13.05.13
General Lesson
The warm-up consisted of drilling repetitions of striking/grappling combinations up and down the hall. These included transitioning from hand strikes to lowline takedowns to entries into throws.
Next we revised two of the recent pad drills we have covered to help build better attributes for stand-up fighting. We went over the asymmetrical combination, using a choice of the right cross or the right round kick for the power technique. Then we revised the lead round kick/cross/jab/read round kick combination.
Sparring took a different form and went back to CCMA basics of pressure testing. This consisted of pressure-testing under specific conditions. In this instance we pitted stand-up against clinch for three rounds. The lesson finished with a warm-down and stretching.
Private Lesson 1
We revised the fence and worked on developing attitude. You can teach someone all the technical refinement you like and train them to hit hard and fast, but if they don’t have the willingness to pre-empt or fight back full force then none of it will work under pressure. So I helped put on different pressure tests and we had a real analysis of whether not something was going to be functional. The escape response was reinforced after every incident.
We also went through the cover, aspects of anti-grappling and asymmetrical ground fighting. Finally we moved onto symmetrical ground fighting, looking at defence from underneath an attack. With a distinct size difference between the two inexperienced clients we were able to put certain mechanical issues under severe scrutiny and there is clearly work to be done.
Private Lesson 2
We began with the two-on-one sports focus mitt exercise for stand-up. This exercise normally forms part of an exercise I call “The Switch”, whereby students learn to change from a sports-based form of training to a self-defence one and back again. Here we were able to overload the concept of angles and circular footwork as one fighter constantly had to change pad-men. It emphasized the importance of staying alert and how to fight out of corners.
We then went to clinch and covered a series of responses from grips that built into a combination to a takedown and submission work on the ground. Fighters were encouraged to take two different clinch positions that offset their opponent in order to deliver knee strikes. This changed to a shoulder lock and then went into a single-leg takedown. We looked at the reversal from the single leg into another single leg takedown.
From the ground position we worked on the knee-bar and then a counter into the ankle lock.
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