Thursday

Systema.

Group of 4 – Alex, Viktor, me and Ash a young guy from Britain, out in the park on a sunny evening.  Started out with joint movement, Intuflow really, very very similar. Then  wrist-bends and stretches and slow pushups with the wrists in different  and uncomfortable positions.

Moved into drill which was just pushing with a fist, sensing the partners body, straight wrist, (seiken lol) working on exactly what happens when you hit someone somewhere. Slow, heavy. Progressed to using shoulders only to isolate the flow and push. Then to recruiting the hips and whole body with a step forward. Timing the flow was important, hard. Did this for a quite a while.

Then some works on wristlocks and fingerlocks building from Alex’s Aikido experience. Useful, educational. Ash has done Kali and has an awesome lock flow, got to try to find a clip of this.

Another good session.

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