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Laura Hoffarth Really? He teaches north of Toronto, Canada, and that video is from Tokyo, Japan. Do you think those are his students? This is the first time most of them have ever seen him in person. Some of them attack slowly, but others are trickier. Pay attention to the part where he shows how to position his body to defend using the attacker's own body without doing anything else. That's valuable right there.

+Laura H I see where you're coming from. What you wouldn't know before watching this is that they're learning to attack while the defenses are being demoed. You could make a face, you could be tense, but that isn't Systema. The students are not skilled, however. But its been close to 4 years now. Maybe some of them have become quite good.

+ScruovGoogul absolutely I have trained on a course led by this guy.he is the real deal . His stuff works and works hard.

I trained under one of his students, never directly from Vladmir, but his stuff is real. It looks all cheesy with the way the guys are moving along with the instructor, but this is all just basics. As they progress and actually learn techniques, it'll look a lot more "real".

You have to *start somewhere.* This is a beginner class.

stabbing is a common thing once they get very close. Or if they sucker-strike while you are not expecting.

He does it pretty well. I never learned from him directly, but i was trained by someone who trained under him and he was able to relay all the teachings Vasiliev taught very well.

Why is that sir? European Arts (and swords) have been far more effective than asian arts. Wrestling, Boxing, Pankration for excample...

TPS Training While I don’t fully agree with him, I think he meant that the newer generations of the Japanese are more open minded than the older ones. The Japanese tended to have a sense of being superior and arrogant.

I don't think that's the case. A lot of people in Japan prefer to learn wrestling, Judo, or Boxing instead of their traditional martial arts.@@julienraillot3280

To be able to really handle high speed fierce attacks you need to train slow and soft.. This method develops awareness, insights, tactile sensitivity and connects movement, posture and alignment which is then expressed in versatility of defenses. See carefully how Vlad works and controls the whole body of an attacker along with his own and works angels and spiral movements. If you can't pull this of in a slow manner you will not be able to pull it of in high speed life and death situation either.... Slow work also helps integrate the concepts in the subconscious.

There is a difference between speed and intention. I know of people who are able to pull the intention to harm and embody it while moving slow (like a cat on a hunt when they go slowly first). This is the most helpful thing you could do for your partner who's learning. It comes and is sustained through breathing. Not everyone is able to do this. The intention definitely changes the quality of movement. It's even harder to do it when your exercise partner is a great master and you either admire them, or fear them/their response to such a level of intensity-density. It can also be more difficult to see through video if this intention is being brought to the game. Instructors don't necessarily bring it up in every class, as they may assume it's being brought up in exercises, or don't think/know about it, but to me it's a principle that needs to be there for more accurate training to happen. You need to experience it to know.

Faster work comes after, and that's when you know if you've been training/trained accurately, with intention or not. Biomechanical principles by themselves can still be technically very accurate, the human quality of intention is the cherry on top for a finer work.

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I mean, he is russian kgb so I think the level of fighting he does, the people in the streets can't even imagine.

@@alli2964 Vladimir used to be a boss, but as you can see he’s spend too much time in the “dojo” beating his own untrained students. He hasn’t evolved as fighting has. The only reliable systema guys today are Mark Malpass and Kevin Secours.

Все очень реально и волшебство как ветер,что обдувает тебя и делает сильнее и опытнее

Мужик, сходи, попробуй, и узнаешь, раз и навсегда. Я так сделал. Инструктора системы - высший пилотаж.

From the looks of it, they're all pretty new to Systema. I went through that when i first started too. You start slow, with people coming at you like that so you can think about how to react and what to do. Eventually they will get faster and more aggressive as they learn more.

Joe, most Systema practitioners have trained for many years in multiple other arts. Vlad is unique I can assure you of that, and with all due reapect, unless you have trained with him, or another qualified Systema instructor, your opinion here means nothing.

I don't doubt Vlad, but he always seems to be moving faster than the attacker. Shouldn't they try to match speeds to be a fair practice?

FOR EXAMPLE, YOU CAME TO LEARN KARATE TO DOJO FOR THE FIRST TIME. YOU MEET TUTOR, WHO WANT TO SHOW FEW MOVES. HE IS WORLD CHAMPION IN KARATE OR BOXING. HE WILL GO FULL FORCE ON YOU, BREAK YOUR JAW AND NOSE, WILL YOU EVER COME BACK TO THIS COACH??? MAN, DO NOT SAY NONSENSE. TO LEARN SOMETHING, YOU NEED TO START FROM BASICS, LIKE MATHEMATICS.