Re: Systema No Contact Techniques
Dan:
You know that I am in total agreement that we can agree to disagree. It is being dismissive of something without a deep understanding of it is a position that I do not take.
Do not mistake their sensitivity training to represent giving away one's center in a fight. My experience in watching teacher & student, feeling, feeling a "tap" from Ryabko and trying to "wrastle" with Vlad, is that what appears to be giving up the center is actually moving in a most unusual manner that keeps their center while taking me off my center.
Most of those guys are open-minded and do not mind "playing around" with other martial artists. You may have already done so, or you may want to do so. I do not really have a deep understanding of a lot of their training, but I certainly respect their results and have incorporated some of what they do into my training and teaching.
Regards,
marc abrams
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