Thanks to Adam for all the detail in the following notes. Whilst us minions were working away on our material, the big boys were working single and double stick.
Stick work:
All from open guard
1) (RH) High, high (fore hand back hand) LH HIigh, High (fore hand back hand) Heaven 6 count
2) RH low, low ( forehand, back hand -can either cut in a slightly upward motion of slightly downward), LH Low low, then Earth 6 count
3) RH high low high (forehand cutting through, back hand watik, backhand on high line) LH high low high, then standard 6 count
4) RH – high high – as you hit with the back hand the left hand follows through so you end up in the closed guard ready to do heaven sinwali motion. Then you do half of heaven (3 count), come back to open position and repeat with left hand (but this time the right hand follows through after the back hand)
5) RH low low –as you hit with backhand left hand follows through so you end up in closed guard ready for earth sinwali motion (3 count). The do half of earth (3 count) come nack to open position and repeat with left hand
6) RH high low high including follow through as detailed above, half standard, end in open position and repeat with left hand
7) Heaven 6 count into standard 6 count into earth 6 count (you and play any variation of these six count e.g heaven, earth, standard, earth heaven standard etc etc)
8) Odd series 6 count, pull back, roof block and umbrella (try not to hit your own funny bone.. it hurts, lots)
Try and make the 6 count a six count… not two sets of 3 (you can hear the gap when you are hitting sticks) – try and play around with foot work. I see a lot of people stepping forward doing the first 3 motions THEN changing leads for final 3 hits. I find if you start changing lead on your 2nd hit in the heaven drill you are ready to flow automatically into the next three without a pause as such (eventually it won’t matter what your feet are doing you will just flow)
Stick hubud:
Motion is the same as normal hubud, make sure blocking hand is covering the hand holding the stick like an octopus.. your fingers help to slow or stop sudden twisting motions of the stick
After getting a rhythm we started to experiment with various entries and hits, not competitive just playful and concentrating on the sensitivity aspect. Examples of these include:
Watik low line strike to thigh (flick your wrist when your partner has “trapped your arm” for a strike to the leg)
Cut through – you block partner strike then cut your stick across their belly then do your puno strike to continue flow
Cut stab cut –as above but cut across belly, stab eye with point of stick, cut belly again going back to start of drill
Wrist control disarm –grab wrist/thumb pull towards you and strike your stick down hitting partner in head while tearing stick form their hand with your forearm
Punch through strangle – using the hand that hits the stick, after you hit the stick use that hand to “punch through” hitting partner on the head with your stick, then (grabbing both ends of your stick)push down on the shoulder and punch the stick (still holding both ends) into partners throat. You then, keeping the stick on the throat, tuck one end under your shoulder, reach round behind their head to grab the far end of the stick, control there free arm with yours then Squeeze the stick (hard to explain better to show)
Throw away strangle – when you block strike instead of continuing with drill use your blocking hand to throw away there stick arm, radondo strike to the head then stab stick past one side of the neck reach round with free arm on the other side of the neck and squeeze.
Arm wrench – using your sensitivity, when partner paks your arm BEFORE THEY HIT remove/lop the arm that is trapping yours (pull then to you) radondo strike to the head (stepping off line a little to avoid follow up strike) use your elbow to guide there forearm onto your stick grab the top of your stick and then use a squeezing motion combine with stepping back and turning to drag partner to the ground (again hard to explain better to show)
Trapping – during flow hammer fist instead of usual puno strike, partner catches the hit, remove barrier on inside line and follow up with a hammer fist again to the head, trapping partners arms as you do it. IF partner blocks with a lot of force and pushes you over centre line lop the blocking arm radondo type strike to the head and you can flow into an arm lock/throw
There are loads more but they are all pretty tricky to try and explain. Please remember to zone and of set when doing all of these actions and keep an eye on the free hand!
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