STMA Locks

Locks

We start our training with one elbow lock and one wristlock which we practice regularly:

hiji waza - elbow - ikkyo or oshi taoshi
tebuki waza - wrist - kote gaeshi

if you only ever learn these two moves, they will work for you in real fights if the need arises.

From each of these we build a set of 5 hiji and 5 tebuki waza.
Beyond that we develop from the secondary and tertiary lists.


Hubud lock set

In hubud we have a list of 5 locks we practice which work in real time:

ikkyo
ude gaeshi
waki gatame
kote geashi
sankyo

and one appendix - oni kudaki - which we apply from the inside.


Irimi and tenkan

With regards to irimi and tenkan in lox, we start examining this concept with ikkyo

Ikkyo irimi - take the elbow through uke's centreline and cut to 3rd point

ikkyo tenkan - step back and spin uke round and down.

Both turn a pin technique into a projection. Perfect examples of henka from a basic technique.

Once these concepts have been learnt in the first lock, they can applied to further lox as you develop.

Another way of looking at is is this - once you have irimi and tenkan you now have 3 techniques, all variations of ikkyo.

STMA Throws

The two major throws we start with are:

Koshi nage - a hip throw - a tenkan waza
O soto gari - a reap - an irimi waza

from there we build a set of 5 tenka and 5 irimi waza to practice regularly.
Beyond that you would add other throws from the secondary and tertiary lists.

As these are COMBAT JUJUTSU moves we do atemi - blow before throw, using a headbutt before an irimi and a groin knee before a tenkan.

We also use push-pull concept to set the throw up.

STMA basic drills list

STMA is all about evolution and nothing is fixed. This list will evolve as the Group progresses.

Fence - line up KO
Jab loop drill - including jab, block, counter and loop
Thai leg kick
Kick 4 Kick
lo punch
lo punch def

Stix:
2, 4, chain
Entry 3

Pads:
4 boxing punches
round kick
ABCs from box set 1 and karate set 1

A prospect on their first 3 or 4 sessions will practice these drills with the various established members. If they want to join, and they need to to train with us, they will buy the starter pack and move onto kb and kali drills.

Odd sinawalli

3 is more than just half a 6 count, and starts with a backfist #2.

5 is 4 count with an extra beat.

offside mens you start with the left hand. In a 5 and 7 count it means the extra beat is now also done with the other hand.

7 is the first sinawalli that starts with an earth low strike.
offside 7

9 count is the most complex of the sinawalli

Even sinawalli

All sinawallis use the diagonal X angles - 1, 2, 9 and 10.

2 count is based on witik, while 4 count is based on lobtik.
Both drills start from the double caveman chamber.

Footwork to learn is tendensia, torque and fang.

Once you have learnt 2 and 4 seperately you learn to chain them together.

6 count introduces the muto shoulder chamber.

Once 6 count has been learnt you learn to chain 4 and 6.
This involves moving from the last beat of the 4 count to the muto chamber and the last beat of the 6 count to the double caveman.
Some people refer to the 4-6 chain as "10 count".

8 count introduces the hasso chamber and is the first drill to start with a backfist.

Once you have 8 count you learn the 2-4-6-8 chain.

There is a variation of 4 count involving an arco.

There are many variations on 6 count to learn including odd, heaven, earth, umbrella, sipat, stab.

Sinawalli progression

2 count
4
2 - 4 chain

footwork - tendensia, torque, fang

6
4 - 6 chain

8

2-4-6-8 chain

4 henka

6 henka - odd, heaven, earth, umbrella, sipat, stab

3

5
offside

7
offside

9

concepts:
mirror, complement, redondo, reverse redondo

gyaku to

The Groin strike

The groin kick is a move nobody can withstand. But it is also difficult to get the range and angle in a real fight.

(Anybody who tells you otherwise has never been in a real fight and is just theorising about what they think they WOULD do.)

For strikes to the groin, we use the close range knee, or the kin kudaki 12 with the palm slap.

For low kicks we target the shin, knee and thigh.

Having said that, it is worth practicing a few groin kicks in case the opportunity arises.

If he leaves them swinging - set them ringing!

