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Systema Spetsnaz DVD #18: Instructor's Course Highlights: 

Learn the major differences between the Russian Systema and other martial arts 

Improve your safe falling techniques 

Master your weapons' techniques (knife and gun) 

Combat with multiple opponents 

Powerful strikes: triple strikes, cross principle, “bear paw” strikes, penetrating strikes 

Grabs, chokes and holds releases...

Running Time: 2 hours 2 minutes.

Purchase this DVD: http://www.russiancombat.com/russian-spetsnaz-seminar

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Systema Training Considerations – USAdojo.com

A human being is a complete system and for this reason we have to make our training a complete and whole system as well (thus, the Russian word for our training approach is Systema).

Many sports and martial arts assume and presuppose that the person entering the training is healthy. In fact, this is almost never the case. The physiological parameters such as heart rate, blood pressure, lung capacity, posture, mobility and strength of the joints and muscles, condition of the nervous system are rarely ideal. And even less likely is one to have stable and balanced psyche, free of fear and unnecessary emotions.

Having said that, we set out goals:

make training a gradual process of restoring the health that we have lost up to this point

build the skills properly enhanced and supported by our own physical and psychological reserves

help your partner advance his health and his skills as much as your own and you will progress tremendously

Hence, your System training considerations are:

1. Use Breathing as the foundation for everything you do. In class, make sure that both yours and your partner’s breathing continue no matter what. Your will then be able to relax, restore your health and psychological balance (read how and why in “Let Every Breath…”: http://www.russianmartialart.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=88 )

For common examples of breath interruption, imagine a runner that holds his breath on the very last stretch before the finish line or a weight lifter holding his breath on the last repetition. These athletes may achieve the result, but they do real damage to the heart, as the heart has to endure a big strain without the oxygen supply.

All Systema practitioners with at least some experience know that the best way to maintain smooth and continuous movement is by way of breathing. Holding your breath makes you interrupt the movement. If you were forced to stop moving then continuous breathing will lead you into movement again.

2. Maintain the Natural Body Position throughout all movements. Straight back and good posture keep you relaxed and balanced psychologically, help your heart, lungs and nervous system to work effectively. Smooth, calm and natural movements happen when the body is aligned properly. Alertness, attention, sensitivity, reaction time, the entire action potential is maximized and the chances of injuries are reduced. A popular example is the walk of a lion – smooth and mobile on the outside, with power, concentration, and readiness to act instantly in any direction on the inside.

Moreover, any deviation from the natural and straight body position makes it very hard for you to take strikes. And what’s also important, your opponent will instinctively feel that the point of deviation is your vulnerable spot and will inevitably hit you there.

3. Flexibility physically and psychologically will be discussed in future articles.

4. Practice Striking in proper training progression (start with placing of the hands, then progress to pushes, combine all contact with breathing, etc. as we discussed in previous Newsletters). This way you avoid the common fear of hurting your own hand during punches and avoid tensing of your body. Because of this training progression you will see where to strike – where the areas of tension or restriction are on your partner. You will enable him see these areas too, you will help him heal old injuries, get rid of restrictions and fears trapped in his body by way of breathing and movement.

One goal of striking is to break the shell. It has to be done carefully, as when you are cracking an egg, you want to make enough impact to crack, but not to shatter and destroy the contents inside. Such a situation would be extremely difficult to repair. It may seem to you that some people are able to withstand punches of high intensity, but that “endurance” is built by layers of fear that thicken the shell growing towards the inside – taking away from the live and mobile space inside – the result is more injuries and loss of health.

You will soon see some incredible examples of healing, enlightening and altering strikes by the legendary Mikhail Ryabko on the new DVDs titled SUMMIT OF MASTERS.

http://www.russianmartialart.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=100

So let’s try to have a wholesome approach and a finished cycle of training – from your arrival to class, build a foundation, take up activities in the proper progression, restore and support as you are advancing to the next level.

