Drills and Drilling!

Instructor training at 6.30 this morning. No Dozer today as his leg is still in a bad way. Myself and Craig have got a taste for continuous still and off the back of that we worked on three drills which are a direct conversion from the self defence seminar with did with Zara a few weeks ago.

The first was a jab, duck and circle and lead hand upper cut to the stomach

The second a jab, duck and circle followed by a lead hand hook to the stomach stepping out wide.

Moving into the direct conversion from the self defence seminar, a jab, duck and circle followed by a lead hand hook to the stomach stepping out wide. Leaving the hook hand trailing as an anchor to the opponents stomach, step two large steps round the opponents back to their offside and finishing with a cross or hook to the side of the head. Speed is clearly the key as well as staying close to the opponent.

A variation of this is to follow the cross to the side of the head with a rear leg sweep, using the crossing / hooking hand to take the opponent of balance and assist with the sweep.

Very short gym session today at lunch as I had phone calls to make. In addition the gym, which is about the size of a shoe box, was packed so I just did what I could and left.

Being on the Late shift I didn’t arrive at Barwell until just after six. When I arrived I saw Richard was making a very good job of teaching the Jedi’s. We have had a few ‘issues’ with the Jedi’s recently, as mentioned in a previous entry, and it was excellent to see Richard is continuing our united front, no messin yet still fun approach.

The ladies were treated to a good continuous class. We tend to make the weekday classes good calorie killing occasions and really go for the burn in the mixed class on Saturday.

The adults class seemed a little flat, we were however missing a few people. We did the drills we worked on in the morning. Overall they seemed to get the idea, although the changing direction for the cross and sweep follow up did fox them a little. Admittedly they are drills which you need to drill, as it were.