Another week of covering classes. This week I looked at some basics that we had not done for a while and tried to take specific elements to work. The stick section was making sure we got good mechanics of each strike, hitting with correct part of stick and using full body rotation.
The footwork portion was to get familiar with the angels and the reasons for them, the need to "bounce" and be explosive in order to move direction and the importance of moving in triangles (or cutting the corner and being aware of the triangle shape of the movement.
This was applied to range work in numerada and applying the striking families while moving and maintaining optimum range (hitting them without getting hit back)
2/10/18
warm up:
Kali footwork patterns
Male and female triangle
lateral movement
closed triangles
changing direction with triangles
box pattern ("cutting the corners of the triangles")
Single stick
Striking families and body mechanics
cinco terras
Fig 8
Redondo
Abenico
Sunkiti
Numerada with striking families after the hit the hand (targeting and letting it flow and footwork/range)
Really focused on moving out of range and using triangular footwork to get out of range and back in to hit a target and then "cutting the corner" to move round the person
Experienced did Meet the force and follow the force Numerada followed by mixed striking families
Hubud:
Hubud is an energy drill that helps you build sensitivity, reactions, maintain connection/control to a partner, and manage distance. It allows you to play and explore out of movement and can be compliant or competitive depending on your specific needs
Basic flow:
Block the grab/hit with blade of arm, fingers pointing at eye same side as hand energy going forward, other hand goes under the striking arm and lifts up and across slightly (brushing hair motion), pak the arm down with free hand (near elbow and keep light pressure/contact on arm) then hit/grab at partner (wide line) for them to do the drill and repeat.
Experienced guys added different pak motions (hand on top, push elbow, control thumb)
Tried to focus on details: Being relaxed, forward energy, maintaining contact and controlling correct part of the arm or the energy can be used to turn them into locks and arm bars or escapes
Experienced added Switches:
Wave and hack
dagger pass (on the hit)
chi sau
ton sau (which helps to go into punching hubud)
They then did the flow into hubud with switches and into punching hubud and then switches from that
Punching hubud switches included:
Punching hubud (outside parry of straight punch, other hand lifts and brushes, then pak and punch back)
elbow destruction (into hammer, wedge, pak parry)
Gunting
indside parry
low line hit
face slap/lop (not sure of technical name
Doing this made us very aware of foot work and shifting weight and position (essentially a lateral step to the side and the other foot moving forward to the point of a triangle)
4/10/18
Focus of these sessions was getting the basics right: making the "blocks" in sambrada functional (work first time - stopping the stick and not letting them slide through), again make sure footwork is functional (range spring back etc) and then making sure we don't get stuck in a pattern.. add a little chaos in order to react to and not just act robotically.
warm up:
Carenza (stick shadow boxing using movement and striking families from Tuesday)
Single stick
(this was a lot to focus on for the beginners and they did really well)
3 count sambrada (individual blocks and putting together)
Roof block (above head punching up and dropping your head down below the stick)
Inside sweep (stop the stick and check the hand first while moving off line - hide behind the stick)
Outside deflection (step back to give yourself range, checking hand and hitting stick at same time)
Note: when we hit sticks we are really hitting the hand, also range was important; you must be close enough to hit the persons head otherwise you are just defanging)
Experienced: play time!!!!
5 count sambrada, making it tight, correct movement (e.g. off line and range) then introducing random feed (turn an A1 into an A2 at any time) to break the flow (the random A2 meant the response frome that could be anything and therefore makes both partners have to react.
We then added puno sumbrada to the mix (with one person still feeding random A2 strikes into the standard sumbrada) - again it was important to close the range and use correct footwork to make sure (lots of replacement steps!)
Challenge: while doing standard sumbrada with a random A2 and mixing in Puno sumbrada one person at a time add a disarm
This was all about playing with what you know, revisiting the material and trying to apply some things... play time is the best learning time!
Hubud:
Basic flow (as Tuesday) - the beginners did this
switches (as Tuesday) _experienced guys played with these
experienced:
Flow into hubud with switches, into punching hubud and then switches from that.
Once they had this they then had to add locks to the mix (wrist locks arm bars chokes etc anything they knew)
Again there was a lot of playing here, varying speeds trail an error and seeing what you can find from the shapes being presented all the while remaining switched on and trying to make each element effective
A really fun week and the time flew on thursdays session!
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