don’t search for the key. Be the key maker. walk and breathe continuously. Have a partner throw a ball at you as you walk. Your job is to move out of the way and intercept the ball in flight. Do…

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  • The tennis ball gym

    A tennis ball is small and light and easy to carry around even through the crazy show airports are today 🙂 Here are ten simple drills to do with one or more tennis balls you can do in a hotel room or almost anywhere and keep your nervous systema and body honed. Take one tennis…

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  • in the army every day is leg day

    Walk Run jump drag (people) push pull carry Keep breathing and let the input come to you.

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