Tonight's session was all about long and short range. It is often easy to get caught in no mans land, which happens to be right on the maximum leverage point of a punch or kick. We worked on defences with the focus of either making sure you were at long range (OUT OUT) or short range (ALL IN). In this way working at dictating where you were taking the fight to and making sure you were away form their power or inside the power where the impact will be significantly less. Of course combining this with good mechanics and movement so you are not standing on the X (right in front of them)
Warm up:
Shadow boxing, smooth mechanics and full body motion.
Hook defences:
All off a jab cross hook feed:
1) Catch jab, parry cross, wing block/Thai block Hook (default if you forget everything)
2) catch jab, parry cross, shoulder/bicep stop the hooking arm (full extension of arm (stiff arm) free hand covering face, step off line away form hook (to keep AWAY) follow up with ABC
3) Catch, parry, Bob and weave (include a step off line so you are outside the hook. the step off as you bob and weave will either put you AWAY from them (outside line away form direction of their weapons) or will have you ending really close to them (ALL IN) - your shoulder on them. you can follow with ABC depending on range you are. but make sure you move as you bob and weave or you will end up popping up in front of them and getting hit!
4) catch, parry, CRASH (rear hand elbow driving forward towards their face, lead hand covering their rear hand/shoulder) it is important to go ALL IN.. drive straight at them, crash into them the high elbow and covering lead hand will give you protection as you crash in so even if you went early or they threw a different combo you would still have some cover as you close the range.
We drill each individually then mixed them up into any order
We then added one extra technique off the jab so the defender could then choose when they wanted to go. and added this to the mix
1) Off jab, outside parry with rear hand simultaneous step of fwd 45 (to change leads), lead hand eye swipe motion but reach round to back of head/neck for an outside clinch. follow up with knee to ribs with rear leg
Pad drills: CIRCLE OF DEATH
4 stations 1 min per station, don't stop high work rate pad holder coaching partner is needed:
1) Cross hook (holding pads L shape so long cross and having to rock back for a short tight hook)
2) Jab cross hook
3) Jab, body hook head hook
4) jab cross, (slip a cross/step off right), cross
Stick and Knife:
Broken up into sections to develop the flow. 2 slight variations:
1) A1, A2, step off 45, stab with knife, hit stick (stick follows round under knife hand), stab with knife (stepping fwd with rear leg as you do) your knife should be pointe at partners head and their forearm against t yours. - then stab low and back up high - from here one partner twists hand and stretched to cut face, slide knife back along their knife holding hand and using a pinch grip lock wrist step off line and extend their arm towards you. Strip knife using back of your stick holding hand/but of your stick. AS partner tries to hit you with stick use your stick to punch through (cabiata) and hit their head, then stand your stick down to belly, wrap your knife hand round their stick and then strip (hard to describe but everyone did it really well)
2) as above and then AS partner tries to hit you with stick use your stick to punch through (cabiata) and hit their head, then use bot h hands to drive stick down on their shoulder, then with both hands punch it at their neck, reach round the back of their head with knife hand and grab other end of stick (your arm behind their head, stick in front of their neck. Hold their stick arm and stretch out into a choke
again this flow works on ideas of crashing in or extending and being off line.
Lower grades worked on A1 and 2 being at long range and hitting hand or Crashing through using the punching through / Cabiata motion so that they have a choice of how to defend and avoiding as much as possible being at the maximum velocity part of the stick!
As always thoughts and comments welcome
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