THINGS I LEARNT AT CMD CAMP
BJJ TERRAIN MAPPING
Go low when someone is trying to take your back.
BJJ Performance Coaching
When two outside,
KickBoxing
Combo: Jab cross, lead leg kick, cross, hook, rear leg kick
Catching kicks and throwing
Padding the kicks with opposite hand.
Disruption with hold
Catching touch and go.
Getting leg out of being kicked.
Blocking
Modified CM1 game
Sugar and Spice:
Punching while being punched, counter punch. Control of distance
Enticement
Jabbing Early
CM2:
Finding the rim, holding the rim, defense and jab as indicators
Safety jabs
Leg positioning. Clinch, controls.
Slips, ducks
Moving into CM2 after slipping/ducking
One CM2 move, then punch, max two CM2 moves before punching, if we have to do it three times, we should safety jab and circle out
Submissions that work:
Kimura, americana, reverse armbar
Straight jacket clinch
Face smash, clinch control to takedown
gable grip from necktie
T-shirt
Integration:
Elbows
X-block to defend against elbows
Forehand strikes.
Bulldoze strike
Nasty leg kicks to disrupt
Back control:
Position of hands when seatbelt
Ratchet when doing rear naked
Bow and arrow
Modified bow and arrow
arm bar from back
Two hooks in: Sink down low, extend one leg and push away the hook on that leg. Sit on the leg. Spin into him, preferrably controlling his other leg and passing the guard.
The guy was your typical Ah Beng, not very big either and had tattoos on him. He was being verbally abusive to his girlfriend but that wasn't my concern. He was kicking everything including the stair railings and walls and was obviously making a big show of his anger. There was some contact with the girlfriend but it wasn't serious. I watched him from behind and told myself that if he started hitting the girl seriously, I would intervene. He then took this large metal bar (those divider things), and lifted it to threaten to hit his girlfriend. The bar was very big and unwieldy and he didn't look like he could do much damage with it. He was probably showing off how angry and manly he was. Girlfriend ran off so she didn't look like she was in immediate danger. He then looked like he was going to throw the metal bar onto the glass doors in front of him and that's when I intervened to take the metal bar from him.
Eventually the girlfriend came to intervene and was apologizing to me. She didn't seem very upset though and looked calm as if she was used to this sort of thing. The guy had the cheek to say to the girlfriend, "See what he did to me?" as if it was the girlfriend's fault that he had been beaten up. He was still standing but demanded to know who I was. I threatened to beat him senseless. I was disappointed that he still had fight left in him. I hated his cowardice in having to know who I was so he can find me later with a weapon or his friends when I was right there in front of him ready to take him on. I shouted at him asking him if he really wanted to fight me. He walked away and in my anger and adrenaline fueled frenzy, I shouted, "Fucking coward!" to his back. Security then came but didn't do anything as the fight had ended.
My sister asked me why didn't you just get him into a lock? I said I had just assumed that he might be armed as I had stereotyped him to be a gangster. She then referred me to a book called Blink by Malcolm Gladwell, which among other things detailed the killing of a man named Amadou Diallo, where four New York policemen shot an innocent man on his doorstep 41 times, possibly due to cultural stereotypes as an example of how rapid, intuitive judgment can have disastrous effects. These same stereotypes also keep the officers alive on a day to day basis as well...An interesting discussion of this can be found here.
Friend of mine told me I shouldn't judge. I had no idea what they were arguing about and the background to his tantrum. But perhaps instead of judging him, I should have judged myself. When should we just stand by and watch? When is it not our business to act?
Jeremiah and I have been working a lot more on clinch and grappling lately and I think we finally got a hang of the scissor sweep.
Not having much of a grappling background, when I have someone in my closed guard, I usually am unsure on what to do beyond defending myself and using my legs to try and offbalance him. I knew of the scissor sweep but didn't quite understand it as it wasn't working out for me during rolling and only during drills. Jeremiah was also having similar problems and didn't seem to be generating enough power to offbalance the guy in guard.
We finally found out how to execute this to a reasonable level of proficiency and it has everything to do with the positioning of the body and utilizing body mechanics.
- Make sure to control the arm in the direction you are sweeping to prevent him from posting.
- Create a bit of space by lifting the hips up and doing a mini hip escape while unlocking your closed guard to slip your leg across the opponent's stomach with your foot locking on the side of his hip.
- The other leg is placed at the side of your opponent's leg in the direction in which you wish to sweep to.
- The body has to be inclined to the side and this is important since if your back remains flat on the ground, you'll be trying to scissor sweep just with the lateral strength of your legs which is weak. By placing your body in the same direction in which you are going to sweep to, it gives your legs much more power as it is now similiar to your walking movement in which your legs are designed to have the most power.
- Imagine using your leg on the hip to tip him to one side by pushing forward while the other leg goes backward and here you imagine sweeping his legs away with the bottom leg.
- Properly executed, you will be in mount and possibly still retaining control of an arm.
Watch Cecil Burch from the CMD Trainer's program at 1:28 onwards as a Guest instructor for SWAT Magazine TV Season 3.
- Owen is an angler/runner with counter-punching with a long reach and a loose game.
- Jeremiah is a counter puncher who hangs back and picks his punches while locking down on his defense.
- Chris is a counter puncher relying on accuracy and timing.
The Pressurer Style is recognized by strategic forward pressure. Pressurers are the battle tanks of the fighting styles; Pressurers have presence, guts and are fearless. They know how to control space between them selves and their opponents and are always poised to take advantage of any weakness the opponent presents.
- Tighter defense especially with the diving board
- Maintaining relaxed awareness especially when piling on the pressure. Remembering it as a fun game (and playing Michael Jackson music) does wonders
Here are some videos of our lesson last night! My lower back was still a bit injured so I was a bit more upright than desired.