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Strikes. Take It or… Grieve It…

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An interview from the gym of Vladimir Vasiliev Student: We heard that you are currently working on a new DVD on STRIKES. One of the topics covered will deal with the skill of taking strikes. It is of great interest to anyone studying martial arts, self defense or even human psychology. In Systema training, this skill [...]

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A Interview with Mikhail Ryabko About Stick Training

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Question to Mikhail: In your opinion, what makes stick a good weapon? Reply: I like it because it is easy to get for training and easy to find in most situations outdoors and indoors. Also, a stick is not classified as a dangerous weapon; anyone is allowed to have one. In a confrontation, stick allows [...]

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Tying Up with a Stick – Work of a Master

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This happened over 20 years ago in Russia. My friends and I were at Mikhail Ryabko’s class. The format of classes was such that a student could choose absolutely any form of attack and Mikhail would just demonstrate his amazing variety of spontaneous defenses. We would rarely choose a stick as an offensive tool because [...]

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Break Through Tension with a Systema Breathing Drill

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We all know that breathing is our best tool to eliminate tension. We have done numerous great drills at Systema classes and seminars. Many of these exercises are outlined in the book Let Every Breath and DVD on Systema Breathing: http://www.russianmartialart.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=23&products_id=88 I would like to share a very useful drill with you. Mikhail Ryabko and [...]

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Master your Tension

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In Systema conditioning, we try to create all the exercises so that they lead us directly into the highest levels of fighting skill. Training drills are not distinct from the martial art but rather form the intensive energetic foundation for all defensive and offensive movements. One of the variables that interferes with our effective movements [...]

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Application of Breathing

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How to breathe to prepare yourself for a fight? When an untrained person perceives danger, his heart rate and blood pressure go up, while the breathing gets disrupted – he usually holds his breath for a short time. As a result of stress, there is tension and restriction of movement so full breathing becomes impossible. [...]

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Boxing, Sambo or Mud Fighting . . .

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This incident took place when I was 14 years of age. I grew up in Tver, a fairly tough industrial city, 2 hours North of Moscow. I lived at home only on weekends, as for all 5 weekdays, I had to stay at a boarding school full of orphans and very rough kids from seriously [...]

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Thoughts From Class

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A human being is a complete system and for this reason we have to make our training a complete and whole system as well (thus, the Russian word for our training approach is Systema). Many sports and martial arts assume and presuppose that the person entering the training is healthy. In fact, this is almost [...]

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Walk Your Fists To Striking

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Many factors prevent you from delivering strong and precise strikes. One of the main factors is the fear of hurting yourself, it maybe an unconscious fear until you become or are made aware of it. Most individuals are afraid of hurting their own hand upon striking (this explains why in many contact sports, such as [...]

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A Trap for a Hero

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As we know, stress leads to tension in our body. When someone approaches us, we experience displeasure from the possible intrusion of our body space or our zone of safety. We may sense danger or just general discomfort. In essence, all these feelings are really fear. Fear always leads to tension. Fear is physically perceived [...]

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