Hapkido Session 5 May 24th
I started with my usual warm up routine. Today I was really beat and I haven’t been to the last 3 sessions (Friday/Monday/Tuesday) because of personal reasons. This might have been why I was feeling so worn out. Not sure. Also cut off all of my hair and most people seemed to notice. Very flattering for bengus! Master Park said “WHOA ERIK HAIRCUT!” , Grandmaster Hyun said “I do not like your haircut” and then laughed, Greg [Purple Belt] “Its going to take me awhile to get used to”, Sunmee [Orange belt] ran up to me rubbed my head, laughed and called me “baldy!”. None of the kids called me jesus anymore. No Chuck Norris stuff either.
After I completed the warm up, Master Park told me he thinks his laptop has a “virus”. I told him I would look at it at some point. I was able to work on a few strike combinations….
(roundhouse x10 each leg, my usual crescent kick combination [inside, outside, spinning, tornado, jump spin] x10 each leg, high/medium/low spinning hook kick x10 each leg, tornado roundhouse x20 each leg, Left jab/right cross/left cross/right cross/left uppercut, left hook/right uppercut/right hook x10 each hand order/side, Greg [purple belt] showed me a new takedown that went into an arm bar but I only had it performed on me once so I can’t remember it clearly enough to document it. I will edit this tomorrow or note it more clearly tomorrow) before I was inevitably pulled into the Tae Kwon Do class. It was full class thing, did warm up. I made the kids do 60 jumping jacks today just for fun, they hated it. The first part of the class each kid was separated by rank to practice their forms for 15 minutes. Master Lee left the room a few times while I had to watch the kids and correct them on their mistakes. Unfortunately I do not know all of the forms. In Tae Kwon Do there is one form per belt, and Master Lee has only shown me the first 5 so far. I appreciate learning these regardless, because I do not even take Tae Kwon Do.
After the practice each kid was tested, by rank on their form as well as a kicking combination (usually 4-5 kicks without a target/shadow style kicking). When this was completed they were split into partners like we do everyday in Hapkido (This doesn’t happen as often in TKD). Each partner got a small hand target and the kids did front snap, round house, axe kick. I don’t think they were used to working this way because I had to tell multiple groups to change the person holding the target after 10 strikes or so.
After the class was over I did a few side kicks by myself on a self standing target in the kid’s room. I then actually just talked to people a bit in the other room for 10 minutes. Mostly about the Gracie UFC fight on Saturday which I am curious about. Not a *huge* UFC fan per say, but I do enjoy a good match. I do like K1 however a lot.
So after the class warm up with did break falls, about 5 of each (front, back, left side, right side). My partner was Dom [Black Belt].
Drills were.
- A) Basic open hand blocks 1-5. High inside, High outside, Low inside, Low outside, High middle (block the top of your head). About 7x each hand.
B) Basic closed fist block 1-10. Front hand high, Back hand high, Back hand High inside, Back hand high outside, Back hand low inside, Back hand low outside, Both hands low outside, both hands face, both hands, both hands high head. About 7x each hand.
2. This was interesting to me. It was using kicks as blocks against a kick, and a knee strike. A total of 5.
A) Attack does front snap kick with back foot. Defender does a side kick with the front foot.
B) Attacker switches feet and does a roundhouse with back foot. Defender does an inside heel kick with the back foot to block it.
C) Attacker does roundhouse with the opposite foot. Defender uses front foot to do what seemed to be an outside-reverse roundhouse, blocking the roundhouse with the inside of your shin.
D) Attacker does roundhouse with the opposite foot. Defender does a roundhouse with the back foot blocking it with the front of the shin.
E) Attacker does a rushing knee strike with the rear leg. Defender parries the attack with a rear leg knee strike, but coming down from the top in a circular motion. This was my favorite besides B). About 10x for each of us on this, both sides.
- Attacker is holding two small hand targets. Defender (I don’t know if I should call attacker or not) does a back hand “slap” to the left target with front hand, immediately following up a palm hand strike with the opposite hand. This is followed with a an uppercut with the front hand, and then a hook with the back hand. The “Attacker” then throws two crosses, one with each hand. “Defender” has to duck each. The way you should properly duck a punch is to move in a circular sweeping motion in the direction that the attack is coming from. Also while doing this you bend your arm and cover the side of your face in a “L shape”. I should start finding pictures of some of these to better explain for people that are not in my class. If anyone is reading this that is in my class or takes martial arts of any kind, please feel free to comment. After “defender” properly ducks both, you do a front hand elbow strike, then a rear elbow strike. “Attacker” then moves the bags to the waist/groin height area stacked on top of another and you do a front knee strike. This was done about 10x each side for both of us.
- Attacker throws a rear hand punch. Defender steps in with rear foot and blocks with the front hand gripping the wrist of the punching hand. Defenders rear hand does a palm hand strike to the chest of the attacker, and then immediately grabs the back of the neck (pressure point) of the attacker and pulls down on the neck while pulling the attackers punching arm up and in a typical Akido/Hapkido push/pull motion. When the attacker is lowered you execute a crushing rear knee strike to their chest/face. About 10x each side.
- This was a really crazy kicking combination that was hard to get more than 3 times per turn done because of the length of it. We were both able to though. The first one of each of these was done with the rear foot. Front snap kick, jumping front snap kick, jump back front foot front snap, roundhouse, jumping roundhouse, jump back roundhouse front foot, side kick, hop step side kick, jump back front foot side kick, hook kick, hop step hook kick, jump back front foot hook kick(very hard), spinning hook kick, full spinning hook kick, reverse full spinning hook kick. Sheesh. Yeah this one was a lot.
- I can’t remember this one perfectly but it ended in outside spin takedown with both of defenders hands gripping the attacker’s wrist during the outside spin, then attacker is put into an armbar and gets a back fist to the chest/face after doing a side fall from the outside spin takedown. I will edit this tomorrow after class.
Despite all of this, after class I felt as if I didn’t get enough done for some reason. This happens to me once a week usually. It’s probably a psychological issue. I told josh [red belt] about this myspace profile. Yeah