Theme for this cycle: Moving and Striking with a Weapon Area of Focus: Review/Validation Class Objective(s): We’re going to run through what we’ve covered and review anything anyone would like Breathing Exercises: 20 push-ups 20 squats 20 leg-lifts Joint Mobility Exercises: Figure-8 push-ups and elliptical pushups (5 ea). Side lunges – back and forth Work Read More …
When you begin training it’s natural to wonder how you are doing. Â The simplest way to find out is to look at others, to compare yourself to someone. Â Following are 4 types of comparisons you can make. Â I will show you how to effectively use each comparison in your training. 1) Self to Ideal/Paragon Whatever Read More …
Before I begin, I have a follow-up to the centipede poem from last time: A one- legged dragon meets the centipede (after his run-in with the toad). He asks the centipede, “How do you manage all those legs, I can’t even manage one.” Centipede wisely answers, “I don’t manage them.” When I studied technique-based martial arts, it Read More …
Example of how a lesson plan is subject to modification for the benefit of the students. Read More …
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. Â Vladimir demonstrated an idea. 2. Â Then I grabbed a partner and began working on the lesson, with varying degrees of success. 3. Â 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 …
