I got to training late, working as always, this is Loren’s Facebook blog of training Wednesday -a very comprehensive description:
Wednesday 15/02/12 – Breathing pyramid while walking in on your partner/he moves ouof the way. 2 4 6 8 and back down. Natural stepping. As above, breathing however you wish, but now stepping is changed – person escaping must keep your knees together. This position forces you to using alot of turning movements. Added pr…essure by slipping piece of paper between the knees and held there – if it drops, so does the person for 10 push-ups. As above, now feet together – must hop to get out of the way. And finally, as above but now using a very large step – like as if you were stepping over a creek that was just abit to wide. A few excercises thrown in here and there – push-up work/squats. Tag game using the legs – join hands with partner/try to tag one another with the feet/kicking – emphasis on movement. Kicking drilling – starting from pushing game with the feet/pushing to legs (hips down). Allow the pressure to come on – they move you to begin with. This progresses to you feeling when you want to move – still from their touch but now you feel the touch and go. Continue on – now move when you want to/in response to their movement – don’t let them touch you. This then builds into – evading then working against the attacker’s leg to disrupt them and bring them down. Timing/catching/doing more with less. Very hot /humid day today/ quite vigorous work – added in cool down phase for the last 10 – 15 minutes: partner comes in for the grab/you evade then look to see where your weapons have ended up – strike/touch 5 targets using your various weapons. Look for the odd angles, let the weapons feed each other, feel how their body is moving – make your work short and precise…..subtle/efficient. Nice flow to the session – people working very well with one another/switched partners alot today and people gauging work to new partner in good ways. Talked within the group about: feeling ok with reseting, going back along the progression of things start getting tense/uncomfortable/just not working – go back a step, or two – slowly build up when you’ve recovered and calmed. We also discussed how the four main pillars can be used very positively to help you – but the flip side to that is they can affect each other in negative ways if we ignore them and a vicious loop can kick off – stop breathing and you can’t relax, can’t relax and you stop moving, stop moving and you try to compenstate by deforming your structure, when your structure is gone – you can’t breathe! And so in a downward spiral……..take time during training if things are working right – if it’s one of the principles not being applied, fix it and watch/feel the positve roll-on!! Thanks very much for the effort Crew – enjoyed the session a lot!! Cheers!!
My own comment is that I LOVE the way a quick foot slip or sweep f**ks up your brain. We walk thousands of steps every day and always our foot meets the ground as we expect. So when it just doesn’t – WOW – brain is momentarily stunned. We can train to perform it and also to be less affected by it.