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Text question from a trainee about a personalised basic home practice routine outside of class.
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Hi (name removed)
thanks for the text question, I'll post this rather than text as my 2G phone takes hours to reply on and I refuse to submit to having one of those “Smarty pants” ones...
It’s a pleasure to get questions about extra work from those who want to better themselves and are willing to put in the additional effort.
This always makes my day and I will endeavour to help you any way I can. Read the following article, fire yourself up, and let’s go:
Practice the following:
1) Slow, smooth falling and standing - exhale as you lower, inhale on the ascent. Try to fall and stand silently in as small of an area as possible - so don't just throw yourself around the room and smash stuff!
Do this throughout the day when possible or set a timer for 3 minutes and practice smoothly for time.
Falling and other considerations for personal defence as well as many drills are covered at length in Chapter 11 of my book “Blunt Weapon Tactics” (Click for Amazon link) There’s everything there that you need at this stage.
Read this article below for a stand-up drill sequence - read part two as well for kettlebell development ideas. Both of these are also in “Self Defence: Volume One”
Wall drill - stand in a fighting stance, cover the head, and practice touching the wall - this gives you a good, instinctive feel for distance to the chin when striking.
Use straight punches - lead and cross - practice in left forward / right forward and neutral foot positions.
Do this work often.
Find a full-length article on developing this skill here:
3) Practice moving in a guard position (covering the head/ throat/torso) and throwing lead hand strikes to keep a visualised attacker at a distance.
This article will give you plenty of ideas for getting good at this (check out part two as well for developmental ideas).
This article will also help a lot:
Loads of extra stuff to look at here:
4) Strength:
Knuckle push-ups/ planks / squats.
The stronger you are, the better you can defend yourself plus life’s too short to be weak.
There are tons of tuitional videos on the net to learn these from - find a program to learn good form for the above core exercises or ask me to go through anything next time we train together.
5) Stretch:Do this - https://oneinone.substack.com/p/64-improving-hip-mobility-for-self-20-12-10
Thanks for the message, let me know how you get on, and see you soon mate.
Jeth