27/9/16 Syllabus focus

Apologies up front to James, Jay and Noel who were working on material pertinent to their grade.

CARENZA rounds to get warmed up:
- double stick
- single stick
- stick and knife
- knife
- knife ice pick grip
- double knife
- hands only
- legs only
- hands and leg

GLOVE WORK:
jab-catch and reply with 4 defences
1: slip with the left shoulder, right uppercut
2: split entry
3: cut punch
4: scoop and lead uppercut

basic cross loop drill with 6 defences
1: shoulder roll
2: short parry
3: long parry
4: lead elbow crush
5: gunting (rear hand parry and lead hand bicep attack)
6: lead uppercut

SINGLE STICK:
high box 3 beat sumbrada. Getting the pattern flowing, doing it with 'swords' for flowing stick use. We also worked without making contact with the sticks and making the checking hand do all the work.

It was great to focus on core material work, drilling our basics. Me and big Nick were lucky tonight to have Jay on hand with all his experience to keep an eye on proceedings.