14/2/19: Clinch work, boxing pad drills and take downs

Warm up:

Shadow boxing

Clinch work.

working a variety of combat related clinches exploring variations of range of clinch. Focus on minimising what the opponent may do to you while getting out of the clinch (if you find yourself in one!)

1) they come at you from a long ish range with two hands - drop down pushing up with your arms on their elbows and driving them back, follow with a rear leg teep and then get them into your own clinch.

2) they get a long range  on you but have managed to cinch it in tight. Move back slightly, bring shoulders up to "trap their arms" reach both arms over, one hand on op of other and push their head back making them arch and break posture, then swim into clinch or escape.

3) they get two arm clinch on tight - immediately get your body in tight, straight back thigh in thigh, reach on arm over both other their clinching ands and grab a tight, trapping both arms giving some defence against elbows, reach your free arm under one oftheir arms and grip their opposite bicep, then lever up in a scissors motion to break clinch/create a gap then swim into clinch.

4) as above but clinch is too tight. Again grab both arms as detailed above but this time reach over the top and push their head away (like hitting jaw and twisting it away) - reaching for their opposite shoulder, to break posture then swim into clinch or escape.

We then put all of these into a flow

be mindful of gaps for knees, take downs and elbows

Pad rounds:

jab, slip, cross slip, jab cross boob and weave, cross hook bob and weave hook cross finish

Take downs:

variety of take downs from syllabus -

split entry into ear slap and hook lead leg takedown into arm bar
parry eye strike, dumog drag into figure 4 take down into submission
Split entry form cross into dumog drag take down into step over arm bar
cut punct the cross into arm bar into walking takedown and lay on arm arm bar submission/break