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Why your first month is mostly breath.
Most new students assume the first month is about learning techniques. It is not. It is about teaching the nervous system to operate on long breath under unfamiliar load.
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Notes on practice.
Occasional long reads on breath, structure, slow work, and what students notice as the practice settles in. Three placeholder posts below until the writing schedule begins.
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What the Toronto HQ archive teaches.
A note on the early footage from Systema HQ in Toronto, what it shows about the founders' work, and what it suggests about where the art is going next.
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Slow work, and why it is the harder thing.
A short essay on why training at quarter speed is more demanding than training at full speed, and what students should look for in their own body when they slow down.
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