Hi everyone this is take 2 for the post of the most recent thursday class. I was on line just now and noticed that for some reason the post that I wrote had disappeared, figure that one out?
Anyway, I am pressed for time so I'll just do a quick run down to the class contents.
As usual I had a stand up component and a ground component. I'll start with the stand up;
Standup
We went thorugh some striking and kicking drills on pads as part of the warm up which included jab, cross hook combos and knees. After the warmup we did the aeroplane drill as far as the harness position. Instead of going to the RNC (rear naked choke) or the the rear hoist takedown, we used a bump to take the opponents balance and then knelt straight down for the takedown. From this takedown we secured our control position by taking the opponents free wrist in empty hand (creating figure 4 type grip) and rolled them to a side mount. My intention is to investigate different attacks from that position in the next class including; Lapel Half Nelson Choke, Goose Neck, Arm bar and Rear Naked Choke from back.
On the ground we went through a few guard attacks.
Figure 4 from guard
Figure 4 from butterfly guard
Omoplata from butterfly guard.
Anyway I must run but I'll try and make my next post actually stay on the site.
Thursday, November 30, 2006
Tuesday, November 21, 2006
sorry I'm late
I intended to write the entry for my class of last thursday a week ago, but things got away from me and I went to melbourne with my wife for a few days and the next thing I know it is 2 tuesdays later!
Ok quick run down of the class, at the last minute I decided to change the structure of the class due to a request from a student. The student wanted to a refresher on some baton defence techniques which we haven't looked at in a while. So after a quick warm up involving punch drills and some low kicks we start on some baton defence basics. I started everyone on swings that come from the outside in as opposed to a straight thrust. The basis of the defence was a slight modifcation of the under hook and pike defence. the difference between the normal drilla nd what we did was rather than using one of the 3 takedowns in the empty hand version of the drill we used a cutting arm bar both to disarm the opponent and to use as a sharp takedown.
The second variation of the technique was for a low strike aimed at the knee or ankle. The only variation to the defence, is due to the how low the strike is it is difficult to get the underhook so instead we get a tight over hook and support our hand on the arm that is piking the head. Instead of using a cutting arm bar in this case we use head pressure and a backwards movement to take the attacker down. Of course their an improtant emphasis on using knee strikes to the opponent once in the clinch as the danger of being hit by the baton is very real.
Anyway I had better toddle off, but I just thought I would mention that Pearl Jam (who I was seeing in melbourne rocked and Amanda and I had a ball!).
Ta Ta
Ok quick run down of the class, at the last minute I decided to change the structure of the class due to a request from a student. The student wanted to a refresher on some baton defence techniques which we haven't looked at in a while. So after a quick warm up involving punch drills and some low kicks we start on some baton defence basics. I started everyone on swings that come from the outside in as opposed to a straight thrust. The basis of the defence was a slight modifcation of the under hook and pike defence. the difference between the normal drilla nd what we did was rather than using one of the 3 takedowns in the empty hand version of the drill we used a cutting arm bar both to disarm the opponent and to use as a sharp takedown.
The second variation of the technique was for a low strike aimed at the knee or ankle. The only variation to the defence, is due to the how low the strike is it is difficult to get the underhook so instead we get a tight over hook and support our hand on the arm that is piking the head. Instead of using a cutting arm bar in this case we use head pressure and a backwards movement to take the attacker down. Of course their an improtant emphasis on using knee strikes to the opponent once in the clinch as the danger of being hit by the baton is very real.
Anyway I had better toddle off, but I just thought I would mention that Pearl Jam (who I was seeing in melbourne rocked and Amanda and I had a ball!).
Ta Ta
Wednesday, November 08, 2006
no gi class
Last thursday night saw a good class for the no gi group, we had 4 students in, peter, luke, john and chris. It was good to have luke back after his couple of weeks of sick. Peter and I decided to grade Luke to 1 stripe a few days ago so hopefully he will join us in the monday and wednesday intermediate classes now.
We started the class by doing some punch drills and some kicks, I had one pair working on Jab, Cross and Weave drills on the Thai Pads and the other working low thai kicks on the shield. One of the main points that stood out with the thai kicks is helping everyone to remember to turn out their front foot as or before they kick, both to load up the hips for the kick and also to protect the front knee from jarring or over twisting.
The next part of our warm up was to get to the ground so I started everyone off figure 4 guard situps, we then moved to a set of 4 Figure 4 guard situps followed by a Hip Bump Sweep to mount and then the partner bridge and rolls to start again.
Following this introduction, we went through 2 techniques starting from side control with far under hook, Figure 4 arm lock and far arm bar. We concluded with Butterfly sweep. My next class is going to have more of a look at guard attacks on the figure 4 theme. We'll start with Figure 4 from guard, then Hip bump sweep, arm bar from guard.
In other news I have completed the DVD of the Craig Robinson Seminar check out the front cover image below.
See you all later!
We started the class by doing some punch drills and some kicks, I had one pair working on Jab, Cross and Weave drills on the Thai Pads and the other working low thai kicks on the shield. One of the main points that stood out with the thai kicks is helping everyone to remember to turn out their front foot as or before they kick, both to load up the hips for the kick and also to protect the front knee from jarring or over twisting.
The next part of our warm up was to get to the ground so I started everyone off figure 4 guard situps, we then moved to a set of 4 Figure 4 guard situps followed by a Hip Bump Sweep to mount and then the partner bridge and rolls to start again.
Following this introduction, we went through 2 techniques starting from side control with far under hook, Figure 4 arm lock and far arm bar. We concluded with Butterfly sweep. My next class is going to have more of a look at guard attacks on the figure 4 theme. We'll start with Figure 4 from guard, then Hip bump sweep, arm bar from guard.
In other news I have completed the DVD of the Craig Robinson Seminar check out the front cover image below.
See you all later!
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