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Virginia Combat Systema: June 2014
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Monday, June 23, 2014. Russian swordwork vs western fencing. As I noted a few posts ago, I've been pretty heavily into swordwork for the past few 5-6 months. As this is a Slavic martial art, I've been looking for historical references to how Cossacks, Russians, and various other Slavic groups practiced with blades. The results have been frustratingly sparse. In the field of written material, one of the few references I've found ( "Training for Cossacks - 1889". The majority of the shashka videos availabl...
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Virginia Combat Systema: July 2012
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Thursday, July 26, 2012. The Law of 3. I learned the law of 3 in the middle of the desert in Utah. I had been in the desert for 14 days when my teachers. Called the students into a circle. We had been constantly hungry, thirsty, cold, hot, rained upon, sick, and 2 had twisted their ankle. We were also 100 miles from paved roads, so their words carried more weight. Helps you to remember them. Is the second priority. You can go roughly 3 minutes. Without water. Environmental factors such as temperature...
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Virginia Combat Systema: April 2011
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Wednesday, April 20, 2011. Side Channels in Fighting. From one thing, know ten thousand things." -Miyamoto Musashi, 17th century Japanese swordsman. I'd like to start my inaugural post by asking you to look at the following picture and tell me what you see. It's a simple picture, with simple answers. It's a rabbit. Probably wild. Definitely a boy. It's in some grass. A man or woman named B. Katzung placed a watermark on the picture, apparently in 2005. Bert probably had no idea that the bunny picture had...
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Virginia Combat Systema: Knuckles and Yuckmouth and Sepsis Oh My!
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Monday, September 10, 2012. Knuckles and Yuckmouth and Sepsis Oh My! This week Renzo Gracie distinguished himself from the ten million other "R. Gracie"s by posting a bizarre series of tweets. That seem to give a play by play of him beating up two muggers. What I WILL comment on is that he banged up his knuckles pretty well in the altercation. From his own tweets:. But not if you've recently eaten. So a couple of lessons to take away here:. Don't punch strangers in the head. Your hand is made of smal...
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Virginia Combat Systema: Awareness Drill: The $3 drill
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Thursday, August 23, 2012. Awareness Drill: The $3 drill. This drill will take cost you exactly three dollars. The good news is, if you do a good job, you get all three of those dollars back. The purpose of this drill is twofold: to increase your awareness of your immediate surroundings, and also to teach you to move in a way that doesn't draw attention to yourself. Anyone who enjoys the hobby of geocaching. Will be good at this drill. :). Enjoy, and happy training! Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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Virginia Combat Systema: Russian swordwork vs western fencing
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Monday, June 23, 2014. Russian swordwork vs western fencing. As I noted a few posts ago, I've been pretty heavily into swordwork for the past few 5-6 months. As this is a Slavic martial art, I've been looking for historical references to how Cossacks, Russians, and various other Slavic groups practiced with blades. The results have been frustratingly sparse. In the field of written material, one of the few references I've found ( "Training for Cossacks - 1889". The majority of the shashka videos availabl...
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Virginia Combat Systema: Names and Children
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Monday, September 24, 2012. Lilly, what kind of tree is this? My two year old pauses for a second. "A dogwood tree! She triumphantly yells. "Daddy, do you see the red berries? And the wavy leaves? At this age, she delights in repeating back exactly what she has learned. Last walk, she learned that trees that have berries and wavy leaves are called dogwoods. She'll repeat the "red berries and wavy leaves" mantra back to me every time she notices one. It's called a thrush! School of Filipino martial arts b...
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Virginia Combat Systema: Awareness drill - Where there's smoke...
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Monday, September 10, 2012. Awareness drill - Where there's smoke. Last week, the $3 awareness drill. After the mess was cleaned up, I showed the other guys where the fire extinguisher was. It was in a little alcove in one of the main hallways. One guy later told me that he had walked by that thing 4 times a day for 7 years and never once noticed that it was there. Today's awareness drill is simple. Where is the nearest fire extinguisher to you right now? I did not know this one until after the fire, BTW).
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Virginia Combat Systema: September 2012
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Monday, September 24, 2012. Lilly, what kind of tree is this? My two year old pauses for a second. "A dogwood tree! She triumphantly yells. "Daddy, do you see the red berries? And the wavy leaves? At this age, she delights in repeating back exactly what she has learned. Last walk, she learned that trees that have berries and wavy leaves are called dogwoods. She'll repeat the "red berries and wavy leaves" mantra back to me every time she notices one. It's called a thrush! School of Filipino martial arts b...
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