Happy birthday Guro Inosanto

Hi all,

Wishing Guro Dan Inosanto a happy 74th birthday!!!

New HMA Coach

Big well done to Richard Pomphrey on gaining his Coach Level 1 in Kali, this is well deserved & in addition Rich trains hard has a good understanding of Kali.

Way to go buddy!

G.

Tuesday’s Jun Fan Gung Fu – Jeet Kune Do Class

We worked the following footwork first:

• Step & Slide (4 ways)
• Slide & Step or Pendulum

Then drilled on the pads the following Jun Fan Kickboxing drills

• Nau Tek – jab cross hook cross – Nau Tek
• Nau Tek – jab cross body hook cross – Nau Tek
• Nau Tek – jab cross uppercut cross – Nau Tek
• Nau Tek – jab cross double uppercut hook cross – Nau Tek

We briefly discussed when we would & wouldn’t use the jab, after this we moved on to some Jun Fan Kickboxing techniques

• Parry, slip outside on the jab & counter to the body
• slip outside on the jab & counter to the body

Then against the cross we did

• Shoulder roll & follow up
• Shoulder roll, jut Tek & follow up

Against the lead kick we did

• Toi Ma (slide & step) evade to Jut Tek & follow up
• Pak Tek to Nau Tek & follow up

Lastly we did some of the CFS Ha Ping Choi Gwa Choi series.

Cheers G.

MMA (MKG) Class

Started off with a warm up and some knee mount drills on the grappling dummies.
We worked some pummelling drills with and without lead switching, from this drill we added the double leg arm weave takedown to single knee mount & looked at some basic striking.

Then we moved to full mount making sure we controlled the arms and look at openings to work ground & pound.

We then worked the following drill

Takedown, knee mount, full mount, turn over to guard, break guard, stand up & repeat.

Cheers lads. G

Monday (Panantukan class)

We looked at using good body mechanics when we strike & making sure the punch starts at the feet and working on correct power line all the way through until delivery to the target. In addition it’s important to recover to the guard position quickly to reduce the time for a counter.
We worked some single direct attacks these were:

• Jab
• Cross
• Hook (L&R)
• Uppercut (L&R)
• Overhand (L&R)

We also looked at the following combinations:
2 count combos

• Double Jab
• Jab Cross
• Cross Hook
• Hook Cross

As well as some 3 count combos

• Jab cross hook
• Jab cross uppercut
• Cross hook cross
• Hook cross hook

Lastly we did some technique work against the wide strikes (punches) as at a street level most people will swing wide rather then punch on a tight line.

We used the following techniques

• Shoulder stop
• Sumgab & foot trap (if these can land at the same excellent)
• Left head scoop
• Arm drag

Cheers all see you soon.

Warriors Circle 18/07/10

Hi all,

well done to everyone to day who completed the warriors circle, big respects to Mark, Bong, Ryan, Mike, Rich who all completed the following.

1 x 3min - Boxing
1 x 3min - Grappling
1 x 3min - Padded Stick Sparring
1 x 3min - Muay Thai Sparring
1 MKG Muay Thai Conditioning Drill

All of us apart from Bong did Guro Rick Faye's 15 seconds of punching

1x 5 second blitz
1x 6 second blitz
1x 7 second blitz
1x 8 second blitz
1x 9 second blitz
1x 10 second blitz
1x 11 second blitz
1x 12 second blitz
1x 13 second blitz
1x 14 second blitz
1x 15 second blitz

But Bong went one better with the MKG Muay Thai drill the 4's

20 reps of

4 punches - 4 knees - 4 kicks (2x left & 2x right) = 1 rep
finished off with 50 push ups & 50 sit ups

I'll sort out the DVD's and get the tshirts printed ASAP lads!

Cheers all

G

Kali Class

We worked basic double stick

4 count KOB - KOB to downward X left & right using lateral triangle footwork

we then moved onto single stick work using 3 count entry as a base (remember this is a running attack & zoning is important)

3 count entry is as follows

High forehand
Low backhand
High backhand

followed by switch & diagonal slash & repeat left side.

We then worked the inside sweep to horizontal backhand to the body (angle 4) & return angle 1 strike and partner repeated. Then we added the left cross which we saluted/shielded (Taming) & then partner repeated.

To the above we added the following

X strike
Vine & Snake disarm
Papercutter takedown to
1) Bicep crush
2) From bicep crush we added branch down shoulder lock/break.

Remember if all else fails make sure you can swing that stick.

If you like the Kali don't miss the seminar on the 25th July with myself.

Cheers all G