New weapons

Spending almost two hours sparing is one of my favorite places to spend that time. What a great group of people we had out today, I learned something from each of them. I was sparing with Sidai Noa Csillag and she had a really strong lead hand. She'd parry my jab really well and it was something I had trouble getting past. After some thought I played with throwing my reverse hand toward her head first and following up with my left hand to her body.  It worked over and over and I don't think many people are expecting that.  Also I think a lot of us (me included) are too comfortable with head strikes instead of strikes to the body.  This was something that took a long time to get used to and be comfortable with.  It won't always work but it's a new weapon in my aresenal that I can add to my sparing style. 

That leads me to my next weapon and that's sparing style.  We all learn the school's style from white belt on through the rest of our journey. However as I've progressed through the years, I've picked up bits and pieces from so many people.  I've taken these pieces to develop my own style.  Sparing with so many different people has given me such a broad perspective to draw from. The biggest influence on my style comes from Sihing Lindstrom.  We've trained together for many years and we've traded more than a few strikes on each other 🤣.  I've always admired his style, It looks disceptively simple but it's far from that.  This afternoon we worked together and I picked up some pieces to add to my style.  Simple foot work, stance adjustments and what I call his "peek a boo" style of how he holds his hands.  

Today's two hours flew past and I swear the time change happened midway through open training LOL!  I now have some new weapons to play with because of these two hours. 

Mr. Repay