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Les Bubka
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Pad Work Training

Hi All 

Marc wrote:

I'd be interested in your suggestions in using different kinds of pads for different purposes.

 

In reply to Marc's question I have recorded a quick video with my beginners group. I hope that my broken English is comprehensible.

Kind regards,

Les

Marc
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Hi Les, thank you for the video, very kind of you.

That's a good and clear demonstration.

(Nice kicking by your white belts, too, by the way.)

I also like to use those massive kicking shields with the angled part at the top. Like this one:

Kick shield with angle at the top

They're especially great for practicing knee strikes full power while pulling on your partner's shoulder.

They're also useful for practicing kicks, slaps, elbow strikes, sideways hammer fist / lower arm strikes, heavy punches, age-uke (rising "block") as an attack to the neck/jaw, or shoulder rams.

I also like to use them to demonstrate and practice the difference between mae-geri kekomi and mae-geri keage or yoko-geri-kekomi and yoko-geri-keage. The kekomi (thrust kicks) go deep into the big flat surface while the keage (rising kicks) go into the angled surface.

All the best,

Marc  

Les Bubka
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Hi Marc, those are great too. I don't have them in our club, but they are very good to practice upper cuts and all techniques mentioned by you. In Kyokushin they use massive shield pad which is great too.

Kind regards

Les

Marc
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The riot shield (as it is called in the video's title) looks great for letting off some steam. ;-)  

sarflondonboydo...
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Pads give excellent feed back and as Iain has stated a good pad man are few and far between; although they tend to be more in boxing clubs.

In the boxing I hold them very close rather than out so the boxers can work at the right range. Their can be a tendancy to put the pads away from the body when one wants them as close as possible to the body.