[QUOTE=JPinAZ;757429]Why would I read ‘post above mine’ again? It gives a guidline/process, but no specific drills (which is what I asked you to give). Anyone can name a ‘process’, can pick those up in a few minutes off the net, read a book, etc. But it was victor’s drills that you were saying weren’t realistic, so was curious if you had some that were more ‘realistic’.
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The process tells you how to create any drill, provided of course, that a person knows how something is really applied.
And, to comment on the drill you lprovided afterward, Anerlich said pretty much what I would say. That isn’t a realistic ‘fight drill’ at all! Unless your fight plan is to avoid fighting alltogether..
I sometimes wonder . . . look, like with any fighting skill, that is not all you will do. It is one element – using range/position as defense; there may come a time and place where you will use it. As I said, it is a very basic drill. If it does come into play, it will be momentary. And this skill will – as I said – be used as a basis to develop others, like how to manuever if you are on the outside to get an safe entry (to the inside), which will be difficult to teach if the trainee keeps getting hit.
Funny thing is, I’ve seen some really good wrestlers and boxers use the same sort of drill to help teach offensive/defensive movement.
Also, if your drill involves no contact, what does it matter if the person attacking usues 2% or 100% power?
Because the trainnee needs to learn how to move when dealing with someone moving realistically – quickly and powerfully, and while he may be out of range, that can change very suddenly, quickly, and with devastating consequences.
Why would someone want to practice dancing around thier opponent just outside of striking range and not engage?
For any number of reasons, like they might want to look for opportunites or they may want to choose the time of entry (as opposed to letting the opponent choose) or they might have been stunned and want to buy recovery time or they may want to survey the opponent/situation, etc. If you look at good fighters, they all use range as a defense and use it to set up offense (sound familiar? that’s lien sil die da, link defense to bring in striking - not the commonly misinterpreted “simultaneous block and strike”).
Wouldn’t they just prefer to run away as Anerlich said? This doesn’t sound like anything that should be used in a fight, unless you are training to not fight…
As I said, this is a basic drill, and from it the trainee will learn some useful things, how to move on the outside (unpredicatbly), how to use range as the first line of defense (later he’ll learn what to do if that is breached, the second line of defense), he’ll learn how to optimally use his body to move (being on the balls of the feet, balance, etc.), those things not to do (stand there in front of the opponent, for example), etc. All that will be used in fighting. At least, we use those things in fighting. For us, we are either on the outside looking to get in or we are on the inside shutting him down.