Give and take sparring drill for skill, this helps with blocking low kicks and countering with your own roundhouse.
Work at a pace that you and your partner can maintain, take turns throwing the low kick. The defender can block and counter with the same or opposite sides. Because you have a good idea of what attack is coming you can focus on making the right reaction at the right time.
This will also condition your body for sparring, getting you used to being hit but in a really safe way that you can build up over time.
Isolate the single skill and work until it becomes more natural, that's the idea! You know the low kick is coming, you just don't know when. Time the block and counter with a higher roundhouse.
Because this training removes the stress and chaos of free sparring or a fight, your brain can retain far more information and will better use it next you free spar. If you try to train everything at once all the time, then your brain never really has a good opportunity to digest what you're learning.
If you take the time to learn under less stress then you can carry that skill over to free fighting or sparring with more ease.
You are trying to land the shots on each other, if your partner doesn't block the low kick or the counter, then land it! This way you know if your blocks or counters are really working!
You essentially have 4 options in this drill
- Lead block, rear leg counter
- Lead block, lead leg counter
- Rear block, rear leg counter
- Rear block, lead leg counter
I really hope your training is going well, let me know how it's going in the comments!
