Opportunity Sought

There are some pretty common entry strikes in tournament sparring – backfist, reverse punch, jab, roundhouse kick and side kick. There are lots more, to be sure, but the above five come up frequently.

If this is true, wouldn’t it be nice to have an answer to each of these entry strikes? Tuesday night in sparring class, we tried coming up with some answers and then drilling those answers.

We have to be aware and careful, keeping in mind that people might enter with a hook or a crescent kick or whatever but this is no different from most aspects of the martial arts where we try and examine the most likely possibilities and begin designing our strategies from there.