16/8/16: single stick and stick hubud

For the single stick work, the key point was body dynamics and the body leading the strikes. They don't simply come from the shoulders.

DOWNWARD FIGURE 8
Imagine the stick is a one sided blade so the motions are slicing and sweeping in their nature.
Solo drilling along the female lines, 6 strikes and change sides - step back to the centre, 'drop' the stick behind the forearm and swap to the other hand.
With a partner - as above but making contact. Keep everything relaxed, let the body and stick flow.

UPWARD FIGURE 8
Solo drilling
With a partner - as above but making contact. Keep everything relaxed, let the body and stick flow.

VERTICAL/HORIZONTAL FIGURE 8
Solo drilling - horizontal forearm into vertical backhand.
With a partner - as above but making contact. Keep everything relaxed, let the body and stick flow.

Putting all 3 figure 8s into a loop drill: forearm down, backhand down, forearm up, backhand up, forearm horizontal, backhand vertical.

STICK HUBUD
The basic roll

BACKHAND INSERT
Instead of the vertical check, use the body mechanics and turn to strike the body

FORWARD PRESSURE CHECK COUNTER
Elbow extension (cup under the elbow, move up towards him for the bracing of the arm and extending of the elbow), take the wrist (point the thumb to the floor) and punch the stick under his arm pit. Your palm holding the stick is facing you, you both face the same way; this will ensure maximum leverage. The stick will sit on the back of the upper arm and across his chest.

PUNO RIP AND STRIKE
As he covers the hand from your downward puno strike, make a small circle to take the stick out, hook the puno towards the jaw and then a backhand stab to the face.

STAB TO NECK COMPRESSION
As you cover his puno strike, push the hand away and flick the tip of your stick towards his face, your stick slides along the far side of his neck (palm up), top hand is placed so that the lower forearm is on the near side of his neck. Close and squeeze for the neck compression. It takes very little to apply this to have a significant effect

11/8/16: trapping masterclass

Tonight the focus was on trapping, with 2 caveats:
1) to develop sensitivity and feel of the energy the opponent is giving.
2) to clear a way for striking or grappling options.

I was fortunate to train in a system of wing chun that did not do any chi sau. We did sensitivity drills and worked trapping skills for the above reasons - to open up striking options or grappling options. My instructor, Martin Workman, also had lots of boxing experience, so when we did energy and trapping drills, the chin was down. Not up in the classical wing chun style.

Here is a brief video of his style of wing chun, the main basic principle of his system was solid punching in balance. But if you look carefully, you will see the 4 different 'hand' shapes worked tonight, at pace.


The image below is a problem because it develops a bad habit...

Chins are up. Something my old wing chun teacher was honest about was the weaknesses of the system. Primarily, the punches a boxers throws, especially hooks, tend to mess up a wing chun man. So I think the point being of trapping is, we use, modify, apply and functionalise the parts of one of Bruce's core arts, wing chun. And not be contained or defined by it.

Pak sau - slapping hand, usually used along the centre line to deflect opponent's strikes off the centreline, also can be used 'clear' arms to create gaps to strike through.
Lap sau - pulling hand, usually across their centre and downward, counters the bong sau.
Bong sau - wing arm deflection
Tan sau - palm up hand (block), can be strong forward energy or subtle yielding energy.

DRILL 1:
Right pak and left punch, right tan (comes up and under your left forearm but 'sits' on top of his forearm), left pak and right punch into left tan and right pak and punch, continue the roll.

DRILL 2:
Right pak and punch, left lap and punch (short or long) into left pak and punch, right lap and punch into right pak and punch and continue the roll.

DRILL 3:
lok sau using the lap sau and bong sau shapes. You only need to watch 10 seconds to get the drift.


We also inserted changes to get the roll on the other side using the lap hand to inside pak his punch, his then feels a gap and punches forward, you lift the bong sau and continue the drill.

APPLICATION 1:
From unattached as used as an application to trapping into striking. Right pak and punch, left combat tan sau (short and yielding with a slight body turn to create the gap for the) punch, cross pak and punch.

Steve then discussed the use of bong sau as a defence to a right cross as a reflexive flinch response. It has to be quick, it can't stay there. It is a quick barrier. Steve also explained the counter to bong sau is the lap sau.

