Some footage from yesterday's seminar

Danite wrote:

Russ the Muss, I see you are a man of good judgement and discrminating taste!

cheers mate...that would make us birds of a feather

chulodog wrote:

no problem tactpro

it wasnt ment to be personal, im think your a nice guy

only the way of training remind me of some schools with teachers who never fought themselfes before.

and they are happy to aggresivly hit a pad.

but they can have difficultis doing the pad work on a fighter.

thats wy i like to train on a moving target, who can tell you where to hit, or even give an opening, and say differently, so you have to watch , think and hit, in a second, or he hits you.

im sorry man, im putting a vid online also, and you can crack me down

a student of me is getting a cam

I look forward to your videos!

One needs to be aware that people experienced at being hit e.g. boxers, will cover up and then explode out of the shell with their own hooks - anyone of which could cause a KO -and not misinterpret that state as submissiveness. Nigel Ben seemed to develop a habit of knocking people out just as he looked about to sink to the canvas. Hence the point I think being made about training on live opponents as well as pads for mechanics.

Personally, having wing chun'd and kick boxed, I wouldn't feel comfortable generally throwing more than 3 or 4 chain punches before wanting to move to control and heavy artillery. Anyone with attitude will get bored and start hitting back quite soon.

Bing_bang wrote:

One needs to be aware that people experienced at being hit e.g. boxers, will cover up and then explode out of the shell with their own hooks - anyone of which could cause a KO -and not misinterpret that state as submissiveness. Nigel Ben seemed to develop a habit of knocking people out just as he looked about to sink to the canvas. Hence the point I think being made about training on live opponents as well as pads for mechanics.

Personally, having wing chun'd and kick boxed, I wouldn't feel comfortable generally throwing more than 3 or 4 chain punches before wanting to move to control and heavy artillery. Anyone with attitude will get bored and start hitting back quite soon.

This is a very good point. Again, from the pre-emptive context, the rapid palm strikes would act as kind of pattern interruption, so hopefully this adds to him being on the back foot. But yes, if he has lots of experience in pugilism (and providing the first one or two strikes didn't cause a KO) then there's a chance he'll cover and explode back from there.

This is why we also did a few drills with those guys in how to cover up and explode from covering up against punches!

It's all fighting at the end of the day; Offence and defence. Just as any opponent has the capacity to do both things, I also teach guys how to do both

This is the problem with snippets like this from classes/workshops; it's impossible to see the bigger picture from one clip.

As for how many punches / palms I'd feel comfortable doing - it's impossible for me to say. Depends on how he responds to the first few. Based on the way I'm personally trained (not saying this is the best response in anyway) but if he DID start swinging from covering up, then I'd probably use that as an opportunity to close the gap and clinch him up.

Still, a great comment big-bang. You made an important point.

Bing bang very good point.