Stick to them

[Dana Sheets]

Since I cannot overpower most of my training partners. I must re-direct their power.

I cannot fight the way a Van Canna fights. So I must fight differently.

Stick to them and you will move faster than your eyes can tell you to move. Close in closer than they want you to be. Be INSIDE their power range.

Here's a drill:

stand toe to to with a partner. Put your hand on their elbow. Get them to throw several techniques at you - straight punch, round punch, elbow strike. Listen with your hand to how the eblow moves, listen to where there is resistance and where there is not resistance. Have them attack faster and punch at different areas of your body.

Now - slow everything down to slow motion. Ask them to punch to make contact (SLOW MOTION!!!) and now, when your hand tells you it can move their elbow, push. Observe what happens. Then when your hand tells you it can move their elbow in a different way, push or pull toward where you find no resistance.

Your partner will need to be skilled enough that they only engage their regular punching muscles. And must have little enough ego that they don't lock their arm in place just to "make it real" for you.

Once you can listen well with both hands, add a simultaneous counter attack with your non-listening hand at the moment you push or pull on their elbow.

(If you are much larger than your partner, put your hand on their shoulder and use your forearm to listen to their elbow)

Dana

[RA Miller]

Damn, Dana!

Don't pay attention for awhile and miss these little gems!

This is one of the big secrets of infighting, and infighting is where things happen.

A very small twist on this drill, like playing chi sao with their elbows, and you will have a huge inroad into unbalancing.

Practice this moving and you will learn to read when their foot is _about_ to move... you can anticipate almost every action.

Fantastic.
Rory

[LeeDarrow]

Dana-Sensei,

Four words about your drill:

BE YOU TEE FULL!

Respectfully,

Lee Darrow, C.Ht.

[candan]

Dana

tried it tonight in class as a cool down (was unsure how it actually worked) It worked and we played with it Drills that allow you to feel what the body is doing is always a plus.