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Some of this was covered in today’s Zoom class. Great Class.
Thanks Steve!
Always very glad to see posts helping people make connections to related content.
Posted this as homework for next week’s online class so I took a look at it for myself.
I had forgotten about the Kabaroan pattern.
These mis-match drills blow my mind…i,e., not mirroring the opponent. I have worked the “J” pattern a little with Francisco, but the redondo 6 and Cavaroan (sp?) patterns are a nice variation.
One of my joys in Life is messing with people’s minds 🙂
Do note the Kabaroan combo and use it against Redondo Six as well.
Redondo and Heaven Six was the first combination in double stick fighting I learned from Rob and Karen Gallegly in Southern Illinois. Years later learning the different variations from this material has been very intriguing.
Carlos Flores showed the Redondo and Heaven Six (from the back hand angle) and as mentioned in the video, my brain was all over.. that said, I think I sort of have a understanding from this weekends training session.
This may help you with the WHY of this material messing with your mind.
a) All that meshing up Redondo 6 and Heaven 6 does it to force to you to meet L with R and vice versa instead of R meeting R, etc. Among other things this denies you the visual feedback of simply mirroring your training partner’s movement.
b) Subsequent variations with include breaking out of simply alternating hands/sticks.
It is funny that you mention this and this many months later. Not only do I understand the material a bit better, I am now able to play and alternate between the two. I can now see the meet R with L and vice versa.
The Lameco variation however, is a different story. Today in Carlos’ class we worked it more and looking back at the vid lesson I am now seeing how the forehand and backhand make up the pattern. It’s just taking it slow and working the pattern.
Still very good stuff!
This is Snake Range material. To my way of thinking, it is some of our most important material and deserving of high level of secrecy, precisely because it is here that we develop the skills of defining the moment of contact using Boydian Criteria (Change in Height, Speed, and Direction).