The Fuzzy Science of Soft Work
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- Опубликовано: 16 окт 2022
- The Russian martial arts often employ of slow drilling modality. While important, this approach is often over-used, misunderstood and mistaken for application.
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A cold water bucket of reality thrown with a warm smile. Always concise, informative, wise. A perfect teacher. Thank you
Thank you for watching. That’s very kind.
@@systemacanada The edits at 1:12 are also "chef's kiss"
@@bradsheffield8191 thanks
Excellent and on point. I used to spar (after much soft work......chinese arts) with folks that were not in the tribe.....foolish......was fortunate to come out unscathed. Now I'm just in it for the mobility and health......the soft work is amazing for it. Thank you.
Thanks for watching. I appreciate it. All the best in your training.
This guy is one of the best teachers you will find.
Thank you. I appreciate the support. Thanks for watching.
If you are working through an old injury Kevin's old student Fabrice Piche is brilliant. His medical qigong has allowed me to keep training when I thought It was too late for me to dive into pressure testing.
I guess Dave Grossman's quote about never rising to the occasion is fitting here. Another great one, Kevin 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Exactly right. Thanks
Perfectly said and well articulated !!! As always ....btw I'm stealing drinking buckets of Unicorn Piss !!!!
Absolutely. I have a seminar a decade back entitled powdered unicorn horn and leprechaun piss on ust this topic lol
Thanks for sharing!
Love this explain...much appreciated!🙏
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This is a great talk! So many lessons in this video.
Thank you Mr Secours.
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Thank you sir, for your clearly spoken wisdom. Really
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I came from a traditional wing chun school, I now study grappling and combatives. It was a shock to say when I had my first grappling session, but also it hit home that this is the best method for me personally . Study then pressuring, reassessing after
Agreed.
Often I can only spinal load and I can barely select the most basic gross motor skills. The steps you describe are so perfect. Thank you for inspiring us, as always.
Thank you for watching. Donald Meichenbaum is the pioneer of this work. His structure changed my approach to training.
@@systemacanada Thank you I will also do some research on him then.
@@thevirtuoso6168 he is from
The University of Waterloo
@@systemacanada Thank you Sir
@@thevirtuoso6168 anytime :)
Excellent!👍🏻
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Thanks Kevin . I’m training in South Carolina . Systema. I’ve been to headquarters and trained a couple of times with Vlad. Sometimes here in South Carolina I feel like we train to soft sometimes 🤷♂️. Trying to find the balance .
Very well said, sir!
Thank you for watching. I know it was a long one .
@@systemacanada long but important to hear!
Excellent
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J'adore le Combat Systema...mais les cours de groupe, les vidéos, et l'ensemble des informations sont pratiquement toujours en anglais...Kevin si tu faisait du matériel en français et donnais des cours en français je serais toujours preneur...For me Kevin is The Best of The Best !
Merci Jeff
might have to buy another video
Hey John. I hope you’re well.
@@systemacanada I missed your collegial empiricism especially since 2016 when half the people I knew started losing their damn minds... Recent events put a lot of things into a new perspective lol... I am okay, I keep in shape and use systema breathing for that, though I also use yoga now. not really in the scene - but still it sticks in weird little ways... Now and then a buddy asks me for a lesson but now it's more about work and family for me. When Dema ran Hamilton crew we had a bunch of guys with real and sport experience, some of whom were a bit unruly, so the biggest challenge was the learning phase really, but for sure you need both.
@@johnelliott9823 I’m glad you’re keeping well. Dima is as tough as they come so you’re in great company . I’m glad you’re staying healthy. Breath is the root of everything especially as our machinery continues to rust in the rains of time lol
Not sure if I'm interested in the leprechaun pests. Excellent treaties. Love your depth and understanding and the way you present it. I remember going to Thailand and training in the moi Thai kickboxing camps. The majority of kids would train 6 to 8 hours A-day the 8 hours A-day and most of that was generally easy work but easy work. Also remember watching a documentary years ago on sumo camps in Japan one can't particularly only train and pressure tested once a week. The rest of the week was done and loosening up limbering and slow work. Do you have a recommendation on percentages of slow work to fast work? Perhaps a recommendation on the amount of time or days we should spend on each?
I always start sessions with slow. Pressure need not be dangerous. It can come from limitations in breath or senses or slightly higher speeds, reductions of tools etc. I try to always
Make every drill a little different, less predictable and always evolving to a level of challenge where not everything is working neatly and cleanly. So every group is different .
Amen
Thanks for watching. I know this was a long one lol.
This is such a valid point. The question that I have is how do you do "pressure testing" without it becoming sparing with rules, and keep the focus on learning for a real world situation vs. becoming a de facto competitive sport?
