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Pre-sparring drills using taijiquan, baguazhang, and boxing concepts

September 20, 2009 on 10:31 pm | In Fighting: San Shou/Sanda/Shuai Chiao | No Comments

ashe wrote:hey i liked this clip as a “get your feet wet” kind of thing. since i’ve never had the pleasure of training at an mma or thai boxing gym, did you draw on your experiences training there to put together these drills?

the bagua part was unaltered from my bagua teacher. the taiji part draws from my own experience with some fast taiji with another taiji teacher. the boxing part is from 3 different boxing teachers.

so it draws from experience from all, but is inspired by a method at the mma school called “stacking”-

example of “stacking” might be-
drill1- jab slip jab
2- add cross (jab slip jab cross)
3. add knee- (jab slip jab cross knee)
4. add rt elbow (jab slip jab cross knee elbow)

this is something not new and taught alot in bagua if you have a teacher that can show you=

think of yang line ____ is ‘attack’ and yin line __ __ as ‘defense’

so in the bagua is eight symbols, for heaven trigram which is all yang lines- you have= 3 attacks, water trigram which is yin line, yang line, yin line= defense- -attack -defense.

mountain trigram is one yang line and two yin- attack-defense-defense= punch+ retreat+ kick
add two trigrams of heaven and fire= attack+attack+attack+attack+defense+attack= jab+ cross +hook+ uppercut+ duck+ cross

really nothing new, infinite possibilities all from basics.