This book is an attempt to comprehend Russian martial art not only as a type of contact fighting, but also as part of a national ideological system associated with paganism and Slavic mythology. The author examines aspects of the psychophysical training of a warrior: methods of accumulating and managing energy, in particular the correction of physical and energy bodies; gives exercises to develop sensitivity in hands and fingers. The book reveals the basics of theoretical and practical work with force, understood by the author as “a set of subtle energies.” For sports instructors, athletes, as well as for everyone interested in Russian martial art.