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  • Ten minutes in ten days. Take each day during this drill a length of land and walk it with no breath. Count your heart beats and monitor them everyday. Learning to listen to yourself is a instant way to increase your awareness and let you know when pushing something or going somewhere may not be…

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  • Open the fingers wide and match finger tip to finger tip in the other hand and press one hand with the other as the other resisting but yielding lightly. Do this with the breathing several times each way. See how your fist closes after you go through this drill and see if there is more…

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  • Start: Learning to hit and to receive contact 4 basics slow 60 breaths up and 60 breaths down 4 basics swift 1-4 Inhale- exhale- pause 8 rolls 8 hold arm statically and step to only create contact with no pressing to your standing partner. The idea is to learn your distance without having to shift…

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  • Perspective

    Consider why some of the experienced people are calm. The person in front of you has a knife and is trying to stab you with it. 1 there is a hospital nearby and people in shouting distance that might care for me 2 I can see the knife and it is not in me, there…

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  • If you need to motivate yourself to do something it means you are not paying attention. Take for example the push up. On your fists, on a stick, from ropes, legs in the air, on a wall and so on. Inhale going down, no breath at all, one arm at a time, of a partner…

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  • That Distance

    People have notion from dishonest practice about their abilities that can prove fetal. Working in high speed on a low speed simulated attack or working hard against a complaint partner results in allusions of abilities that do not match what will happen if someone does not play by your rules. Have a partner with an…

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  • Start walking and have a partner walk behind you or behind you and a bit to the side as long as you do not have him or her in your field of sight. Show your partner how to use the widening part of the wrist as a crook or hook and have him use it…

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  • A very simple two people drill. One person stands and can only move his arms straight from the shoulder at a slow pace. Person number two needs to touch his body to the standing person body while avoiding getting touched by the moving straight arms. Consider each arm to be a knife and remember one…

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  • Let us compare how we release a tense muscle or spasm compared to how we release a hold or lever on us: 1 Note how we are held or tensed up what is happening when we move and how does it feel 2 Start small relaxed movement in the free parts of us along with…

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