Friday Private Training: CQC Explorations

Theme

• CQC scenario drilling for extremely confined spaces

• Serak Lower Art/Langkah introduction

• Free play

Objectives

• Research CQC applications from multiple technical bases for extreme confined spaces in urban settings

• Gain working understanding of Serak Footwork Concepts

•  Have fun beating on one another

Concepts & Drills

• Serak (Segi) Tiga and Pancar(?) footwork diagram

• Inner/outer lines
• Upper Inner/Lower Outer + Upper Outer/Lower Inner
• Triangle Point of Stance Integrity
• Multi-phase Stance Disruption

• Sila - cross-sit-stand exercises (Melayu sitting) for S&C and functional pattern training
• Variation w/kick upon rising
• Variation tracing triangle lines

Tiga Footwork

•  (Tukar) Kuda - stance-switching footwork drills
• Switch-step b/w single rear corner and triangle point (single line drill)
• Switch-step b/w triangle point and both corners (two line drill)
• Application: Evasion + counter vs low kicks

•  Sapu - Inside Forward Sweep
• Revolving switch-step-sweep around triangle
• Application: Evasion + counter vs low kicks

• Beset(?) - Back Sweep
• Same as Sapu
• Application: Stance Penetration to Outside Line + Back Sweep

• Serak Turn
• Punch-Drop-Squat+Guard-Turn+Supported Punch along single line
• Punch-Drop-Squat+Guard-Turn+Supported Punch along triangle
• Application: Counter-ambush by second foe

• Combination practice of Jurus while tracing Tiga (demo and discussion only)

 

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

 

Joint Combatives Class: Saturday Morning Group – 29/08/2015

Theme

Use of RMA pedagogy to supercharge kali-based combatives.

Objectives

• Introduce fundamentals of RMA

• Structure

Interaction of musculoskeleture to create mechanically strong shapes appropriate to task at hand.

• Breathing

Use of breath to regulate emotional and physiological states, to enhance strength and to drive motion.

• Selective Tension

Control of tensional states to facilitate intended actions, eg. power generation, resistance, redirection, escape.

• Poise

Seamless transition between successive situation-appropriate structures leading to good combative movement.

• Illustration of basic applications of fundamentals with basic RMA drills
• Adaptation to Kali-based combatives
• BONUS:  Fence Basics

Intro to 4 Fundamentals

Structure

• Explanation: As above
• Illustrations: Kali Angle #2 block, boxer’s straight right, two-hands shove, Triangle point of weakest stance integrity; Upper body force couples

• Drills: Marionette/Bee Sting drill; Triangle point manipulations.

Breathing

• Explanation: As above

• Illustrations: Burst breathing to regulate heart rate, power breathing for lifting and striking power, assisted passive/flow breathing for force absorption

• Drills:  Bodylock Spinal Readjustment drill;  Slow Callisthenics; Shock Absorption.

Selective Tension

• Explanation: As above
• Illustrations: Ballistic strikes, grapple escapes, blending redirections
• Drills: Pushing drill – static and walking; pushing drill variation w/live blade; grapple escapes; sticky hands variations

Poise

• Explanation: As above
• Illustrations: GROUND ENGAGEMENT, Trinity attacks, dependent attacks, zoning.
• Drills: Dependent striking; Trinity striking; GROUND ENGAGEMENT; zoning drills – single-step (Zombie) to multiples (Ghost – stay close without touching)

Adaptations to Kali

• Illustrate tweaks to techniques taught using

• Blending
• Heavy strikes
• Trinity attacks to structure
• Stance integrity manipulations
• Any other principles

Note: Disarm not always practical.  Gain and maintain control of weapon limb and attack the MAN.

Fence

• What is it?

• Physical, verbal, cognitive barrier between opponent and yourself.
• Unconscious (subtle) vs Conscious (explicitly trying to take control of situation, whether simply with dialogue or with physicality also).

• Creates space to allow you perception and reaction time.
• Feeler for both optimum striking range as well as opponent’s intent.

• If Fence touched three times, GO.

Three types

• Pleading
• Staggered
• Exclamation

Attacking off the Fence

• Kali - clear hands, step off-line, attack from outside line

• Two-hands shove - structure and power generation; can be used solo or to enhance any of the following
• Boxing - one-two/two-three 
• Kickfighting - create space and round/straight kick
• Grappling - establish grips, control and reposition for lock, choke or takedown 

Joint Combatives Class - 03/04/2015

Theme and Objectives

- Further scenario practice for Fence concepts

- Specific attacks from Fence to train tactical cognitive flexibility

• Power shove
• Upper limb strikes
• Lower limb strikes
• Takedowns

- Support system: striking vs grappling


Drills

Asymmetrical Sparring

Striking vs Grappling:  Grappler aims to use standup grappling only to control and effect takedown on striker; striker aims to use defensive grappling and near-full power strikes to defeat control and takedown attempts; both parties to remain engaged at all times


Fence Revision

- 1, 2 and 3-step attacks off Fence in various scenarios, according to objectives