This article was published on October 31, 2006.

from Maryland Systema https://marylandsystema.com/systema-training-considerations-usadojo-com/

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Street fighters VS Russian Martial Art Systema - Must Watch !

Street fighters VS Russian Martial Art Systema – Must Watch !

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Coach parachute ranger veteran @johanssontraining explaining the basics of Systema striking mechanics. #movement #movementculture #martialarts #boxing #outdoors #nature #autumn #goals #fitness #training #workout #mma #systema #sistema #rma #Система #combatives #selfdefence #vasiliev #ryabko #russia (på/i Lund, Sweden) https://www.instagram.com/hybrid.ma.swe/p/Bq71TMTg1jT/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=pdlq2y7czwgn

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Система Рябко удары боевые искусства Михаил Рябко Systema Ryabko

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10月7日に システマ・ライジス・イン・ジャパン 富士山合宿/SYSTEMA RISES Mt. FUJI Camp with Mikhail and Daniil Ryabko に行きます! https://t.co/6ytucQ7Qjg @PeatixJPさんから

［情報元:Peatix］ http://dlvr.it/PgJMr3 #セミナー募集中 http://yts.jp/seminar/

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Systema Ryabko

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What is Systema?

It’s a question I get asked every time I say I train in it. One of the many things I love about Systema is that it is hard to define. While there are many who are probably more qualified to answer, I’ll try to define it with the limited experience I have.

The short answer is it is a Russian martial art. Perhaps more accurate a description would be a relaxation-and-breathing based combat system. But anyone who has practiced for a while knows that both are oversimplifications - it goes far, far deeper than that.

Systema revolves around one phrase: “Know yourself.” It derives from the Russian Eastern Orthodox philosophy that everything that happens in a person’s life, good or bad, is leading them on a path to self discovery.

The rest of the art stems from this truth. To the outsider looking in, we’re hitting, swinging chains, and dropping 15lbs training balls on each other for fun. And we are. But we’re also paying attention to how our bodies, and the bodies of our opponents, are reacting to the stimuli. Am I holding my breath when he drops the ball? What muscles are tensing when he throws that strike? Where is her weight distributed when she moves like that? In this position, is it easier to take him down by hitting his lateral and relaxing his arm, or rolling his head backward?

And it’s not just the body we pay attention to - our mind plays a HUGE part. Fear, anger, pride, self-pity, despair all create undue tension in the body. Thus, finding the origins of these feelings and overcoming them is essential to proper movement. Knowing how to move is important - overcoming yourself so the movement comes from a place of peace and humility is more so. Those who learn the technique and movement will never match the skill of those who go deeper and face their darkness.

This is why it is important to constantly test oneself in Systema. Do as many push ups as you can while holding your breath, and feel the fear and pressure build up, the muscles spasm, the body fighting you to breathe. Stand on one leg while you brush your teeth, feel where your tension goes, try to find a way to relax. Learn the weight of your car door. Can you close it with a finger? Is the window big enough to worm your way out of it, if need be? Turn off the light when you go to bed without using your hands. Where does your tension go then? Spar with someone in a pitch-black room. How do you react? Are you more jumpy, more tense? Constantly check yourself. Why do I stop breathing when I’m angry? Why does my leg tense up as I’m standing? Why do I avoid performing my responsibilities day-to-day?

Poke. Prod. Experiment with yourself. Go deeper. Breathe easier. And you will only scratch the surface of yourself and Systema.

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Systema Breathing Application – USAdojo.com

How to breathe to prepare yourself for a fight using Systema breathing application? When an untrained person perceives danger, his heart rate and blood pressure go up, while the breathing gets disrupted – he usually holds his breath for a short time. As a result of stress, there is tension and restriction of movement so full breathing becomes impossible. Thus, the heart is working harder, the blood flows to the muscles, while there is not enough oxygen supply.

