Evening all
Apologies for not getting this on sooner.
Beginners
I'm very happy with how you are all progressing. Please try to get a little practice in outside of class if you can. Don't let a kettle boil without doing a little footwork!
Now you've started to hit the pads, the tendency is to forget your basic approach to the first hit. Remember the key is to not load your shot so no drawing back or pre clenching of the fist and finish your shot with good balance and weight distribution. Your power and accuracy will develop over time. At the moment you should be looking for the maximum power that still hits the dot of the pad. Build your power up over every rep and the second you miss you need to slow it back down again.
Your hand drills are great and as we now begin to incorporate some footwork, it will continue to push you. Just try to stay relaxed so you can really get a feel for the flowing nature of the style.
Main Class
Remember your mouth guards please as we're sparring at the moment. Of course sparring has limitations but you should remember the 80/20 rule. Spend 80 percent of the time working to improve your instinctive responses and combinations. Spend the other 20 percent upping the pace to see where you are at. Most people tend to do it the other way round. They start off well and try and work things, get hit and then think hang it lets have a tear up! Trust me please and take the pace out of it. Go at a rate where you can change your instinctive reactions.
Should be a good class tomorrow so have a nice night and see you all in the morning.
Friday, 26 February 2010
Saturday, 6 February 2010
Feb week 1 class notes
Good Evening everyone
Below are the class notes from the weeks training.
Beginners
Really great to get the opportunity to work with you all.
Punches
See if you can find the time to practice your punches before next week even if it's just a bit of time spent finding your perfect fist. Remember it's the tightest fist you can have without tension in the forearm. The power comes from being relaxed and shooting forwards in a straight line. Use a mirror to ensure your fist travels through and not down at the end of the movement.
Pre Fight
It's all about understanding the language of range and not allowing someone to enter the space where they can hit you without any warning. The bone of your rear arms forearm should be facing their chin (just like an arrow). Stay relaxed but ready to launch forwards and hit without warning. The first time your attacker should be aware that you intend to fight back is after you have hit them!
Energy Drill
Let your arm be pulled. Someone can only apply their strength if you give them something to apply their strength against. Keep your movements small and relaxed. Keep in mind that we are aiming to beat bigger, stronger people. The pathway to achieving this is to learn to let go of the instinct to fight everything that someone is trying to do to you. In your early stages of training, i would reccommend complete relaxation and slowly I will bring some energy into your arms at the right time.
Good job everyone and i'm looking forwards to next week when you start hitting the pads!
Main Class
The theme is still effective strikes. You need to constantly question if your hits are going to do the job or are just simply going to touch your opponents face. You all know how it feels when you hit with power on the pads. This is your reference for all your strikes. To hit requires your arm to extend so it better be worth it or expect that counter over the top.
Get the reps in with your pistons, arm drags and hits through the centre. Reps reps reps!!!
Keep punching
Martin
Below are the class notes from the weeks training.
Beginners
Really great to get the opportunity to work with you all.
Punches
See if you can find the time to practice your punches before next week even if it's just a bit of time spent finding your perfect fist. Remember it's the tightest fist you can have without tension in the forearm. The power comes from being relaxed and shooting forwards in a straight line. Use a mirror to ensure your fist travels through and not down at the end of the movement.
Pre Fight
It's all about understanding the language of range and not allowing someone to enter the space where they can hit you without any warning. The bone of your rear arms forearm should be facing their chin (just like an arrow). Stay relaxed but ready to launch forwards and hit without warning. The first time your attacker should be aware that you intend to fight back is after you have hit them!
Energy Drill
Let your arm be pulled. Someone can only apply their strength if you give them something to apply their strength against. Keep your movements small and relaxed. Keep in mind that we are aiming to beat bigger, stronger people. The pathway to achieving this is to learn to let go of the instinct to fight everything that someone is trying to do to you. In your early stages of training, i would reccommend complete relaxation and slowly I will bring some energy into your arms at the right time.
Good job everyone and i'm looking forwards to next week when you start hitting the pads!
Main Class
The theme is still effective strikes. You need to constantly question if your hits are going to do the job or are just simply going to touch your opponents face. You all know how it feels when you hit with power on the pads. This is your reference for all your strikes. To hit requires your arm to extend so it better be worth it or expect that counter over the top.
Get the reps in with your pistons, arm drags and hits through the centre. Reps reps reps!!!
