- Summer term 2015
- Topic: Harder, Faster, Better (Smarter)… with Kicks
- Developing power and speed with familiar techniques, adding kicking, fighting smarter
- Speed, power, refinement, practical applications – and kicks
- Bridge: Daga counter-cutting phases, sinawali, 64 Attacks
- Attributes: Kicks and kick timing, speed striking, hitting with power, coordinating footwork
- Curriculum:
- Sinawali
- Various from last term – upper, middle, lower, single, break-out – for speed
- Speed/power striking on tires – 50+ counts in 15 seconds
- Including thrusts, punyos on tires
- Daga
- Tapping with hits, destructions and finishes
- Inserts into tapping flow – interrupts, strikes, destructions
- Bridging with tapping to counter hits, disarms, take downs
- Counter-cutting phases progression
- Phase 0 – cinqo tieres/five angles cutting
- Phase 1 – counter-cutting against five angles
- Phase 2 – counter-cut to thrust against five angles
- Phase 3 – counter-counter against Phase 2
- Phase 4 – finish to disarm/takedown
- Solo baston
- 64 Attacks drills for each segment – motivate the form properly to improve execution
- focus on whipthrust/orasson, break-in, and four walls drills
- Fencing line to disarma and take downs
- Box sumbrada (long-range dakup y punyo)
- Dakup y punyo w/ high line
- Free flow for light sparring
- Kicking (with all weapons)
- Basic kicking technique (from FMA and elsewhere)
- Roundhouse, front kick (teep), leg kicks
- Timing on kicks w.r.t. weapons (and risks therein)
- Checking legs (e.g. dance of death) in context
- Kneeing (Thai plum, thigh destructions) and clinches