Side Headlocks and Self-Defence (diary entry)

07.07.13

General Lesson

Training began with a revision the fence. More senior grades worked through multiple attack situations at the pre-emptive phase. We then moved onto the clinch range, where we covered escapes from the side headlock – a primal grappling hold – through its various levels of severity. Ideally I like to have a student to be conditioned to slip out of a headlock the moment they feel it being it is being tried. The back is normally very open to being taken at this stage. On from this the back is still open, but it requires more work. At its most severe stage you attack the head-locker’s head in order to break their posture. This was then carried over onto the focus mitts as we drilled the striking elements and looked it from self-defence and sporting perspectives. Finally we went through variations on the waistlock takedown before MMA sparring.

Private Lesson

We continued layering pre-emptive striking, incidental combinations, transitions through postures, the cover and defence from the ground for the first part of the lesson. Then we overlapped self-defence kicking with kickboxing attribute training.