- Recounter vs Uke counters at 1st, 2nd and 3rd steps

The Sweet Science

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Joint Combatives Class - 27/03/2015

Theme

- Revision and application of Fence concepts

- Defence against nonstandard street attack patterns

- Strike and takedown combinations

Objectives

- Revisit and expand Fence concepts and application

- Scenario drilling for Fence

- Experiment with nonstandard attack patterns observed in film study and others


Drills

- Revise and apply 3 basic types of Fence

• Pleading
• Staggered
• Exclamation

- Verbal and conscious Fences

- Attacking off the Fence

• Two-hands shove - structure and power generation; can be used solo or to enhance any of the following
• Boxing - one-two/two-three 
• Kickfighting - create space and round/straight kick
• Grappling - establish grips, control and reposition for lock, choke or takedown 
• Kali - clear hands, step off-line, attack from outside line

- Sample Scenario drills for Fence: include multiplers such as multiples and weapons

• Road rage
• Mugging/Other criminal assault
• Bar/Club rage
•  Staring incident

- Combat Clinic: Nonstandard attack patterns

• Jailyard bumrush
• Dirty Kali - c/f Calocan City knife murder
• Long-arm messy shirt grab and long-arm underarm stabs w/long chamber to avoid grabbing - Indonesia/Thailand public knife murder
• Others as necssary

- Technical Clinic: Developing Individualised Strike-to-Takedown Flows

Joint Combatives Class - 13/03/2015

Having been remiss in posting on time, rather than do a lesson-by-lesson post this time, I have instead elected to summarise the past three or so lessons.  Many thanks to Yiren and Keat for their generosity with both time and knowledge, and to Nigel for being a great training partner.  Any errors in recording the PTK work are entirely mine.



Pekiti Tirsia

Themes



- Advanced double short blade work



- Doble baston - #4-#1 bridging and variations; sinawali and variations

Drills

Short Blade

- Sak-sak vs Pakal and vice versa

- Double Sak-Sak

- Double Pakal

- Pangamut counters to Sak-Sak and Pakal


Stick/Long Blade

- #4-#1 and variations, including Broken #1-#4-#1 and #4-High Angle Thrust

- Sinawali and variations; #1-#2-#2 and #1-#4-#2

- Bridging entries for Sinawali and variations - #1-#4-#3-#1




Russian Martial Art Concepts

Theme

-        Functional applications of standup grappling in urban settings

Objectives

-        Learn to weaponise standup grappling concepts from earlier class

o   In the presence of obstacles, eg. walls, cars

o   Hazardous terrain

o   Against weapons

o   Integrated with striking

o   Ambush scenarios

Revision of Basic Concepts

-        Stance integrity
 
-        Force couples for takedowns
 
-        Joint Hyperfunction
 
-        Structural manipulations

Freeform soft takedown drills to revise ~3mins

-        Wedge entries vs attacks for takedowns

Freeform wedge entry vs attack drills – stop at loaded position for takedown ~3mins

Environment drills

Upright obstacles

-        Wall strike evasion
 
-        Wall grab escapes and counters to takedown
 
-        Car variants (if available)
 
-        Scenario-specific, eg. blindsided coming through doorway, out of lift, etc.
 
-        Ambush variants – include criminal interview
 
-        Striking as accessory to facilitate takedown

Hazardous Terrain

-        Level change and ground engagement on and around speed hump (touch on Gear concepts for ground engagement)

- Stairwell scenario drills - introduction to criminal interview


Strikes

- Trinity striking revision and practice 
 

Joint Combatives Class - 25/02/2015

Theme

-        Functional applications of standup grappling in urban settings

Objectives

-        Learn to weaponise standup grappling concepts from earlier class

o   In the presence of obstacles, eg. walls, cars

o   Hazardous terrain

o   Against weapons

o   Integrated with striking

o   Ambush scenarios

Revision of Basic Concepts

-        Stance integrity
 
-        Force couples for takedowns
 
-        Joint Hyperfunction
 
-        Structural manipulations

Freeform soft takedown drills to revise ~3mins

-        Wedge entries vs attacks for takedowns

Freeform wedge entry vs attack drills – stop at loaded position for takedown ~3mins

Environment drills

Upright obstacles

-        Wall strike evasion
 
-        Wall grab escapes and counters to takedown
 
-        Car variants (if available)
 
-        Scenario-specific, eg. blindsided coming through doorway, out of lift, etc.
 
-        Ambush variants – include criminal interview
 
-        Striking as accessory to facilitate takedown
 
-        Armed attacker variations

Hazardous Terrain

-        Level change and ground engagement on and around speed hump (touch on Gear concepts for ground engagement)
 
-        Three levels of evasion vs attack over terrain hazards – 1-step and multi-step attacks
 

o   Evasion while maintaining footing

o   Evasion while getting knocked down/proactively falling

o   Evasion while countering to takedown – standing and grounded variants

-        Ambush variants – include criminal interview
 
-        Striking as accessory to facilitate takedown
 
-        Armed attacker variations