Thank you. I am happy you found some value.

Thanks Nick!

That t-shirt is from Systema HQ from a seminar Vladimir taught a few years ago. Looks like these shirts are still available. systemavasiliev.com/store/product/less-tension-t-shirt/

Thank you for the kind feedback. I have video for 4 more projects shot. I will be editing and posting those in the weeks to come. Mass attack progression, training to see strikes, abnormal striking, and weapon retention.

@@MarkJakabcsin1 great!!! Can’t wait for your videos!

Thank you. I appreciate the feedback.

Thank you for the kind comment. I am glad you and your friends are finding value. I just found a camera person willing to come to class so I should have new material soon. The one caution I give you is thinking what I am sharing is pure Systema is not a good idea to think anything is pure. I am sharing my understanding and interpretation, some is good, some lacking, all of it changing over time. The idea is to find and refine 'your' Systema, knowing your understanding will constantly evolve and change.

@@MarkJakabcsin1 A teacher to the very end with that last sentance. Among my peeps is mostly me focusing on systema and internal in general but your explanation on systema concepts are the only ones that can reliably reach anyone not actively pursuing systema. Good luck and I hope your content reaches more people in the systema community, nay the martial arts community as a whole. I vividly remember rewinding Mr. Ryabko hammer striking someone and speaking in Russian while trying to figure out what the initial idea was. Even Kevin secours needs some initial basis in pure concept to be used in his altered applications. Point being, thanks a lot for everything laoshi, I hope to train with you one day.

I have been wanting to but not enough people training on a regular basis. I have a list of topics to shot, just need bodies. Hopefully soon. Sorry for the delay.

@@MarkJakabcsin1 I understand, can this be one of your topics kzbin.info/www/bejne/npi6ZaKDgsqnbK8

Great to hear from you Brian. Glad you found this helpful.

Thank you, I am glad you found value in the video.

Thank you for the kind words. Glad you found some value in the video. The videos I have pinned to this post also help provide insight into heaviness and how to use it. With a little luck I will start filming again and have some new material soon.

Thanks Rob. Funny story how I first experienced this drill set Toronto. Vlad calls me out to demonstrate and tells me to walk at him, which I do and he blasts me in the chest. Just BAM! Okay. He looks at me funny and tells me to walk at him again, to the same result. I am sure I had a WTF look. He says, 'Mark why don't you avoid.' I replied that you only told me to walk at you. He looks exasperated and says, 'This is the drill we did last month at the seminar in San Francisco.' I reply I didn't attend that seminar and have no clue what the drill is. Lol. Big laugh from the crowd. Anyway, this progression is very foundational and be used in infinite directions. Hope you enjoy.

@@MarkJakabcsin1 Hehe, nice one! Yes we had a run through the other night, can see lots of interesting things working off of this. Thanks again bro!

Hi Wayne, check out the Remote Control Drill video. It helps folks see the direction of movement of the 6 points and how to use that movement. kzbin.info/www/bejne/m6m7eZV4eN-oqcU I hope you enjoy.

Also check out how to find the 6 points of movement in this one. kzbin.info/www/bejne/roiThp-pjJh8qZY

Also look at the structure videos with regard to striking. Personally I strive to understand how striking and grappling are similar, as it allows me to study and train both simultaneously, rather than independently. In both endeavors, start and continue to study your own structure. Feeling and understanding of others starts with ourselves. Check out this one. kzbin.info/www/bejne/fnm0mJxngseVjrM

it's a drill to develop movement. You are saying movement won't work?

The concept in this video can be a real game-changer for many skills. Grappling and striking are two that come to mind very quickly. When our opponent is big and we try to move this big person, we move in a manner that creates excess tension that the person can feel and resist. When we ignore the opponent to a degree and focus on our own motion, what our opponent feels and can react to changes. In the video, at one point you see me trying to move the entire person. Notice how my shoulder and chest flex, my hips get tense, and my feet ground. I am preparing for the resistance that is to come and bracing to overcome that expected resistance. Unfortunately, the partner feels and understands this preparation intuitively creates counter-reactions, making it more difficult for me to move him. If I am much bigger and stronger, I can crush him with that size and strength. But I am not always bigger and stronger, so that model has limits. When I pick up my cell phone I never have doubt it is too strong for me to move against. I just do it. When I move against my partner in a similar fashion, I make it far more difficult for him/her to feel and understand what I am doing. They do not feel the bracing and preparation in me mentioned above, hence they are not prepared to resist, nor do they feel necessarily feel they need to resist. .......read that again, big clue here. This is difficult to explain in words alone, feeling adds context that words do not. But, basically, imagine a large strong individual you are trying to move, say 110+ kg of solid, resisting, muscle. If that person feels and understands what you are doing, it will be difficult if not impossible to accomplish your goals. But if I can move a tiny part of that person, without that person understanding that he/she is even being moved......perhaps a pinpoint on the person's body, they will not resist, as there is nothing to resist, and by moving that tiny point, everything else is attached and will move with that point. I try to share that in this video but perhaps a better video is needed. Basically, how I visualize what I am doing, changes how the other person feels/understands my movement and how they may or may not resist. This also applies to striking. Visualizing striking the entire person, versus the surface of a person, versus a point on the surface of a person, versus a very specific point 2 cm inside a person, versus a tiny spot between to specific vertebrae with a fist. shaped like an ice-pick. Each of these visualizations on my part, totally changes the experience of the receiver. I understand words fail to give meaningful context to anyone who has not had these experiences. Simply the limit of the medium, stay open or not, that is the reader's decision. Thank you for a good question. I hope I provided some food for thought.

