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Interesting - Rob has sinced moved into teaching and training Systema fulltime....
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Systema could probably be termed an internal system, what do you think? I believe Russia contains a number of asiaiatics and when communism was beginning there was probably some dialog between the two countries. Russia was also known for sending challengers down to China.
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i don't think it much matters, internal/external are all the same in the end. i expect there was cross-pollination of arts between russia and south east asia - it seems likely if not actually verifiable - just like some systems of silat look a bit like bagua or vice versa...... systema, though does seem to use a slightly different paradigm to the chinese arts in its training - for example, as far as i know it really doesn't have the concept of "sung" ......still an effective system is an effective system, and Ryabko and Vasillev both look very formidable.
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