Back to some basic combinations tonight (but the basics are the fundamentals and the go to skills which must be endlessly polished and perfected.. and are still huge fun).
Before I describe the session I just wanted to share something that I heard from a martial arts clip I watched the other day that I though was relevant:
In a combative sense - Everyone is looking to make things simple. So how do I make my simple better than your simple?
The discussion goes along the lines of ensuring the fundamentals are flawless. But if two people of equal skill were to face off and both had the same repertoire of "simple/basic skills", how does one gain an advantage?
Obviously there is the psychological aspect, aggression, resilience, cardio etc to take into account. But within this discussion was the concept of exploring more complex skills (the art) and training that until it is "simple" (much like we did at Bob's seminar taking two techniques and finding them everywhere).
Then if my complex has become simple - my simple is better than your simple...and perhaps gives me an edge... make sense?
So how does that fit in with the session? The way I see it is that by taking basic combinations. drilling it to "perfection" really working on body mechanics, distance timing etc. then once you can do it with your eyes shut you can then add elements to make it more challenging, but the core element is still simple to execute and then you can start to find it anywhere. I guess this goes with muscle memory repetition and flight time. Get amazing at a few things that you can make work EVERYWHERE, but also enjoy the art.
Right enough of my ramblings
Warm up:
Shadow boxing
Drills (hands and feet):
off jab cross: Catch jab parry cross. As you do step off 45 and overhand (hitting down ), uppercut to head (under their arm so they don't see it - oh look an arm bar!!!!), then cross again and move off line and away. (this could easily turn into an armbar back sweep drill)
Off jab cross: catch jab, cut punch the cross with lead hand (slight step off 45) then round kick to thigh.
Off jab cross: catch jab, scoop the cross ( hands need to be high, waslik stepping off line or like a thai long guard motion into a scoop drag). As you do this (half beat) shift forward with a diagonal upward elbow with your rear arm, then hook elbow with lead arm, downward elbow rear arm.
We then mixed these up off of the feeds:
Some of us did these out of a jab catch drill and then we added a jab lead hook cross so we had to play with an extra defence off the hook and see what position we were in to find which defence we would use (e.g. very close use elbows, if you lead back away from hook a cut punch might be better)
Pads:
3min rounds - jab cross on way in and jab on way out then jab cross rear elbow (getting in close as you cross).
clinch:
using the elbow entry off the jab cross as described above we then went into clinch:
catch jab, scoop the cross ( hands need to be high, wasllik stepping off line or like a thai long guard motion into a scoop drag). As you do this (half beat) shift forward with a diagonal upward elbow with your rear arm. at this poit use the arm you scooped with (lead arm) to grab head/neck (striking with blade of forearm) then use other hand to tie in the clinch (hand on hand at crown of head). curl hands and weight down).
From here we did a slight push with arms (not too far keep theior head close to your chest) and skip out with your hips to then deliver an upward knee (and then skip into a second knee)
We practiced a defence off the clinch: once they had you in a clinch, you drop your weight and get you hips against theirs, use your thighs to clamp onto their lead leg (keep you head against heir chest as it reduces what they can do).wrap arms round waist and then simultaneously drive forward with your head/shoulders, pull thei hipd to you and squeeze their thigh and straighten your legs to lift then up to take them down (adjusting your feet as you got to land on them in a mount position).
So... simple concepts but not easy...
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