We break weather we overload our spine or if we completely avoid loading it. Being smart about it will keep us both able and mobile. Let’s start. Make your breath the regulator of beginning and end. The tempo setter. Stand a step away from the wall and place the top of your head on it… Read More Notes from Class: Save your back
Boom Boom Boom is what we expect from a fight scene in a movie or even a knife fight. There is a reason historical swords and harness (plate and shield) are lighter than what we use today. In a fight it is about letting yourself in without letting yourself get hammered. Begin with giving permission… Read More Notes from Class: Letting yourself in
Here is a progression of games to play. They come to bring to light the virtue of continuity and as a quality to change your encounters from collisions to freedom within the meelee. Have a partner place a fist or foot on you. Tense and then relax your frame to achieve two goals. First… Read More Notes from Class: Continuity
Place your body in the push up position on your fists. Keep your torso aligned and breathe. Count sixty breaths as slowly as your body allows. Feel each phase of breathing and only move on when the need arises. Let your pulse come into your awareness all over the body. Let the tension leave naturally… Read More Breath meditation – The long sixty
Your leg is caught by your opponent and you try to pull it back. Your arms are caught by two tall smelly guys in an alley and you try to squirm free. You are caught first in your mind. Let us reverse engineer this paradigm into something that works a shorter route with less derailment… Read More Captured in your mind
It is evident that as we use our muscles and nervous system well, they get better and we move and work in better efficiency and effectiveness. Let us use the same simple but not easy mechanism to improve our awareness to making choices (lead the chariot instead of being one of the horses) and making… Read More Notes from class: Making choices
We walk and look in lines as we are taught. We naturally walk and see in arches and the hold the horizon and gravity has on us amounts to a great lever on our movement. Here are a series of plays to release the hold we manifest from our perception of the horizon and gravity.… Read More Notes from class: Horizons
Here are ten movements that will ease you into greater mobility and health. They require a little bit of time and not extra equipment. The turning turtle – Place yourself on your back and raise all limbs in the air including your head. Breathe and move all your limbs and body to turn back… Read More Ten movements for a healthy mobile back
One of the constants in life is our shape. We hold it as a given with tension and angles and our perception of horizon. Let’s dismantle this chain over us and relearn through awareness and honesty to join in battle instead of clash. Stand and with your inhale, tense the outside line of your frame.… Read More Notes from class: Removing the Frame
