15/11/18: Cross loop drills, Pad rounds and 12 count knife flow

This session as all about high quality repetitions and putting the flight time in.

Cross loop drill:

Partners at close range (enough to land a cross with a slightly bend arm). Practicing defences of the crass and responding with a cross.

Lean back shoulder roll
Parry
elbow destruction (cover the face)
upper cut under the cross
hook over the cross (lean back motion/long hook)
inside parry and bicep hit
Thai cover (lead hand "falling " onto the cross other hand covering your face

Adding body shots:

bob and weave the cross coming in close (so you could move their arm out the way with your elbow:

Left hand: Body hook, head hook, they reply with the same. do this a couple of times and Bob and weave out on a head hook.

variation: as above but instead of bobbing and weaving out use your rear foot to reposition and bob over to the other side of the person - you will now do the body and head hooks with your right hand and you to a large lean back/shoulder roll to come out and back into crossing range.

we did all this swapping partners getting different energy. Key tips keep it slow to work on range and technique it will naturally get faster and more messy/real but you ant to try and get as perfect a technique as you can so that when you do it at pace or under pressure it will only be half as good but your half as good is still good enough

PADS: circle of death

4 thai pad holders, after hitting the pads you move round to the next station then the next etc and keep going for duration of the round.

1) jab cross jab cross jab
2) cross hook cross hook cross
3) 5 x uppercuts
4) 5 x elbows

Knife flow:

Breaking down the 12 count knife flow, trying to keep the slashes tight (e.g. don't extend the "swing" of the knife outside of the width of the body)

A1, A4, A3, A2 stab, back hand cut upwards on low line, forehand cut upwards on low line, back hand stab to neck, forehand stab to neck, slash straight down centre of head, A1 low line, A2 low line

after using partner as a target to get the flow we then used this flow to feed and look at some basic empty hand defence using the arm the same side as the attack to block (blade of arm if on high line hand pointing up, if on low line hand pointing down) your other hand hitting the attacker (eye or throat)

We then added scoops and hammer and anvil, controlling elbows and manipulating the attacker as well as  footwork to zone out and around and keep our bodies away form the knife.

The section ended with defending from any angle (not in order) and then two on one drills (keeping them lined up so it's one at a time and manipulating them into other person is very helpful.


A good high energy session.