10.02.14
General Lesson
Today we looked at the tenet of “Discipline” and worked on consciously raising standards. I also discussed the benefits of regular solo training and training management. All students were encouraged to look at ways to better improve their form. There is no secret to success other than hard and mindful graft. Even if you have limiting time constraints you can work hard to improve the quality of your training by being strict with your priorities.
The majority of the lesson concerned creating distance and we focused on the lead side of a bladed stance. Students were restricted to working their jabs and then later their lead leg front kick (teep in muay Thai) in partner exercises. This made the lead-hand fighter become more creative and I encouraged correct changing of levels as well as speeding up the jabbing motion. The receiver in this instance went over the footwork and upper body movement training we have been covering a lot in recent months.
At a student’s personal request we covered defence against the side headlock. This very primal grappling technique is common in most clinch-range self-defence situations. We only had to time to look at the early stage of the attack, where students worked on getting used to slipping out of the hold and taking the back position. The lesson finished with some MMA free-sparring.
Private Lesson
Continuing the weapon defence theme from last week I began with a series of reaction exercises for the warm-up. This involved startle responses to finding exits first. Then we looked at scrambling for the weapon exercises. Next we went back over the use of incidental weaponry.
The next stage of the weapon defence programme looks at unarmed responses at close range. Here we emphasized spotting the weapon early and intercepting. We looked at effective proactive responses, including shoulder and general arm control to the two-on-one position. Then we looked at various add-ons from here including striking and biting as well as in-fight verbalization – giving orders. We then covered swapping weapon hands, the back position and the single under hook control position.
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