APPLICATION 2:
Jab or cross, defend with lap and punch into #1 wrist lock. Then into takedown. If done vigorously, you will go down hard, you might even flip over your own wrist. When I did Aikido, the number 1 resembled a move called kotegaeshi, outward wrist turn. The difference is ours is hunted for out of striking, not presented as in Aikido. When he is down and you have hold of the wrist, kneel on the centre of his bicep and continue the wrist extension. I struggled to make it work, Steve added the details linked Wally Jay's Small Circle Ju-Jitsu. Not only do you fold the wrist down but pull it up and over a small fulcrum as well as folding, this will greatly accelerate the leverage and pain applied.

Steve here talked about injury by degree. Having a set of tools appropriate to the threat. It is no good kicking all the teeth out of someone who is getting moody at a family BBQ. Here, control and compliance comes into the fore. Wrecking his wrist seems reasonable if he is being most unreasonable. Many years ago I went on a Brian Jacks seminar. He was a big fan of damaging ankles. Why? If they struggle to walk then they will be great diminished as attackers. Going back to Steve's injury by degree, attacking the joints is like defanging the snake in the FMAs. Take away primary tools.

APPLICATION 3:
This time you instigate the motion with a pak and punch into #2 control (you are at his 3/4 in between behind him and at his side, your forearm is parallel to his and you wrist and hand are in the crook of his elbow. From here, you can join the hands and throw causing trauma to the shoulder. We kindly put the left thumb into the neck and levered the arm to take him down. When on the ground, put the right knee on his back for control, left leg is out and based, with your arms apply the omoplata with your arms or upward shoulder rotation. A horrible place to be.

9/8/16: stand up combinations, pad work and knife.

PPARTNER SHADOW WORK
Jab only
One strike the other evade using the body and slips
3 punch combos
One punches whilst moving forward, the other moves laterally

MUAY THAI
3 count striking pattern: cross-lead hook-rear kick. Lots of drilling of the pattern.
Counters:
Cut punch against the cross followed by rear thigh kick.
Cover the cross, then simultaneous high right parry and lead uppercut followed by rear thigh kick.
Cover the cross, then the hook then crush his leg kick and respond with your own.

Fixed sparring
Partner A throws the 3 count, partner B then selects one of the counters. As soon as B has countered, they throw their 3 count and the drill continues.

PAD ROUND
jab-cross, he rushes in, you use the left forearm for neck control, strike with overhand- lead uppercut-overhand

Knife revision from Thursday

http://kaizenjkd.blogspot.co.uk/2016/08/4816-knife-masterclass.html

4/8/16: Knife masterclass

Tonight, the sole focus was knife. We did lots of partner swaps to feel different energies and simply to get lots of reps in. I am sure that errors in the following will be plenty as there was a constant refinement tonight. The main lesson was time. We can't spend enough time exploring this type of work.

Tonight, the sole focus was knife. We did lots of partner swaps to feel different energies and simply to get lots of reps in. I am sure that errors in the following will be plenty as there was a constant refinement tonight. I will endeavour to explain the techniques but these need to be felt . The main lesson was time and drill, drill, drill. We can't spend enough time exploring this type of work.

Eye jabs
Feeder give constant angle 1 and angle 2 and defender uses female footwork coupled with the intercept and eye strike brush. Wearing the safety glasses affords putting the fingers at the eye.

Eye jabs with passing and hits
As above but this time keep striking the feeder after passing each feed, control the elbow to ensure his centreline way away from yours, hit the head so it stays looking away from you. These will make it harder for him to use the blade effectively and force him to constantly reset.

Main focus of the class was the following 4 techniques.
Against angle 1: female step to the inside with left intercept and right eye jab, left hand moves in a circle and whipping action, grab the base of the wrist and the thumb of the hand. You end up off his centreline, his arm is extended so his base is high and grabbing the meat of the thumb. From Aikido, this position is similar to the set up for shiho-nage in terms of body angles and centrelines. With a flat hand against the blade, strip it.

Against angle 2: female step to the outside of the forearm, intercept right and eye jab left, crocodile (left palm facing up securing the elbow, right forearm in contact with his as you eye jab. There must be no gap). Slide the right down for thumb control, bring it to you not away from you. Several options from here were
- flat blade against the left forearm and return the blade into him by stepping in with your body. Avoid extending your arms.
- cup under your left tit with the left hand, your right hand has the knife hand gribbed and in/on the centre of your chest. To strip the blade out, cup the knife hand with your left ‘tit’ hand, turn the torso away, your shoulders and chest will enable the strip.