@@MarkJakabcsin1 I’m think that you are being heavy while also changing direction?

​​@@MarkJakabcsin1 I'd also like to thank you. Your words explain too much. Actually, I'm in front of a heavy table, and for the pure sake of trying, I proposed myself to lift it by one of its corners exactly with that ease and freshness I'd use in order to lift my cellphone... And I made it! It was as easy as picking the cellphone 😲

@historialess awesome. Glad that you were able to apply the information. Next time you are grappling and struggling with an opponent, relax, ignore them, and simply move. Sometimes magic happens. 😉 FYI, I shot new video the other week. Working on editing. Hopefully have some new videos out soon.

While this is a paired drill in practice it is actually an individual drill. This drill is all about movement, breathing, and relaxation for the individual. You can start by doing the drill by yourself, moving, breathing, and relaxing while moving randomly. This is a great start. The next step is to work with a partner, who is also doing the same drill. The key here is to not work against OR with your partner. Each person is simply moving and due to the close contact, sometimes blocking, sometimes in the way, sometimes causing the other partner's movement to change, but never stopping. The focus of both participants is internal, making sure these external factors do not change breathing or relaxation, even as the movement patterns change. Often times, one or both people will focus on winning the drill and dominating, rather than focusing on his/her own movement, relaxation & breathing. This is pointed out in the video when one guy stops moving and uses his size to hold the other guy down. Sure, that is good for actual combat, fighting, or sport. This drill is none of those, it is simply an early step to learn to improve combat skills, fighting skills and/or sport skills. Each peson needs to be moving at all times. When one partner has greater skills, he/she should move slower, with less force, and continually put themselves in worse, and worse positions, then working from those positions. A good whip is an excellent teacher's aid for when one person focuses on dominating his/her partner. Not surprisingly, several sharp whippings make the dominating person move, escape, and start to focus on not dominating. This drill is not a final drill, it is not fighting, it is a personal drill to study individual movement while a partner applies forced randomness. Can you maintain your breathing? can you maintain your relaxation? can you continue to body parts to move? There are bad partners that want to win. That is what an instructor with a whip is for!

@@MarkJakabcsin1 this is definitely one of my favorite videos

Thank you for the reply and the input. I have changed the way I share information and present videos over the years. I think you are right this video should be remade using the presentation techniques I am currently using. Filming has not happened in way too long. Hopefully, that has changed and I will add this to the list. Thank you.

@@ToddBrandon-dg2dm Actually he is teaching face punch "absorption" in the case you don't block. But when he attempts to block you see that it's not easy for him, something normal, but still exposes the idea of blocking in the systema way. Not saying the concepts are wrong, just that physics only allow partial use of them.

Thanks

Thanks Patrick. Unfortunately, I am out of video right now. Not enough people showed up on Saturday so I could not film. Good news is I got to teach a progression I have taught in awhile, so when I film it I will be better.

Thank you. I find this very interesting work but it is hard to film properly.

Thanks John.

@@MarkJakabcsin1 I've come across a similar concept in the German fencing fechtbooks called the "space of play" in translation, and I've long struggled to visualize that for H2H until... killzone! And there it is.

Thanks Guillaume. I need to do a video with an overhead view to show the angles, turning instead of stepping, relative position of safety, and kill zones. I have been talking about this for years, I just need to make it happen. Some day, some day.

Thank you, Mehdi for the kind words. I will go just about anywhere to train. Although not until Covid gets a little better worldwide.

@@MarkJakabcsin1 Yes for sure, your knowledge is very valuable nowadays. Please let me know when you'll be available. Cheers!

Yes, that was Pat McGee. She is a regular at Atlanta Systema.

Thanks John. Years ago I decided to focus on how 'things' are the same, rather than how 'things' are different. This really changed my training. When I train now, I am training everything at once, with minor specifics for certain areas. Hence, every training day improves everything, not just one functional area. I hope that makes sense.

@@MarkJakabcsin1 Yup, that makes sense to me - train the core attributes and the skills (largely) come out of that...

Thank you! Hoping to have something new for next week.

Thank you very much! The most recent videos are in the same park but we keep changing locations and angles as we learn the lighting and camera. Glad you enjoy Mal and hope we connect this year.

Glad to hear that! Thank you.

I guess it will. LOL. No one said Systema was easy to understand. 🙃

Thank you Raymond, I appreciate the feedback. I have another video coming out, once I complete editing, that I hope will fill in more blanks. This one is called the GI Joe Progression and provides another study method for exploiting the 6 points of movement. It is longer and requires more editing but hope to have it out next week or the week after.

Thank you. Glad you enjoyed.