Clinch domination:
Working good positions for the lifts we looked at last week plus dragging the opponent to the mat. Initially we took it in turns offering resistance. It moved into us both fighting for dominance in the clinch and the drag down if available.
Centre attack striking verses escaping:
Feeding person below strikes and they simply have to escape. Joe had us on a numbered circle whereby number 2 would rotate every round and number 1 stays on their back at the start of each round. Very tough on the bottom as simply physically demanding. Trick is to break their posture and recover to at least half guard.
Lead punch then rear punch attack followed by own 3rd attack:
This drill is designed I think to develop sound body timing and rhythm and fluid attacks. Joe also talked about attacking and defending against the open and closed side. The closed side is outside his lead arm and away from the power rear hand. Open side is moving towards, circularly, towards his power hand.
We then developed into adding of our own 2 attacks after the straight lead and straight rear punch.
Ground defence rounds:
Have to defend and get up. Use smart and appropriate ground defence posture. Person on the feet needs wing big wide shots down on the opponent
5 minute conditioning round:
1 punch then duck, 2 punches then squat, 3 punches then sprawl, 4 punches then bob and weave against 4 round punches.. A really tough physical drill.
Rounds of MMA:
Starting standing then to the ground if needed. The big positive for me tonight was staying relaxed on the feet and finally pulling off my first compression submission; the calf compression
Thursday, 19 April 2012
Saturday, 14 April 2012
Week 33: Lifts from clinch
Theme was syllabus work for the session.
Joe started us off with a clinch warm up looking for primary grips then without using the hands. Without the hands is harder but requires a different set of skills. I found myself using my head and spine as a third limb. From this I can conclude that I should be doing this when allowed to use the hands. Simply makes control much more effective. Now I have a better understanding of Randy's dirty boxing where he used his head to pressure the opponent against the fence to enable striking and control at the same time.
We then moved onto positional grappling without using the hands to hold or grip. Chris knees me in the eye for a shiner. Purely accidental as happened in transition in movement. 48 hours on my right eye lid looks like a strutting peacock.
Single leg attacks: a drill we have looked at quite a lot recently. I am getting better at dropping and driving with my eyes up. Know that the knee or him at the end of the shoot so stay posture positive. Light bare hand strikes were then added to keep attack positions appropriate and not sloppy.
Lee then began his part of the lesson by teaching us a series of clinch lifts from the level 2 syllabus
Lower back lift
Double hip lift
Side hip lift
Rear hip lift
For each of the lifts it is important to keep the elbows in tight and to lift from the legs. Use the whole body and not just the arms. We then had some time to practise chaining the lifts in any order of our choosing to make the learning deeper as opposed to patterned.
The learning was then taken to the ground to employ the same methodology to side control escape. Ensure double underhooks control with your back on the floor and that the forearm is into his hip crease. This will enable more effective escapes as you will control his centre and his hips.
Grappling with Ptas for 3 rounds. Upward knee rotation for Ptas, I got an inner forearm choke from bottom control, Ptas pulled off inner forearm choke from centre control.
Joe started us off with a clinch warm up looking for primary grips then without using the hands. Without the hands is harder but requires a different set of skills. I found myself using my head and spine as a third limb. From this I can conclude that I should be doing this when allowed to use the hands. Simply makes control much more effective. Now I have a better understanding of Randy's dirty boxing where he used his head to pressure the opponent against the fence to enable striking and control at the same time.
We then moved onto positional grappling without using the hands to hold or grip. Chris knees me in the eye for a shiner. Purely accidental as happened in transition in movement. 48 hours on my right eye lid looks like a strutting peacock.
Single leg attacks: a drill we have looked at quite a lot recently. I am getting better at dropping and driving with my eyes up. Know that the knee or him at the end of the shoot so stay posture positive. Light bare hand strikes were then added to keep attack positions appropriate and not sloppy.
Lee then began his part of the lesson by teaching us a series of clinch lifts from the level 2 syllabus
Lower back lift
Double hip lift
Side hip lift
Rear hip lift
For each of the lifts it is important to keep the elbows in tight and to lift from the legs. Use the whole body and not just the arms. We then had some time to practise chaining the lifts in any order of our choosing to make the learning deeper as opposed to patterned.
The learning was then taken to the ground to employ the same methodology to side control escape. Ensure double underhooks control with your back on the floor and that the forearm is into his hip crease. This will enable more effective escapes as you will control his centre and his hips.
Grappling with Ptas for 3 rounds. Upward knee rotation for Ptas, I got an inner forearm choke from bottom control, Ptas pulled off inner forearm choke from centre control.
