RUSSIAN MARTIAL ART "SYSTEMA"

[fiercest tiger]

are any of you guys studying this system with vladmir?

how is the training and what does it consist of?

thanks in advance... :D

peace

bakmeimonk@hotmail.com

[Rolling Elbow]

Didn't we go over this about two months ago?!!! or have you since met up with those two ninjas again but with different results this time?! Perhaps they wiped out a part of your memory or left you punch drunk? ;)

Michael Panzerotti
Taijutsu Nobody from the Great White North..

[fiercest tiger]

where ya been?

no those ninjas are now cleaning my toilet at my kwoon. :D

i do remember but still wanting to see if anyone new has done systema lately! hows your going, have you been to vlads school or anything lately?

take care man :)

peace

bakmeimonk@hotmail.com

[Stranger]

I have only been to one seminar with Vlad, and I enjoyed it very much.

Seminar started with a warm-up. The first set of exercises were designed for use in the field when standing-up and doing 25 jumping jacks is not an option. Vlad described how the relative cold of the ground and long hours spent motionless or barely moving leads to incredible cramping and soreness. When faced with a threat, you must be fairly confident that when you go to pounce on your prey that your legs aren't asleep or won't work. Most of the exercise were dynamic tension. While we were on the ground, he also convered ways of rolling over and turning around rapidly,without raising your profile of the ground. (this was intersting stuff, but admittedly not relevant to most of our lives).
The next set of exercises were done with a partner and resembled basic circus stunts of balancing a human being on various parts of your body and moving the weight around. This stuff was kind of hard.

We moved on to techniques: Sentry takedowns, double team takedowns, sentry neutralizations, and work against a team of opponents with your advantage being surprise. (once again, this stuff does not apply to most people's reality)

We learned how to abseil.

We had simmunition shootouts in a killhouse.

We practiced throwing the shovel and knife and then practice with them both handheld.

We practiced how to remove somebody from a vehicle and how to avoid having it done to you (carjacking).

We ran a commando-style obstacle course.

We participated in an ambush drill using real moving cars and simulated explosives.

Vlad routinely allowed people to attack in unchoreographed manner, and easily worked through it. He was friendly, approachable, and answered EVERY question asked of him with a solid technical demonstration containing the answer.

Don't buy into the TRS advertising (they overhype all of their products) and don't come expecting jedi mind power demoes. That aside, you will still be pleased. Vlad has talent and he shares it readily.

You might want to look up a guy who posts as "Arthur" on the Neijia froums, he is a Systema teacher with a long background in the internal Chinese martial arts and Chinese medicine.

[Ford Prefect]

Stranger's right. Don't buy into all the hype. TRS is responsible for all the advertising. I've trained with the "Arthur" that he mentioned once, which is my only experience with Systema, but I'd have to say that it is a pretty legit system. It's definately geared completely toward real-world situations, and they train realistically as well.

"Who's house?"
"I said RUN's house."

[fiercest tiger]

can you tell us abit vlads power, ive only seen the vids, but would like to here from someone that has felt vlads strenght etc.

:D

peace

bakmeimonk@hotmail.com

[TaoBoxer]

I don't know anything about Systema, but Arthur Sennot doesn't have a "Long history in Internal Chinese Arts." As far as I know, he is a Shodan in Judo (albeit VERY talented) and has done a lot of other work in other arts. As for Chinese Medicine, I know he was apprenticing under BJ Wong in Boston, but from what I understand there was a misunderstanding a while back.......