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A fun learning method to learning your balance is to stand on one leg and look around with your eyes. Bend this way and that way, twist and go up and down and counter the mass shift using your tension and your free limbs and head. For example if you are looking down to pick…
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The shoulders and the hips form a rectangle with their four points of movement and support. You can often find a way out or to a bind (small place like a tunnel to rescue a fallen traveler or out or a choke and knife held to your stomach) using your awareness to these points. For…
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Take a pencil and hold it with the sharp end forward and press it into a wall up to the point you feel it is starting to break. Check the angles so you are aware how it handles and use different grips and speed to see how you can move without breaking the pencil. Now…
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Pushing and pulling are usually things we do after we make contact. A push without previous contact is often regarded and treated as a strike by the mind although it is pretty much the same. Work to clean yourself of this clarification by playing with the speed angle and introduction of the push/pull. Start by…
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Lace the fingers together at the back of the neck or the back and have a friend grab you at the arms, neck or anywhere else and you need to walk your way out of the hold. Remember to keep thinking and avoid getting out of a hold and into a strike to the groin.…
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If you want to roll easily and without harming yourself. Relax your feet so they feel light on the ground thorughout the roll and relax your eyes letting them simply see and not look intently at something particular. Simple.
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Hold your hands behind your back standing and move through the prone position and standing a few times. Now sit and roll over your shoulders a few times while holding the hands in this way and check if it helps your relaxation while rolling.
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Breathe without stop and tense your toes, Continue to breathe and every time advance with the tense wave just a bit until your tense on the breath your entire body. Do the same from a different point of origin and on the exhale if you were on the inhale and than RELAX. Sit on the…
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The teeth are very hard and as a result break rather than deform. This is something you need to know and work with when you are working with material harder than your teeth. If you are in a neck hold and bite soft muscles to free yourself it is not a big problem althouth you…
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Patton wrote in his memories that when you give people a goal instead of a way, you will be surprised by how well and innovative they will perform. You can do the same in your practice by putting your partner in an unpleasant situation like several people standing on them (more effecting than the prone…
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Sharon Friedman - Vigilance and Tranquility 