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Our brains are composed of layers. They have names which carry meanings for every breathing human. The trick is to have the layers working together and not against one another. conformity, Fear, anger, pain. All of them are tools and energy to be used or discarded at the right time. We all make these choices.…
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Take an attack and watch each and every martial art have their own response to it. Many have similarities and all have their own twists on the answer to the question, Will this be my last day? When asked a question, we also answer it with our own filters of what exists. Our own paradigms…
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The mechanics of pushing and pulling are simple and obvious. We create a platform of tension whether dynamic or static using our frame and from that we use body and limbs and sometimes our heads to apply pressure extending and contracting our muscles and through our joints and bone structure. Things are more complex as…
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We are so used to pain and tension that we do not even know how it is possible to live without it. One example is the high level of tension in the legs and how it affects the hips turnout and our mobility and general health. The way to press this excess out of the…
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There are lessons that can be taught by words and others that require experience to blend together, thought, feeling and sensation. One such lesson is that of the meat hook or any hook once it sinks in our flesh or makes that needle like entrance in our skin. I recall no fondly moving through the…
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Tension is vilified. Tension is maligned. Tension is vital to everyone’s life. Working with tension is vital to all martial. Resisting partners, heavy tools, hard ground. All these promote our awareness to our own tension and when to use it and when to discard the tension or in my own phrasing, the structure of tension.…
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We all practice the knowledge of space when walking, driving, dancing and fighting. Getting to know your own space while in combat gives us the ability to welcome a contact, move away and time the alignment, tension and movement to maintain freedom in a fight or a contact. From the first step each of us…
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I often tell my students to avoid acting like a drum. Reacting is also a choice and we can choose otherwise. The drum is passive, makes sound only once hit and makes sound due to the tension of its surface. Like the drum, all of us at times are tense, reactive and it is visible…
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Many times, we attempt to recreate something that already exists. Many martial arts today have gun disarm drills they invented, knife defense and attack they invented and much more that was already in existence the first time a man took a rock in his hand and threw it at his brother. Studying what worked for…
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Sharon Friedman - Vigilance and Tranquility 