Bag & paddle drills

[terryl965]

How often do you works on bags drill and which variety do you do, also on paddle how often and what drills do you find to be the most useful in your training.
Terry

 

[tkd_jen]

We honestly don't do a lot of bag drills. We do use kick paddles quite a bit. We sometimes use bags for our warmup. We often start sparring stance LFF then do L roundhouse immediately followed by R roundhouse, land w/ RFF and do R roundhouse immediately followed by L roundhouse and so on and so on up to whatever number you chose. Or we make a competition of it, however many you can do in a minute.

We also use bags when we are performing a kick particularily bad, most often the back kick. Then we will use the bag to try to correct our errors.

We use kick paddles a lot because we feel they are great for targeting and working speed. One of my fave drills goes like this: get groups of 3, kicker in the middle, outside girls holding 1 kick paddle each. Kicker starts LFF and throws roundhouse, lands forward, turns to face other holder, switches stance so RFF throws roundhouse. That is 1 rep. Continue in same fashion for 1 minute or xxx number of reps. This is a speed drill so kick turn switch kick turn switch as fast as you can while maintaining targeting.

 

[Miles]

We kick a paddle or bag every class. My curriculum is structured so that we do footwork & kicking drills on paddles one day and the same footwork & kicking drills on the wavemasters later in the week.

The progression for the footwork & kicks generally goes: off the line roundhouse, chunjin step roundhouse, ilbo chunjin step roundhouse, fast kick, whojin step roundhouse, ilbo whojin step roundhouse, double kicks, fast kick doubles. Then we add stance changes, then we go off the line.

After throwing single kicks, we start working on combinations-same kick, different kicks. We do drills where we incorporate a stance change between kicks.

We do counters to single kicks, then combinations of kicks.

There is literally no end to the possible combinations. And we haven't even begun to go into hand techniques....

Miles

 

[TigerWoman]

We do bag work the most since it is a constant/cardio workout as no partner is needed. A few times a month, we do paddle work, usually spin heels, jump spin heels, hook, jump round, 360 jump round, jump front, double jump front, jump axe, flying side, triple front, and all kind of multiples. Trouble is with paddle, that side kick variations can't be done well with the exception of flying sidekick, and the one holding gets a rest, beside having to hold.

I do bag work out alot since I'm leading kickboxing 3x wk + regular TKD 3x, but my group is beginning, so its just alot of front, round, sidekicks, spin sidekicks, low crescents and variations thereof with hand technique. TW

 

[Slippery_Pete]

Depending on what class, traditional or sport, bag and paddle work is done differently.

Traditional we don't do a lot of bag work, but warm-ups normally, once every week or two, usually consist of some sort of paddle work. Paddles are good for distance, form, and speed. The traditional classes use it more for a source of cardio, as Jen described earlier, and improving over-all technique.

Sport class uses a lot of paddles. Most, if not all, warm-ups include paddles. It is a great way to warm up your legs and really concentrate on the technique. The idea is you want a kick to have explosive power. Well, that means you pretty much shouldn't have to think about it. Muscle memory. You need to do something over and over and then over again before your body does it without you thinking about it. We also use paddles against the wall. The shortest distance between two points is a line so the path your foot takes from the time it leaves the ground to the time is strikes the target should be quick and straight. We stand facing the wall, normally within 6 inches, and have the holder hold the paddle about 6 inches from the wall. If you are doing a right roundhouse you are looking at the wall and coming up so that when you swing your knee over, you should not hit the wall. This is very intimidating at first cause all you can think about is how close that wall is and how you are supposed to extend your kick. But wow, it works great when you look at your form and speed later. I don't know if this made sense but here is hoping...