STMA Kali and Kobudo

Tonfa: we will examine the links between Krabi and tonfa, karate and tonfa, and Muay Thai. The STMA tonfa program is in depth and comprehensive. There will be some in depth demos of how they are used both in striking and locking.

Kali:
Be prepared for lots of 2, 4 and krabi, and maybe some sparring.

6, 8 and chaining for those working on that.
Serrada, largo.

Seniors will work 5 through 9 plus concepts.

There will be unarmed applications.

We will cover lox with and without stix.

Progressive serrada hubud into unarmed hubud to show the link. Also kadena de mano - knife v knife, knife v empty hand.


Kobudo

Bring bokens, bos, jos, nuncha, tonfa for freeplay.

Nunchaku sparring

STMA Kickboxing

We will be doing Krabi drill regularly on a Thursday for the next few sessions to examine the links with karate one step, Muay Thai, and how it comes out in Street as well as Freestyle sparring.

Make sure you bring stix and gloves to BOTH sessions - which is now standard practice.

As well as Chi sao sparring for seniors, we will examine karate jiyu kumite - sparring with no PPE and it's links to freestyle.

As usual we will do plenty of impact work to expand member's repertoire of ABCs and drills. I will be working personally with as many members as I can at each session so you all know how to act as "coach", holding pads for each other.

Boxers bring heavy gloves and headgear.

The shin kick

We practice the shin kick as one of our primary weapons to give an attacker the "coffee table moment"

As you always wear shoes on the street, you have a ready made weapon for attacking the shins.

As soon as the attacker steps into range he is presenting his closest target for your longest weapon.

Use the cap of your shoe or boot (steel cap is best), the outside like a yoko geri, or the instep in a sipat.

Regular practice of these low line nerve destructions will make them functional.

Even the most unflexible person can land a powerful shin kick.

The IJ - the eye jab

This is the strike that never fails!

Nobody can withstand a finger jab to the eyes, it doesn't matter what training they've had, how strong they are, or what drinks or drugs they have ingested.

It is the primary strike in JKD and one of the first and most important strikes we perfect in Feng Wei.

Anybody who has got a bit of dust or sand in their eye knows how painful it can be and how much it can distract you. Imagine what a full force fingertip will do!

The eyeball is the weak link in anyone's chain.

If you only ever learn one "pressure point", learn the eyeball.

If you only ever perfect one PE, make it the eye jab.

PEs - Pre-emptive strikes

We practice these shots off the Fence, as lineups, and against pads held both on the hand and against the body.

We also practice from the clinch.

All these shots have been used in real life encounters. Nothing is theory.

Some of these were introduced to us by friends, colleagues and other instructors who have used them extensively, some more than others.

We will be practicing this list of techniques regularly.

head
shoulder
elbow - jab, side, round, up, rear
punch - jab, cross, hook, uppercut, choy
palm slap
palm strike
back hand
arc hand
shuto
ura shuto
"club" fist
"bat" forearm
"shiver" forearm
knee
shin dte
kingeri - shin, foot
stamp - leg, knee, ham, foot

Private lessons, courses and seminars available

Private lessons

Private tuition available at your home or a venue of your choice.

Personal one-to-one tuition or group tuition available.

The going rate for private clients is £25 an hour, or £50 for two hours.
This is based on what we would make on a class of 10 students paying £5 each. It is the standard rate. Whether that is one client, two or a team of five, that is the going rate.



Courses and seminars

We can hold courses or seminars at your club for you and your students.

The usual rate is £35 for one day or £50 for 2 days for each attendee.

Contact us for details.

STMA regular drills

Ken sequence
Kempo set 1 - K1
Kihon ippon kumite
Kihon happo
lo punch
lo kix
box evasions
HIA
Interceptions

dan chi
luk sao

hubud 6
hiji 5 lock
tebuki 5 lox
lock flow
hubud lox

Impact:
box sets
karate sets
Thai sets
Shield sets

Stix:
sinawalli 1 - 8
serrada - 5 drills
largo drill
krabi drill

sparring:
kickboxing freestyle
karate free kumite
chi sao
stix
ground grappling - "rolling"

Kenjutsu - sword

We'll develop sword sets later but for now we'll just setup a curricululm from the varius ryu.

