Old Stuff - 11-02-06 Recap
This week we cut formal drills a bit short so we could work on circle of death. So, the topic we covered was “Standing there and not taking it like a bitch.” By which I mean blocking. We had two people face us at 45 degrees. They throw 5 shots at us each. We block them. The idea being to not only block them, but to try and bind them both together into one block by blocking one person into the other. So, if the person on our left attacks us, we parry 6 which sweeps through the path of the person on our right. Similarly, if the person on our right attacks we parry 4, blocking off the person on the left at the same time. If either of them goes low we parry 8, which is a big sweeping parry anyway.
This is very important for several reasons. One, it forces us to learn to block. Sometimes it seems easy to be a runner. To always retreat when attacked. The problem with this is that eventually someone will run us into a corner or a wall and then they will pound us. Also if we are to fight two on one we have to take the fight to them. Not only do we need to block them both out, but then kill one of them. This is almost impossible if all we do is give ground and run away.