Kickstart review at Krav Maga Edinburgh

Tuesday evening saw the next stage in the Combat Ready Essential Workshops.

There is a logical progression to the way these work shops are being presented and irrespective of participant experience they provide a highly focused environment to concentrate on the absolute fundamentals of combat. We get easily seduced by exotic techniques and drills when we've sometimes not mastered the core skills required.

I realise more than ever that consistent practice is the basis of superior performance.

KickStart followed a similar format to the previous weeks FirePower workshop. We started with Mandatory mobility, a dynamic warm up and the we got down to business.

Fundamentals, basics, kinetic linkage, breathing and hip power. These are the keys to CR Essentials.

Marcus focused on the Low Line tonite. It was game play first. Toe tag. I am a great fan of using games to get people moving. Everyone paired up and simply tried to tag each other using feet only. From there we went to picking up the outside or inside line of the foot. So much of this type of drilling is about being opportunistic. The idea is to achieve a tactile sensitivity that allows us to pick up on openings and weaknesses in an opponents structure and destabilise them. Unlike high percentage techniques we don't go hunting here. We find a weakness and we exploit it.

From there we moved to foot drags, moving off the bump and step-through from last week......... For the rest of the review jump ship and head over to Simple Strength