Knife Draw x 55, Grand Total: 275
Jab/Cross x 20
Today I watched disk 1 of Rodney King's Quantum CM Series 1. It's good stuff. The more I watch, the more I like Crazy Monkey. I wish there was a CM coach close enough to train regularly with. Anyway, I decided to try one of the balance drills from the video for my jab/cross reps. Basically, close your eyes and move about a bit while in the hunchback stance. Then stop. Keep your eyes closed and feel your balance. Move your feet, if necessary, until you feel like you're in a well balanced position. Then open your eyes and fire off a jab/cross. Close your eyes and do it again. I quite like this one, even though it makes my 20 reps take much longer.
I know I talk about the boxing more than the knife drawing, but for now the knife drawing is pretty plain. I've progressed from starting with my hand on the knife to shaking my arms and moving around a bit between each draw, so that I have to (slowly) acquire a grip on the knife, then draw it. Sometimes I'm still moving around when I draw the knife. In fact, I had my first completely failed draw today. I was in the middle of taking a step when I yanked the thing out of my pocket, and it didn't open itself. I froze, which is bad. I need to figure out if there's a way to keep the wave from opening the knife so that I can practice some failure-to-open type drills. Maybe I'll have to buy a non-waved Delica and use it for that.
Put a piece of tape over the wave part so it can't grab anything, that should make it fail to open (even if only partial open) and create failure drills. It might be a pain to clean off but some CLP should make the blade nice after.
ReplyDeleteGood idea. I might give that a shot tonight, even though today is technically a day off for me. I also managed to scare up an old tennis ball this afternoon. I'll punch two holes in it and run some paracord through it so I can hang it in my garage for knife jab accuracy drills.
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