Ok, here's a farily typical progression of how I might approach poomse based training. let's use the first couple of moves from Taeguk Il Jang (A low block, middle punch combo).
Solo, I might work the form for technical percetion using visualization of various techniques to add "energy' to the practice. not very alive...but useful I think.
I might also approach it from what does this sequence of moves do? I go two ways with this. In one method, I'll figure out a technique (let's say we slip a straight punch with a defensive entry, spearing our elbows into the attacker...then our lead hand levers down the head as I turn to the left and then I punch the exposed ribs/neck/other vital spots as i step through....more than likely knocking the attacker off balance). Initially, as I learn the move my partner and I go back and forht slowly. typical hoshinsul practice. As we get comfortable, the speed and aggressiveness of the attacker and the associated defense increases. I've found that we need to wear hogu's at this point as the strikes (especially those ebows onthe entry) hurt like hell and leave bruising.
Th enext level after doign this as close to real speed as we can safely do is to have the attacker try to do other stuff after the intial attack. Sop he thowas a punch, I try to slip inside and execute the technqiue, while I do this, the attacker might throw a second punch, or try a grab, etc. We can do this slow, we can go fast....the point is I need to be able to either execute my technique or flow into some other counter. these enaggements should stay under 10 seconds...otherwise we're dueling.
Conversely, i could look at not jsut one technqiue, but at all the different wasy that sequence of moves could be used. Maybe its adefense to a lapel grab where i grab the attacking hand, twist it off and take the attacker over, then attack the arm shoulder of my now bent over opponenet. Maybe go into a take down (Athis is a fundamental tech in Aikido). maybe it a deflection move from a kick followed by a counter (like is often taught)...how do I make that work?
I seem to recall hearing about a book that did jsut this....it was called womething like 50 downward blocks and it jus took the low bnlock and went through a number of 2wyas it could be used.
We could do poomse based psarring where we try to utilize the techs unlocked from a poomse in a mroe randori-like manner. Not full on free sparring, but close.
these are thigns I've done/do. What else might you recommend? How else can I train low block middle punch?
Peace,
Erik
