Breathing is the key. The fighter must completely master the use of his diaphragm. Often during an attack, a soldier holds his breath when he should exhale it into the lungs. It must do to get rid of CO2, toxic to the cells of his body and to avoid contracting and produce lactic acid. During a fight, the athlete who wants to respond then do not because his body is dominated by lactic acid. If we push this process to extremes, we're going to tetanus, an infectious disease characterized by muscle rigidity and spasms that tonic ammene sometimes up to respiratory paralysis and death. So when the body stops to feed the brain with oxygen, the contestant forgets everything he has learned throughout his years of practice. Then there is a blank page in his brain and he forgets everything. Me, I try to teach them to breathe properly, focus, calm down during the fight.
Q: Alvaro Romano says creator of natural gymnastics, what did you say to that?
OC: Alvaro Romano was my student for 13 years. With me he has learned the "natural gymnastics. When arrived home, he knew nothing. He was on the verge of abandoning the faculty of physical education and was really in bad condition. He began practicing yoga and gymnastics natural with me, and after 13 years, he suddenly disappeared without ever giving new. I do not know what really happened because I never had the opportunity to discuss this with him. I had no idea until I learned from a friend that he had published an article in a magazine where he said he created the method of "natural gymnastics. I was very shocked! It was like a son to me. I even made two videos on "Natural Gymnastic" I toured with him. Some time later I found myself at a big convention where I had to do a course on "Natural Gymnastic" and a few hours before the start of my course, I received an official order of justice forbidding me to use this name because it was now a registered trademark of Alvaro Romano! I was disgusted! That is why, since I use the name "Gymnastics Orlando Cani (Cani gynastica Orlando) or the" bio gymnastics "(bio ginástica). I was deeply disappointed.
Preview DVD "ginástica natural fighters for" Alvaro Romano
Q: How did you hear about Rickson Gracie and when?
OC: Rickson had good feedback on my method of work and came to see me at my academy to work with me. It was 1986 and it lasted until 1988. In 1989 he was living in Los Angeles and invited me to dinner with my wife, it was a great time.
At that time, I did not pay the athletes who wanted to train with me and one day after he went to the U.S. to be giving a seminar with Rorion and other family members, invited by the actor Chuck Norris, he brought me two beautiful genuine Japanese swords that I could use in my forms of kempo. At that time I had a bokken made in China. It was truly a gift. Offering me the swords, Rickson gave a speech that touched me very much and in which he said he was really grateful for what he had learned with me.
Q: What was it like Rickson student? What was his attitude? Was he talented? How fast and how deep he studied? What interested him in particular? How long he studied under your leadership?
OC: Rickson Gracie was the best student I had. It is he who best likened the process. He is very serious and has a deep concentration. I watched and listened to me and what I said then penetrated to be part of it. He treats in depth is very impresssionant.
After 2 years studying with me, it almost made me cry with a gesture he had and I was very touched. He said: "Today you will sit and I who will make the court." So I thought it would literally fly, so what he did was perfect, especially her cool. My work is very intensive: Stand - floor-standing - on the ground ... there is no right or wrong positioning is movement. For me, the movement that's life is action, is energy.
Q: What kind of technical fighters do they want to learn with you?
OC: Especially the concentration and proper breathing during a fight. It's really interesting and so subtle that we can defeat an opponent just by collecting his breath. (Author's note: the fighters that form Orlando Cani are mostly MMA athlete practicing a lot of ground fighting). It's the fact that when holding his breath, it is weaker and that we are fragile when you breathe. Animals breathe continuously, man is the only animal that holds its breath, it's an unconscious process. We have to dominate the process of breathing in order not to lose concentration and energy.
The "natural breathing" is running essentially the soil, which stimulates the natural process of breathing and movement correct. But it is only a part of my job because I have also created many combos standing on the basis of taiji and movements of animals coupled with the concentration.
Demonstration of a chain of free Bioginastica, note ventral natural breathing in the execution animal forms
Q: What have you taught at Rickson Gracie, how he uses in a fight? How does this translate it into battle?
OC: concentration, breathing and body awareness. An athlete can improvise without body awareness. Now he can improvise at a higher level because he is very strong in its games. Rickson is very concentrated in his fights, he destroyed his opponent with nothing but his eyes. Of course, he is human and can make mistakes but even when it does, it is so concentrated in what he does he has the ability to recover soon. It is very important because it must be said that the defeat is a possibility. When fighting an opponent high level, we made mistakes and we expose ourselves too. Rickson has a real ability to recover from mistakes, because he always studied his opponents and mainly because he also has great body awareness.
Training Rickson Gracie staff
Q: You and Rickson have been separated a few years. How do you evaluate all these years? Do you think it continues to use what you have taught?
OC: Yes, he kept most of what I taught him. Now, we can develop more sensitivity. In aspects of motor and especially the psycho-motor skills. To date, it is able to develop a high level of psycho-motor aspect in the relationship muscles - the nervous system. At the end of my yard, the last time we saw him, he said he understood better now body awareness. As an athlete very involved in everything he does, the last time I saw him was even easier to work with him and his assimilation was more rapid and intense.
