Tuesday Systema
Loren and Alex spent the weekend at a Systema seminar in Christchurch, came back full of stuff.
We started with general rolling to warm up, using core shoulders and back. Then one person standing, the other rolling and manoevring around and between their legs, using core, shoulders and back. This progresses to moving and rolling against the partner, using gifts, manipulating, trying to disrupt, working to takedown. Using bodyweight to pin and move with the partner, trying not to post arms or legs.
Brief respite of pushups or in my case, situps, done ultra slow, various versions.
Then one partner grabs the others wrists with some tension. Use core and shoulders etc to move the partner (not generated by the arms). Then move the partner and disrupt, strike or lock, and finish. I’m going through a stage where the components aren’t meshing well, so slowed it down and worked one piece at a time, putting useful sequences together step by step.
“If you think you’re doing it slow, you’re not”.