In Systema, breath preparation is fairly simple – at the first sign of stress – begin to breathe and accelerate your breathing in accordance with your heart rate. Breathe in though the nose and out though the mouth. Taking air in though the nose is very important. We can easily see how a full inhale though the nose is a sign of relaxation, while inhaling through the mouth tenses up the upper breathing muscles. Proper breathing helps to maintain the body in the straight and balanced position; it provides stability and allows one to strike with just enough power, this way, you are not hitting emotionally or out of fear. Moreover, it promotes conscious and calm condition psychologically. Proper breathing precedes the stress reaction and prevents it from developing. Since this type of breathing is conscious, it prevails over the unwanted unconscious reactions.

As you accelerate your breathing, you gain muscle tone and readiness to move without the stress. It allows you to reach the state of readiness to fight comparable to your attacker very quickly in a controlled way, to catch up instantly to his level of readiness but without any of damaging side effects to your health.

The surge of adrenalin under stress may enable you to react quickly, even without the breathing, but there is a big difference. You would be prone to injury and strain to all your body systems, and you will never gain true power and control. Proper breathing begins to control your fear and then removes it all together. The end result of this practice is your body’s readiness to move effectively without straining and injuries, and clear understanding of the situation.

Why is it important to avoid ‘extra movements’? Regardless of the experience level, many of the Systema practitioners do the so-called ‘extra movements’ in anticipation of contact. While preparing to receive contact from the partner, we try to relax our body and do visible wave-like movements through the arms shoulders and chest loosening up the body. These preliminary movements are extra – not needed. In fact, they lead to loss of precision and limit the ability to react, because once you initiate this wave of movement you will have to carry it through fully and that will interfere with your freedom of movement, accuracy and power.

So what can we do to avoid this? It is fairly simple. At the initial stage of training, at the sight of threat – inhale. This will stabilize your body and your psychological state. Then as contact is being made – react on your exhale. Once you master that and your training progresses, you become calmer – then it will not matter to you if contact happens on your inhale or exhale. You will react efficiently to your partner regardless of what stage of the breathing cycle you happen to be at. To control your extra movements, you may also get visual feedback by watching yourself in the mirror or recording yourself on tape. A good teacher observing you may also be helpful. I also highly recommend watching Mikhail Ryabko and noticing his calmness and seeming lack of movements yet at the same time, his immense power and control.

You can find Systema Breathing Application and other related instructional material at the Systema Store.

This article was published on July 17, 2007.

from Maryland Systema https://marylandsystema.com/systema-breathing-application-usadojo-com/

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Le temps passe !!!… :)

Par Taro Ochiai du Kansenkai  

22 avril 2019 - 1000 mots - temps de lecture : 4 mn 20

Voilà fort longtemps que je n’ai pas donné de nouvelles ici ! Dans le monde du web, cela représente une éternité – si ce n’est plus ! Quoiqu’il en soit, tout va très bien et à dire vrai, ce ne sont pas les projets en cours et futurs qui manquent ! Je n’ai même plus le temps d’aller sur Facebook m’informer des dernières infos des amis et des camarades.

Quelques news notables : une côte fêlée par une paluche grosse comme ça, le beau bokken en ébène d’une élève volé en stage (trop pas cool), l’AG du club de Gimont où j’enseigne avec un nouveau bureau et des projets à venir… Et toujours la pratique, la pratique, la pratique ! (et comme diraient les TwoSet Violin, pour être un pratiquant digne de ce nom, il faut pratiquer quarante heures par jour).

Côté écriture, si je suis à la ramasse sur mon propre site web (désolé !), Germain Chamot m’avait demandé si je voulais tenir une rubrique lexicale dans Dragon Spécial Aïkido ce que j’ai accepté avec plaisir. Ma contribution a commencé avec le numéro de janvier consacré au kamae. Le numéro d’avril actuellement dans tous les kiosques est sur les saisies.

Je participe toujours à Yashima, le magazine de Léo Tamaki, même si désormais je ne pourrai plus m’occuper de la relecture, de la réécriture, etc. mais je continuerai bien sûr de faire le lexique du mag. D’ailleurs, j’ai livré aujourd’hui celui du prochain numéro. Et comme le lexique est nécessairement le texte qui vient après tous les autres, cela signifie que Yashima N°4 sera en kiosque très bientôt !

