30/4/19 and 2/5/19: Thai counter fun and games and exploring stick and knife ideas.

Thai boxing counters:

all off the jab cross hook (moving off line) rear round kick.

1) block/parry the punches and Cut kick on the round kick, follow with a spinning backfist/hammerfist/clothesline!

2) block parry the punches then drive in with lead elbow (shielding hook with rear arm) on the hook - follow up with elbows and spinning elbow for flavour!

3) Parry the jab and double hand lop the cross (long guard parry but grab the arm and drag them forward!) as you do slept slight 45 and drive rear knee followed by lead, rear elbow and rear knee

4) hard parry and eye swipe motion off the jab but instead of swiping eye control elbow and push off line follow with cross uppercut cross and lead round kick

mix all off of jab cross hook rear round feed (trying to implement the defences/counters during the combination

Single stick:

working on body mechanics of individual strikes left and right hand and female triangle footwork:

Figure 8 strikes (down, horizontal and up and combo's of horizontal forehand upwards back hand etc)
Abinico: (high line, low line towards knees/hips - hand lower on these strikes - and a combo of the two)
Radondo: forhand and back hand
Florrette: in a triangle flow - charging stick but also flowing into different directions and angles without stopping.
Jabbing: like fly fishing full extension, vertical and horizontal jab

carenza (shadowboxing these ideas non stop, slow, fast just practice! left and right hand

Stick and knife flows:

with partner - back hand, follow through with knife (while chambering stick under armpit) another back hand and then  knife stab to head

finding the above flow out of various strikes: HH, LL, HLH, LHL, HHL, LLH, HLL, LHH

used in a "defensive drill"

A1 attack, defang with A1 hit follow with A2, A1 then use the above flow (back hand, follow through with knife (while chambering stick under armpit) another back hand and then  knife stab to head ) -  partner then feeds back hand (A2 and follow the force umbrella defence followed by uppercut slash with stick on the knife hand, another uppercut, downward strike on wrist and then into - back hand, follow through with knife (while chambering stick under armpit) another back hand and then  knife stab to head

AS above but attacks are horizontal A3 and A4

AS above but attacks are upward slashes A6 and A7

key to this is range, defanging snake, hitting hand, moving round and moving in and out (to stab get closer and to hot with stick moving out.

great to get back to fundamentals rely focussing on quality of movement making everything as crisp as possible without pressure to build economy of motion.