Brad Souders
01-05-2004, 10:52 AM
Here are some of my personal favorite drills. Both striking and grappling.
1. Peeks – a – boo with focus mitts: Start of with your basic jab cross combo. After the cross connects the holder throws a backhand with the mitt you jabbed to show a hook. Duck the punch and step to a 45-degree angle. As your coming a cross the holder drops the mitt hit with a cross stomach level. Here would lead into three combos we use:
A. Hook lower ribs – Hook upper ribs – Hook head
B. Hook lower ribs – uppercut chin – Hook head
C. Hook lower ribs – Hook head
All these combos should be thrown like a chain gun. BANG BANG BANG
2. Thai kick to takedown with Thai shield on one hand and focus mitt on other: Hang the Thai shield in front of your front leg thigh and the focus mitt head high. Striker starts off with two stiff jabs to get the person to move backwards. (Use forward sliding footwork to press the person into stepping back) Then throw a rear Thai roundhouse kick into thigh. Mitt holder then throws a cross with the mitt and toward your face (most common counter strike to a round house kick) absorb this shot by tucking your chin and bringing your forearms together. After the shot lands fire back a jab-cross combo then the holder swipes the focus mitt as a hook. Duck under the hook and shoot in for a double leg.
3. One person with boxing gloves the other with no gloves: Here the purpose of the guy with boxing gloves is to stay on his feet and stop from being taken down while striking with punches, kicks, light knees and elbows. The other partner’s job is to defend from getting hit while trying to tie up or take down the other person. Once the fight hits the ground stand back up and continues. When training for a competition I like to also set a rule where the guy taking down cannot do a takedown till an appointed corner man tells him to. That way he learns to know where he is at all times and how to listen to a corner man during the heat of combat confusion.
4. MMA type gloves or no gloves: Here you start in a clinch. Each person is working different grips in a clinch and looking for a takedown or throw. Each person can also lightly strike. If there is a takedown or break from the clinch, tie up and begin again.
5. Ground: Starting in bad positions with the guy in the dominant position trying for submissions while the other guy’s job is to survive and escape. Once you escape or there is a tap begin again.
6. Guard: Guy on bottom defends getting his guard passed but is not allowed to use his hands. Guy on top is allowed any guard pass but isn’t allowed any leg locks. This trains the bottom guy to use his hips and the top guy to work different guard passes.
7. Environment training: Example we used was in our old building there was a hallway into our bathroom. One guy would go back into the bathroom and the rest of the class would set up different settings in the hallway. Sometimes you would come out to one guy standing there and nothing would happen at all. To getting jumped by three or four guys. Your only job was to escape from that hallway using whatever there was and even if not everyone was down. Just get out with your life and o BTW if a guy doesn’t attack from the front watch your back J
Hope you enjoyed some of our training stuff.
Brad Souders
1. Peeks – a – boo with focus mitts: Start of with your basic jab cross combo. After the cross connects the holder throws a backhand with the mitt you jabbed to show a hook. Duck the punch and step to a 45-degree angle. As your coming a cross the holder drops the mitt hit with a cross stomach level. Here would lead into three combos we use:
A. Hook lower ribs – Hook upper ribs – Hook head
B. Hook lower ribs – uppercut chin – Hook head
C. Hook lower ribs – Hook head
All these combos should be thrown like a chain gun. BANG BANG BANG
2. Thai kick to takedown with Thai shield on one hand and focus mitt on other: Hang the Thai shield in front of your front leg thigh and the focus mitt head high. Striker starts off with two stiff jabs to get the person to move backwards. (Use forward sliding footwork to press the person into stepping back) Then throw a rear Thai roundhouse kick into thigh. Mitt holder then throws a cross with the mitt and toward your face (most common counter strike to a round house kick) absorb this shot by tucking your chin and bringing your forearms together. After the shot lands fire back a jab-cross combo then the holder swipes the focus mitt as a hook. Duck under the hook and shoot in for a double leg.
3. One person with boxing gloves the other with no gloves: Here the purpose of the guy with boxing gloves is to stay on his feet and stop from being taken down while striking with punches, kicks, light knees and elbows. The other partner’s job is to defend from getting hit while trying to tie up or take down the other person. Once the fight hits the ground stand back up and continues. When training for a competition I like to also set a rule where the guy taking down cannot do a takedown till an appointed corner man tells him to. That way he learns to know where he is at all times and how to listen to a corner man during the heat of combat confusion.
4. MMA type gloves or no gloves: Here you start in a clinch. Each person is working different grips in a clinch and looking for a takedown or throw. Each person can also lightly strike. If there is a takedown or break from the clinch, tie up and begin again.
5. Ground: Starting in bad positions with the guy in the dominant position trying for submissions while the other guy’s job is to survive and escape. Once you escape or there is a tap begin again.
6. Guard: Guy on bottom defends getting his guard passed but is not allowed to use his hands. Guy on top is allowed any guard pass but isn’t allowed any leg locks. This trains the bottom guy to use his hips and the top guy to work different guard passes.
7. Environment training: Example we used was in our old building there was a hallway into our bathroom. One guy would go back into the bathroom and the rest of the class would set up different settings in the hallway. Sometimes you would come out to one guy standing there and nothing would happen at all. To getting jumped by three or four guys. Your only job was to escape from that hallway using whatever there was and even if not everyone was down. Just get out with your life and o BTW if a guy doesn’t attack from the front watch your back J
Hope you enjoyed some of our training stuff.
Brad Souders