Tonight's session continued our focus on Thai defences. Over the last few weeks we have been building a repertoire of techniques/skills which we have gradually been challenging through uncertainty (in a build up to chaos and sparring).
In pervious sessions (see older blog entries) we have worker thai defences off the lead round kick combos and started to build some options against this, and we continue here with the rear round kick option.
I must stress that action is better than reaction, so it's always better to get the hits in first...but... your opponent is a moving target and they are not just going to let you hit them. So having some frame of reference for what you are going to do no matter what your opponent throws at you (tested under pressure of course) is going to be more effective than having no options (or too many).
Warm up:
Shadow boxing
Isolating drills
Round Kick
Jab, round kick
Jab, cross, round kick
Jab, cross, hook, round kick
Tips: twist standing leg on ball of foot with a "hard ankle" to open you hips, get the hip over when throwing the kick, use the arms to help swing the leg, step off the line with the hook.
Thai defences:
All off the jab cross hook rear round kick combo
The point of these variations is that your opponent that you don't really know how what they are going to throw or how many hits/combo. We started with variation 1 (detailed below) as default but if (when) you don't managed to pull this off (too close, too fast you miss etc) you have other options you can flow into. usual rules apply... hands up, movement, focus etc etc
1) Teep: whatever they throw (in this case the jab... throw a rear teep (and follow with rear round kick)... keep your hands up in case they move too fast and get in before your teep lands, or have a really long reach.
They jab to fast and you don't manage to pull the teep off
2) long Parry the jab and using the same hand throw a cross (step forward and off line) follow with uppercut and cross (or any ABC)
The cross comes too fast or you miss.
3) long parry jab and cross and lean back on the hook to make it miss then "bounce/shuffle" forward and follow up with cross hook and round kick
you don't manage to lean back on the hook
4) long parry jab and cross, thai cover the hook, check the round kick (block with shin), follow up with rear knee, into back sweep.
we drilled these in isolation and then applied them in any order with partner throwing the full combo without stopping and you trying to apply these and make alterations depending on if you pull them off or not
Pad rounds: circle of death!
6 stations. 5 of which had thai pads 1 had focus mitts.
Round 1: on thai pads you do jab cross hook rear round kick, on focus mitts you do jab cross hook cross. Hit pads until you are told to change to next station. we went round every station, no idea how long we did this for.
Round 2: on thai pads we did rear round kick pyramids (1,2,3,2,1), on focus mitts we did, jab/ jab cross/ jab ross hook/ jab cross/ jab... again went round every station only moving on when we were told to.
Stick work:
5 count feed (A1, A2, A3,A4, A5)
1) hit sick and then zone off throwing A1 and A2 strikes
2) hit sick and then zone off throwing upward A1 and A2 strikes
3) hit sick and then zone off throwing abenico
Stick choke/strangle
insode sweep off angle 1, check hand, throw the hand away and abenico to head, stab stick past head and slide to opposite side. reach free hand just behind head close to neck, grip stick and squeeze (like a scissor motion. when it hurst .. and it will... tap on your partner to tell them to stop... or they won't!
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