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  • Take a broom stick and hold it overhead. Walk around and pay attention to the feeling in your feet as you move the stick around and the balance of the mass and muscle tension shifts constantly. Now sit down and get up and note how you can do this as you use the broom to…

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  • Close your eyes and let your partner come at you and touch or hold or strike you in various places. As you become aware of it. Tense up your body and breathe. Do this many times and every time lessen the tension bit by bit or tense only parts of you and this will aid…

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  • concentrate on the feet next time you roll from standing to the ground. Roll slowly with eyes closed and check if you are bracing your feet to support an imbalanced position as you hesitate or tense up with fear against the fall. Breathe and relax from the feet and note if the roll is different…

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  • Choose a task from cleaning your rifle to making breakfast for the children and do it all in breath pauses between breaths and recovery. This can prepare you for getting people out of toxic enviroments and the like. remember it is not what you do that counts the most but the deliberation.

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  • Have a partner grab you in many different ways (hand, neck arm and so on) and as he grabs or levels pay attention to where is he leading you and what are the directions he is strong in and weak in. Now add a push or a pull to this and as they start to…

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  • This is a very simple drill, simple is not easy. have two or more friends try to pull and push you toward a destination. It can be anything and your job is to escape and stay at another point using only evading and positioning such as slipping away, escaping from holds and the like. The…

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  • Take a piece of wood and tie one of your fingers straight with it. Do an entire lesson or go through some of your regular actions while in this bind and learn to work with a broken finger. Do the same for the toes and the knees and remember you have to find a way…

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  • Take a chain or rope that reaches the ground when you hold it like a jump rope in both hands and start to move your hands on the chain toward the center without making noise as you go backwards and forward over the chain constantly. As you do this, keep your eyes relaxed on what…

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  • A small tip, If you want to keep your hands healthy on rough surfaces like sharp stones or dirty floors, use a pair of old socks held in your hands to protect your fists from breaking skin and getting infected. If you have delicate skin you can use this as a start and build the…

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  • Have two partners with knives stand on either side of you and they will decide on their own if they want to push you toward the other or work using the knife with you. You need to read their intention and to survive when you are pushed toward the partner with the knife. It is…

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