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Please let me tell you a little more
about the FACT II video.
I will try to describe this training video in more detail here.
Keep in mind this is a 2 hour and 20 minute video and no words can really do it justice.
The FACT II video is not just a
Combatives Drills or Sparring Video. It is an "Instructional Street Fighting Video" for Self Defense practitioners.
I have been training full contact fighters for close to 25 years. I have trained Law Enforcement for close to 20 years.
I believe Reflexive Response
drills are the key to developing instant counter techniques against a
real
world attack or an aggressive offense from a highly trained Sport
Fighter. These are the
same drills I use to train professional cage fighters, boxers, and
those of us interested in street combatives. What makes these drills
so important is that the
Professional Fighters and the average Joe can work together on the same
drills for mutual benefit & achieve their own separate objectives.
The fighters develop a very high level of
fighting skill in a very short amount of time with these drills.
Fighters describe these drills as physically challenging, but “fun”.
The drills mimic many high speed skills used in full contact sparring
or street fighting. The drills compartmentalize each fighting skill and
build on them slowly until we have a complete fighter. This video is
very comprehensive and loaded with instructional training tips and
street tactics.
We don't use Hand Pad
Drills as “the” essential link between static punching to sparring ? They
are a very important part of training. But have you ever had a fight
against a pair of hand pads ? Can your hand pad coach simulate at left
hook or right cross anywhere near the speed or depth of penetration of
a real punch ? Does he just hold them up for you to punch ? Does he
throw the hand pads at you in combinations or bunches of punches or
does he swing an occasional simulated punch every now and then for you
to duck ? It makes you look good and feel good but your development
has probably stalled. Your programming your subconscious to react as
slow as your coach throws a simulated punch. There is no set up,
feinting, hesitation, or level changes before he throws the "simulated
punch". Where is the real simulation to fighting here. ? Everyone
loves the hand pads but In my opinion, they have become overused, used incorrectly and
often misunderstood. Unless you have one of the few top notch hand pad
coaches available, you may have stagnated and may as well be hitting
the heavy bag.
As you continue to train, your defense should be developing and you
should be able to make less experienced fighters miss at will. If this
is not happening, something is wrong with your development. Are there
are 20 students on the floor with you ? How many of them get to work
with the one Hand Pad coach in the club each day ? Usually it's the
guy who has the fight coming up that gets all the attention and
everyone else is left to work on their own.
"Let's partner up and train like we fight"
Partner to Partner / "Hand to Hand"
drills and Limited Skill Sparring are real punches and teach you how to subconsciously read an attackers body
language.
Sudden changes in fighting range, feinting, hesitation, level changes,
lateral movement, the way his head tilts, shoulders pitch, and hips
rotate
before and during an attack is what your seeing in front of you during
these drills. This is how your subconscious
tells your
body to react instantly without thought. "That's why an experienced
fighter will read your body like a book and make you look lousy when
you spar him".
"It's as if he can read your mind. " Limited Skill Sparring and Partner Drills are
like getting full contact
experience while progressively adding skills along the way. Cognitive
thought is only used for general fighting Strategy in a full speed
exchange of punches. All defensive skills must be reflexive at that
point in the
fight. If you have to think about defense, you've already been hit .
All fighters develop a high level of real full contact fighting skills in two ways.
A lot of full
contact fighting against many fighters. Or, lots of high speed
combative drill
work and some full contact sparring to test all those skills later. I
never saw any non-contact or light
contact fighter survive in any of the fight clubs I train at. They all
had to adapt to these types of training methods or spar alot. I try to progressively train my students in the
safest yet most realistic way possible. I still
enjoy this training regularly with very few injuries.
In the first portion of the FACT II
video I teach you seven patterns of foot work for fluid coordinated,
balanced mobility. I walk you through all the basic punches showing you
how to generate maximum power while using the body like a coiled
spring. I demonstrate all the basic defensive hand blocks and parries.
I show you how to use the minimum movement necessary to make your
opponent miss yet leaving you balanced and close to your adversary for
devastating counter punches or quick takedowns. I’m
a big advocate on defensive skills in this dvd. The fighters will experience very gradual increased contact as time goes on.
I then take you step by step through
the defensive head movements needed to slip, bob and duck full speed
punches. I even teach you to the highest level of fighting skill which
is counter punching (make them miss / make them pay) .The same
movements are used in the drill section and then demonstrated under
full speed punches in what we call limited skill sparring.
Let me
explain why we train this way. If you’re the biggest athlete and the strongest puncher in
your gym you may tend to just walk right at all your
opponents and stalk them until your close enough to strike.
Your
smaller opponent has to use his footwork, while
slipping, sliding and defending. He is working all his defensive
skills and developing as a mobile. well rounded fighter. Why, because
he is struggling to
survive and he must adapt. The bigger puncher looks like he’s just working on
a
heavy bag. No lateral movement, walking straight ahead, never having to
slide away, or spin out
his opponent, no ducking, counter punching or multiple hand block sets,
etc. He won't develop well like the smaller fighter. With the limited
skill sparring, both of you must be mobile, able to angle out, duck,
slip and counter. Now the biggest guy in the club can spar safely with
a smaller guy and both are building skills at a high level.
In the second portion of the video, I
demonstrate 7 "Street applicable takedowns " that require very little
strength. At 145 lbs
myself, there is no lifting or throwing required. The takedowns are
executed easily in live grappling in a Mixed Martial Arts club against
bigger sparring partners. This is why I call
them universally effective for the street. Any size person can take
down any other
size opponent with these takedowns regardless of height or weight. (I'm
almost always the smallest guy in the club myself).
The feet are essentially trapped to
the floor and the opponent is tipped over. The takedowns are designed
to work from your boxers stance and are executed best when an opponent is
throwing punches at you.
I
am a big advocate of submission wrestling and still do every Wednesday
night at the club here at the MMAT Center in Worcester Mass. This is not a comprehensive submission grappling
video. I demonstrate easy to learn, tried and true grappling controls and submissions that
are easy to learn and can be used at your grappling club. These are the same techniques
I teach to Law Enforcement and Corrections for restraining or
incapacitating combative subjects. They are universal against all size
opponents, and designed to minimize your exposure to hand held weapons
in a hand to hand street fight. The best grappling techniques for the street
should also be able to be used in the grappling club. The more often
you execute them in the club against grapplers the more natural they
will come to you on the street. These grappling techniques can be done in fight the club, in full street clothes, or police uniform with full gun belt.
The
last portion of the video is a
series of incredibly simple pre-emptive strikes designed to stop real
world street attacks. They are explosive, and difficult for your adversary to detect. They are executed
from non - threatening postures. .......... I also demonstrate how to
create a simple flash knockout using no more power than the force of a
quick jab.
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