Saturday, 7 April 2012
Week 32: submissions from mount
Free form striking from bottom control: Big gloves on for the heavy and continuous striking. Not allowed to break from the position but bottom player needs to break down the posture to prevent striking. Person on top needs to keep posture up to allow for more effective striking. I found having my back on the food was drastically more tiring as I was using my legs to create space and control his body. Actually on the second round I was near to giving up as I was so drained. When I went into top position I was surprised at how less fatiguing this position was. Going back to having the back on the floor I found that using straight line punches, from my wing chun training proved to be effective. This is because the punch comes from the elbow in the centre of the chest as opposed to the usual elbow in line with and driving from the shoulder. This economy of motion and shortest distance between two points is a straight line is a useful tool in this particular aspect of MMA.
On a side issue it is only now after training in MMA that most applications shown by other martial arts are crap. The applications they show usually are thrown from a static attack with no resistance, hence amazing looking skills. I used to train in tai chi (both purporting to be martial) and thought, at the time, that I was learning sound martial skills. Perhaps I was. Perhaps there were many elements of the training that would be useful. Never did we train against non compliance or static fed attacks. To this day I still in my own training continue to practise the tai chi form as I find it good for my body. That is my to perspective through wiser eyes. Years ago Bruce Lee was promoting cross training, stepping away from the classical mess and discarding that which is
not useful. It is a shame that so many martial artists are not bold enough and too insecure to step into the waters of non compliance for learning and self development are greatest in them.
Back on track.
Submission from north south: Forgotten what Lee labelled this position as hence north south. Incidentally it is the only one in MMA that regularly receives sarcastic wolf whistle from the audience. Instead of taking the inner forearm head control (guillotine) you assume a reverse version and insert a fist suppression to the front of throat for a painful and swift submission. We then looked at an elbow extension from the same position.
From centre attack (mount) leg over sit on arm. Essentially you are sitting on the shoulder joint. This was my first experience of this position. This does require lower body dexterity as you need to essentially triangle his arm. Take a tricep control keeping the arm nice and tight. From this position we then learned a series of submissions.
Firstly fall into an inner leg suppression. It is important to get it in very quick as if you don't they will escape or pass.
Secondly was the arm extension.
Thirdly was the horribly painful wrist compression. I was demo dummy for this and had to tap out early on and ask for the demo on my other wrist. A recent fall in a school football match has left me with a very tender wrist. So much so that I can't even do press ups or dips at the moment.
Finally we looked at a downward shoulder rotation. Similar to the first submission you need to allow to fall on your back giving them the feeling that they are escaping. Thankfully they are falling into a downwards shoulder rotation. Tonight I learned that in BJJ 2 moves, the kimura and omoplata are both downward shoulder rotations.
The last part of training was Easter free form fun.
All against all free form ground fighting, tag team free form grappling and ended with rounds on Charlie who had a new partner every 60 seconds to keep him on his toes (or back!!!!).
On a side issue it is only now after training in MMA that most applications shown by other martial arts are crap. The applications they show usually are thrown from a static attack with no resistance, hence amazing looking skills. I used to train in tai chi (both purporting to be martial) and thought, at the time, that I was learning sound martial skills. Perhaps I was. Perhaps there were many elements of the training that would be useful. Never did we train against non compliance or static fed attacks. To this day I still in my own training continue to practise the tai chi form as I find it good for my body. That is my to perspective through wiser eyes. Years ago Bruce Lee was promoting cross training, stepping away from the classical mess and discarding that which is
not useful. It is a shame that so many martial artists are not bold enough and too insecure to step into the waters of non compliance for learning and self development are greatest in them.
Back on track.
Submission from north south: Forgotten what Lee labelled this position as hence north south. Incidentally it is the only one in MMA that regularly receives sarcastic wolf whistle from the audience. Instead of taking the inner forearm head control (guillotine) you assume a reverse version and insert a fist suppression to the front of throat for a painful and swift submission. We then looked at an elbow extension from the same position.
From centre attack (mount) leg over sit on arm. Essentially you are sitting on the shoulder joint. This was my first experience of this position. This does require lower body dexterity as you need to essentially triangle his arm. Take a tricep control keeping the arm nice and tight. From this position we then learned a series of submissions.
Firstly fall into an inner leg suppression. It is important to get it in very quick as if you don't they will escape or pass.
Secondly was the arm extension.
Thirdly was the horribly painful wrist compression. I was demo dummy for this and had to tap out early on and ask for the demo on my other wrist. A recent fall in a school football match has left me with a very tender wrist. So much so that I can't even do press ups or dips at the moment.
Finally we looked at a downward shoulder rotation. Similar to the first submission you need to allow to fall on your back giving them the feeling that they are escaping. Thankfully they are falling into a downwards shoulder rotation. Tonight I learned that in BJJ 2 moves, the kimura and omoplata are both downward shoulder rotations.
The last part of training was Easter free form fun.
All against all free form ground fighting, tag team free form grappling and ended with rounds on Charlie who had a new partner every 60 seconds to keep him on his toes (or back!!!!).
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