Keep punching
Martin
Friday, 29 January 2010
Immovable elbows, arm drags and traffic jams!
Morning everyone
Great lesson last night with everyone working hard. Good to see King Kev and Susan back from their extended new year break (some of you are still on it. Get back to class!).
The demo couldn't of got off to a worse start with me arriving late after sitting in traffic on the M25 for an hour. Still i made it eventually and the group that was waiting for me seemed like a nice bunch and i'm sure will make for a fun new beginners group.
Once the demo was finished we moved onto your lesson. As you can tell I'm a big fan of the immovable elbow when used against an opponent knocking your arm out of the way. It's a simple yet effective way of taking an opponents power and adding it to your own. Just remember when practicing it in class to not hit over the ear as a perforated ear drum is not a pleasant phenomenom! Practice freeing your elbow joints too so your rotation from the shoulder is as little as possible. This keeps the hit tight, fast and powerful. We're going to rep this quite a bit over the next few weeks so it becomes an instinctive part of your pre fight routine.
Onto arm drags. Alot of you have put a fair bit of time into training these now and you should be actively attempting these when sparring. Just remember that the key is a smooth movement where both arms work together. Obviously with any action where you are using your two arms on one of theirs, the energy and timing must be correct or they get free hits on your chin! Once you have them turned you need to be on them quick with either effective striking or using the momentum gained in the arm drag to complete a take down, control position, etc.
Nice work on the pads everyone. We're slowly getting the christmas rust off.
Have fun and see you all tomorrow.
Never ever stop punching
Martin
Great lesson last night with everyone working hard. Good to see King Kev and Susan back from their extended new year break (some of you are still on it. Get back to class!).
The demo couldn't of got off to a worse start with me arriving late after sitting in traffic on the M25 for an hour. Still i made it eventually and the group that was waiting for me seemed like a nice bunch and i'm sure will make for a fun new beginners group.
Once the demo was finished we moved onto your lesson. As you can tell I'm a big fan of the immovable elbow when used against an opponent knocking your arm out of the way. It's a simple yet effective way of taking an opponents power and adding it to your own. Just remember when practicing it in class to not hit over the ear as a perforated ear drum is not a pleasant phenomenom! Practice freeing your elbow joints too so your rotation from the shoulder is as little as possible. This keeps the hit tight, fast and powerful. We're going to rep this quite a bit over the next few weeks so it becomes an instinctive part of your pre fight routine.
Onto arm drags. Alot of you have put a fair bit of time into training these now and you should be actively attempting these when sparring. Just remember that the key is a smooth movement where both arms work together. Obviously with any action where you are using your two arms on one of theirs, the energy and timing must be correct or they get free hits on your chin! Once you have them turned you need to be on them quick with either effective striking or using the momentum gained in the arm drag to complete a take down, control position, etc.
Nice work on the pads everyone. We're slowly getting the christmas rust off.
Have fun and see you all tomorrow.
Never ever stop punching
Martin
Wednesday, 20 January 2010
You tube clips
Just a quick one to let you all know there are a few new clips on you tube that we filmed in the summer. Just log onto you tube and search for workman wing chun.
See you all tomorrow
Keep Punching!
See you all tomorrow
Keep Punching!
Monday, 18 January 2010
Our little class
First let me start by saying a big congratulations to all of you that passed your gradings last month. It was really hard going and for some it lasted over six hours. 17 out of 21 people passed and to those of you who didn't quite make it, you now have specific training goals for the next few months. I love this quote from Thomas Edison - 'I am not discouraged because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forwards.'
The new demos are at the end of the month so drag along friends and family. I hope we get another great group starting and well done to those of you who have finished the last course and have now moved up into the main class.
Finally I want to say a big thank you to all of you. I honestly believe that we have such a great group who work hard and support each other. Despite the nature of what we train is serious, we allways seem to have a good laugh and there has never been anything but genuine friendship between us all. That is all something we should be very proud of.
Keep punching
Martin
The new demos are at the end of the month so drag along friends and family. I hope we get another great group starting and well done to those of you who have finished the last course and have now moved up into the main class.
Finally I want to say a big thank you to all of you. I honestly believe that we have such a great group who work hard and support each other. Despite the nature of what we train is serious, we allways seem to have a good laugh and there has never been anything but genuine friendship between us all. That is all something we should be very proud of.
Keep punching
Martin
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