Well we certainly had some fireworks last night!
With a good turnout, we split the group into 3 sections:
green belts doing stix and chi sao
Kickboxers doing focus pad drills
Chick and Duck doing Muay Thai drills at the pads
I was able to stop the class at relevant points, to give everyone a break from their workout, and to demonstrate some of the advanced concepts that are starting to appear in Eskrima and Muay Thai, and how the concept of range is common to both unarmed combat and weapons combat.
We looked at the importance of close range guarding which allows you to crash and keep the corto range and demoed and drilled this for Thai, boxing and in serrada, with the roof block drill.
And there was sparring for all during the freeplay session.
The freeplay session in the last 20 minutes was the most diverse yet with some members choosing to carry on pad drill and some moving onto weapons including swords.
Members will be able to drill Thai and also spar Thai - if they have the proper protective gear.
A headguard is a must for proper boxing and Thai sparring - that much is now clear - at least at these earlier stages as sparring gets more advanced.
For the advanced students we will advance the sinawalli and introduce concepts for the basic drills such as 2 and 4. We will add the more tricky 5, 7 and 9 drills and also the offside concepts it applies to odd numbered counts.
Now we have the 3 ranges of serrada covered it is a matter of regular drilling - flight time.
There are some other serrada drills we will add soon - one thing at a time.
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