Overcoming Knee Pain With Systema

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It was almost 9 years ago that I was at Judo and had partnered with Martin Wheeler to practice a hip throw. I had done this throw thousands of times over the course of my career in Judo and was reasonably successful at it. One of the times I was coming into this hip throw and Martin tapped my hip a little. All of a sudden I found myself on the ground not understanding at all what just had happened.

Being full of myself, I looked at him and said, “Try that again!”

I came into the throw again and once again I found myself on the ground not knowing what just had happened.

I asked him, “What did you do?”

The response came, “I just relaxed your [Read more...]

Knee Pain And Sitting Alot

Hi Bill
I have a knee pain around a month now and hope you could help me.
I am a male 58 years old. About 80-85 Kgs in weight/height is 5″8″. I work in office as an administrator, traveling to office by bus spend over 4 hours sitting in the bus 5 days a week. Same way in the office nearly 8 hours sitting down and working / looking at the computer. After work coming home tired having dinner and go to bed and same routine following day starting 5.30 AM.
Both knees are paining, difficult to straighten / getting up /squat.
In addition everyday my ankles are swelling. I am a taking medication for high blood pressure and cholesetorol. I read in my medication leaflet which says [Read more...]