http://systemablog.blog.com/ en-GB Sun, 12 Oct 2008 14:18:14 +0200 Sun, 12 Oct 2008 14:18:14 +0200 Blog.com http://systemablog.blog.com/3990216/ http://systemablog.blog.com/3990216/ When we receive a hit we breath it out but if we cannot breath because we are gagged, chocked or underwater we need to use movement to let the strike move and clear out. Start by breathing normally and having your partner stop you at any time according to what he sees as right (too much air, too little or anything that catches the eye) now start by pushing and as you hold your breath you move just enough to move the hit out, down or up and away. Keep this until you cannot hold your breath anymore and than change places. Do this for a while and than do a few rolls to clean the body of accumulated tension and repeat the drill using hits. Build this slowly to avoid harming each other and allow yourself to move freely without judgement to find out more about your movement under tension. This is not a complex drill but simple is not always easy. ransuru Sun, 12 Oct 2008 16:05:49 +0200 http://systemablog.blog.com/3988178/ http://systemablog.blog.com/3988178/ Take your normal street or place you live in and walk a known stretch of it during the day. Stop every 100 meters or as many double steps it takes you to pass 100 meters and look back at the road your took and look for places where you are seen but do not see the observer yourself. Wait till dusk and cover the same stretch of land in the same direction and note how the play of light and shadow creates different blind spots and artificial illumination disrupts the perception of distance and height. Now repeat the drill at full darkness and if your breath changes in speed and depth. Listen to your heart beats and take more time to stop and look back not just into the shadows but to the illumination and what comes off it. Remember to take note of not only what you see but what is missing. Do you have different sounds than during the day, do the people dress differently and what is the minimal range from which you can identify a person or a vehicle ?

Count your breaths during a stretch of land like a 100 meters or so and compare it to the same distance in dusk and at night. Realizing you are afraid or with some sight problems can eliminate a lot of the problem. You can calm your breath only once you realize you are breathing too fast. You can do everything as long as you remain honest with yourself. ransuru Sat, 11 Oct 2008 19:52:13 +0200 http://systemablog.blog.com/3977482/ http://systemablog.blog.com/3977482/ Take a stick and hold it in a comfortable distance between the hands. Now with both hands bring the hands apart as if you are working to lengthen the stick and bring all the tension to the hands and fingers and work to keep the neck and shoulders free to move. Do this a few times in different heights and with palms facing either up or down and after this tense in any directions you choose and as you keep the tension move one hand in or out using the fingers and the palm as you keep the tension on the same level smooth. Do this using both hands and remember that if you look down or into your hands to monitor them you are learning to ignore the information they are sending you all the time and ignoring the many benefits of seeing people and other animals come and go. The other thing to note is that if you look down you tense the neck and it affects your entire body. Learn to give support and to work as you give support and you will be able to control more than yourself over time. For example if you can both give the impression of being held at the neck as your arm supports your breathing you will be more able to deploy  a firearm or to escape the hold when it is appropriate. Sometimes it is better to do the work without a crowd but for this you have to stay calm and keep breathing. ransuru Wed, 08 Oct 2008 17:16:19 +0200 http://systemablog.blog.com/3971542/ http://systemablog.blog.com/3971542/ Swing your arm from the shoulder back and forth. Note your hand and see if it rotates a bit naturally if the shoulder is relaxed and the movement comes from the body. Note if your elbow is also moving on the axis of the elbow. Now place your fist over the height of your shoulder and let it drop either on the wall or your partner's chest. Let the forearm advance naturally and avoid keeping it in a fixed angle from the arm and you will gain a lot of relaxation and effect. Let the shoulder rotate a little so you are more comfortable and more whip can travel from the body to the fist to the target and keep it relaxed and let it sink or move if you are hitting a wall or your partner is tensed up. If you feel a bounce coming back it means your fist is too tight as well.

