Most of us have been doing this for years - but I, for one, have never really had a formal way of teaching folks. I've always only showed what works best for me.
I'm not going to try and recreate their lesson - wouldn't work well in this format and you should have been at camp.
Roy and Dave also had some great ideas and great drills to use the bags very interactively to allow for some entry level experience of a non-compliant partner including:
-having the partner holding the bag take one or more steps in with the back when you strike or kick
-partner lies on ground with the bag under their belly - they then roll to one side and present the bag as a low kicking target
They also preferred working groups in threes. One holder, one hitter, one spotter.
And one of the best tips they offered for training low kicks involved holding the bag in two different ways. One with the front leg knee bent forward over the toes and the other with the bag holding person turning around and putting the bag against the back of the leg so that when they got kicked the force could move through the leg with the knee bending the way it was meant to bend.
If Dave and Roy made an e-book for bag holding skills I bet it'd sell quite well. I'd buy one. Even better if it could be set up as some kind of CEU where the person could take an online test at the end and get some kind of "bag training" certification. Especially as kicking shields are some of the most often used accessories in the dojo.
