Fighting Combination: Finding the Gaps

iainabernethy.co.uk/ In this short video I share a combination we worked to illustrate the idea that the opponent closing down one technique can often make an opening for another technique. The core combination was 1) Jab to the head. 2) If the opponent raises their arms, then cross to the body. 3) If the cross is blocked, we step to an angle and come over the opponent’s arms with a hook to the head. 4) If the opponent gets the arms up to cover hook, we adjust distance and sneak a mid-level roundhouse kick under the opponent’s arms to the body. We then played with various options from the end of the kick. Having illustrated the concept, students were then encouraged to play with it in sparring.
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Iain
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[@laperrablanca1]

Great combination! The whole thing begins with the first jab - maete or gezami tzuki - that has to be penetrating enough to create the opening and the initial momentum

[@brunowg331]

it has been a long time coming sensei. nice seeing you back nevertheless.hoping we could see you more.🙏

[@dr.anjankumarmandi2763]

Awesome 👍 sensei, looking very fit🙏

[@ruiseartalcorn]

Nice stuff! :)

[@nytrodralyg1860]

very cool!

[@Aniontedone]

Wouldn’t be better to close the gap with a trapping motion and attack. This would cause the adversary to have to deal with multiple stimuli and slow his reaction time. He has to deal with the closing motion the trapping motion and the attack. Once contact is made it can be maintained by following his energy. While following his energy adjustments can be made in technique. It would not be a need to break contact for a new technique. The opponent responses at touch would be the reason for change. Great video !!!!

[@dennisfranke949]

I will try that today

[@MarshOakDojoTimPruitt]

thanks

[@jkrnewengland]

I like this approach to the underlying principle. Not QUITE as much as I like your "Ask me about hikite" t-shirt, but close.

[@MrMattias87]

Similar to kickboxing and muay thai the combos. Nice work.

[@YoukaiSlayer12]

I like it. Might be difficult without a partner but I’ll make it work. Now for the take down part did you hit the back of hamstring or collapse the knee ?

[@victornascimento3029]

i believe both work but the result is a little different. Hitting the back of the knee forces a them to kneel forward while hitting the lower calf will help the pulling down motion from the arm, bringing the opponent on its back.

[@conorfus]

Are videos like this not step sparring in regards to your newest video?

[@Lesturpin]

Trying too figure out the first kick....was it to create distance too get the back

[@ThePNWRiderWA]

I use a concept I call overloading. I will double up on a attack sometimes say Yoko geri keage. They will drop and arm to deal with it and then return. I do it again as I know it will be returning and I can sometimes sneak it in

[@kbanghart]

Good comment, question, do you prefer a full sidekick like Japanese style as opposed to where they fully turn the hips? Or I have heard that the Okinawan style is more of a hybrid I suppose you could call it, but you don't turn the hips fully, to save time maybe? Talking about the front kick.

[@ThePNWRiderWA]

@@kbanghart most of the time I would use my lead leg. It not the classic way , but I do the snap kick with the front leg. Most of the time I go for the top of the pelvis. It keeps them from moving forward and I can safely continue the attack with oi-zuki. The goal is to keep them in a reactionary mode. I don’t believe in lying back and counter attacking. I either was never very good at it or it just does not fit the way I am wired.

[@kbanghart]

@@ThePNWRiderWA I guess I was asking, when you use the front leg, do you fully rotate your hips? Or for speed, do you not worry about the full hip rotation because you want to get the foot up there?

[@ThePNWRiderWA]

@@kbanghart no. It’s just a quick snap kick. I don’t even chamber it is to get them to react ; then I use my hands to end it. I had a sensei tell me once in a Goju school and he asked me When I kept tying to high kick if I pinch peoples feet too.

[@kbanghart]

@@ThePNWRiderWA cool, thanks for the input. I was watching an MMA fight just today or yesterday and I saw someone doing oblique kick, I guess that's a low kick where you attack the knee? That probably could be a super effective also even without full hip movement.

[@waterlegend72]

wtf Since when do you do non bunkai combos and attacks?

[@guillaumepetit3680]

Good Simulation for karate but not for boxing Oss

[@johnfrode9320]

Very Wadoryu Ohyogumite'ish :-)

[@dstilstil88]

Since you are open minded, please hear something to make this drill more practical. After the side kick, the normal reaction is to lean forward and duck because you are in pain. So you can’t sweep him back (opposite direction) unless you grab him as well from the shoulder to pull him back. Not practical. Keep the successful side kick as Option A. The sweep is practical only in Option B. When the sidekick is not successful, and maybe even blocked. In that case, the center of weight is still high, the opponent may also start stepping back from the sidekick block. Then the sweep is practical.

[@practicalkatabunkai]

Confused by this comment because the combination does not contain any side kicks? We probably use different terminology and I’m therefore I’m guessing you are referring to the foot blocking the opponent’s backward step (not a really a kick, but a “stop” or “prop”) so they can’t correct their balance following the pull? If that is what you mean, then - if we have “12 o’clock” at my back, and “6 o’clock” at my partner’s back - the roundhouse kick impacts along the 12-6 line, and yet the pull is done along the line of 3-9 (90 degrees to the line of the opponent’s feet; as all takedowns should be because that’s the shortest path to taking the centre of gravity outside the base area). It therefore made little difference how the opponent has shifted their weight along the 12-6 line (the link the kick impacts along) because the takedown is not done along that line. As above, the purpose of the foot on the pull is to stop the opponent stepping back and hence getting their centre of gravity back inside their base. One of the problems with KZbin videos is they are watched by a different group of people than they were filmed in front of. My students are very familiar with the takedown and what we call “getting the T” i.e. opponent’s feet form the horizontal part of the capital T and the force is applied for the takedown (as a pull or a push, depending on the method) along the vertical line of the T. I hope that helps clarify what is being shown.

[@theringleaderman]

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