DISCUSSION

Lever Systems and Pivot Control:

Muscles are important, the fact that we can stand up requires the use of muscles. However, choosing what muscles to tense up when requires a good understanding of body mechanics as well as psycho-mechanics. Today we reviewed the differences in various delivery systems like pushing with just the rear leg, initiating from the back leg and finished via the leading leg, simply sinking forward, etc.

Synchronization of body parts:

One of the most common mistakes is that each body part becomes a stand alone engine: For example, arm moved and then step and then turn is quite different from moving the fingers, stepping and turning the body all in the same beat. Yes, it does take lots of practice with a partner as well as training by yourself.

Crash Mechanics:

When your opponent loses balance and fall towards you, if you leverage off his forward momentum and your strike, you can produce a significant impact, much more than what you can produce using just your arm. You can even amplify that impact more by using your entire body behind the strike AND yanking him towards you hit.

SCENARIOS

The 5 wrist grabs and escapes review

The list of grabs are:

• low across thumbs up grab
• low across overhand grab
• low same side grab
• high across grab
• high same side grab

We reviewed the escape techniques to get out and regain control without fighting muscles against muscles..

EXERCISES

Same as last week. We will be doing more conditioning and pad work next session.

SIDE NOTES

This is the last class for the winter session. I hope you have enjoyed the classes and have picked up something useful. Do practice by yourself. Will hope to see most of you back the spring session April 2nd, 2026.