What Bruce Lee hoped to accomplish with Jeet Kun Do, the Soviets perfected with Systema, a Russian martial art. Over 10 years ago, I was looking for some training in the Martial Arts and wanted a ...
Hello. New to MT and looking to start training. My goal is to train for self defense. Not looking to become a back belt, compete, etc. . I've been looking at studying mma, kindai-ryu jiu jitsu, and Russian Systema. I'm leaning toward Systema because it looks like it might be geared specifically...
Systema is an incomplete part of the Kadochnikov System. Kadochnikov (he is now 83 years old) is considered a patriarch of Russian hand-to-hand combat. All "systems" have roots and its basic principles from Kadochnikov. Some of them are greatly simplified and have a bias in the personal preferences of the "creators of different systems"
VICE met world-renowned instructor Vladimir Vasiliev, director of Russian Martial Art, to learn about the unique type of martial art known to be taught to Russian KGB troops and rumored to be a ...
Bloody Elbow: WTF – Witness the martial arts majesty of Systema in action
Systema, is not well received in the MA world, that's fine with me, but I thought I would start a discussion about it, first of all I am a practioner, not an instructor, I have attained 3rd Dan in two other arts, and have no commercial gain by talking about Systema. So what is Systema, it is a...
Systema is an art that the exponent will use tension only where its needed, it combines continuous movement, good structure, and being relaxed as you can, in order to adapt to your attacker, some call it the grey man principle, by moving more naturally, instead of a stylised stance, the Systema practiicioner will try to disiguse their skill ...