Flow Drills
February 10, 2008 by Bob Patterson
For the next two months in the Monday night advanced class I’m going to be teaching sabum boxing drills. Once again I get the chance to teach and more importantly, doing this forces me to look at taekwondo from another perspective.
The man things we are going to work on were outlined in this post. Both the rope drill and focus mitt drill can be built up until I have her throwing all boxing punches. Then we can work on speed, fluidity, non-telegraphing etc. These techniques are also good because they will teach her how to punch in a way that taekwondoists normally do not punch. We also might do some light sparring but we really don’t have the gear for that. So, I’m looking for a third activity to fill the hour and I was thinking about dusting off flow drills again. I tried this last summer but I think I made them too complicated.
I was perusing the internet and happened upon this series which I really like:
The guy in the video appears to be a Jeet Kune Do guy. However, the first two come straight from Wing Chun and I have done them before. What I have not seen or done is hubud or the clinch drill. In addition, at the end of the video he strings them all together into one long drill which is dynamic and non-telegraphed. Very realistic and very good applications here for in-close fighting.
So, I borrowed Mrs. Patterson and dusted off the first three drills. She is not a martial artist and I had her doing them (sorta) so sabum will have no problem. If we get a routine going then I might try the clinch drill. It looks pretty simple and has lots of practical applications. What I like best about this series is that the trainer mentions that you can flow into techniques from your particular martial art. I already see openings for some techniques that come from our one-steps and self-defense steps so this should be fun.
~BCP
Love it.
We have worked with Lapsau but not Hubud as much. I’ll do it again tonight.
We have a similar drill I will try to video, a hand pattern like these but for aquiring joint locks. I’ll try to prepare for the video, my newcomputer still doesn’t have all the software I need loaded yet.
D.R.
Chi sao and lap sao rocked. They were rusty but really fun. Hubud I’ve not done and can’t find a video slow enough that can teach us.
We had a drill called palm and snakes which is very similar. I taught that last night and will blog about it.
~BCP
[...] taught her chi sao and lap sao (noted in previous post) and also taught her something called the snake and palm drill. I’m not sure if the latter [...]
You are right, the hubud they do is so fast I almost didn’t recognize, but we do the same drill slightly differently. Worked all three last night, including the clinch. It was great. I would like to see a video of your palm and snake block drill.
D.R.