20/3/18: Putting the flight time in: Boxing angles, pad drills and Double stick

Tonight's session was about using some boxing fundamentals to help create angles. The session was based off a "simple" catch, jab reply. The mentality of this approach is no matter what is thrown you will catch and return with a jab and the various applications can be applied to the catch off the jab. We mixed up the variations so that the partner/opponent does not know what I going to happen next... apart from getting Jabbed in the face!

Warm up:

Jab catch drill - focus on distance, keeping hand in front of your face, elbow in, trying not to reach out to catch the jab, use your rear foot to "bounce"

Drills: (swapping partners throughout session lots of flight time)

1) Catch Jab response (as above)

2) Catch Jab x2, on the 3rd rep hard parry with rear hand to offset and simultaneously step fwd off line 45 (you will now be attacking at an angel and they will be slightly twisted of their centre line from your parry). then throw a jab cross combo (we then added a jab, cross lead round kick). It is important to try and parry up the forearm towards the elbow if possible as they could roll over your arm if you parry the hand/wrist. This is an outside line attack.

3) catch jab x 2, on 3rd rep use lead hand to parry inside their jab and simultaneously step off with your lead leg 45 so you are now on the inside line (be weary of the cross follow up).. As you step 45 throw a cross, jab combo (we then added a cross jab rear round kick combo).

Note: these drills can be used off jab and cross, the outside parry of the jab is and inside parry on cross and the inside parry on the jab is an outside parry on the cross

Pad drills: 3 minute rounds (or whenever Steve decided to come back form making the tea!... it felt much longer)

1) as above: Catch Jab x2, on the 3rd rep hard parry with rear hand to offset and simultaneously step fwd off line 45 and jab cross (hole pad ad angle)

2) as above slight variation: catch jab x 2, on 3rd rep feeder throws a cross NOT a jab (better for pad holding) use lead hand to parry the cross (same motion as the inside parry) and simultaneously step off with your lead leg 45 follow up with cross jab.

Double stick: (various groups working different variations)

We worked the following:

Sinwali (weaving motion)

Heaven 6 and high line odd series with roof block

Standard 6 (H.L.H) and standard odd series with roof block

Earth 6 (low line) with low line odd series and roof block

Earth 6 with low line odd series and umbrella

we also discussed how you can vary the sinwali and odd series by mixing up the high and low lines within the flow (good for co-ordination and mixing up lines of attack)

examples you could try include:

HHH
LLL
HLH
LHL
HLL
LLH

some of these are quite tricky but really fun to try.

as always comments and questions welcome