13/7/17: boxing fundamentals and single stick fundamentals

BOXING

Shadow boxing rounds
• Evasion (no hands)
• Jab only
• Forward pressure
• Two steps back and pivoting
• Pivoting
• L-stepping
• Moving around the outside of the opponents lead leg
• Pivoting inside the opponent’s movement
• 3 punch combo
• 5 punch combo
• Counters to straight punches
• Counters to hook punches
• Free flow – putting it all together

Doing the drill out of motion to make the drill have aliveness.
Person A – jabs
Person B – catches and returns with a jab
Person A – catches and replies with either a jab or a cross
Person B – counters with any of the following the options

Counters to the jab
• Catch and jab
• Pak and cross
• Inside parry and cross
• Outside parry and jab
• Cut punch
• Slip and uppercut
• Scoop and uppercut
• Split entry
• Outside deflection
• Lead hand salute to arm break

Counters to the cross
• Catch and jab
• Pak and jab
• Inside parry and jab
• Outside parry and cross
• Cut punch
• Bob and weave with hooks
• Gunting
• Lead high elbow into hammerfist
• Split entry
• Parry overhand right

In addition, we were working distance awareness; make sure that we started at least arm’s length when the initial punches in the jab-catch or jab-cross catch drill were delivered then moving in with footwork to apply the counters with short, relaxed and fluid hands. Steve talked about how a pro boxer will drill and practise punching – the arms stay bent, the punches are ‘let go, no brakes’ with lots of body motion. Furthermore, to make it more alive, we were doing the above drill alternatively but adding all the counters to jabs and crosses.

SINGLE STICK

3 beat high box sumbrada – exaggerating the motions:
• Dropping on the roof block
• Zoning
• Treating the stick like a sword and using sweeping and slicing motions
• 3 strips

Striking families:
Feeder gives angle #1 and #2, defang followed by:
• Downward figure 8s
• Upward figure 8s
• Abanico (4 variations)
• Redondo
• Cinqo-teros