Excellent session taken by James all about in fighting
warm up:
punching to the beat/music - keeping arms in tight like in a cast, not flaring out and throwing form the hips. head dow.
1) lead hook (shovel hook), rear upper cut - weight on front foot keep arms in tight.
2) tight jab cross - hands like handle bike handlebars, weight in the middle rotation of hips to throw punches not over extending.
3) rear upper cup, lead hook/shovel hook - weight on back foot again arms tight in.
we then mixed them up.
Standing static and slipping punches
standing static and tic toc/windscreen wiper body motion (like mike tyson) varying speeds and sets of 3 (e.g. L,R,L or R,L,R)
Standing static and bob and weave 9focus on switching lead shoulder
then mix all three evasions.
Drills:
Looking at body positioning of in fighting - how many positions are 50/50.
We looked at making sure head is down driving onto opponents face/neck (like in wrestling) in order to get a dominant position. This was simulated by a pad holder holding pad against your head as you use forward pressure against it then go into inside punching on the pads.
1) lead body hook, upper cut - keep arms in tight, use body rotation and a "bounce hit" so not over committing and loosing balance.
2) rear upper cut lead hook - as above
From this we added variations (in case they try to hit you back):
1) lead hook, rear upper cut - shuffle step to the right (left foot to your right foot then pivot around) and follow up with left body hook to sternum.
2) rear upper cut, lead hook - shuffle step to the left (right foot to your left foot then pivot around) and follow up with right body hook to sternum
3) lead hook, rear upper cut - bob and weave out to the right (away) and follow up with a right cross.
4) rear uppercut, lead hook - bob and weave out to the left (away) and then pivot so you get back into left lead and follow up with multiple jabs - moving away.
Stick flows:
switching hands over shoulder/tricep
Under shoulder/tricep
3 variations of 5 count with switching to practice left and right.
4 count flow: horizontal jab, cut to floor, cut back up and into horizontal jab. (add foot work)
then add radondo, steeping forward angle 2 (now in left lead) then stepping back angle 1now back in right lead) to start flow again.
extra: discussion about getting into in fight range (usually from a slip then bob into head on chest/neck/face or against ropes? trapping?)
Looked at some "boxing" hand fighting when in close to get sensitivity to create openings or shut them down.
