Mastodawn

Another new student shares a journal entry. thx! https://ucbprogram.com/node/2038 #standing #meditation #mindbody #fitness #internal #martialart

First week... | UCB Program

Pranam (Greetings) everyone. Since joining the program last Friday by the grace of Sifu, I looked around a bit through the cirriculum to kind of get the lay-of-the-land so to speak. It's incredible to hear (and read) Sifu explaining with precise terminology concepts that my previous Teacher(s) described rather vaguely if they even hinted at them at all. I went to the very

Kelley Graham 1d ago

New student journal entry. good job! https://ucbprogram.com/node/2037 #standing #meditation #mindbody #fitness #internal #martialart

Previous Standing vs. Finding the Back Stop and Removing Collapse | UCB Program

Previous Standing was sitting on the barstoll, releasing roots, middles, tips, Release the tail bone and extend the lower back. Suspend Head from crown, distribute weight evenly on feet. It took many years to feel anyting close to progress.

raleighaikikai 2d ago

The Middle Path

“If the string is too loose, it doesn’t play, and if too tight, it will break”
-Zen Buddhist Proverb (paraphrased)
(unknown source, associated with Sona)

Through my #Aikido life, I have often been met with some extremes in approach of training aikido; from the all martial approaches to the all soft-flow approaches

#Budo #Bushido #Aiki #RaleighAikikai #MartialArt #ShinKaze #MiddlePath #Zen #ElementsOfAikido
#LifeGivingSword #Flow
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Kelley Graham Apr 3

@imklg Over time, the training “pulls the fear out of the body”. Stillness happens. This is an intrinsic state, not adopted, contrived, or practiced. Mettle and resilience arise naturally from intrinsic stillness. This path begins with the ability to be quiet. Open content. Freely available. Self paced. Available Juneteenth. #mindbody #stillness #neuroscience #meditation #fitness #martialart #selfcare #health https://ucbprogram.com/stillness/quiet-12-week-course

Quiet 12 Week Course | UCB Program

Open Content Coursework. For anyone. Freely available. 12 Lessons. Can be done at any pace, but designed for one lesson per week. Slower is fine, faster is not. One lesson per week is best. Do not reproduce without written permission. If you want to support my efforts to bring my content to a wider mainstream audience, please consider clicking the Ko-Fi Support me button.

MASK9 Feb 28

https://www.mask9.com/2418436/ 重量級キックボクサー【谷川聖哉】がシステマを身につけたらどうなってしまうのか【Krushクルーザー級王者】 ##VladimirVasiliev #AKB48 #AKB48FormerMembers #AKB48元正規メンバー #martialart #mikhailryabko #MMA #RIZIN #rma #russiammartialart #selfdiffence #Systema #systemaryabko #systemataka #systematokyo #systemavasiliev #Takahidekitagawa #Takakitagawa #система #ヴァシリエフ #システマ #システマ入門 #システマ東京 #システマ芸人 #ストライク #たくちゃんねる #リャブコ #リラクゼーション #ロシア武術 #剣術 #北川貴英 #原宿 #古武術 #古武道 #呼吸法 #奥原妃奈子 #格闘技 #武術 #武道 #白川竜次 #石井東吾 #系统 #総合格闘技 #護身術 #谷川聖 #軍隊武術 #達人 #시스템

Kelley Graham Jan 22

Requirements for discovering your intrinsic quiet. #meditation #internal #martialart #mindbody
https://ucbprogram.com/stillness

Stillness | UCB Program

I am making this training manual public. Resistance requires a free mind. A free mind requires a specific kind of quiet. This quiet is not imposed by your iron will to suppress uncooperative thoughts. This natural quiet arises from within. I call this process 'Discovering Your Intrinsic Quiet'. Requirements for success are:Establish the pelvic stretchFeel the response in the

Inky says "What the hell?!"Jan 11

A good thread on what it means to be actually physically powerful and trained to understand that and when you lack the teainign and just think might makes right.

https://bsky.app/profile/hipcrimevocab.net/post/3mc3wktzcia2n

#ice #martialart #masculinity #fight

Lane Stellmaker (@hipcrimevocab.net)

All of this is to point out that taking a job like being an ICE agent, where the demands of the job might have to include physical restraint or confrontation, are going to attract one of two types of people. The first type is the competent but cognizant who, like me, can be physically dominant...

Bluesky Social

┐⁠(⁠ ⁠˘⁠_⁠˘⁠)⁠┌ alm10965 • 6×💉Dec 20

Die Pilgerin -
War gut,
Ein wenig im #degeto - Style
ein wenig Thriller
eine kräftige Dosis #Mittelalter
etwas #MartialArt mit mehreren #Ritter'n u.a. #StipeErceg https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stipe_Erceg?wprov=sfla1 <1/2>
2 mal 90 min Spieldauer (Staffel 1 & 2)

Die Pilgerin - Staffel 1 der Serie - jetzt streamen!

https://www.ardmediathek.de/serie/Y3JpZDovL3pkZi5kZS9QUk9EMS9TQ01TXzcwNmI3YjYxLWUzYjYtNDBmYi05N2QyLTM4NDUyODE1NjE1NA

> Nach dem Bestseller von Iny Lorentz: Unschuldig flieht Tilla im Mittelalter als Pilger getarnt nach Santiago, um das Herz ihres Vaters beizusetzen.

Magical Cat Dec 8

It is interesting to see how #TaiChi / #TaiJiQuan cultural influence goes beyond "common" spots such as #KungFu action or fantasy movies. In the #StarTrek universe there is moQbara - the Klingon #martialArt inspired by Taijiquan.
https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Mok%27bara
There are multiple appearances of it across series.

HeadbangingPony Dec 3

RE: https://toot.community/@openculture/115656271594078220

Cant really say why I am amazed by this, but I am
#martialArt
#history