WOD:
FMA
Athletes:
Jack
Greg
More fun and games with sticks. Greg and I worked on a passing and counter drill which helped with setting distance and moving off angle. Greg is still a bit robotic in his movements, most likely due to his previous traditional karate training. We're working on getting him to be a little more relaxed, a little smoother, a little more efficient. Movement performed while striking, if done without sacrificing balance, is essentially free. If such movement allows you to move towards zero pressure, why not take the opportunity?
The next part progression was dropping the sticks and moving to empty hand. By using the same principles and tightening up the movements we improved perceived speed. Huh? Here's the deal, if you manage you range and keep movements nice and tight, there's less telegraphing and the distances become slightly shorter since the strikes become very direct, this gives your adversary less time to react thus creating the perception of speed. If they're continually behind the curve and forced to react to short and tight strikes, everything look like it's happening very, very fast.
We've always heard that smooth is fast, which is true. I would also add that direct is fast, so why not put the two together?
Shakespeare's famous quote was, of course, based on commonplace observation.
Posted by: Supra Shoes | 04/28/2011 at 01:38 AM