Tonight's session was focused on working body mechanics and flow patterns (which are useful was of helping you shadow box combinations and help to take the "thinking" out of what you are doing). We then moved onto some empty hand "boxing" style defences and finished with polishing 5 count Sambrada with a knife.
12 count stick flow: (in right lead)
This is pretty much identical to the knife flow we did a few weeks back:
Al
A4 (horizontal backhand)
A3 (horizontal forehand) (step back or fwd)
A2
Stab (step forward or back)
Upward diagonal backhand (low line)
Upward diagonal forehand (step back or fwd)
Back hand stab to side of head
Fore hand stab to side of head (step forward or back)
Redondo motion slicing straight down the middle of head (hand ending outside your leg)
A1 low line (Step back or fwd)
A2 low line
We then added footwork (which I have added above) first stepping back... then doing the flow again and stepping fwd
We then did this with left hand!!!!!
We then tried to do this with right and left hand and add any footwork to it (moving around)
The strikes here are all "basic" but ensuring correct body mechanics, starting to flow, adding movement and then building speed and power with the strikes is something that takes a lot of repetition.
The idea of these "flows" are so that you have a reference point to build from. They are not the end point, but the start. The idea is to express yourself with all the striking families moving in any direction and to keep it going and to use it as a type of active mediation or shadow boxing. but this gives you a frame work to start with and from here you can go where ever you want. If you feel yourself getting carried away or starting to lose structure and technique you can come back to the base flow.
Back to the Wall drill (working pure defence)
The idea of this drill is to isolate specific defence types and work them only for a short period. Starting slow so that the basic mechanics can be practiced and then gradually increasing speed and intent (but not necessarily power) to challenge that specific defence. You stand with you rear foot against a wall so there is nowhere to go- no escaping just defending.
No defence is 100% proof and you will get hit, this is looking at ways of minimising that (and don't forget, you should be fighting back not just taking it)
1) Half guard (Floyd mayweather style).- rear hand protecting head and ribs on one side of body, other arm guarding ribs and body - keep body thin at an angle so there is a small target for opponent. this is useful to defend body shots.
2) Double pillar (thai long guard/4D box - all have similar principles) - used to defend head shots mainly - keep arms slightly extended and both arms moving at same level (not like a steering wheel more like moving a box left and right - "fall onto" the straight punches and use blade of arm to "block" hooks, elbow in for uppercuts. Keep arms moving and move your head/upper torso off line/hide behind hand too.
3) Crazy monkey (over head with elbows aka limb destruction and movement made popular by KFM/Defense lab but has been around forever.. nothing is new!) - This is for flurries of fast heavy hits, the oh shit moment. cover head with arms and with a brushing hair motion keep moving your arms over your head. moving your body and defending the hits, hopefully many will land on the elbows! - you should not do this for long as it is the most defensive of the 3. All of these are only really supposed to be for a few moments before you launch your own counter attack.
At any point you can add a "cover/smother" which jams your opponent up and leads to a clinch.
We isolated and practiced each of these individually. We then added an element of the unknown with mixing high and low line and the speed of the attack, forcing the defender to choose which defence was most appropriate at the time (we all got hit)
Pad drill:
We then added pads to the above drill. The attacker hit high or low line (the unknown) forcing defender to choose most effective defence. At any time the attacker would pause and the defender would then need to capitalise on the moment to through a 5/6 hit combo on the pads (and look for escape) before defending again. A great drill for remaining focused under pressure and looking for a moment to "fight back"
Knife:
5 count sambrad with knife. Focus on keeping knife movements tight, keeping body at an angle, movement and ensuring the "parrying/passing/checking hand" is forcibly manipulating the attacker/feeder. (go slow and smooth before speeding up and if it goes to fast slow down again then speed up. Speed will come)
A note on drills: as we had been doing a lot of the palasut cycle recently I noticed hat during the sambrada drill I would often give the "wrong feed" which then brought the drill to a stop and having to start again. What I have realised from this is that, while drills are good for muscle memory and making techniques more live, you cannot stay there forever or for too long otherwise you get stuck and are not able to adapt. As with my comments about flow above, it is important to learn the flows and movements but to encourage "odd feeds" and to implement reactions/defences to those (much like we did with the random feeds of the palasut cycle). Essentially there is no wrong feed, only the ability of the partner to deal with that feed. So yes you practice a drill for a specific skills set, but you must be aware enough that at times someone is going to go "out of the drill" and it is up to you to keep it flowing until you can find your way back into it... or go a different way and combine drills techniques disarms etc. This can only be done though if you have build a base of solid core "techniques/skill" and more importantly the awareness and focus to adapt on the fly. So basically stay in the moment, breathe, and don't do the motions robotically!
This is the art and skill/attribute building section of the martial arts and is what keeps you coming back for more. The "reality stuff" will be enhanced by appropriate and challenging/intense skills/drill training, but will also need more individualised adrenaline/shit yourself random chaotic training to get your body at least somewhat used to the potential level of violence and you certainly won't get second chances, so avoid at ALL COSTS... and if you can't, hit as hard as you can as fast as you can on do not let go until they have stopped moving! (just a thought.. I'm rambling again I know!)
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