One thing I'll have to get used to again is that when someone tenses up or won't relax or is even just resisting, in systema it's not only okay but pretty much required that you slug them to break that pattern. It helps the recipient get over both ego-anger and that tensing-up, and the puncher to get over punching out of ego, too. But in a traditional school, you can't just go around (to most people, seemingly randomly) punching people.
Another angle: fighting in gi's after having fought in regular clothes for a while. I swear, the thought of it now is like some sort of pajama costume. Tangentially, fighting on springy mats after concrete - which, admittedly, you do need to really practice Japanese jujitsu with its concentration on throws, one thing you can't really do in systema-environments without nigh-killing someone....but at the same time, one realizes after practicing on concrete how incredibly, so-not-truly safe springy mats make one feel. It's seriously not a good illusion to hold.
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