Next saturday, the Shinergy[battle] autumn cup ’11 will take place here in Vienna. Needless to say, my dojo will be well represented. This time, 5 of my boys will compete and pressure test their skills. Yesterday we had the last sparring session before the tournament. The class layout was pretty straight-forward: 10 rounds of technical shadow sparring followed by 10 rounds of actual sparring. Below you find a short summary of what we did during each round. Note that when I say „striking“, I’m referring to hand techniques only, while kicking, … well, I guess the term „kicking“ is pretty self-explanatory.
- Movement only (no strikes, no kicks)
- Movement & Jabs
- Free Striking
- Lead leg kicks, lead hand strikes
- Free striking, free lead leg kicks
- Initiate combos with strikes, finalize with kicks
- Initiate combos with kicks, finalize with strikes
- Close-quarter only (i.e. striking from the clinch)
- Free shadow sparring
- Free shadow sparring
- Free striking
- Lead hand strikes, lead leg kicks
- Open stance (i.e. one partner is fighting from a regular stance, the other one from a southpaw stance)
- One partner kicks, the other one strikes
- One partner initates every action with strikes and finalizes with kicks, the other one initiates every action with kicks and finalizes with strikes
- Clinch work (i.e. the fighting area is limited to 1 m²)
- Point/Stop sparring (a.k.a Semi-Contact Sparring)
- Free Sparring
- Free Sparring
- Free Sparring
Of course, I’ve also attached some video footage. Enjoy!
I’m really looking forward to seeing my boys fight at the upcoming battle – of course, there’ll be video footage and a blog post.
So long,
take care
The Performance Engineer 