427 - Aide-mémoire: Sept '23 week two
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Training photos from our friend Attila at Bad Wolf Tactical (Hungary):
Tuesday 12_9_23 Open training
I’d written a few anti-knife and ground-fighting ideas for this workshop but the stand-up fighting progress being made by the group now was so good that I dropped it and spent the rest of the time pushing stand-up skills as far as I could in terms of progress.
How do I rate progress?
Perhaps looking smooth at a drill or learning some useless club etiquette?
No - instead I have a capable mixed group including a new trainee who after applying herself for only two weeks would easily break the leg, teeth, and nose of an unsuspecting aggressor.
As a coach in this subject, it doesn’t get any better than this, you get to witness and be part of trainees discovering what they are capable of and developing it into real skills.
Prep work:
So as I stated before, we started with an impact preparation exercise and then a striking speed exercise with a view to a mixed subject workshop, but as we then moved into the kicking skills section, it became apparent that we could move ahead quicker by staying on that subject.
Striking and movement:
Being able to hit with power is all very well and an essential skill but the inability to be somewhere else when someone wants to hit you is just as valuable!
Here we spent time working fast effective head strikes using closed hands, while at the same time understanding the logic of evasion and positioning.
This is a constant practice idea for experienced trainees and essential foundational work for newer people.
From here we look at the limitations of kicks in the survival fighting context - problems like group attacks with and without weapons derail ideas that we take for granted in other pursuits such as combat sports.
A simple, non-committed way of punishing any encroachment with striking and kicking against the types of threats already mentioned as well as a reminder of your ultimate goal while doing this.
We then looked at:
Drilling these strikes and kicks with the pressure of timed (and randomised) pad work.
Conditioning aspects of these strikes with timed practice through different challenging skills that together match the varying physical demands of stand-up fighting.
I also covered an entire crash course in bare-knuckle striking and how to develop power.
These ideas can be found here on the Journal as an in-depth series - from beginner to advanced - for home study: Use the search feature and look for “...Never hit softly” entries.
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