Description

Runtime:  3 hours

We recorded an open session in May 2019 that is packed with information and demonstration. The session focuses on tactical application of alignment principles. Some of the topics covered are:

• Hand adjustments for hitting from bad positions
• Hips not knees as the basis for movement
• Economy & necessity of delivering from everyday
  positions
• Why you shouldn’t spend time organising your position
• Exploiting the evolutionary relationship between the hand and
  the tool
• Walking and switch steps: natural references
• Three-dimensional movement problems, three-dimensional
  solutions
• Simple ways of activating glutes and spinal engine
• How to leave the hand out for follow-up to a shot
• Being wary of biases introduced by bagwork
• Rethinking the concepts of range & tempo: everyday life
  and the street
• How to go backwards
• Folding and falling
• Vocalization, core, emotional intent, and timing
• Shit on a stick principle
• Training on failure
• Loaded covers & repurposing movement
• Simulate the event, not the move
• Ordering as a whole
• Long arm and everything you can use it for
• Keeping your hand in: affordances & adaptability
• How to go forward
• Neural tricks to optimise visual input, hand speed, and punch delivery
• Positioning and development of entries, including use of the head, body leverage, and knife consideration
• Head/hips hinge
• Pushing back off your opponent
• Head as hunter, head as bait
• Hitting off a turning door
• Defence going backward
• ‘Butcher drill’ unpacked
• Psychological tricks for knife defence
• Simulation drills for neural prep
• Grips and how to use them in context
• ‘Going round Tesco’s’ principle
• Permutations on escaping grabs and grips
• CNS loading strategies
• Default noncompliance
• Positioning for optimal line of sight
• ‘Bullfighter Drill’
• Sword and buckler approach
• Running position principle
• Sinking the fist
• Hip-fist connection and tests
• Percussive exchanges

* Digital is not instant. We will contact you with download information within a day or two. Sorry, no DVD version available for this title.