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Training, with a stick.

Exercises with the stick ∞

• Partners hold the same stick — each pull the stick in their direction while maintaining posture against the resistance. Be gentle and take your time. Pull harder or softer to feel the whole range of motion. Try changing grips (palm up or palm down)

  • While standing beside each other
    — Held above the head, at chin level, waist level, etc. In front or in back. Vertical or horizontal.
  • Lying face up with the arms low, over the chests, or ahead of their heads.
  • Lying face down with the stick ahead of their heads.
  • Seated
    — With the stick in front and in back

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• Pushups beside a partner while balancing the stick on their necks
• Situps beside a partner while holding the stick above their heads

• Standing, sitting, and other position changes or even ground-movement / rolling / falling with the stick placed behind the back and held with the crook of the elbows or behind the knees.

  • Stand with the stick across your shoulders and drape you arms over it with forearms and hands hanging in front. From this position, lay down on your back as quickly and gently as you can. Now, get up as fast as you can without using your hands and without hitting floor with stick.
    — Now, same position, but sit on the floor with your legs out in front of you. Roll over onto your stomach as quickly and gently as possible. No hands, and don’t let the stick hit the floor. Once your laying face down, roll back over and get back to sitting position, again as quickly and gently as possible, again, no hands and no stick contact with the floor.

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• Sitting down on the floor with your legs open out in front of you in a “v”, place the stick vertically with one end on the floor, parallel with your torso and between your legs near your torso. Now, grab the stick and try to pull yourself up off the floor without using your legs at all. Try this same move with the stick at either side of the body.

Misc ∞

• Use of a stick: Emphasis on controlling the partner instead of striking.

• Pressing with the stick

  • Rotating the tip on contact instead of just pressing produces interesting results.

Used to restrict mobility, for defence-training ∞

• Placed behind the back and held with the crook of the elbows
• Behind your neck and was held in the crook of the elbows
• Down one pant-leg

• Wrestling while holding the stick

Movement ∞

Three people stand in a row facing the same direction. A fourth stands a few feet away facing the the group and holding the stick. The three stand close in the line and only look at the person in front’s head.

The stick-holder strikes in any manner and the line has to react only based on looking at the head in front.

Notes ∞

Stuff I thought might be cool, but I don’t know:

One partner is on their back, relaxing with one hand holding one end of the stick. Their eyes are closed. The other partner does pushups with the other end balanced on their neck.