A simple drill involving kicking with the lead leg enhanced everyone’s kicking dexterity. The same leg was used to deliver two kicks in rapid succession to two targets: the body and the head. It is possible, certainly in competition, to kick twice with the same leg without stepping down, and to land one or both of the techniques. It might be a little ‘theatrical’ as a bone fide self defence manoeuvre, but nonetheless the kicking dexterity this type of drill develops is a useful skill to possess. To be drawn upon where appropriate in any species of combat situation.
In any event the exercise was the pre-cursor to some partner training. A combination of kicks were drilled as an attacking salvo. Ushiro geri was fired into the body with an immediate follow-up maewashi geri with the same leg. We then developed this so that the second kick was delivered with the other leg. After sufficient practise time, we experimented with these ideas in jiyu kumite. There was a discernible improvement and everyone was certainly “kicking with confidence”!
16 members trained in the session: Ben; Izzy Ponsonby; Bob Dainty; Becky Cassapi; Harry Heather; Alex Heather; Steve Cassapi; Darren Cockburn; Rachel Tyler; Audrius Mikalauscas; Steve Hull; Charlotte Bonardi; Kerry Lee; Caroline Todd; Arthur Hall; Rosemary Hall.
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