Pre Chi Sau Drills

This week in Octavio’s living room. We continued to practice the pak sau drills (1 & 2) from that last two weeks. 

A new variation:

1. Using the right hand as the reference point.
2. Left handed Pak sau to your partner’s reference hand. Be sure to push into your opponent to break their structure and off-balance.
3. Straight punch.
4. Close the gap with footwork.
5. Your partner grabs your punch
6. Take your grabbed hand and touch and trap the right elbow of your partner to clear the obstructions.
7. Use your free hand to punch
8. Your partner uses the grabbing hand to block the punch
9. Use your free hand to punch

Octavio also went into detail with the straight lead punch. This tool is used to help close the gap, which differs from a jab that is a tool best used in-range. The punch starts slowly towards the target, then the following foot presses the heel down into the ground, then twitches a rotation in the hips and follows up to the fist. The body moves forward at the moment of impact. When slowed down it kind of looks like break dancing.

1. Lead punch slowly starts
2. The following foot’s heel presses into the ground
3. The hips rotates and lets the energy travel to the fists
4. The body moves forward at the moment of impact.

We continued to learn new techniques of pre chi sau, which Octavio said that the whole two partner reference practice is derived from chi sau. We learned two new trappings: 

Outside Lap sao:

1. From right-handed reference, lap sau with the right
   1. Bring hand towards your right hip and slightly turn the body to the right
      
2. Punch with the left keeping a stickiness to the arm being lap sau’ed
   
   1. Slightly step into the partner to his/her outside gate.

Inside Lap sao:

1. From right-handed reference, lap sau with the right
2. Use your left hand to lap sau by going under your reference hand and pull the partner towards your left hip
3. Follow up with a right back fist