Flying the flag for top quality Self Protection.
Review of yesterdays class.
Practical & very functional warm up drill modified vertical grappling drill.
Hands requiring face drill/ vertical grappling.
Starting in a neutral wrestling position, both persons require face,
This turns a wrestling drill in to a practical grappling drill for learning how to Shred (gross motor feral fighting)
We change partners until we have gone around twice @ 1min rounds each.
Knife draw drill/ vertical grappling.
One guy has a training knife & tells the other guy to turn around.
knifer then conceals the knife i.e behind back pocket etc.
knifer tells other guy to turn around & they clinch into a neutral wrestling position,
idea is the knifer has to draw the blade at some point in the fight, the other guy feeling though tactical sensitivity,
try's to stop the knife from being pulled. If the knife has been drawn, the defender has to shut the knifer & knife down. We do round robins.
First round with out headgear, then both with headgear on.
Continuing on from where we left off from last weeks class.
Various Knife attacks drills.
We did a quick refresher on knife awareness, we covered the palming of a knife & being able to see the both hands & all the fingers & thumbs.
Weapons access/ deployment (the draw) reading cues & indicators on the draw of the concealed weapon being pulled/ drawn.
We then looked in detail methods from following material Rich Dimitri's Senshido, Deane Lawler's Rsult, Lee Morrison.
The idea behind these drills where overkill & worst case scenarios.
Basically your situational awareness wasn't switched on & then all of a sudden your being savagely knifed....
its gone physical.
Drill 1
The good guy has his back turned away from the attacker (@6 ft away) i.e ATM or similar
situation.
The good guy cue is; can only turn around once you hear the verbal abuse of the knifer,
then defends himself.
The knifers cue is: once he starts the verbal insults he rushes the good guy knifing him to death or tries to.
Drill 2
The good guy has his back turned away from the attacker (@1 ft away) i.e ATM or similar situation.
The good guy cue is; can only turn around once you hear the verbal abuse or knife in back either or,
then defends himself.
The knifers cue is: once he starts the verbal insults he stabs the good guy knifing him to death or tries to.
Drill 3
Good guy & knifer face to face,
The knifers cue was to verbal abuse the good guy & stab him to death.
Good guy has to stop the deployment of the knife & fight back.
We finish with "two on one" Tabata pad drill.
One guy with focus pads & the other with thaipads, 3 X one min rounds.
Start of in passive stance, gets pushed hard full-on verbals, try's to diffuse it doesn't work so has to pre empted.
Awesome drill... great conditioning for combat fitness, combat mind-set, eliminating ones own tunnel vision,
getting used to being pushed about & verbal abused, pre empting under pressure, power hitting/ kicking etc etc,
