Interesting week

This month we spent some time studying the 3-point cover, posting and over-hooking the arm, various take downs and self defense applications from that position.

This included tie ups and control positions for restraining an aggressor when striking is not appropriate.

While it is interesting, it is important to realise that it requires many hours of drills, live sparring to be able to execute these skills to a high level (lucky for boxing gloves) so the plan is to integrate more of this material this year.

Earlier this week, we did some exercises and drills to help the team learn about sprawling effectively and the various set ups and counters, leg positions for an effective sprawl. I understand that this is pretty new ground for many of the team but we've got to start somewhere.

We did basic clinching from the referee position and also for neck-tie position.

In addition to the self defense applications, we also covered striking without the comfort of boxing gloves, switching to grappling gloves for this study.

This week we looked at striking from a clinch, the high percentage striking methods including takedowns.


When put together it was a lot of fun for all involved. No injuries, just high intensity sparring and drills.











As we covered a fair amount of material I'll be going over the techniques again next month and adding details as we go along. This way for the people who have already done the techniques, they can improve their skills while for the newbie it's plenty enough to keep them busy.

Things to get: Headguard, shin pads and MMA gloves if you don't already have them.