KANSENKAI

C’est un vrai bonheur de voir une bonne dynamique se mettre en place au dōjō de Gimont avec un petit groupe de travail particulièrement enthousiaste. À Auch, la dynamique sera toujours plus limitée étant donné la petite surface d’étude. Ceci étant, nous avons six inscrits à Auch dont trois enfants et une adolescente. Avec les onze inscrits de Gimont, on en est donc à dix-huit inscriptions cette année. Comme partout, il y a hélas des têtes que l’on ne revoit plus par manque de motivation ou qui ne peuvent plus venir pour des raisons de changement de planning professionnel ou autres, mais le petit noyau dur des pratiquants est toujours là, fidèle au poste, et chaque cours est un vrai plaisir !

Vous me direz, il n’y a pas de quoi se vanter, tout cela reste bien modeste comparé à toutes ces structures comprenant plusieurs dizaines de membres mais je n’en suis pas moins heureux de voir la mayonnaise qui prend ici. Peut-être est-ce dû à la présence féminine qui a cette année dépassé la parité, en tout cas sur Gimont. C’est aussi un plaisir de voir les progrès de chacun, qu’ils soient dans leur première année de pratique ou qu’ils me suivent depuis trois ans, ce que je leur propose n’étant parfois pas évident en matière de modification de l’utilisation du corps (étonnamment, la plupart s’en sortent plutôt bien ;) )…

Pour ce qui est de l’enseignement, j'apprécie toujours autant de relever à chaque cours le challenge d’adapter toujours un peu plus la méthodologie. Ce développement permanent apporte son lot de casse-tête parfois mais il est certain qu’elle est bénéfique. Je fus même très agréablement surpris de voir l’autre fois une élève débutante s’en sortir à merveille dans un travail libre avec un élève avancé !

Me concernant, ce n’est pas toujours facile d’avancer en matière de modification de l’utilisation du corps et tous ces principes fondamentaux… Comme les murs paraissent parfois insurmontables ! Heureusement nos maîtres sont autant de phares… Il faut juste continuer de réfléchir intelligemment, chercher, envisager la question sous les meilleurs angles, et surtout ne pas lâcher l’affaire, en n’oubliant pas d’aller se ressourcer, se mettre à l’épreuve, et puis bien sûr … pratiquer (quarante heures !)…

NEW SCHOOL

Ah oui, un mot sur le week-end de stage Systema de Vladimir Zaykovsky invité par Yvan Cam à Toulouse l’automne dernier. Il fut marquant à plus d’un titre. Certes, on m’y a fêlé une côte dès la première matinée (!) — non, ce n’était pas à cause d’une de ces fameuses frappes Systema — mais ce n’est évidemment pas cela le plus intéressant. Ce stage m’a surtout permis de voir sous d’autres angles un certain nombre de problématiques classiques étudiées depuis longtemps avec Kuroda sensei, Hino sensei et bien sûr au Kishinkaï ainsi que d’autres explorés en Ateliers Intensifs. Des systèmes comme la Savate sont passionnants pour se mesurer à soi-même — un jour, je saurai faire irimi face à un tireur de savate expérimenté !!! — mais le Systema est décidément un système très intéressant quand il s’agit d’élargir les perspectives sur un certain nombre de principes fondamentaux…

Je ne fus pas surpris d’entendre des propos identiques à ceux de Hino sensei puisque Zaykovsky est un enseignant issu de la New School développée par Mikhail Ryabko ; mais également d’autres considérations m’ont paru éminemment éclairantes et pertinentes. Par exemple j’introduis désormais la vitesse constante par… l’accélération constante ! Quant à la côte, ça va, elle s’est aujourd’hui parfaitement consolidée … en l’état. :)

Et dire qu’avec tout ça, il n’y a même pas eu de stage d’hiver !… Pour le coup, il est bien possible que j’avance la date du stage d’été ! Mais j’en reparlerai.