Against angle 1: female step to the inside with left intercept and right eye jab, then as above from crocodile.

Against angle 2: female step to the outside of the forearm, slide down to control the thumb, turn the arm over for sandwich grip or the #4 wrist lock. You hold both sides of the hand, your thumbs are pressing into the back of the palm in between the index and middle finger, his arm is straight and extended. I guess this could be labelled a wrist extension. Step into him, left arm over his elbow (keep that grip on the knife hand) and sink your weight. This then becomes an elbow extension. Strip the knife.

Free flow
Working any and all 4 of the techniques.

Here are a few videos of knife work. From my current level of understanding, I am not sure how 'effective' the work is. Some of the movement looks really interesting.

2/8/16: punch defences, pad training and knife work

Shadow boxing warm up

4 corners (long high arm stance)
Feeder throws jab-cross-lead hook-rear hook
Cover with the forearm cutting across the centreline against the jab and cross. Mirror his motion; if he throws the left you use the right.
Against the hooks cover inside of the elbow crease, the rear hand covers the centreline at head height.

Arm drag to uppercut
Feeder throws jab-cross-lead hook. (Use the 4 corners practise) Cover the lead hook, arm drag with left but step in and squeeze the arm with your arm, head against his shoulder to stay covered. Step out to the right and pivot (like a reverse L-step), as you land throw the uppercut under his arm followed by the shot over the top.

Shoulder brace to knee lock
Feeder throws jab-cross-lead hook-rear hook. Shoulder brace (long, straight arm, palm up on the shoulder and thumb included, chin tucked into your shoulder), step the rear foot out, step the front but on to his foot as you slap the head. This will isolate his knee and send him off balance, follow up with the lateral elbow strike to the head.

Elbow cover to elbow extension.
Feeder throws jab-cross-lead hook. On the lead hook, step in with the elbow head cover, the checking hand covers his right hand. Overhook the punching arm at the elbow tightly, turn his face away and step to wrench the arm.

Pad training
Feeder throws the 4 corners punches - jab-cross-lead hook and rear hook. You cover the 4 punches then throw the cross-hook-cross.
Power right cross drilling

Knife movement against the angle 1 and 2
Feeder attacks repeatedly with angle 1 and 2. Similar motions to the hooks - rear hand at the lower forearm, lead hand (same leg forward) to the eyes. Wearing eye protection allows proper targeting with no injury.

Elbow and head control.
More motion this time, control the elbow after the pass. Make sure the hand is palm up, this offers much greater control. Also get used to striking the head whilst passing. He will need to reset to throw the angles.

2/8/16: punch defences, pad training and knife work

Shadow boxing warm up

4 corners (long high arm stance)
Feeder throws jab-cross-lead hook-rear hook
Cover with the forearm cutting across the centreline against the jab and cross. Mirror his motion; if he throws the left you use the right.
Against the hooks cover inside of the elbow crease, the rear hand covers the centreline at head height.

Arm drag to uppercut
Feeder throws jab-cross-lead hook. (Use the 4 corners practise) Cover the lead hook, arm drag with left but step in and squeeze the arm with your arm, head against his shoulder to stay covered. Step out to the right and pivot (like a reverse L-step), as you land throw the uppercut under his arm followed by the shot over the top.

Shoulder brace to knee lock
Feeder throws jab-cross-lead hook-rear hook. Shoulder brace (long, straight arm, palm up on the shoulder and thumb included, chin tucked into your shoulder), step the rear foot out, step the front but on to his foot as you slap the head. This will isolate his knee and send him off balance, follow up with the lateral elbow strike to the head.

Elbow cover to elbow extension.
Feeder throws jab-cross-lead hook. On the lead hook, step in with the elbow head cover, the checking hand covers his right hand. Overhook the punching arm at the elbow tightly, turn his face away and step to wrench the arm.

Pad training
Feeder throws the 4 corners punches - jab-cross-lead hook and rear hook. You cover the 4 punches then throw the cross-hook-cross.
Power right cross drilling

Knife movement against the angle 1 and 2
Feeder attacks repeatedly with angle 1 and 2. Similar motions to the hooks - rear hand at the lower forearm, lead hand (same leg forward) to the eyes. Wearing eye protection allows proper targeting with no injury.

Elbow and head control.
More motion this time, control the elbow after the pass. Make sure the hand is palm up, this offers much greater control. Also get used to striking the head whilst passing. He will need to reset to throw the angles.

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