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NEW – Upcoming Systema Classes [#4]
RETURN of CLASSES IN OCTOBER 2023 After a long Summer Break, Systema Mid Wessex thankfully returns to bi-weekly classes from 11th October 2023. These will be held at our new location at the Compton & [...]
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Mid Wessex teaches Systema to children for the first time….
On Tuesday 21st March, Systema Mid Wessex was invited to teach two classes of Systema to children at the wonderful Embers Learning Community in Copythorne, on the edge of the New Forest. It was a [...]
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Tuesday 28th February 2023
On this evening there was only a Health class run by our Instructor Paul Robinson. Paul covered breath ladders alongside Stretch/Movement adaptations taken from the following video link, which has been posted on our Whats [...]
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Students line-up for a quick photo at the end of the session, still smiling!
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'...Good enough will always be the enemy of perfection...' Mikail Kalashnikov
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"...Let not the Mind sway our decision, instead let Instinct take away our indecision..." [Rob Hodgkinson]
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Other Upcoming Systema Events [#2] – Children’s Classes
CHILDREN'S CLASSES - 2023 This is just a brief note to bring to your attention that, following the completion of necessary UK safeguarding paperwork, Systema Mid Wessex is now able to and hence now looking, [...]
Systema – Sensing Others [#2]
I mentioned to a very senior Systema Instructor way back at the start of the year, that one Sunday in December, I passed an old horse being ridden on a woodland track, and immediately was [...]
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HEALTH & WELLNESS #1 Whenever you sit down, stand up, go to ground and get up, generically walk - anything that requires a movement of the knee-set, try not to use the muscles that interact [...]
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Mid Wessex students get the opportunity to share a brief moment with Vladimir after the superb 'Disarm & Control' Seminar in London in September 22.
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KNIFE WORK #1 If training with a knife*, (to practise disarming), do not focus on the blade, instead focus peripherally, especially the attacker's shoulders & upper torso movement - this allows appropriate movement and depending [...]
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"Better to be hit with the truth, than be kissed with a lie" [Vladimir Vasiliev]
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Students practice 'Continuity of Relaxed Movement' in tandem, using a stick and a 'sit-up' drill. This drill ensures both students work on feeling each other's tension - and through connecting & relaxing, thereby allows the [...]
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"...In Systema, there is no such thing as an 'inconvenient' partner, only your own improvement needs. The more difficult a partner, the better the potential result you can achieve with them..." [Major Konstantin Komarov]
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Other Upcoming Systema Events [#1]
In November 2022 (w/e 25-27 Nov), Matt Hill at the Systema Academy in Melksham, Wiltshire, hosts their annual November Seminar covering Natural Movement. The 3-day seminar focuses on a developmental approach to achieving natural, spontaneous [...]
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"...The thing I wish to stress the most is breathing.....people need to see that breathing is truly a miracle..." [Michail Ryabko]
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One of our new students' (right), gains an insight into knife work & control with one of Systema Surrey's experienced Instructors, at the wonderful 'Control & Disarm' seminar in London with Vladimir Vasiliev, over the [...]
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BALANCE #1 Whenever standing statically in a safe position, (i.e. when queuing, waiting, at a desk or even brushing one's teeth as random examples), try to balance on just one leg, starting from a length [...]
Systema – the art of ‘Knowing Thyself’ [#1]
“Be a good person & everything else will come to you” > Mikhail Ryabko. I am passionate about this Art. I believe in its foundation and its teachings. Over my short space of seven years [...]
Tuesday 27th September 2022 [EXAMPLE]
Systema Mid Wessex Class Notes - EXAMPLE (Members Only Section) HEALTH An overview of the benefits of undertaking breathing, posture, energy vs. tension etc. Breathing: Release TENSION / increase ENERGY > Breath up if you [...]
