Reflex Action Training Drills
The video is very informative. it is a tutorial of reflex action training drill to fighting skills with Bob Orlando. This video specially teaches skills of Kilap hands, block left. In this video, Bob makes it clear that his training partner is not an opponent. The difference is intent. A true opponent wants to hurt and hence the movements and intents are different. This very important thing helps the viewer to differentiate easily.
The exhibition of skill is unique. Systematic display of positions will certainly help anyone to defend himself from common assault. The last thing, which Bob says, is most important. He says that you need to do this with speed. If you try to do this with power, you are going to fail miserably. Point to be noted!
This drill is our most important because it handles the most common type of assault. A cross-angle, hooking, right punch to the head. It is also important because it is atomic or elemental to the other drills. This means that you’ll see its movement used in the more complex, molecular drills.
Before going further, let’s make something perfectly clear. My training partner is not an opponent. The difference is intent. My opponent wants to hurt me. My partner seeks to help me. I am not trying to hurt my partner but to help him. The same is true and with regard to me. That’s it, there is still an inherit degree of discomfort in the practice of this or any drill. It’s not a marshal art unless there is some whacking going on. But you have to have balance. It’s a balancing act between play safely and playing as realistically as possible. Now, lets break down Kilap hands number 1, block left.
Kilap pants block left, uses double-handed block. One, two. Now you might ask why uses one, two. Simply put it’s faster. Any arm that’s strong and a traverse this distance and still move the arm is inherently slow. It’s slow because it has to cover a bigger distance, its slow because of the strength or energy that’s needed to accomplish the block in a single motion. All this is going to do is to sweep it up and then check right here. Now it’s called block left by the way because I am blocking to my left. Anything that goes in this direction, from my orientation is to my left and to the right what we call block right.
Here we’re using block left. One, two. These ar… these take much less time then that stronger tensed arm because you can have the very tensed arm during the jab here but it’s going to be very slow. You can think of this is a jack hammer approach to blocking. Baboom. One, two. One, two. So, that’s what you’re trying to do with this. Block left, elope hands. Very fast, one, two.
We think about deflecting an attack, how much is enough, is that a good block? Oh, sure. Is this? Ya, how about this, or is this? All of these are good. But do I really need to have the weapon way over here? Probably not. The whole idea is to save your face. The further out that you move, the further back you have to come. If I get my hand over here, has to respond from here. If my hand is here, it only has to respond from here. Now, the initial deflection is should be full bore. Full speed, no braking, slam into the opposite shoulder.
When I pick this up, that’s what I’m going to do. If you’re doing this right with your partner, know he’s your partner, it’ll make his hand red. Should make his hand red. I’m not reaching out with this. This one’s near.
Ok? If I’m meaning rightly as I’m here, this hand can reach out from here to here. I’ve got plenty of range, pick up whatever I want. But I going to tackle this one here short, covering short distance. I’m not going to focus on his hand up. I’ve got two coming through, one, two.
There’s no focus on the hand, it’s the sweep the area, I want to focus on sweeping. It’s done as a slap, because this is faster than any other movement you’re going to make with this hand. And anyone can do this. As long as you relax, however if you try to do this with speed. If you try to do this with power, you’re going to fail miserably. You really need to relax because you really need speed. One, two.
Tags: mixed martial arts in canton ms, kimbo slice mma, Mixed Martial Arts Academy Portland Maine, martial arts fights, Mental benefits of martial arts, mma linker, mixed martial arts fighter sponsorships