Hungry Wolf: I have more drills and such up. Pics soon to come, if I get this damned digi cam to interface..
for the drills :
http://www.saintlouistrainingcircle.com/technfast.html
MikeJKD: Agreed. a couple years of judo, and I still really wasn't great at setting up throws..and this was in a highly skilled competitive class in this region. We were merely to find the setups in Randori (sparring) it seemed..and I did, somewhat. However, upon learning the pummel, and some of the techniques for handfighting and throwing a man's weight in the clinch..well..I suddenly understood tons of the Judo throws that only frustrated me before. This was in one day of practice.. It's not so much that Greco Roman has something different that judo and jiu jitsu and sambo don't have..it's that they approach it slightly differently, and it's like having one more guy give his take on throwing, and one more perspective.. I find the underhook is a must know for anyone in kali who isn't learning to do FMA clinch concepts.. I favor the idea of drawing my blade AFTER the grappling has started in a confrontation..and am now learning to get to an outside underhook control position (not outside his arm, but where I am looking nearly the same direction as he, arms linked) for the draw, then step inside. I'm sure this is already within kali in a million places, I just never got there.
Jon Hutton: Running crosses. Focus mitt drill..it's listed at:
http://www.saintlouistrainingcircle.com/classlog.html
we did it with the mitt's. Devin puts the mitts on his chest, and I feed two jabs at my first two offered targets. after the second jab, I lower my weight just a touch (set my stance for some pushing power) and throw a hard, short cross at my next offered target. I take a step forward, plant the feet, then throw another hard short cross, pushing my opponent backward (that's why they are hard and short, because I'm driving into him, specifically to lift him upwards and backwards..keeping him running on his toe tips..that's the strategy) Another step. Plant the feet. Another short cross. Another step. Plant the feet. Another short cross. Then with this last cross, I push a couple more inches, to throw him away as I step forward with my rear foot, angling off for a thai kick with my (once) front leg...
We also do the drill where I jab, jab, running cross, cross, cross, cross til I get him to a chain link fence where we train, then I use the last cross on his head to pin him to the fence while he bobs and slips, and I find places for my wall tools: punch, elbow, kick, knee, tackle..
You can find another wording of this drill on my site, shortly, as I like it.. think of the running crosses as traditional forward reverse punches from karate. They have a very similar energy, as a matter of fact, the only real REAL difference being that you return to a boxing guard between punches, not a hand-chambered-at-hip position.
Best of luck to all. Any questions or corrections (i'm not so advanced a fighter) let me know.