Beginners

Today we started with a quick review doing kicks, punches, and blocks.

Afterwards, we got into some basic self defense techniques. Including defense from a simple wrist grab.

Wrist Grab defense: turn your grabbed hand into a fist. Turn the hand palm up facing you. Grab your attacked hand with the other hand and step and pull back towards you.

Choke hold: Throw your hands up in the air above their elbows, step back, twist and turn away from them

Choke hold: Push in the adams apple with your two fingers twist and turn.

Bear hug: Stomp the foot, pinch, and knee to the groin and palm heel strike to the face.

We ended it with ippon #1 and ippon #2. Read a couple postings below to see the steps for ippon #1.
Remember that ippon #2 has a hammer fist instead of a shuto (knife strike). Thats the only difference.
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Advanced

Today we had a small class but you guys learned a lot and im proud of how fast you improved over the last 2 weeks with your kicks. If you missed class, sorry it was an amazing class with plenty to learn.

We went over some some knee strikes including sideways and front ways driving upwards toward your oppenent to help with your kicks. Also we worked on rechambering your kick and executing a “hard” driven kick first AND SECOND KICK without dropping your chamber, knee, or foot by rechambering it a few inches behind your original chamber after you executed your first kick. This is tricky, so if you have time practice it.

Another drill we worked on was using the elbows on the bags going side ways and diagonal. The thing we focused on was using your body to pivot into the move and elbow and getting your power from behind in the twist. This led us to do a mini drill on pivoting and timing for 5 minutes among the kiba, front stance, and 45.

Finally we combined the kicks, knees, and elbows in a final walking drill. Kick through step down and drive the elbow to the other opponent on the right or left side depending on which foot you land with. Good job everyone!