With gradings looming this session was focused on continually drilling those aspects of technique and application that need a little fine tuning (as always!), everyone split into pairs and worked on their own syllabus. I was partnered with Charlie this session and working through his Purple shirt syllabus (we do t shirts not belts), so I am sorry if I have missed what everyone else was doing!
Warm up:
Shadow boxing - I had tweaked my leg/hip on the weekend which men standing in a orthodox stance and throwing a cross actually hurt/pulled on my left leg. So I tried shadow boxing in south paw stance and bizarrely had no pain(?)... so even if you have an injury there is usually a way to train around it without aggravating it. (until later)
Syllabus work:
Leg flow - starting in 50/50 thai clinch - lead leg knee to inside of leg, rear knee to thigh, lead foot behind their lead foot and push shin on knee to lock leg out, then use same leg to sweep/pull back. Then stamp on knee with rear foot. come back to stance and hop step to the side and use heel to of rear leg to hit back of knee. Off set shoulder and go lead hip past their hip for a hip throw (drive your lead leg between theirs). Come back to stand in front of them and off set shoulders the otherway -step across so your rear hip is past their hip and hip throw again putting leg between their legs. Come back to centre put rear foot between their legs and pivot so you are now facing same way as partner in right lead - sweep your lead leg back to take their lead leg away form them.
We also played with some hand wrestling, drilling various wrist grabs, strips/defences of these into elbow control and defences, into pummelling and looking for dumog drags and getting into the clinch. The key concept here was to drill it slowly and look for reference points. repetition of drilling it this way will allow you to "feel" when you have the right moment to change your attack, go for a clinch or defend something. I find focussing on one move (e.g. dumog drag and ONLY doing that for a while) helps me to see it everywhere. I can then add it into the flow when we are mixing up wrist/ elbow control and then into pummeling. We explored some ways of getting into a clinch, dumog drags and some defending of the clinch. This is a really nice game to play with a partner and you can gradually build the resistance one you understand how to apply a few techniques.
Thai pad rounds (Cardio improvement or death!) - all rounds 3 mins and 45 second break
1) Jab cross hook rear round kick
2) cross hook cross lead round switch kick
3) Lead round cross hook rear round
so yeah... hips were on fire at the end of that! and I think we wre all pretty gassed. Pad holder needs to keep motivating the hitter, coach any errors in technique and control the pace... we are BUILDING cardio.. not killing eachother.. so go at a good ace, push it a bit when needed but also allow partner a little recovery and to re focus... what are you learning if you are so gassed you can't even throw a kick/punch? That being said.. even if you are gassed... keep throwing!
Double stick gintings.
As a reference - the stick in your right hand is ALWAYS hitting the hand, the other stick is helping to block/pass the stick
isolating the guntings (scissor motion)
1) whether it's an A1 or A2 do a closed to open gunting stepping off line as you do. from an open position go into any 3 count odd series combo but remember to chamber your other stick under your armpit as you do the first hit.
2) off A1 open to closed giunting stepping off - follow with a Redondo with the stick you hit their hand with. Then go into odd series - as you hit (left hand) remember to chamber your other stick
we then drilled this with a left and right hand feed doing A1 and A2 off each hand and using any of these guntings
3) off A3 open to closed right hand stick hitting hand other hand passing.. as above-Redondo with the stick you hit their hand with.then go into odd series - as you hit (left hand) remember to chamber your other stick
4) Off A4 closed to open (right hand stick ON TOP of left hand stick.. then go into any odd series combo but remember to chamber your other stick under your armpit as you do the first hit
We then drilled these just of left and right hand A3 and A4 feeds
Putting it all together - from a 5 count feed we did the following
A1 - open to closed then odd series, A2 closed to open then odd series, A3 Open to closed then odd series, A4 Closed to open then odd series, A5 (stab) Open to closed then odd series.
So body taxed, brain fried.. good stuff as always! - as always thoughts and comments welcome.
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