424 - Aide-mémoire: Sept '23 week one
Workshop content: Survival striking, Knife work and preparation for confrontation
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Tuesday 06_9_23 (Open training)
Small group and mix of returning regulars and drop-in trainees.
Preparation work:
Joint mobility
An exercise to develop the hands, arms, and shoulders - stronger joints, connective tissue, and grip strength
An exercise for speed in striking
Fighting posture and footwork
A crash course for new people on what the main concerns are in terms of using a defensive posture or stance for survival fighting.
A lot of potential bases need to be covered and concessions made to the reality of a possibly unknown threat in these “modern times”.
Students then learn how to move in any direction and at the same time reduce the risk that they will end up on the floor - there’s no guarantees to this but these basic ideas alone will help to greatly reduce the sheer number of ways that this disaster situation can happen.
A simple demonstration to cement understanding of why these ideas work when the fists start flying.
Why fixating on blocks may be counterproductive in certain situations and an alternate suggestion for primary study.
Further reading and home training ideas:
Striking
Here we started to put many things together very quickly to enable new students to be able to move, evade, and then introduce a simultaneous counterstrike.
Why this strike is chosen.
We then worked on adding randomised pad work to pressure the trainees to achieve an elusive or fleeting target.
Explanations of how to start generating power with this strike.
How to create variations of this strike.
How strikes work.
What type of threat might you be facing?
How this changes the type of things that they will do and why the strike we are learning here may give an advantage.
Why this strike keeps you safer than others.
Anti knife work
Key types of UK knife threat situations
Identifying basic types of approach
Ways that this might happen in terms of probability
Our goal is escape for the purposes of this group.
From here, we now train one specific drill to counter almost any attempt to close proximity and enable an opportunity to create distance.
Awareness points on tactics that depend on weaponising an attacker’s clothing.
Best practice ideas for this idea and why they allow for problems with larger, stronger people.
Mindset and emotional control
Here we finish the evening with possibly the least “up” way of leaving a class - certainly no highs were had, and that’s the point…
Types of set-up tactics used by groups to ensnare and manipulate you.
Content recap and any questions.
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