How combat oriented is your training?

[Chad W. Getz FCSH]

I was training the other night, and had one of the guys that hadn't came around to train in a while showing a new guy some drills and stuff. Memorizing a pattern. I realized that we had started to shift the types of drills and training that we do once we started hard contact with minimal gear training.

How real is your training? Do you constantly question if your training is good enough? Do you try to add "aliveness" to it? Do you try to evolve your current drills or training by trying to add more distance and timing factors?

For example...do you feel that a standard 3 count-high, low, high should be taught standing up right and close to each other, or do you think that the peole should be moving around at the right distance and then reach in to strike while the other person uses some real footwork and movements combined with his "block/high" and continue to high low high, etc.? As one example.

Well, I look forward to your thoughts, and I'll be back in a week, I'm disconnecting my computer for a move. Thanks.

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Chad
Full Contact Stickfighting Hawaii
www.fullcontacthi.com

 

[thekuntawman]

my guys train like boxers. we "drill" on basic weapons like each number of our stick numerado, one at a time, then we train our combos, one at a time. most our time other than that is conditioning and sparring.

sinawali and all those sets, we dont do them. again i will say this i havent seen anybody use this kind of training in fighting, they just talk about it. even the dog brothers (i really dont know this but i saw a tape of how they train) dont use them for their fighting, they train the way they attack and with the techniques they use in their attacks. all those sensitivity, speed, timing, and coordination drills can be replace with the actual attacks and they are more related to what you do in the fight.

 

[kilugan1]

I partially agree with Kuntawoman. In our school, we use numerada, combos and "boxing style" training. We also use sinawali, tapi-tapi, decadena and other such drills. The effective difference is that we do them moving and with intent.
Those drills are only dead and unrealistic if you choose to train them that way. The real problem is that those drills were taught dead to many practitioners. Plus, the old masters, who taught these drills, also added realism and supplemental real time training.