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