Hi Mike,
I'm afraid I let you down as a moderator. I could not find any
information about the questions you asked. My only suggestion would
be to post the same question to one of the other Russian Martial Arts
forums. The official forum, owned by Vladimir Vasiliev, is here
http://www.russianmartialart.com/forum
And there's another very good forum owned by Systema instructor
Arthur Sennott, it is located here:
http://www.rmaforum.com
There are tons of knowledgeable people on those forums and most of
the time you can even get a response within 24 hours. If you wish, I
can post your question for you, but I don't want to do so without
your permission.
I did find this link http://www.kadochnikov.org/ which might be
helpful, you could even try e-mailing someone from that site.
Absolutely nothing came up for 'rukopashnyj boy' though.
I have never heard of soft vs. hard systema. Arthur Sennott told me
that Mikhail Ryabko's Systema is soft, by that he meant, there is not
a lot of contact, very often no-contact work is done. But Arthur
wasn't defining Ryabko as exclusively soft, as you can see in some of
the clips, Col. Ryabko can be hard as well. So that's the closet I
can come to a definition: Systema soft work is very often no-contact,
hard work involves more contact.
I hope this helps. The people on the forums should be able to
elaborate so I encourage you to post to one of the links I listed
above.
I didn't know you were injured? What happened? Hope it wasn't a
training accident.
Stay well,
Rachel



--- In systema_group@yahoogroups.com, "mikezcnc" <eemikez@c...>
wrote:
> the difference is between the terms: soft systema and hard systema
> and %-wise what is the application of each during a fight and what
> does it depend on? In other words, can one be a soft systema expert
> without being 'hard systema expert' and vice versa? Can one
practice
> only one of them? What is practicing Mikhail Ryabko on the tapes
when
> fighting the groups of people?
>
> The next thing is 'rukopashnyj boy' - how is it related to the soft
> and hard systema's? What I know for sure and for a fact is that
> Kodacznikov wrote his book on the subject of 'rukopasznyj boy'
> already in 1961.
>
> My healing process is progressing and I am feeling much better now.
> Few more days and I will try to excercise again.
>
> Greeetings,
>
> Mike