Suburi
Sets you practice on your own.

Kumi Tachi - sword practice with a partner.

Kihon - the basic targets:
Men - head
Do -body
Kote - hand
Tsuki - thrust

Kirikaeshi - 5 step sword drill
Taiatari - a "chi ken" drill, like an NRG drill

5 sets where you attack
5 sets counterattack

mutodori -unarmed sword evasion

ken dori - unarmed sword taking

That should be enough to be going along with.

We also adapt certain largo and serrada drills for sword play.

Stix

Also a lot of unarmed concepts are learnt from stick and transferred across.

Drilling stick improves your reflexes and timing to such a degree that your unarmed combat improves exponentially as a result.

Karate has weapons.
Muay Thai has Krabi.
FMA from Kali and Eskrima develop panatukan boxing and sikaran kickboxing.

FMA - Filipino Martial Arts

At STMA we tap the FMA for the core of our wepons training. These systems have unarmed combat that is drawn directly from the weapons training, which makes them unique in MA.



Kali-Eskrima

The core art. Kali is a blade art while Eskrima is a stick art. As we train with stix, there is not much obvious difference between Kali and Eskrima at the lower levels.

K-E is seperated into sub-systems.

Sinawalli - fighting with two sticks. This is done at the long or largo range.

Serrada - close range single stick art that moves through the ranges of largo, medio and corto.

Largo Mano - long range stick. Often done with the longer 3 foot stick. Builds to longer weapons including sword, staff and spear.

Kadena de mano - knife and hand art - drills include knife to knife, knife to hand, and hand to hand. The hand to hand combat develops from the knife drilling.

Pekiti tersia
One of the Filipino knife systems I trained in extensively which has some great drills relative to kadena de mano and knife training and defence.


Unarmed combat systems:

Panatukan
Filipino boxing, developed from kadena de mano. Has much more use of trapping and destruction than Western boxing. Fills the ground between boxing and Wing Chun. If you are having trouble making your traps work in boxing phase, panatukan has the answers. The knife defence training makes the boxing much more sensitive and effective.

Sikaran
Filipino kickboxing, similar to Muay Thai but much more evasive and sneaky.

Pananjakman
The art of low line kicking, similar to kempo, atemijutsu or koshijutsu. A training phase, becomes an art in it's own right at a higher level.


I don't want to overload you by thinking there are lots of different arts to learn. Quite the opposite - we may well only use 10% of an art like panatukan at a certain level, but we will use it to bridge the gap between boxing and Wing chun and knife to empty hand.

Weapons systems and how they fit together at STMA

Our core weapons system is Kali/Esrkima. This involves training in the single and double sticks.

For double stick we move into the drills from Krabi Krabong, the weapons art of Thailand, and the concepts from nitto kenjutsu, the Japanese art of fighting with two swords.

For single stick we use largo and serrada drills from two ranges, as well as cover corto drills for hubud and lox, as well as how to use grappling range and go to ground range.

We also cover Okinawan kobudo weapons of nuncha and tonfa at serrada range and move largo range into longer weapons bokken, hanbo, jo, bo and spear.

STMA is not one style, it is a system of many styles, and we use a core art to develop skills and drills from other methods.

Weapons sparring

We have now started regular single stick and double stick sparring using the semi free format which exends from the give and take largo drill.

Sparring, once regular, will extend to nunchaku, then sword, and staff, for those who have those weapons.

STMA sessions

Weapons on Wednesdays:

Sticks single and double
Largo stick
Bokken
Hanbo
Jo
Bo
Nuncha
Tonfa


Impact on Thursdays:

Boxing on focus pads
Karate sets on focus pads
Kicks on shield
Thai sets on Thai pads


Sparring:

Boxing
Kickboxing
Thai
Points karate
Freestyle karate
Chi sao
Stick
Nuncha

The 3 phases of weapons training

As I said in class there are 3 phases to weapons training, as there are for kb:

Suburi - solo drills
Kumi - partner drills
Sparring

Obviously sparring brings it all out in real time and it is important to have the proper PPE so as not to hurt each other while "keeping it real".

