Tonight's session was about isolating some techniques, drilling the mechanics, working on some defences to these and applying them. Throughout this we were focusing on our stance, guard, not giving a tell before a kick and using the eyes to focus on the whole body not just the legs.
Warm up:
shadow boxing slow smooth with full rotation and body mechanics to warm up
Thai Kicks:
Teep - lead and rear - lift leg (bent) and drive the ball of your foot forward with your hips driving like a spear NOT snapping the kick - coming back to balanced position. (partner used as a target... aiming at stomach and thigh)
Teep defences:
1) elbow brush off - twist body and you use your forearm/elbow to deflect the teep trying to be on the outside of the kick (you need to crunch body not lower arms)
2) Knee crush - lift knee to your centre line and opposite elbow to your knee. As above you want to brush the teep off target. your knee crush will INSIDE their kicking leg
3) Shift off scoop - shift off 45 to the outside line and use your rear hand (depending on the side you shift to) to scoop they foot (catch the ankle) - try to lift the leg to off balance them. Most important part is getting out the way!
Thai round kick - hard ankle, weight on ball of foot, pivot the foot trying to make it face the opposite way, bring leg round with your hip, hit with shin and keep hands up and you kick. Come back to balanced stance
Tip: when "trading grapes" (thai bounce) use that to hid your "step" basically stamp in place instead of stepping forward before your kick. As it looks like you are just carrying on moving on the spot the step is hidden (just a thought)
Round kick defences:
1) crush - leg out 45 left or right leg. lead leg can also cover left or right side
2) evade - move your lead leg back and shift your hips/butt back
3) grab - moving in the direction of the kick grab the leg into the crook of your elbow/armpit, then pass it and reply with a kick.
Kick sparring:
Kick for kick - hands up, eyes on whole body, don't let partner set try to land kicks... do kick for kick and occasionally do defences practiced and counters... if getting too chaotic get back into a rhythm then "spar again".... only allowed to use teep, round kick, jeet tek. 1 min rounds with everyone swapping partners.
Take downs:
Off jab:
1) duck/slip and jab to body, drive forward with shoulder the get round to back of body, hip control, pivot round to their rear arm and dumog drag down. Keep hold of arm standing up, stamp on head and step through (into a lunge position) their arm between you legs their head on your rear calf. pull arm up... walk away with soggy end of snapped arm!
2) Outside parry rear hand, eye strike lead hand, use eye striking hand to lop their jabbing arm and simultaneous cross, figure 4 arm lock into take down. Keep hold of arm, knee on belly and head and lift up on wrist with both hands (wrist lock)
Off Cross:
1) Lead hand scoop into single clinch (drive oin close wrap hand round to ear, your head on their head and control free arm with your rear hand), twsit their head and drive with your head to take down. Knee on belly and hit then escape!
2) lead hand scoop, cross, same arm elbow, pivot of to side locking arm in crook of your arm and controlling their neck. soccer kick to head, twsit their head under (where you are) and hold onto arm. stp over and stamp on head, knee, knee, step over again (their arm between your leg their hand resting on hip, twist to lock arm.
(sorry about descriptions again not easy to describe)
To further develop this you could to some "controlled" sparring one person feeding jabs and crosses and other person trying to apply a take down.
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