One of the hallmarks of many FMA systems is “flow” drills: any drill, symmetric or asymmetric where two practitioners move smoothly (and sometimes with astonishing speed) from one position to another, offering offence, counter-offence and re-counters. Many of these drills start off with a prescribed set of movements, but all build towards a student developing “flow”: performing the above, but with no set series of motions. It is not sparring, nor is it like boxing focus mitt work; I am challenged to think of a good corollary in other systems (which is not to say none exist!).<\/p>\n
A common criticism of these drills is that they lack “realism”. Why spend valuable training time doing something that does not mimic how people — trained or untrained — actually fight?<\/p>\n
Tuhon Leslie Buck shares his thoughts on some of the problems with flow drills, and offers perspectives on how to use them effectively in your FMA practice: http:\/\/store.kaligear.com\/blog\/putting-the-function-back-into-your-flow-drills\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" One of the hallmarks of many FMA systems is “flow” drills: any drill, symmetric or asymmetric where two practitioners move smoothly (and sometimes with astonishing speed) from one position to another, offering offence, counter-offence and re-counters. Many of these drills start off with a prescribed set of movements, but all build towards a student developing “flow”: performing the above, but with no set series of motions. It is not sparring, nor is it like boxing focus mitt work; I am challenged to think of a good corollary in other systems Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7202,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[63,5,39],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/maelstromcore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7535"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/maelstromcore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/maelstromcore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/maelstromcore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/maelstromcore.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7535"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/maelstromcore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7537,"href":"http:\/\/maelstromcore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7535\/revisions\/7537"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/maelstromcore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/maelstromcore.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/maelstromcore.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/maelstromcore.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}