Our ability to relax is an extremely valuable life skill. The goal of this class is to understand yourself deeper and practice various degrees of internal and external relaxation.
First fundamental of Systema breathing is breathing in through the nose and out through the mouth
Second fundamental of Systema breathing is to not hold your breath unless you are told to
Every weapon or tool can be used for self defense, for development of the body and for healing.
Every object is multifunctional. It’s important to have the knowledge of an object – obvious information and not obvious
Drill: test your knowledge and depth of understanding of different objects
Any injury is a strike to our pride.
Systema offers useful breath work, movement and understanding to overcome the effects of injury and prevent it from spreading through the body and psyche.
4 types of breath concepts:
Breath leading – refer Let Every Breath chapter 3
Vital topic – it addresses internal and external work
Our goal is to not be afraid of being out of breath
Light breaths holds develop sensitivity while heavy challenging breath holds force us to work in a new mode – survival mode
When you master knife control yourself, you will be able to see it easily on the attacker
Knife identifies the psyche of the knife user and the knife will also predict the way they will conduct the fight
If you see the knife in someone’s hand, you have about a 50/50 chance to run away
If you didn’t see it, your chances to survive are much smaller
