Thursday 8 October 2009

The STMA DVD is ready!

The DVD is filmed at 3 venues over the course of about a month:

Sports Hall - with mats - KB and Combat Jujutsu
Boxing Gym - in the ring - boxing and KB
Karate Dojo - karate and weapons classes

Footage includes:

kickboxing in SC structure. You can see the use of long distance kicks in this style.
kick for kick drill which leads straight into SC sparring.
Combat Jujutsu
Standing chokes to takedown to ground chokes.
Throws - cross hip into Juji gatame and throw for throw drill.
various throws:
Seoinage, taiotoshi, harai goshi, uchi mata, o soto gari, o uchi gari
Kickboxing range entering into grapping range and throws
Leg takedowns:
Morote gari - from Fence, grappling range and outrange
- to grappling and leglocks
Single leg td to locks
TDs against a kick with ground finishes
Against a shooter - sprawl and ground finish
Kata guruma - the fireman's variation
Handachi - when kneeling - lock a standing attacker
Kickboxing to HKE and out to kb range, avoiding grappling
boxing ABCs, SC ABCs, advanced kicks
kick for kick drill then spar for 2 rounds.
These sparring fights look full on and viscious - because they are!
In spite of the intensity at this level nobody really gets hit hard and nobody gets hurt.