Wednesday 17th September 2009

A good turn out for our inaugral Wed session.

We started in FC KB structure, looking at boxing and then Thai boxing, first with some drills, then we sparred kb and included low kicks.

We then used the focus pads and Thai pads for impact work.

Those who had weapons were able to do a half hour of weapons work, including sinawalli, krabi, sword, stix vs sword and sword vs bo.

We were also able to demonstrate the Krabi footwork and everybody was able to try it out, and see the relevance to Muay Thai as well as krabi.

Now we have members drilling and sparring in the 3 FC phases - boxing, KB and Thai, we can open up that dimension more.

We will develop the focus pad training and Thai pad training as well as more use of the shield.

With weapons, members will learn the full range of sinawalli drills - there are 9 counts - then the concepts of sinwalli.

We will then look at serrada - single stick - and the 4 main ranges of this phase:

largo - drills such as entry 3
medio - drills such as sombrada
corto - drills such as hubud, also stick locks
grappling - including stick chokes and takedowns

We will also get the krabi 5 step drill a regular part of training, and make use of karate's 5 step, 3 step and one step kumite, which works on the same principles.

If a training method like step kumite evolved in two seperate countries independently and generically - Japan and Thailand - there must be a lot of merit in it - something worth exploring deeper, wouldn't you agree?

For the longer weapons we will get members to work on the four step bokken drill, then look into other kenjutsu drills.

We will drill stix against sword, and more sword against bo.

We'll look more into the 2 against one weapons drills as well.

Some members who study Jo and Bo, are working concepts for the longer weapons. We will also look at naginata and yari concepts in the drills.