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  • Changing environment drills: 1 Take your rifle and LBE and crawl under your Jeep or whatever vehicles you may have. If you get stuck under, learn to remove and change the gear around you and learn to make your world more than your immediate environment (look around you and note the people and other things…

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  • For the soldiers

    Here is a list by category for infantry soldiers: Basics of movement: 1. Slow walking (a step means to move all of your body and not just moving your mass from one leg to another, both legs should be under you for you to move freely) giving each step 60 breaths and giving it at…

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  • A very simple but important drill. When we become afraid or startled we tend to bring back the neck inside like a turtle. To become aware and to clean this tension out so we can move freely as a whole lie on your back with your legs extended and together. Slowly bring all the parts…

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  • Take a backpack on your back or a suitcase in your hand and walk in a crowd while trying to minimize contact with others. Work with a partner or a few on moving with the backpack while avoiding people who are coming at you and dealing with people trying to grab and hit you. consider…

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  • Progress comes in small steps but realization of it comes in leaps and bounds of imagination once we are clear enough to realize where we are and what we can know from the vantage point. For example you work on moving with your partner for a while on merging with his levers to avoid becoming…

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  • Take a simple water bottle and half fill it. Hold first the narrow tip and slowly move it around you over the head and drawing shapes in the air. Keep the surface of the water perfectly still and your wrist alighned with your forearm. Mind the change in your work afterwards and remember to relax…

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  • Take a stand

    I prefer to work barefoot or with light moccasins. Others depend on their Crocks in the farm for irrigation and quick cleaning and the list goes on and on. Do your regular work with different footwear than what you have in mind and see how you can roll and turn and squat with dancing shoes…

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  • Learning to walk may start with stumbling which is fine and the logical thing to do is to clean out the stumbling from the walk once we are able to. Start with a partner and a stick. Look forward and up and tense and relax shoulders and hips a few times. Now start walking slowly…

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