Flight time working hubud tonight. Steve talked about the functionality of it and why we do it; it is a way to work out of motion. Up until tonight, I was confused by the phrase out of motion - now I understand it; we use the motion of a drill to apply locks, strikes or whatever. If we don't work techniques in a motion (out of motion) then they will never be functional. Japanese JJ and Aikido are 2 traditional arts with sophisticated and dangerous locking methods which are trained out of very static and regimented attacks. For us, we need the chaos and to work out of the chaos because the percentage of success is higher because we are used to attacks from all angles, ranges, empty hand and weaponised.
I used to train in a very functional and evolved method of wing chun whereby we would use the 3 drill to look for arm drags, different strikes, traps, underhooks to take the back or hips, chokes and double wrist locks. My coach had spent lots of time boxing and catch wrestling so understood that these tested arts were important and so absorbed them into his system.
Evolution was something Steve discussed this evening, not only how and martial arts have changed but why. The needs of the martial artist today reflect the wider society and the potential violence we might encounter is very different to that of when we were kids or our parents were kids.
ROLLING ELBOW CHANGE
DAGGER PASS CHANGE
Both of these changes put me in a very uncomfortable position - doing hubud on the left. I know that by the end of the class, I was just a little less horrible at hubud on the left because we practised more. This is something I am a great believer in and tell the kids in my class every day. We improve through good quality practise. No one is born good at anything, every high level skill is a practised one.
ARM DRAG
Shoot the are through, almost like an uppercut, pull him past you and get to the back
DUMOG (Filipino wrestling or forceful manipulation through pushing and pulling) PULL ON THE INSIDE
You can drop the chin for the head-butt…
UPPER ARM PUSH
Using two hands to shove his humerus toward his ear from the side, this is very disruptive as you are working against his balance in a weakened plane.
DUMOG PULL ON THE OUTSIDE
We used this to set up the locking. Make sure you step back to get his base disrupted.
#1 LOCK OUT OF HUBUD
Throughout the class, other topics discussed were seeking adversity in your own development - work the skills you are weakest at. Working and refining what you're good at will help to polish those skills but rate of improvement would be slower than for example, working the stick in the left hand or whatever the weakest link in your martial chain is. Which brings me to the image at the top of the page. This is Marcello Garcia fighting Ricco Rodriguez. He was out-weighted by about 50kg but chose to test his skills against big men in the absolute division. Growth through hardship.
More Marcello in action
It is said that he does not use any 'strength' moves in his Jits such as arm locks and only goes for the neck. I heard this on a recent Joe Rogan podcast. If this is true, then we should tip our heads even more towards him as he is greatly reducing his options to finish fights with against high level black belt killers.
Anyway, another outstanding class, key learning point was - get out of your comfort zone. And Noel, just because I can remember what we did and write it as a blog post, it doesn't mean I've learnt it. All I have is words on a page to act as a reminder when I can practise out of class on my unsuspecting 8 year old son.
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