Systema: Personal Opinion

**aiyer** · Posted On: 9/07/2010 4:38pm

Going from TKD to systema...now that's impressive
*sigh*

**Dak** · Posted On: 9/07/2010 5:00pm

Originally Posted by JudoA

This is a good post and you should read it

and this is an old post

**illegalusername** · Posted On: 9/07/2010 6:02pm

Originally Posted by It is Fake

Sounds like a commercial.

I was constantly expecting Charles Atlas to step out and tell me how training Systema like him will stop bullies from kicking sand on me at the beach

**Permalost** · Posted On: 9/07/2010 6:21pm

I’ve only been doing systema for a while, but here’s some thoughts:
Every class we punch and kick each other without wearing protective gear, and learn to absorb and shed the power of the strike. There’s some guys you can hit as hard as you can. TKD seems to focus on some weak kicks, and anyone who isn’t afraid of getting hit by them can probably walk all over an average TKD person (I’ve definitely seen hard TKD kicks, but mostly in the form of side/back/front kicks to the body, which is the primary area a systema person develops defenses against). There’s also time spent every class doing some kind of drills where you disbalance your partner and put them on the ground somehow, and this becomes easier when they’re on one foot. These things coupled together can create a problem for a TKD person. That doesn’t make it better, and it definitely doesn’t make it the best thing out there.