Red belt syllabus group
Below are extra or further refinements in terms of learning points that Steve was exemplifying.
Jab defences
- Catch and jab:
- Cut punch:
dominate the line of his punch, step off line slightly.
- Split entry to dumog drag:
Don't bring him down but bring him towards you.
- Slip and uppercut:
Lead with the left shoulder, lose your neck and make it one smooth movement not two separate ones.
- Salute to arm break:
Affect his structure
- Scoop and lead uppercut:
Be dynamic
Cross defences
- Cut punch:
As above: shift off line and dominate his line and structure of the punch.
- Bob and weave, body hook:
Avoid just going under the punch, it is more like a forward corkscrew motion.
- Lead high elbow to hammer fist:
- Split entry:
Dumog pull needs to be in to your centre to affect his balance and base.
- Slip and uppercut:
Lead with the right shoulder.
- Parry and overhand right:
Drive the overhand straight down his centre.
Humility on the Thai pads
My first time on the Thai pads and learned many valuable and ego shredding lessons. The beauty of them, they expose, very quickly, gaps. Here are just a few that I noticed within 20 seconds of hitting them after doing the four count (lead leg round kick - cross - hook - rear leg round kick).
Structure is poor and unsound - there was no turning the hip over in the kicks
No flow - I was throwing 4 techniques and not a flow of 4 as 1.
Barely any power - bouncing off the pads.
Hands were dropping after each 4 count.
Staying in range after each 4 count.
Shot my load very quickly - as Conor McGregor would say, I was inefficient with my energy.
Pad rounds alongside the Thai pads had a clinch focus
1: Pad holder puts right hand on shoulder of puncher, simulating the single arm clinch, puncher shrugs off the clinch with the left elbow/shoulder shrug then follows up with a cross - hook - cross.
2: Pad holder puts right hand on shoulder of puncher, simulating the single arm clinch, inside gunting followed by cross - hook - cross
3: Pad holder puts both hands on shoulders of puncher, simulating the double arm clinch, puncher bobs and weaves followed by cross - hook - cross.
4: Pad holder puts both hands on shoulder of puncher, simulating the double arm clinch, puncher drops their level and pushes up on the triceps of the pad holders then follows up with cross - hook - cross.
3 count sumbrada plus 3 strips
STRIPS:
Snake against angle #1
Roof and shoot the left-hand arm/hand straight and wrap from there (rather than trying to cover the hand and wrap). Wrap with the left thumb up and high. Your hand and his should be at eye level. Add the rotation and hitting his stick arm for the strip.
If it does not go, insert your stick to the other side of his wrist as you slide you left hand down his stick. Continue the opposite direction motion to strip the stick and flow with a combination of strikes.
Vine against angle #1
Inside sweep and check the stick, moving to the left and away from the empty hand that could strike, jab to the eyes with your stick and lever his stick vertical. This angle was key for an effective strip. If this doesn’t work, take your stick out and put the tip in your left hand, you will now have his and your stick tips in one hand. Using the right hand, use the similar rotating motion as in the snake strip to take his stick. We were also shown a nasty variation where the hand is trapped and crushed between the two sticks.
Vine against the angle #2:
Drop stick and check the hand but control the hand by grapping the thumb. Insert your punyo over his hand and affect his structure by extending his arm. If this does not work then jab to the eyes with the stick then loop under and behind his forearm for an elbow extension and stripping of the stick.
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