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Virginia Combat Systema: June 2014

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Monday, June 23, 2014. Russian swordwork vs western fencing. As I noted a few posts ago, I've been pretty heavily into swordwork for the past few 5-6 months. As this is a Slavic martial art, I've been looking for historical references to how Cossacks, Russians, and various other Slavic groups practiced with blades. The results have been frustratingly sparse. In the field of written material, one of the few references I've found ( "Training for Cossacks - 1889". The majority of the shashka videos availabl...

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Virginia Combat Systema: July 2012

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Thursday, July 26, 2012. The Law of 3. I learned the law of 3 in the middle of the desert in Utah. I had been in the desert for 14 days when my teachers. Called the students into a circle. We had been constantly hungry, thirsty, cold, hot, rained upon, sick, and 2 had twisted their ankle. We were also 100 miles from paved roads, so their words carried more weight. Helps you to remember them. Is the second priority. You can go roughly 3 minutes. Without water. Environmental factors such as temperature...

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Virginia Combat Systema: April 2011

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Wednesday, April 20, 2011. Side Channels in Fighting. From one thing, know ten thousand things." -Miyamoto Musashi, 17th century Japanese swordsman. I'd like to start my inaugural post by asking you to look at the following picture and tell me what you see. It's a simple picture, with simple answers. It's a rabbit. Probably wild. Definitely a boy. It's in some grass. A man or woman named B. Katzung placed a watermark on the picture, apparently in 2005. Bert probably had no idea that the bunny picture had...

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Virginia Combat Systema: Knuckles and Yuckmouth and Sepsis Oh My!

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Monday, September 10, 2012. Knuckles and Yuckmouth and Sepsis Oh My! This week Renzo Gracie distinguished himself from the ten million other "R. Gracie"s by posting a bizarre series of tweets. That seem to give a play by play of him beating up two muggers. What I WILL comment on is that he banged up his knuckles pretty well in the altercation. From his own tweets:. But not if you've recently eaten. So a couple of lessons to take away here:. Don't punch strangers in the head. Your hand is made of smal...

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Virginia Combat Systema: Awareness Drill: The $3 drill

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Thursday, August 23, 2012. Awareness Drill: The $3 drill. This drill will take cost you exactly three dollars. The good news is, if you do a good job, you get all three of those dollars back. The purpose of this drill is twofold: to increase your awareness of your immediate surroundings, and also to teach you to move in a way that doesn't draw attention to yourself. Anyone who enjoys the hobby of geocaching. Will be good at this drill. :). Enjoy, and happy training! Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).

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Virginia Combat Systema: Russian swordwork vs western fencing

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Monday, June 23, 2014. Russian swordwork vs western fencing. As I noted a few posts ago, I've been pretty heavily into swordwork for the past few 5-6 months. As this is a Slavic martial art, I've been looking for historical references to how Cossacks, Russians, and various other Slavic groups practiced with blades. The results have been frustratingly sparse. In the field of written material, one of the few references I've found ( "Training for Cossacks - 1889". The majority of the shashka videos availabl...

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Systema Russian Martial Art Sweden: Will the real Russian Martial Art please stand up?

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Thursday, 11 November 2010. Will the real Russian Martial Art please stand up? Some of whom I have had the opportunity to personally meet, train, and exchange views with. What is Russian Martial Art? Contemporary Russian Martial Art is the old Slavic combat skills and training methods coming from as far back as the 10. Rational Western scientific tradition. Is RMA the creation of one specific person, group or family? RMA is a body of knowledge on combat and physical culture that has evolved over the cent...

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Systema Russian Martial Art Sweden: April 2010

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Thursday, 22 April 2010. Which way to mastery? Remember that deliberate practice has one objective: to improve performance. People who play tennis once a week for years don't get any better if they do the same thing each time', Ericsson has said. 'Deliberate practice is about changing your perfromance, setting new goals and straining yourself to reach a bit higher each time'. Repeat, repeat, repeat. Seek constant,critical feedback. If you don't know how you're doing, you won't know what to improve. Syste...

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Systema Russian Martial Art Sweden: November 2010

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Sunday, 28 November 2010. How to become a martial arts master! People are somewhat afraid to use this word in connection to their personal goals, because they seem to think that expertise is the realm of the naturally talented, a do-not-enter zone reserved exclusively for the Michael Jordans, the Mohamed Alis, the Bobby Fischers and the Tiger Woods’ of this world, the ones also known as the “naturally gifted”. Once again according to Ericsson, “ i. 8221; [3]. Doesn’t sound like much fun, huh? Xpertise &#...

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Systema Russian Martial Art Sweden: How can you learn how to fight when you can barely stand???

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Sunday, 14 March 2010. How can you learn how to fight when you can barely stand? Now, Shioda, at a height of 1,57m and barely 50 kilos of weight, was by any measure a very small man. Still, if one watches his aikido demonstrations, it is obvious that this man, unimpressive in terms of stature, possessed extraordinary power and impressive skills, so we must assume that his writings must have some importance, right? So, how does one establish this central longitudinal axis? 3] Ibid. p. 61. Russian Martial ...