Author: Brad Scornavacco

Week 3 Integration work – we added mass attack to moving/striking/weapon. Read More …

Early in my Systema training the following exchange happened regularly: 1.  Vladimir demonstrated an idea. 2.  Then I grabbed a partner and began working on the lesson, with varying degrees of success. 3.  As I worked through the material things would start to click and I’d rattle off a few moves that worked seamlessly and Read More …

Theme for this cycle: Moving and Striking with a Weapon Area of Focus: Form/Posture Class Objective(s): We’re going to work on what good form is and how we lose it and how we get it back One of the situations we’ll work through is being attacked with a knife We will start to draw our Read More …

Class #3 of the first 2013 training cycle. Read More …

First Thursday of this cycle – we were still working on moving and striking with weapons. Read More …

These are the class notes from Tuesday, 08 Jan 2013. The first class of the first full cycle in 2013. Read More …

The following interview is about our new DVD Tension and Relaxation: Secrets of Overcoming Larger, Stronger and Resistant Attackers:  

In case you haven’t heard of The Second City, it is a  comedy troupe that started in Chicago (2nd Largest U.S. City behind New York for years, and my hometown)way back in 1959. Second City was the “training ground for a host of famous alumni including John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, Mike Myers, Bill Murray, Gilda Read More …

Some more footage I found from the Defense in a Chair class: