12/2/19: Boxing basics and drills and syllabus work

Getting the basics right.

Warm up:

Glove on left hand focus mitt on right hand, taking turns partner A flashes a pad and partner B jabs it. pad won't be out for too long (but don't whip it away mid hit or your partner will hurt themselves!)... Keep moving around all the time keeping range and looking for an opening.

We then swapped glove and pad hand and practiced this with the cross.

Drills:

1) Jab to face x 3 - first hit at nose hit other hits and chin/neck height, this forces defender to block the punch lower leaving a slight gap. on 3rd jab follow with a half beat cross into the gap created

2) Jab to face x 3 as above but this time on the 3rd jab punch to body then follow up with stepping off line left and simultaneous hook followed by ABC

3) mix the combos so partner doesn't know what's happening.

note: still watch your range don't march straight at partner or they will be hitting you!!!

Body sparring:

left lead foot against foot. shoulder to shoulder. staying tight, body and head shots-  chin down and keep hitting, looking for targets, umping off, using an arm to hid a sneaky uppercut. keep working!

Then right lead

Then foot on a small yoga mat.. so a little range but still close can move in and out slightly

Syllabus:

Helped with 16 count lock flow and then focused on sambrada with multiple weapon varieties (e.g. stick vs stick, stick vs knife, double stick vs double stick, double stick vs double knife and stick and knife vs stick and knife)

Note: pressure!!! with knife you have to almost constantly drive forward, with stick you want to keep range. Some of the standard sumbrada flow will not work so you need to adapt... e.g. do not gunting an arm with your knife if they are holding a stick as they will hit you in the head with it!

You can only work this out through play - so start slow, explore and then when you speed up you end up out of the flow and just hitting/redirecting.. when it gets too chaotic slow back down into a flow