YHC looks forward to Friday mornings. It brings out the best (or maybe worst) in YHC. But watching these fine men train and push to learn more to improve not only themselves but each other is a wonder to behold. OK, enough of the mushy stuff. We welcomed London Whale to Fightclub this morning. He was eager to learn and has heavier hand than Motorboat,,, and that is saying a lot. He will certainly cause some damage if it becomes necessary use this stuff. Today we practiced what has been learned for the past few weeks. Repeating the drllls is important to train the body to respond automatically without much thought regarding the why. One thing that always occurs during an unsolicted attack is the victim (victim because he isnt fighting back effectively) always and I mean always asks the same dumb question,,,,, why are you doing this. It doesnt matter why it is happening, it matters that it IS happening and that you need to repsond immediately and effectively. If your mind takes time to question" why" and then tries to figure out "what" is happening it will be too late. So, our responses must be trained in to us and be at the ready for retreival without notice. This occurs, as I have stated before, by repeated drills. At the present time the drills are being done at about 1/5 the normal speed, the next part of training is the "timing". Just like hitting a baseball, you must eventually practice hitting a bal thrown at full speed. So we will keep increasing the speed until the hand eye coordination can function at real time speeds.
The addition of the leg taps to the basic hand attacks has proven to be affective but confusing. This will resolve itself once we dont have to think about every component as it is being performed. Motorboat brought up a good point about covering the off hand as we move in after a strike. Yes, we cover it as you explained but we can control it by trapping to the outside or inside depending on the movement of the subjects body. YHC is not being cryptic, but will go further. After the initial attack the off side hand is a danger and it is typically trained to move on a center line attack trapping this hand to the outside,, but today we trained to move in on anagular attack after we strike. The subject will fade back and his hands will move toward the center allowing us to trap (control) this hand to the inside to continue the attack. We then move laterally with an outside trap to the initial hand to finish the first part (of three) of the attack. Moving in battle is very important and this drilll trains us in three important directional moves,,, straightline, angular and lateral. the mixing of these directional moves becomes important,,,, as does the placement of the feet for control and trapping. Striking just becomes incidental to the battle. Striking actually becomes a part of the entire move and not the main focus. Understanding this will open the door to a large variety of attacks and wont limit us to a preconceived notion of what is going to happen and where the subject will be. At first this freedom may cause us to be tentative,, until we remember to just move and the proper strike will present itself.
Thank you for allowing me to train with you fine men.