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First he or she needs to understand that in hitting each other we help ourselves clean out fear of the unknown and fear of contact and are actually making ourselves healthier. Next simply do a few pushing drills such as: using your fists to roll someone on the ground, do push ups on each other,…
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Take a partner and stand touching him. Now take one step backwards and mind the space between you. Take another step and again mind the gap so to speak. Do this until you feel you are completely out of reach for him and relax. Now take a gun or a knife (use a practice piece…
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Two good variations for knife defense are sitting on your behind with your legs stretched in front of you and sitting on the shins and knees with the behind high in the air. You stay or sway a bit in these two starting positions and your partner comes at you with a stab or a…
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Many people practice knife work as if they were eating toast or watching a film on their television set. It is the goal to stay relaxed during such danger but many ignore the danger instead of making their peace with it. Work in a group of at least three with a rope and a stick…
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Have a partner take your head or limbs and start to lever them gently. Note to move with him before the point of discomfort and way before the pain to illustrate survival movement to avoid damage to yourself. As you move and blend in his movement tense and relax the part that is levered (neck,…
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1. Start in one of the positions of the four basics: push up, sitting, flat on the ground, standing or squatting and in this position tense and relax each part in turn choosing to start either within the inhale or the exhale. 2. Do 30 of each of the four basics and in every 10 tense…
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A lot of the work people do is aimed at taking a person from standing to a kneeling or prone position in some swift fancy manner. The partner usually works to stay upright or attempts to reverse the job when pressed. Consider one is pushing you backwards or forward from your back and your upper…
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Have a partner hold you against the wall with a knife or come and stab and slash you and your job is to first relax and move with the knife as to survive (if the knife moves from up to down you move down with it in some way and adding another movement of your…
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Work on your tensing up and relaxing of parts and in waves during the positions the four basics provide and see how you learn about the natural tension which holds you in place and how to work from it. For example sitting with legs straight forward and an upright back, tensing everything and relaxing one…
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Do this drill starting with sitting on your behind, go to sitting on one knee and than squatting and standing and than in motion. Start sitting one facing the other side by side and have your partner push you in some way (remember to include the face and neck in this drill) as he pushes…
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Sharon Friedman - Vigilance and Tranquility 