Today as the last day for me with our visiting Sensei, Graham. The usual warm ups, then on to self defence drills. Last week we did knife defence, if you can't get away. This week we repeated the drills learned, then went on to facing a pick axe handle or base ball bat attack.
I document what we did in my blogs as an aide memoire for later times, as I'm not the best at remembering 😊 So the two attacks we went through were:
Bat swung from the side to the head: Step in and block. opposite side leg in between their stance. Wrap non-blocking arm over their arms and grasp, then privot, dragging them over the pivoting leg to trip. Then get away if you have grounded them.
Bat swung from overhead: Step to side and deflect away with nearest arm. If possible, set past front leg and drag back, using blocking arm to peform a "clothes line" to the throat at the same time, putting them to ground. Get away.
My rolling and falling when taking on the attackers role needs a fair amount of work, and I instinctively did a cross wrist block to one of the overhead swings, ouch 😣 Very much work in progress.
Our regular Sensei, Ben and Alison are back next week, so things will go up a gear, but hopefully they can include a little of this in the dojo as well, as I still need some more tuition, so that I get good habits to practice 😊😊
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