There are three requisites for pressure testing in performance enhancement :an education phase: know what you are doing and why you are doing it. What is the goal of the drill ? A rehearsal phase: practice the skill under a continual increase of pressure . Never redo reps that are comfortable. Always add limitations and challenges to force you to adapt and perform those rehearsals in a manner that requires focus-like adding resistance during weight lifting. Often termed deliberate practice .Then the third phase is pressure testing wherein the rehearsals begin to erode and you basically start to fail as much as you succeed. So push ups can pressure test a physical movement to an extent and reinforce a mental attribute. Sparring can be a pressure test as well but it needs to follow those three criteria . Most people just soar at a comfortable intensity without a goal which is really more mental masturbation then actual training. They are exercising but not training with a goal. If you spar with a focus on improving a new skill then that is already better or while coping with limitation hampering a skill-like not being allowed to kick etc. Then after you’ve gone through the three stages the key is to debrief and evaluate. What worked and what failed? The pressure test refines the next education phase . If for example I kept turning my face when I got punched therefore I would develop drills to isolate this and improve this. That drill development is my new Education phase. I rehearse slowly enough to succeed. I add pressure to the rehearsals. This could be two tactical vision goals like keeping my eyes on my appointment but also glancing at a loved one I’m seeking to protect or contending with two attackers. , it could be a limitation like a blindfold, a weighted collar collar that forces you to work harder to keep you’re yes up, etc. Whatever your creativity can muster. I pressure test until the skill is at the verge of failure and rinse and repeat. If we pressure too soon, too far and without a goal we enforce learned helplessness and despair which most clubs and organizations do unknowingly so then formula is key.
So a combat athlete can spar with this formula and will massively improve whereas an average person just goes hard and remains the same because they are working without a goal . If you are training for street then it must emulate street. You must drill and test the skills of detection, avoidance, use of force, verbal de-escalation. You MUST role play. But always with the three prong approach of educate, rehearse and test.
@@systemacanada awesome insights! I think as instructors too often the goal is to keep people coming. Also I think back to being a student of Martin Wheeler's back in the day, and things seem to follow this general pattern, but when things got intense my focus was never on "winning" against him (not possible) but "survival" and more of an exploratory play of seeing what my options are in any given situation. I think what makes Systema dangerous verses other arts I've trained is it that someone been trained in the principles is able to stay relaxed, and fluid regardless of what you throw at them. That's where my focus has always been in Systema. The body learns to "think" subconsciously and react to the situation. But as you point out it's easy to be in the soft, relaxed phase when the threat isn't real, and the stakes aren't high.
Hi Kevin - have been trying to buy this download for the past couple of days but am not able to do so. Keep getting an error ... still very interested in the info but not sure how to proceed. Thx
Sorry about the snag. Could you try it using a different internet browser and let me know if that makes any difference?
@@systemacanada Got the same error on Chrome as Edge but then tried on Chrome with CC (instead of PayPal) and it worked. Thanks and looking forward to it.
@@chrishann2413 phew. Glad to hear it. Thanks for your patience.
@@systemacanada any plans for seminars in 2023? I train with Martin here in S CA but would love the opportunity to learn from you if the opportunity to join you in Montreal or elsewhere was there
@@chrishann2413 nothing confirmed yet. Possibly a Vancouver Canada seminar but nothing else confirmed in North America
Just curious, is your school in NDG closed? I walked by there in August and there was no signage.
Yes I’m not currently teaching the public. Just doing private contracts. I will likely reopen in the West Island in the future.
Are "ruzzian martial arts" now not a joke as in the ultimate martial contest of war we see the impotence of the potemkin village ruscist aggressors. I think it is time to study Ukrainian martial arts over muscovian. First starting with the most courageous warriors in the world.
I’m not concerned with what other people do under one banner or another. We train hard. That’s all I care about. Flags don’t make warriors. Effort does .
@@systemacanada well then by that standard the effort Ukrainians have put forth to stop the genocide of their people, nation and language and their motivation not to be enslaved to putin have been truly incredible, despite the effort of the aggressors. Motivation combined with effort is always superior.
@@NormanScyth I think you’re
Missing the point
@@systemacanada I enjoy your stuff and think you have many good insights and techniques. That said if flags don't matter to you then why make reference to the country that you do as the putative origins of your style...you could be promoting a larger narrative unwittingly. You do you....I won't cast stones on your techniques, just expressing an opinion. I'll continue to enjoy and learn from these videos.
@@NormanScyth this is tiresome and ludicrous. Your answer is in your statement. Yours is an opinion. Mine is a fact. Systema is Russian. Systema didn’t invade the Ukraine any more than Jujitsu dropped bombs on Pearl Harbour. I’m not white washing historical fact to appease current political currents. If you choose the wholesale hatred of everything that is and ever was Russian that’s your choice.