Todays session was interesting for a number of reasons:
1) Mixing skills and drills ( and pulling in a lot of knowledge from previous sessions which made the warm up rounds really fun and challenging)
2) Watching how Steve adapts to the class and abilities of students in the room.. to use teaching terminology he had to differentiate the lesson 3 ways and adapt to each pupils strengths and weaknesses.. and he made it look effortless.
Warm up:
Out of range sparring.. acting as if you were sparring but no touching, still trying to defend evade and attack properly with good mechanics.
Boxing only long range (jab cross)
Long range into close range (standing against each other using hooks uppercuts bumping off etc.
Long range Thai boxing (kicking and punching attack and defend)
Long range into close range (moving into knee and elbow range and a little clinch)
We did a few rounds of these again mostly out of range until the last round of two where we did VERY light touching sparring. this round was particularly fun as many of us utilised combos faints and defences drilled in previous sessions (please see previous blogs for more details)
Drills:
The class was split into 3
Beginners did jab and cross defences (split entry, outside parry and another one I can't remember)
Intermediates did hook defences (bicep stop, cover driving elbow in and bob and weave)
More experience worked on some Thai drills ( Crush lead kick and respond with Thai 4 count, crush rear round kick and reply with 4 count, and defend the lead and rear teep by scoop/passing? the kick and follow with a switch kick 3 punches and switch kick again)
TIPS: on lead low line round kick, which normally targets opponents inside led leg, you're not just looking to hit it you are looking to off set them making them loose their balance, which in turn makes further defences more difficult for them)
Pad drills:
again split 3 ways
Beginners use single double jab and jab cross combo on focus mitts
Intermediate used thai pads but not sure what drill.
More experienced worked on Thai pads with a jab, cross, hook (stepping off line) and double rear round kick.
Wrestling:
This section of the session was great fun... light and skill focused at first in order to see patterns (and something a few of us have done ages ago so was too go "remember" and build on these skills). We started with the building blocks of wrestling.. some basic wrist control and defending wrist control, building up to elbow control into attempted clinches and bicep control and then adding hubud to the mix, clinch flows and escapes and locks/armbars etc
1) wrist control (same side grip) e.g. partner grabs your right wrist with their left hand. you use your free hand (your left) pass over the top of his hand and chop/swipe down and away then grabbing their hand with the hand you just freed where they then do the same. Important to note this is a slow build to sensitivity as you swipe away before they have a full grip (also move to zero pressure)
2) Wrist control - if they grab you hand and you can't swipe away slap the inside of their forearm (twist your body for extra oomph) and simultaneous pull your arm away, then grab they wrist with your freed hand, again moving to zero pressure
3) elbow control - they have grabbed and push your elbow (underhand grip) reach under your arm (like a lop) to brush their arm off then use your freed hand to control their elbow
4) as above but they put a lot of pressure on your elbow.... move back slightly and twist your arm further away to create space then roll you arm (leading with elbow) over their hand and grab their elbow.
5) clinch - from either elbow control escape use your free than to get a single arm clinch.
6) clinch defence - as they go to clinch put your free arm inside their reaching arm to block it.. from here you can either use the blocking arm to lift their grabbing arm and go into hubud, duck under the reaching arm and go into hubud, or if they are to strong use a clinch escape such as a shoulder shrug.
7) bicep control - from any escape, clinch, hubud etc you and go into bicep control - slide your hand inside the arms until you are pushing against partner biceps. as you push one bicep/arm back they will push your other arm back. Keep rolling your hands inside the arms so you will get into a rythmn of left right left right arms being pushed back. the goal is to try and get both arms inside so you and get a double arm clinch. you and break this flow by doing a dumog drag and arn time (shooting one of your arms under one of your partners outstretched/pushing arms then dragging then around you!
We played and mixed all these things to get a feel for it. this requires a LOT of work and sensitivity and like everything you must go SLOW to start so you can get a feel for the motions, inditifiy patterns and shapes and make sure each independent section is effective. once you have done this for a while you will start to do this stuff without thought... but again only if you go slow. if you ruch this to ealy you will get stiff movements and then you will be locked, choked, thrown and generally beaten up pretty quick
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