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We usually work with the tools we are used to whether it is you pocket pen or your training stick which is light and smooth. Take an extra long and heavy stick which is not straight or smooth (a metal tent post for large tents is perfect and it is rusty as well 🙂 )…
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Take the sit up and the leg raise and mind the direction and twisting of your hands as you go through the movement. This will tell you if you are tensing or moving your shoulders and chest without you noticing it or as an uncontrollable response and from awareness comes relaxation and control. Pay attention…
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To help a partner relax the tension in his striking limbs and body have him attack you over and over again and you simply move away and place the stick in the way of his movement. As he accumulates the impact on his hard surfaces such as bones and joints he will learn to naturally…
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When we breathe and move it is a long line of levers and pulleys which lets the movement happen. If you want to place your fist in someone’s stomach than think of the least amount of levers you have to work to get the job done and than the energy will move better with less…
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A very simple drill to learn to relax and move from the body breath. Start from the up position of the static push up and use your breath and body to jump in the air leaving all four limbs at the same time. Do this with the thumbs toward all four corners and learn to…
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Hold your breath and start doing a simple movement as hip circles or neck bows and so on. Let all the accumulated tension from the breath hold come out through this movement and take yourself a little further than you are used to. Work on doing this drill using your entire body part by part…
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Take a chair and slowly sit down and get up from it as you maintain your eye sight level and as comfortable as possible. Have a partner take a pencil or a pen and as you sit down and get up he will place obstacles in your way and you will have to keep moving…
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Place your hand on your partner’s eyes and move his gaze so his whole body is effected by it. For example you feel he is tense toward the downward movement so you move to the side and up and he is in your control. From this uncomfortable situation (keep moving him and moving yourself) he…
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Place your hands in your pockets and go for a walk. Climb up and down some stairs with your eyes closed and over low fences and hedges. Move over or under rocks and limbs of trees and note to yourself how your body wishes to reach out and make contact and how you manage to…
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Take a partner and one stick and start moving the stick using anything but your hands (make fists) From time to time pass the stick without stopping. Relax and continue as you pass the stick in different ways and while minding your eyes (do you look at the stick or the ground or let your…
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Sharon Friedman - Vigilance and Tranquility 