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Anyone else find their junior grades lose their guard completely the moment they start moving? I've started treating the guard as a separate drill rather than assuming it'll stay up during footwork. Curious if that's standard or if I'm reinventing the wheel.
Not reinventing anything. Most national programmes I've seen isolate guard maintenance as its own skill before integrating it. The integration is the hard part, not the guard itself.
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Reminder that the CDPI framework document is available under Resources if you want the full reference for constraint-based coaching. It sits under the Coaching pillar: https://aetflearn.com/resources/cdpi-framework
Ran the paddle-on-moving-partner drill yesterday evening with the blue belts. Inside twenty minutes three of them had the hip turnover back. Writing this up properly for the club coaches once I've got a second session to confirm it's not a one-off. Cheers Stefan.
Looking for advice from other club coaches. I've got a group of blue belts who can land a clean turning kick on the paddle but the second they move to a partner drill the height drops six inches and the hip turnover disappears. Anyone seen this and found a drill progression that actually fixes it rather than just papering over it?
Crossposting from the Umpires side of things: if anyone's prepping students for sparring competition and running into the same drop-in-power issue, remember the scoring criteria reward controlled technique to scoring area, not raw impact. Worth building the drill around the actual criteria they'll be judged on.
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One more thing worth adding. The ISSN position stand on combat sports preparation has a section on progressive constraint-based learning that maps directly onto what Stefan is describing. Worth a read if you haven't seen it: https://jissn.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12970-021-00454-0
That's the exact thing, the base foot goes dead the moment there's a live partner. Going to try both of these this week. Thanks both.
Agreed with Stefan on the range element. I'd add that when the hip turnover collapses it's almost always because their base foot isn't pivoting. Film one session from the side on a phone and show the student their own base foot. I've had more lightbulb moments from that than from any amount of verbal cueing.
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Classic pattern. The paddle gives them a fixed target and fixed distance so they never have to read the range. Try putting the partner on a slow, predictable advance-retreat rhythm with a paddle held at the correct height, so the student is still kicking a paddle but the distance is moving. Keep the paddle there for two weeks then replace it with the partner's hogu. The transition is usually smoother.