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  • 1.       Wrapping: something comes your way as an arm ending with a fist and you move your body walking or on the ground hips and shoulders in sync and wrap your limbs around it as you continue to move. 2.       bringing in: you move with your body and limbs to press the closest part of…

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  • We work in this video solo and with partners to learn to move different points in the body freely and how we can remain free and relaxed even under tension holds and more. At the end we show how to mask your skill so no one will know what you know.

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  • Have a partner walk around the area you are working in and avoid making contact with you. Walk after him or her and see how your movement affect his choice of direction and speed and on the other hand how his avoidance controls your movement. Repeat the drill with no working on paying attention to…

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  • From a few steps away point your finger toward your partner (and former friend’s ) eye and start moving slowly toward him with the intent of making contact with the eye ( keep the speed low). Your partner needs to: 1. Keep breathing 2. move toward you instead of away from you 3. Keep his…

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  • Do this once a week and see how what this gives you. Six push ups Six straight back sit ups Six leg raises overhead Six squats with back perpendicular to the ground All done in the pace of sixty breaths down and another sixty up. Do this and see your awareness grow and your body…

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  • LETTING THEM IN

    It is easy to rely on the support of the bottom in the shallow water but once you are deep you must learn to swim. We rely on deflecting, guiding and manipulation in conversation physical fights and in our own heads and hearts. That works great as long as everything is under control and logical…

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  • Death is scary to most people but not to all. For some it is the cliff we are thrown over once our time here is done while to other it is the door to another adventure. To me death is the lack of life and as such it is evident in every moment of self-neglect…

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  • In this video we go over a four stage drill to note how using both logic emotion and body sense cannot always get the job done. Sometimes you must have faith. Stages: 1 letting the strike make contact and simply following it on its way to you without any guidance or direction. Just contact. 2…

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  • A student asked how do I approach this idea of stepping out of the line of the attack: Getting out of an incoming direction is one sided. We re-act to another persons actions and are defensive in nature. To avoid this we can use a few changes in our state of mind and body awareness.…

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