General Lesson
Today’s lesson was focusd mainly on groundwork and the top game, both submissions and escapes. Different levels approached transitioning around the body differently. Complete beginners performed an Americana and an arm-bar at the appropriate positions and mainly isolated an arm throughout the transitions. Intermediates performed single submissions on each position. Advanced students performed several variation of submission at each position. Next I had the pinned student perform counters, prompting the top student to transition.
We then moved onto the focus mitts and drilled the punch/kick/kick/punch combination. This is a core basic combination that promotes good coordination of punches and kicks. It encourages the student to overlap strikes and speed up their kicks by working the speed of withdrawl. In other words, as you draw back from a punch you are already priming your kick and vice versa.
The session finished with a few rounds of MMA sparring.
Private Lesson
We warmed up working some basic boxing counters; slipping jabs, rolling hooks and catching uppercuts. Then we brought in blocks to low kicks. This was then taken onto the Thai pads. With stand-up covered, we began some grip fighting that progressed into takedowns. This was then turned into high and midline drills. The CCMA approach is very much about reverse engineering. I prefer to start with the fight as much as possible and then dissect from it what has been learned or what needs addressing.
We then looked at the top game, working on similar material as in the general lesson. However, we worked striking from all these pins in addition to submissions. The session was finished with a lesson specific tabata. All pins were performed with strikes and changing sides rapidly after five strikes:
30 seconds Side control
30 seconds Knee pin
30 seconds Mount
30 seconds Scarf-hold
30 seconds Reverse scarf-hold
30 seconds Northsouth
30 second Round kicks
30 seconds Jab/cross
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