C.J.W. wrote:A sensitivity drill? Ok.
For real knife defense? Suicidal.
GrahamB wrote:Vlad also appears to have a ball hidden in his chest that he can move around at will
GrahamB wrote:I take it you didn't listen to the audio?
RobP3 wrote:I'm just back from a week at Vlad's, it's a very interesting school to train at. Many of the guys there have serious backgrounds, believe me they are well aware of what happens in "real life." As far as the internet thing goes - they laugh about it. As long as everyone doing the drill understands the context and there are follow on drills that add those attributes developed into the full work, everyone (in class) understands what is going on. They will respect anyone who turns up to try, test or give it a go, but other than that they give very little energy to internet discussions
I must admit that I don't get Systema. That said, I have never tried it, so I don't really have an opinion on it. I can see how others may get completely the wrong end of the stick watching something like this, but that's true of pretty much any drill from any art.
Strange wrote:"this exercise is good...move the lungs..."
coming from a caucasian/slav face, it becomes sooo much less hocus-pocus mumbo-jumbo;
sooo much more scientific and convincing, don't you think
C.J.W. wrote:GrahamB wrote:I take it you didn't listen to the audio?
The female voice in the background: "The objective of this exercise is...don't allow your partner to cut you."
At .39, Vlad says, "The idea...it's just direction. So you want to see if you can work with him with relaxation. If he wants to cut me, I control him like this [bends back to avoid the knife moving towards face and then use chest to bend and trap the wrist]."
Sounds and looks like they are teaching a knife defense exercise to me.
Fubo wrote:For the time I trained Systema, I found the focus on sensitivity, the freedom to explore creatively and the "soft sparring" to be really valuable. I trained for about a year before moving countries which put an end to it, but I had a good number of years in Taiji before starting Systema and found that the structured practice of form, Zhan Zhuang, push hands and applications made for a great compliment to the much freer training. I also noticed that the instructors I met that were good at it had long backgrounds in other arts. My instructor at the time had 10 years in Indonesian arts, and other instructors I met had trained Japanese systems for a long time. I'm not trying to imply that Systema can't take an absolute beginner and turn them into functional fighters, just that it seemed like people with previous experience managed to take advantage of Systema's training paradigm to a greater extent. But my experience in it is limited, so it would be interesting to hear Rob's or any other experienced Systema practitioners views on people coming to the system with and without pre joys experience, and how they developed.
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