Hello, I started this group, but it is unmoderated. I don't know very much about Systema and it would be ideal if I found a Systema practitioner who wanted to...
... Hi Rachel. Happy new group. A friend and I are meeting regularly to go through his systema videos -- Vasiliev and Ryabko stuff. Really exciting. We're...
Hi Chris, I have no MA background, but I read an article in a local free paper, the Village Voice, about 3 styles: Wing Chun, Krav Maga and Systema. I was...
Hi all, I'm so glad that 3 people have joined this group. One of my hobbies is writing, so I thought I'd start to share some of my "newbie's" thoughts about...
Hello, Here's my training diary #5, Wednesday's Systema class at Fighthouse (fighthouse.com, instructor Edgar Tsakouls: Class started with the usual grueling...
Warm-ups as always consisted of 5 pushups, leg-lifts and squats with "in DOWN/out UP breathing", then 5 more of each with the breathing reversed, out on the...
Our warm-up exercises were as always 15 pushups, leg-lifts, sit-ups and deep squats, reversing the in/out breathing pattern after 5 of each, also doing 5...
Extra-tough warm-ups tonight as our instructor demonstrated a variety of gymnastic/athletic feats like balancing on his shoulders with his legs straight in the...
Pushups, leg-lifts, sit-ups, and squats are our standard conditioning exercises for warming up. Next we stretched with our partners, back to back, locking arms...
Conditioning exercises of the usual grueling variety were followed by some practice rolling which is always fun and relaxing. The class was large and the space...
Although I usually kick back, read the newspaper, and write in my journal after a Systema class, I watched a movie after Saturday's class, and by the time I...
This was our makeup class for Wednesday since the dojo closed early on Christmas Eve. So there were only three of us to start the class, me, a new female...
No conditioning exercises tonight, for the first time in more than 6 weeks of classes, I didn't have to struggle through pushups, situps, leg-lifts and squats....
Lately we've been starting class with this exercise where you are in a backbend type position, I think it's called a "bridge" but I'm not sure. Then you are...
Hello, This subject comes up frequently on the various Systema forums, mostly asked by people who live too far away from an instructor to take classes, or who...
Terrific write ups. I just joined a Systema group last week and my trainer is George. What an azing trainer he is! I like reading your Systema stories....
Hi my name is Jeff I just started studying systema about 3or 4 weeks ago. I have studied karate, kickboxing, sambo, taichi, xingyi, baqua, piqua. I think...
Hello, Thanks, Jeff and Mike, for introducing yourselves. Stay tuned for training diary #15 and if anyone feels like posting a writeup of their training...
We started almost cold today, warming up only with floor hip and shoulder exercises, i.e. wiggling across the floor using just the shoulders while laying on...
Saturday We started with our customeary 15-set conditioning exercises with varied breathing, and then wiggling across the floor using just the hips or...
Hello, I want to tell you about a new forum about martial and holistic arts, Fighthouse (the dojo where I train), and New York City. It's located at...
Jeff Here I was just wondering if anyone here ever heard of the method of strengthening the body with water and if so has anyone used it yet I tried it for the...
FYI, some useful information and chilling illustrations of Russian cold water therapy: http://www.alliancemartialarts.com/cold.html Best wishes, Rachel ... you...
I was still sore from Saturday's class on the mats. I thought it would be easier falling and rolling on the mats, but actually the hardwood floors are smoother...
I think the CNCTEMA with "n" reversed is Cyrillic for "System" (Systema is sometimes referred to as "The System). It looks a little different than other...
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