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  • Visting Systema Ashville

    By Mark Jarret On the weekend of Aug 3, I traveled from Atlanta to the Weaverville location of Systema Asheville. Bill Paravanno is the instructor there. Vladimir Vasiliev personally recognized him as someone who had fixed his knee problems after years of knee pain.  In January, I ran an obstacle course race, the Spartan Race,…

  • No Belts, No Ranks, No Bowing

    I started practicing martial arts in college (Tae Kwon Do) and have been training and studying several other martial arts since then. I have been training in Systema since 2013. My perspectives about training have changed over time.  The article below represents my perspective ( that of one student) when I wrote it in 2019. …