星期六的课

This week was the first week when I felt comfortable with kicking. So I taught ways to use kicks to improve your strength and balance, and or understanding of how to adjust the direction of oncoming attacks.
The introduction exercise to this was to have one person kick in any fashion possible and to block it by putting a leg in the way of the foot or some other part of the leg as it came forward, then to push it to remove their balance. This leads to using misdirecting kicks so they don't get blocked, which leads to blocking more effectively by taking the balance earlier making them have to change tact to a much more limited set of options. This leads to you being able to predict where they will go and how you can control them when they get there. If you are kicking you learn how to retain your balance in spite of other influence. Quite useful really. Once you are able to get control of the leg with your foot however, you can also gain the confidence necessary to instead block with you body. This is often better as you are in a better position to attack when your limbs are free.