Bien à vous,

Taro

PS : Hino sensei revient en France en mai et il ira pour la première fois à Metz à l’invitation de mes deux inénarrables et irremplaçables senpai, David Rizzo et Christian Varrese, qui font indubitablement partie des élèves français de Hino sensei les plus anciens, les plus assidus et les plus avancés en Hino budō ! Voilà une première qu’il ne faudra pas manquer !

PPS : Samedi 18 mai, un stage important à Toulouse : Celui d'Issei Tamaki chez Emmanuel Wildemann. Impossible à rater !

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Systema Pushups – USAdojo.com

A few years ago, when I was visiting Mikhail Ryabko in Moscow, he demonstrated a slow fist Systema pushup against the wall. I still clearly remember how standing next to him, it felt like a huge beast filled the room, the wall was droning and buzzing under his fists.

Systema pushups are not just exercises for shoulders and chest, they are a comprehensive method to prepare for fighting and strikes. The way Mikhail did it, he had full sensitivity of the surface his fists were on, and he was not just moving his body up and down, he used the points of weight bearing to work through his entire body. The pushing off force moved though the arms down to the feet and back up, smooth, strong and solid.

Fist pushups are great training for punches. When done correctly, they help us learn how to strike without tension in the body. When we learn to do pushups while keeping the body relaxed, using only the muscles we need then we will be able to do the same during strikes that is to keep the body tension-free while delivering a punch. Control of our muscle tension gives us power and precision, it allows us to choose the distance correctly, there is no longer a need to reach, punches become short, strong and accurate. Tension-free punches produce no side effects of straining and fatigue, the recovery time from training and fighting becomes minimal.

When I practiced karate many years ago, before my Systema experience, I noticed a definite vulnerability there. At the point of completing a strike, the body was fixed, in a rigid structure, not moving and tense. I found that this often created a very fragile structure for real confrontations. If the striker was hit right at that moment he was easily injured. A tense body lacks sensitivity and agility, it cannot react, escape and counterattack quickly and smoothly.

So here is how you can practice Systema pushups.

Stand on the fists in the pushup position. Place as much of your fist surface as comfortable in contact with the floor. Execute the pushup and continue to feel the ground with the same fist area as you started with throughout the entire range of movement.

In the meantime, watch for any tension in the body. As soon as you feel that part of your fist surface no longer has full sensitivity of the floor you know that tension has set in. In that case, continue the pushups and try to relax through breathing and movement. Repeat as much as you feel is necessary.

Also, as Mikhail explains, such pushups with tension control have a tremendous health benefit. They ensure that excessive pressure does not go up to the head but instead gets evenly distributed through the body. We know how damaging the excessive pressure to the head can be during striking. Once mastered in pushups, the pressure control will also be occurring while delivering a punch.

I hope to cover this topic in more detail at the upcoming seminars and camps.

This article was published on January 18, 2012.

from Maryland Systema https://marylandsystema.com/systema-pushups-usadojo-com/

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Russian Systema hand to hand fighting masters 1

Russian Systema hand to hand fighting masters 1

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Russian Systema hand to hand fighting masters 2

Russian Systema hand to hand fighting masters 2

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Russian Martial Art Systema - no contact fighting 1

Russian Martial Art Systema – no contact fighting 1

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Nouvelle saison 2017-2018.

Par Taro Ochiai du Kansenkai  

8 septembre 2017 - 690 mots - temps de lecture : 3 mn

Déjà la nouvelle saison... Comme le temps file !

Nous serons présents :

à la Foire du sport et de la culture à Auch les 9 et 10 septembre

ainsi qu’au Forum des associations de Gimont le samedi 9

  Mazette, mais c’est ce week-end !!!...

↑ Comme l’an dernier, la priorité sera à la pratique devant le stand !

