Spatial Awareness Exercises
Close your eyes and breathe deeply. Then focus your awareness firstly on your body outline. Then include awareness of your clothes and...
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Emmanuel Manolakakis
- Aug 27, 2022
- 2 min
Systema Spatial Perception
Systema is a complex entirety of many features interacting in total harmony. To my understanding, one of the greatest assets is using...
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Emmanuel Manolakakis
- Jul 18, 2022
- 4 min
Systema Spatial Perception
Systema is a complex entirety of many features interacting in total harmony. To my understanding, one of the greatest assets is the use...
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Emmanuel Manolakakis
- Jun 27, 2022
- 2 min
Understanding & Befriending Anger
Anger can be the most honourable emotion you have if you know what it is, why it appears, and how to work with it. All of your emotions...
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Emmanuel Manolakakis
- May 24, 2022
- 2 min
The Well of Mastery
When I look at a master working at their craft it’s like they are driven by a different fuel source than everyone else. Most people have...
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Emmanuel Manolakakis
- Mar 13, 2022
- 1 min
Systema Training - Remove the Armor
So many people have gotten on the SYSTEMA training program that they want to jump in the deep end of the pool, start training hardcore,...
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Emmanuel Manolakakis
- Mar 11, 2022
- 1 min
Movement training versus Exercise.
FightClub uses principle from martial art – Systema; often neglected in exercise: the tool is an extension of the body. The body has a...
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Emmanuel Manolakakis
- Mar 10, 2022
- 1 min
Improving Complexity and Eliminating Complication
Is your movement complicated or complex? Aging is a process of losing complexity and building complication. Optimal athletics is a...
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Emmanuel Manolakakis
- Feb 26, 2022
- 1 min
The Beginners Mind
A positive attribute that refers to having an attitude of openness, eagerness, and lack of preconceptions when studying a subject, even...
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Emmanuel Manolakakis
- Apr 29, 2021
- 3 min
Systema Breathing
There’s this drill…we all have them….that I just dread. I know its coming and I have to fight myself inside every time. Could it be...
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Emmanuel Manolakakis
- Feb 16, 2021
- 5 min
Excerpt from the book on Flow
The surgeon in the operating room feels flow; so does the rock climber on a cliff, the athlete in the midst of a game or the mother...
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Emmanuel Manolakakis
- Dec 5, 2020
- 2 min
LOCKS AND THROWS
By first having students rotate, move and manipulate a partner's joints one at a time they get a first hand feel for how they work. Care...
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Emmanuel Manolakakis
- Dec 5, 2020
- 1 min
Movement
Movement is paramount. The body is in constant movement, even when you believe it to be still. Blood is moving and organs functioning,...
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Emmanuel Manolakakis
- Nov 30, 2020
- 2 min
Breathing
If you cannot control your breathing, life will not fair well for you. When you consider how many bodily functions are regulated...
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