At STMA we have 4 main kinds of sparring:
Kali - kickboxing - unarmed - Vale Tudo
each of these has 4 phases to it.
Kali:
double stix
single stick
stick and knife
knife and hand
Kickboxing:
savate
thai
kickboxing
boxing
unarmed:
karate
chi sao
randori
ground TNS
Vale Tudo:
this is a mix of striking and grappling
- in the unarmed phase this blends kb and grappling with strikes on the ground
- the the armed phase this allows a stick fight to go to ground
so the 4 phases are:
kb
groundfight
stick fight
stick ground
each of these sparring phases has drills which can be isolated
eg sinawalli with double stix
thai pads for thai
etc
hubud:
For CRA we use hubud as our core drill. Though it is not sparring a such it can be done with stick, knife and empty hands and unites all the phases at this range and makes trapping functional as the range that sits between kb and grappling.
We currently practice the 9 CRA methods out of hubud:
lox
dumog
sweeps
tai chi
HKE
HIA
shime
throws
kino
Numerada:
Numerada is the drill that takes us back to long range, both armed and unarmed and allows us to take control of the fight at the entry phase and then close to CRA to finish.
eg: Gunting against a punch flowing into CRA rather than from the continuous flow of hubud.
