Training and practicing the preventive measures and the releases against different grabs. The defender doesn’t know which grabs…
P2 Training Program
Training and practicing the preventive measures and the releases against different grabs. The defender doesn’t know which grabs…
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Training and practicing the preventive measures and the releases against different grabs. The defender doesn’t know which grabs and which attacks the attacker will do on him. Your eyes are open and when you see the attacker approaches with aggressive attitudes and with the attacking actions, respond efficiently with preventive measures, with the occasional block, with defending, with counterattacking, and if the attacker reached and managed to grab you, naturally you have to do the appropriate release technique. For every technique you should do defense, counterattacks, move away from danger zone, scanning the area, et cetera.
To better work on your decision making under stress and surprise situations now the defender is with the eyes closed. The moment that you have been grabbed and as soon as possible respond with the appropriate technique. You should be able to identify which attack you have been grabbed with from which direction and respond with the appropriate release and counterattacks. As you do that, you act while opening your eyes, so while looking you should do your counterattacks. In reality, you should very much practice about preventing the attacker from grabbing you. Here, because your eyes are closed, the attacker managed to grab you, so you are definitely in the line of acting under the situation of surprise, working on your decision making process under stress.
To simulate a situation that either your eyes have been hurt or the area is completely dark, we are training with cover on the eyes, or really in a very dark area. Here the idea is to work relatively slow to avoid injuries. The moment you have been grabbed you have to identify without any vision, without any ability to see which direction is the attacker coming from, which attack is he using, which grab is he applying on you, make the release as soon as you can, do the counterattacks with the care that you do not hit your partner. Here you should develop some sort of an anatomical vision, meaning the moment you touch the attacker, the moment you touch his hand or his shoulder, the moment you hit once then it’s very clear for you where all the other parts of the body of the opponents are, so then you have to stay relatively close to the opponent and be able to do more counterattacks while not relieving the contact.
A. Circular Strikes Hooks (Roundhouses) & Uppercuts
Notes: Start drilling both strikes first from a semi-passive stance, then from a ready stance; for the hooks, while in ready stance the front-hand strike has two variations.
D. Kicks
E. Series of Attacks – to the front, side and rear; with different targets, heights and angles
F. Inside Defenses with Palm or Forearm Against Straight Punches
G. Outside Defenses Against Punches
H. Body Defense with Hand Strike to Groin
I. Defending Against an Opponent Attacking from Different Angles
J. Leg Defenses Against Kicks [from passive and ready ('outlet') stances]
Note: Technique no.1 is first applied against regular kicks and later against roundhouse and sidekicks. Techniques 3 and 4 are used against an attack delivered to an unknown height. Use the forearm as previously learned, bony or muscular parts for inside or outside defenses.
K. Choke Releases (including Distance Timeline)
Note: When lack of force, use two hands to remove one of attacker's chocking hand.
L. Defenses Against a Knife Threat (including Distance Timeline)
N. Choke Releases While on the Ground
O. Using Common Objects – Small Objects to Distract
Note: This is used primarily in a situation before an actual attack is made, mainly during the threat stage or in the very early stages of an attack.
Q. Returning Attacker (defend -- attack -- defend)
1. Releases