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Originally Posted by Aaron04
Thanks Ghost. As far as sparring goes, I spar quite frequently, and am pretty comfortable with my game. My JKD lineage is under Vunak, I don't know if you are familiar with his game, but mine is very similar. My strategy is to stay in long range (beyond the range of kick boxing), and inflict pain by either intercepting (using the kicks) or destroying, using the knee and elbow destructions, to enter. At that point I like to straight blast to a neck clinch, and go for HKE. I've had very good luck with this strategy.
My question isn't so much about the overall strategy, but more specific relating to the proper timing of the kicks. Most people are not familiar with the knee/elbow destructions, and I used to be able to just "barrel in" with a thigh kick or shuffle kick as a person was closing in on kick boxing range, and the worst thing that would happen is the kick would miss it's target. I never really paid that much attention to the person's weight distribution relating to their legs, because people never used knee destructions before. Now that I'm having that problem, I was mainly inquiring about methods that could be used to better determine how to time my kicks to prevent this problem.
Do you (or others) have any?
Thanks
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ok mate, youll basically find it nearly impossible to time it at long range where nothing is happening so thatyou can land these.
the best way to land low and shuffle kicks successfully is to have the other guy moving. best is to have him moving sideways, for instance if you step to the left he has to step to HIS right to compenstate, as he does this his right hand side is open to attack at the point where he moves, he cant be moving his weight to his right and block at the same time very easily.
this works to the other side as well and in circles,forwards and backwards are less effective.
there is no sure fire way though all i can suggest is throw them when he is moving.
in thai boxing we practice this buy getting a guy with a kick shield on his leg to move around and you kick it, and then you move and he tries to follow you and you kick when you can. this way you get used to applying the kicks on the move.
On the straight blast, my history covers a fair bit of JKD as well, dont rely on it, you will usually only be able to use it once and against a boxer its a waste of time completely, just be careful who you use it against, its very easy to counter if you know or suspect its coming. this was my main gripe with JKD over the years, it leaves you in a really crap position alot of the time which i noticed when sparring against other martial artists, like any system its all fine and dandy against other JKD guys.though i still like it and it is definately worth studying.
Having a "plan" as such is usually a bad idea as any boxer will tell you lol