It is better to work in pairs or threes and count the hits each one makes so your mind is not asleep as you work. ransuru Tue, 07 Oct 2008 13:55:51 +0200 http://systemablog.blog.com/3969704/ http://systemablog.blog.com/3969704/ Place a stick on the back of your neck and support it with your wrists so your body is free to move and any bend in the spine is shown through this. Have your partner swing a stick to tap your shins and knees lightly so you feel the impact of hard on hard and than have him swing at your legs. You move either inward or outward with a step and lift the other leg in place (where your body is) and keep moving with it to both deflect the stick (letting it move on it's course and adding something to it) and completing the second step and keep walking or running according to what is needed. A few suggestions are to change the angle between you both so you avoid aligning yourself with the stick and getting hit harder (do not face either the partner or the stick, find a path to walk), avoid defending the air and do not face the stick with your shin but deflect right away. Keep moving and not just in one direction. Turn and it will help you survive the hit without harm and remember, if you can avoid it altogether it is better but if not, do not let it become important and just keep moving and changing your line of sight. ransuru Mon, 06 Oct 2008 23:42:50 +0200 http://systemablog.blog.com/3964955/ http://systemablog.blog.com/3964955/ A small note on flattening the blade on the body. Note if you are taking a step to avoid harm you may be placing all your mass on the other leg and actually pivoting rather than walking. Pay attention to the other leg and let it relax under you so your body remains relaxed, you remain alive and you can actually move rather than pivot.

Work on multi-directional stabs such as upwards and in so your tension is brought to the surface. ransuru Sun, 05 Oct 2008 10:45:08 +0200 http://systemablog.blog.com/3960738/ http://systemablog.blog.com/3960738/ Have a partner hold your hand and you work on moving up and down and walking without letting him know you are moving. Every time he feels you move (you can make him honest by closing or covering his eyes) he hits you by leg or by arm. Next have him relax his arm and shoulder but still hold your hand and you work with your free hand and arm to find out all the options you have to lever him by relaxing and feeling where the tension lies and where you can move. Again keep the shaken hand in place although you can move your body as long as he does not feel the movement in the hand.
This drill comes to learn to lever and to keep one of his points of reference stable. Why do we do this ? Try to work on levering each other by holding one arm with both of yours and moving both of them. Your partner will find it easier to follow with his body and stay free than if he has one point that is stable and the rest is moving. Work on experiencing the levers on you and remember not to press with your arm alone. You freeze and get hurt this way. Just relax it and walk. ransuru Fri, 03 Oct 2008 19:33:43 +0200 http://systemablog.blog.com/3960661/ http://systemablog.blog.com/3960661/ To learn to find and use pressure points as people call them or tension points as they are in structure, simply have a partner lie on the ground and roll forward using just light touch of your finger tips. Relax your wrist as you do the elbow in hitting and allow it to sink and roll into the body to encourage the partner to roll. Remember to keep yourself comfortable in order to be aware and than repeat with you facing away from him and roll him backwards as you squat and walk with no knee contact with the ground. This way you learn to use this with some tension already in the mix and you learn not to sacrifice your alignment in order to chase a spot. ransuru Fri, 03 Oct 2008 18:59:16 +0200 http://systemablog.blog.com/3957064/ http://systemablog.blog.com/3957064/ Have a partner walk around and through you. You work on staying free from focusing on him with your eyes and add a hand or two moving on your body or to your head in a way which is not speedy or aggresive. In this way you learn to move so you can more easily survive without increasing the intensity of the conflict. For example you can dust off your sleeve, adjust your glasses or streatch. Avoid lifting a hand and forgeting about it. Keep moving and have purpose in your movement. It is easier to be alive than to come back to life.

Let your fear help but avoid letting it control you. ransuru Thu, 02 Oct 2008 18:53:13 +0200 http://systemablog.blog.com/3954893/ http://systemablog.blog.com/3954893/ We are used to articulate ourselves with our mouths fingers and feet at the phone, the wheel, the levers and so on. Work on gaining more awareness and control by drawing the numbers in the air using your elbows, shoulders, knees and heels while on the ground and than standing. First draw 1-20 and than after you go though the list, do the same numbers only now draw from the opposite direction meaning by starting to draw from where you previously ended and remember you can use your body to move the focus by walking you draw a line in the air with your every point. Keep this in mind as you work. ransuru Thu, 02 Oct 2008 01:09:15 +0200