Saturday, September 12, 2015

Joint Combatives Class: Saturday Morning Group – 12/09/2015

Theme

  • Further explorations of use of structure in combat
Objectives

Use of structure in
  • Power generation
  • Control of opponent in tie-ups
  • Structural manipulation to steal balance, disrupt power and effect takedowns

Power Generation and Grounding

  • Revisit the 3 things you can hit someone with [Demo each power modality]
    • The earth
    • Gravity
    • Momentum
  • Use of structure to generate momentum with and without Ground Reaction Force (GRF)
    • Rotor - most basic mode of power commonly seen in almost all martial arts
    • Ball - hand-slapping conditioning drill
    • Wave - Reciprocal wave striking drill w/ fists, elbows, shoulders
    • Spiral - most difficult: eg. Chen taiji
  • Applications of power generation w/ GRF
    • Zero-inch strikes, a.k.a. from extremely close range
    • Massive upgrade to striking power overall
    • Explosiveness for takedowns and movement
  • Applications of power generation w/o GRF
    • Strikes when out of structure, eg. cold-cocked or when flying
    • Grounding a ballistic bodypart for incidental, improvised striking

Manipulating Structure

  • Basics of standup grappling
  • Revisit Bee Sting/Marionette drill
    •  Deform the sweater
    • Create lines of tension
    • Fire across them for results
    • Global-Local-Global:  The basis of 'internal' martial arts methodology
  •  Pummelling drills
    • Three flavours of pummelling at three levels of intensity - technical, medium, hard
      • Neck pummelling
      • Body Pummelling
      • Grip Fighting - MOST COMBAT WILL HAPPEN HERE
 
  •  Principles of Takedowns
    • Stance integrity - Triangle point principle, attacking and defending
    •  Joint integrity - Function, Dysfunction, Hyperfunction
    • Force Couples - Locking and Driving
    • Joint Centres of Mass, Joint Force Systems - Dominate the Centre to Control the Fight

  • Technical takedown freeform drilling
  • Integrating striking and takedowns
    •  Global-Local-Global principle
    • Use of strikes to dissolve resistance
    • Use of strikes to manipulate structure 

  • Brief intro to leg-fighting in grappling
    •  Trips
    • Sweeps
    • Reaps
    • Posts
 

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