There will be much more weapons development on Wed sessions.

Rapid Assault Tactics

This is a Feng Wei module that functionalises Applied Fighting Arts for the Street.

The Fence and KO punch

Interception set

Jab loop drill as an Entry

Jik Chun Choy straight blast

Basic traps with lop sao and pak sao

HKE - Head, knee, elbow

Shime - shokes with gi and "hadaka" no gi

This is use of boxing, Wing Chun, Kali, Thai, and Jujutsu in an uninterrupted "auto transmission" (no "gear changes") flow.

When you first start applying different arts it's like changing gear on a car. Dump the clutch, put the vehicle in "boxing" and that's what you're in. You need to change gear to "Wing Chun" and then to "Jujutsu".

The training we do in the flow makes it an automatic transmission - you change "gears" automatically beneath the surface without conscious direct effort.

kit order

All members are required to have the basic kit for training, which means the starter pack of gloves and stix.

If you already have your own gloves, you still need stix.

Also consider the recommended list for things you don't have but might want to get into.

Do you have the "uniform" of boxing boots and and gi pants?
Or are you still making do with trainers and track pants?

Do you have a judo gi for grappling work?

Do you want to get into more sparring with shinguards and a groinguard?

Do you want harder contact sparring so will want boxing gloves, gumshield and headgear?
Perhaps you like the grill headgear that Ren and I use?

Do you want more weapons? Sword, jo, bo? Nuncha, tonfa? Shinai? And are your stix coming up for replacement yet?

We recommend everybody gets their own focus pads. Do you have yours?
Do you want your own kick shield and/or Thai pads?

Get your orders in and make sure you ae fully equipped!

Interception

This is done against any kind of attack at the Entry phase.

STOP HIT
Against a wide hook punch we intercept with a STOP HIT to the face.
This can be a Choy blast, power jab, or eye jab

KEN KUDAKI
Against a closed line punch, such as jab or cross, we INTECEPT the punch allowing it to run into the elbow, breaking the attacker's hand.

KICKS
Against an attacker who steps forward, we kick the shin of the lead leg as soon as it comes into range - longest weapon to closest target.
This can be a boot cap or side of shoe to the shin or knee, or a round kick to yako or fukato point on the leg.

Against a wide round kick we can intercept by kicking the groin or supporting leg.

Against a puncher we just drift back to kick range, out of range of his punch, and kick the lead leg or groin.

WE do NOT do these moves in sparring, these are Street Combat moves.

Interception in sparring is done with straight lead punch or kick to the body, and done safely.

Sparring at STMA

We now regularly cover:

With PPE:
Kickboxing
Boxing
Thai boxing
Freestyle karate

No pads:
Traditional points karate
Wing Chun Chi sao

weapons kumite:
single stick
double sticks
nunchaku

special sessions:
Grappling
Vale Tudo

Sparring at STMA

We now regularly cover:

Kickboxing
Boxing
Thai boxing
Freestyle karate
Chi sao

less regular:

Grappling
Vale Tudo

we are bringing in:
karate kumite
weapons kumite starting with single stick

Weapons sparring

Following the demo that Tork and I gave at the end 2009 session, we will be starting regular stick sparring starting this week.

As usual, the seniors will spar first with myself, then each other, and we'll filter it down through the grades.

We are basing this on largo give and take drill into semi free to free sparring. Later we'l bring in the use of serrada drills and work on closing down the ranges.

Freestyle karate set 3 and 4

Set 3

j - ura - gz
ura - gz
gz - ura
gz - j - gz
Gz - r haito
- henka "drive by"
- henka g, h, maw, ura

ura - gz - r maw
gz - r maw - gz


Set 4

kek - ura
r maw - ura
mae - ura
maw - ura

Freestyle karate set 2

Jab, gz, maw
Jab, gz, rear maw

These are first done static, then wth the holder moving back to kick range before presenting the pad for the kick. This is to develop distance and timing.

As you need to work these static, then with the step, and on both sides, it's a complete set and quite a good round.

Boxing Set 2

Double jab entry
J, C entry
long cross
J, C - H, RH, U
J, C - U, RU, H
J, C, H, RU, C