During last nights meeting I was asked about our students not doing combos in sparring matches. I did not answer this, but would like to do so now. I will also demonstrate this point at the grading tonight. Students should start thinking about what we do in class - all the little building blocks. As I demonstrated with kata last night - a walking stance is a walking stance is a walking stance. The same with sparring. When we do kicking drills on the pads we are actually doing sparring drills - this is not something totally separate and stand alone on its own. The combos we do on the pads are the combos that they need to do while kicking an opponent - a combo is a combo is a combo. Example - student A has pads, student B kicks - the combo is turning kick, turning kick, back turning kick. Immediately student A drops the pads, and puts on a chest protector - student B now kicks student A - WITH THE SAME COMBO! so can you see it is not different? Students must stop thinking that everything is a separate entity on its own - sparring stands alone from fitness and pad work, katas stand alone from 3 steps or basics - and start to connect the dots. Once they start doing this, there should be no need for continuous extra classes for this and extra classes for that - this is how you train - when you kick, do 3 kicks in a combo - whether it is on a pad, in the air or on an opponent - connect the dots - the whole lot is interconnected. I will demonstrate this at the grading tonight. (And yes, Ive mentioned this before on many occasions :-) )
Posted on: Tue, 11 Mar 2014 04:16:33 +0000
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