LA JOIE DE CHERCHER, MALGRÉ L’ADVERSITÉ

Le temps file et la dernière saison a filé comme une flèche.

On finit presque par entrer dans une sorte de routine. Pas celle de l’ennui, non, bien au contraire ! Celle où l’on prend le temps d’optimiser son temps pour ses passions ; qu’il s’agisse, pour l’aïkido, de s'adonner à sa propre progression pour chercher, explorer, essayer d’apprivoiser un peu plus tel ou tel aspect d’un principe ou d’un autre qui nous challenge... Ou de se consacrer à ses élèves pour leur apporter le meilleur cadre d’apprentissage possible...

L’année ne s’est malheureusement pas déroulée sans heurts cependant... Des élèves très assidus ont dû quitter les tatamis par la force des choses : accident, faiblesse ou douleur articulaire chronique, opération... Je sais qu’ils vont mieux alors je ne peux que leur souhaiter le plus prompt rétablissement !

Concernant les Ateliers intensifs d’étude de principes, j’avais pris le parti de ne pas en organiser (ça va changer cette année !)... La seule fois a été mon intervention à l’invitation d’Yvan Cam, instructeur systema, dans sa salle au sud de Toulouse.

Ce fut d’ailleurs une journée de 9 h d'exploration plus qu’intéressante : c’est toujours extrêmement intéressant d’avoir des pratiquants de systema pour partenaire. Et ma participation partielle au stage de l’excellent Arend Dubbelboer n’a fait que confirmer encore une fois la proximité de l’aïkido et du systema (courant Ryabko).

A ce propos, Yvan et moi devions nous voir régulièrement pour travailler ensemble mais cela n’a jamais pu se faire... J’espère que cette année nous y arriverons !

La collaboration avec Emmanuel Wildemann du KAT (Kishinkaï Aïkido Toulouse) continuera bien sûr, pour des échanges et des interventions de part et d’autres !

↑ Exercice de sensibilité par contact - Atelier intensif à l’ADDAM Systema Toulouse chez Yvan Cam

LA JOIE D’APPRENDRE

Ayant accessoirement le projet de créer une école alternative, je passe pas mal de temps à étudier des tas de sujets absolument passionnants notamment dans le domaine de l’apprentissage et quoique je me sois toujours intéressé au sujet, j’ai été étonné de voir les avancées de ces dernières décennies en sciences cognitives — tout ce que cela pourrait apporter à nos pratiques corporelles !

Pour ne citer qu’un exemple, les stratégies qui permettent un véritable apprentissage peuvent être parfois complètement contre-intuitives. Il ne faut donc pas forcément se fier à son intuition, encore moins aux méthodes inscrites dans les usages (le bachotage est le meilleur moyen de perdre son temps par exemple)... Mais j’ai également pu avoir la confirmation que l’effort est toujours nécessaire dans tout apprentissage. C’est d’ailleurs pour cela que l’enthousiasme doit être cultivé, notamment parce que l’enthousiasme fait partie des formidables carburants qui favorisent tous les efforts. Le bon point, en tout cas, est que tout ce que j’ai pu voir jusqu’ici n’a fait confirmer mon motto selon lequel il est absurde de penser que le savoir se transmet...

Bref, tout cela a largement contribué à modifier petit à petit ma pédagogie et améliorer ma façon d’aborder les cours d’aïkido...

Heureusement, comme toujours, tout est une affaire de work in progress. Dès que l’on pense avoir trouvé, c’est qu’on s’est figé. Il n’y a pas de limite au savoir. Il n’y a donc pas de temps à perdre, le pire étant d’essayer d’avancer avec de mauvais outils. La pratique est une recherche parce que pratiquer, c’est réveiller et épanouir en nous notre nature ingénieuse !

Cette nouvelle année s’annonce donc des plus intéressantes et je suis impatient de retrouver les anciens et faire connaissance avec les nouvelles personnes qui seront tentées par cette belle aventure !

Bien à vous,

Taro

↑ Photo : Jennifer ; uké : Karil