Short Circuit (diary entry)

The best laid plans and all that! Tonight saw me make a surprise return to my regular class after being let off jury duty a day and a half early. It has been a rather odd week and I am very grateful to Richard Barnes for covering my last Monday. I was rather enthusiastic about getting back into the subjects we were previously covering, but for reasons best known to medical science, I decided that it would be good to run a technical circuit.

Technical circutis can be a good way to cover a variety of different areas or training methods in one class. Students get the opportunity to revise and those occupying the stations get the opportunity to focus and coach. However, tonight’s circuit was not the well-oiled machne of order and fluidity I had envisioned. What is it about people doing circuits not paying attention to certain simple rules? Rule number one: everyone move in the same direction. Handy tip: know which station will follow the one you are on. Rule number two: you only go back to the first station to change roles with the coach on that station!

Well, I guess CCMA has always been about embracing chaos, so in the end it all worked out. The stations – if you were paying attention in class today – were:

MMA sparring

Boxing

Ground Grappling

Boxing on focus mitts

MMA on focus mitts

Kickboxing on Thai pads

We then moved onto some technical work from where we left off. We went through the ground ‘n pound combination to the stacking position and then looked at the scissor guard defence, encouraging more striking from this position. It is not that easy to teach effective and legal strikes from the guard, but the scissor position lends a lot to this. We finished with a stretch and the decision to run a workshop on multiple attackers by the end of the month.

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