Just reading a training tip from MG Ben at Kali Majapahit Mothership. In addition to being a fantastic martial artist and athlete, he is one of the most creative at finding new drills and exercises to challenge the students. He leverages his experience in ADD/Parkour and really comes up with a lot of innovative ways to get you to discover yourself and how to move your body. Pugay!!
In this post, he shared a limitation drill, where he forced students to respond but WITHOUT hitting the head as part of their counter. This made them look for other alternatives such as locks, sweeps, throws, takedowns, but also attacks to the low-lines/knees and other options.
This is a fantastic idea, and the concept is worth further discussion.
Kali Majapahit is all about optionality. What do I mean?
Guro Fred talks to us about our FLOW and our FLAVOR, which is how we make our Kali Majapahit unique to ourselves, moving in line with our own physiology and psychology.
Sounds great, right? But all too often I find we are creatures of habit, using the techniques we like and know best, and failing to truly EXPLORE and develop other options for each situation.
As such, we become mechanical and we lose the beauty of Kali Majapahit, which is in being able to react to the new and changing situation effortlessly and finding the solution to each problem as it arises. How do you train for that??
One of the very best ways is to create scenarios and rules in the responses to force us to find other channels and explore other options. There are many ways to do this. Here are a few of my favorites.
1) Limit the Style/Subsystem
Explore the difference in your body's attitude, distance, timing and psychology by restricting the response to any specific subsystem. Respond only using Kali, Silat, Panantukan, Hakka Kuntao, Western Boxing, Dumog. Force yourself to take and keep that mental and physical attitude throughout the drill. As an even more advanced drill, let the instructor (or your partner) choose your subsystem before they attack and switch up every time.
2) Limit the Line
Restrict yourself to a certain dimension - high line, medium line, low line. For the high line targets are head/neck/spine. Medium line are liver/spleen/plexus/cocyxx, low line are groin/knee/ankle/feet and toes.
3) Spaced
Restrict yourself to either Largo mano (long distance) or Corto (short distance/CQC). Force yourself to make and keep this distance during the drill, closing in or pushing away as needed to control and maintain the space you want. (note: I deliberately omit Medio (medium distance) since this is used for transition only and NOT as a purposeful fighting range).
4) Inside Out
Restrict yourself to only the inside or outside line. This is a great drill with Sinawali 6 empty hand application, but can be expanded to weapons work as well (knife defense, single/double stick, etc.)
5) Downtown
Restrict yourself to groundwork. Every response must bring the attacker immediately to the floor for submission. Vary the attacks to include punches and kicks. This is great for working your single/double leg takedowns.
6) Uptown
Every attacker should seek a takedown/shoot. Defenders' job is to stay on their feet and keep moving. This is harder than it sounds. For a very advanced version, use multiple attackers and have one of them try to immobilize the defender's legs.
7) Wrist Wrecker
Great drill for sticks (foam sticks are better for beginners). Have one partner put on arm guards or boxing/MMA gloves. For any angle attack, try to contact the hand/fingers/wrist first. Learn to do this while keeping your focus on the center mass, not looking at the arms/hands. For more advanced drills, you need to hit the hands/finger/wrist 2 or 3 times for every attack.
8) Off the Wall
The defender starts the drill with their back flush against a wall. Advanced students should use the wall to their advantage! Another variation is the corner.
9) Immovable
The defender has one or both legs immobilized (as if the bottom of the foot is stuck to the floor).
10) Game of Thrones
The defender is sitting down in a chair and gets attacked by one or more attackers.
11) Rapid Deployment
Using any commonly carried personal defense item (EDC trainer), the defender gets attacked by one or more attackers who have foam sticks. The goal is to deploy your EDC tool (folding karambit/knife trainer, scarf, tactical pen/flashlight, collapsible baton, etc.) while moving/evading attacks and responding. You can't use it if it's in the bottom of your bag, right?
There are many, many more ideas. These are a few I like. Please feel free to share!
Restricting yourself is a great way to learn to FREE YOURSELF! Now, GO EXPLORE!!
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