isolating and drilling.
Back to the wall drill is purely defensive drill, building a solid defence and going at a pace that allows you to see things to get a feel of making your defence tight. Noting is totally punch proof but we combine a variety of guard positions not cover arrange of scenarios. in "reality" you would only hold the defensive position for a few seconds before countering, but by doing a more prolonged drill you force yourself to focus and work on one aspect of your game.
Drill:
1) Half guard - protecting body, one arm down the side and across belly, the other (rear hand)protecting rib and jaw. the rear hand constantly moves in a tight windscreen wiper motion. This is mainly to defend body shots, with the wiping hand to defend the odd head shot.
2) Double pillar - like a Thai guard, hands up high, shoulders up and loose neck - arms move left and right like columns/rotating door, and you defend punches with your forearms. (for high line shots)
3) Crazy monkey - covering your head with elbows, constantly moving like brushing hair (but like the KEYSI/DEFENCE LAB stuff) - keep I tight and fast moving, this is a total cover up for a fast flurry of attacks (3 to5 second bursts)
Blending defences:
1) half guard into crazy monkey (body shots into rapid high line attacks)
2) with focus mitts - half guard, then 5-7 hits in responds, double pillar, then 5-7 hits in response, crazy monkey, then 5-7 hits in response.
General notes: your back foot is against a wall heel up, try not to move off the wall (attacker pin them to the wall so if you move too far to the side they will be able to escape!). Defender try to keep energy forward (I kept getting pinned back on my rear foot and into the wall.. hmm). help your partner grow.... steady pace to build some confidence then gradual pressure as the drill went on the feeder was naturally feeding with more intent and faster as defender got more comfortable. Feeder still needs to have proper punching technique. Breathing is also important.. old bad habits were creeping back, holding breath tight shoulders etc etc... constant improvement needed! - must remember to breath out on hitting and getting hit)
U drill
A knife sensitivity drill that is aimed at helping you develop reflexes. Again start slow concentrate on feel and technique and then gradually speed up. better to start slow and get it so that eventually you can start at fast pace and just "react"
Feed - stab to ear, cut across belly, into other ear (a U shape)
defence: cat stance pivot and using back of hand/forearm to check the hit (e.g. they stab your left side of your head your right arm reaches across). Push the knife down and in towards them to redirect/follow their energy. As they complete the U you switch you checking hand (so they are now stabbing your right hand side and you are checking with left hand.
The faster they go the more you have to react. you will not be able to remain contact with the whole of the U so you may have to get your hips back and switch checking hands more rapidly -almost "falling" into their knife hand with your arm to keep the pressure on.
Variations:
multiple stab and tapping:
Somtimes you will need to move your checking hand, hit/chop with your other hand, before replacing the checking hand again (e.g they stab and just as you are about to redirect them they pull their hand back and stab again so you need to respond with the other hand.
This can also be done but the attacker removing your checking hand with their free hand and forcing you to do a quick check/hit with your other hand before replacing the checking hand.
General tip: position before submission - this BJJ principle works with striking and weaponry as much as ground work. basically get your body out of the way or off line in order to keep safe and effectively respond ant a more advantageous angle.
There was a lot of fine detail to this session which is difficult to capture. needless to say a lot of work needed by all but great fun had by all.
No comments:
Post a Comment