Sayoc Instructor Weekend
It’s Sunday night and we’re wrapping up another great Sayoc Instructor Weekend, where a handful of Associate Instructors train exclusively with Sayoc Full Instructors and directly with Pamana Tuhon Sayoc himself. I’m stitting at PT Sayoc’s dining room table and reflecting on all the things we went over this weekend – which was a lot. [...]
Tapping with Blades
Today’s class was great. We have several new students in the class and so started them on the Transition Drill 1 material. We like to feed information different ways. Today, rather than teaching the 10-count vital template to Transition 1, we went right into the isolations for each count and “built” the first part of [...]
Feeder / Receiver Free Flow
Tonight was a good training night with just two of us and Tuhon Ric teaching. We were able to work some Receiver mitt drills and then went into some free flow training. Free flow is similar to “sparring” in that you can work concepts from Transition Drills while breaking the Transition Drill format. This further [...]
Atienza Kali Evolution 1
Tonight we introduced Evolution 1 (trailer) from the Atienza Kali curriculum. This is new material for many of the Sayoc NorCal students so we conentrated on correct mechanics of the attacks and parries involved with this drill. Evolution 1 is a longblade/machete drill. Since both people in the drill have a blade, they are called [...]
First Training Day at CFO
We had our first training day this Sunday at Crossfit Oakland (CFO). We have several new students so we covered some basic template work – 3 of 9 and Transition Drill 1. 3 of 9 Vital Template: Right Internal Jugular Left External Jugular Palm-up Blueworm Abdominal Aorta Perineum Brachial Plexus, under mandible to center of [...]
Multiple Targets, Room Escapes
Tonight we warmed up with 3 of 9 Vital Template and Transition Drill 1. Then we formed a line drill where the Feeder ran through a line of multiple Receivers. We started with feeding the entire 3 of 9 drill with each Receiver, then broke it down into random 3-count combinations with each Receiver. Finally, [...]
Machete Concepts
On Sunday we trained in the Presidio National Park. We worked some basic applications of the machete/long blade. We incorporated distancing and Reactionary gap. We started by establishing the correct distance to remain outside of our own Reactionary Gap. One way to describe Reactionary Gap is as an amount of time. The time one has [...]
Tapping and Entries
Tonight we worked on some different types of blade parrying and entries. As Sayoc practitioners know, all of our empty-hand parries are trained as if we had a blade in our hand(s). We worked some percussion parries where the parry is also a strike that can dislodge the blade from the opponent’s hand and/or begin [...]
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