My Sparring Progress and How I learned.
HELLO, Alevyzkzl here.
I decided to post a thread about my learning progress and help the newbies like me get past the learning curve, it is a given fact that sparring is difficult and if one overcomes it, that one might undeniably forget his or her process.
But with a monitored and systemized learning progress on this thread you'll be able to use this is a guide in order to take your sparring into the next level.
Most sparrers, freerunners or parkourers can't explain how they learned step by step that's why sparring and all other variant is such a difficult, very difficult art to learn.
Mocucha kept telling us just to "practice" and I understand that.
But I an analyctical learner believe that getting the idea and fundamentals on the back of your head will boost your learning ability.
Q: Why are the theories here?
A: Well, this is what theories I used to achieve the point where I'm already on.
First, I ask you to learn the Theory before going to the actual tutorial, since most of the part here needs you to learn on your own.
The concept of running, involves your Tori to fall in front of you.
Basically, what Mocucha said was right:
Running is divided of two concepts:
But there's something wrong here, learning both launcher and the run won't let you run consistently forever. And that's because there is one less concept you'll have to learn.
BALANCING.
Preferably I would divide running into three instead of two concepts:
- Launcher: The move that allows your Tori to fall in front of itself, in simple words. Putting your weight in front of you.
- Run: The steps you take, turning and repeating steps.
- Balancing: The consistency, balance and weight diversity.
Nevertheless, put the theory at the back of your mind and head to the actual tutorial.
LAUNCHER: First we'll start off with the easy part.
First learn the YouTube run or try running at least 3 steps with it.
Actually, this tutorial is not really for "dummies" but for those who need improvement, nevertheless you can still use this as your guide if you're a good learner.
In order for you to distribute your weight in front you might need to do the following, note you can ignore most of them and proceed:
- Contract the abs: This is should be absolute, you can't get your tori to fall in front of itself without contracting the abs.
- Contract the hips: For many runners, contracting the hips is not really a good way to start since it puts your weight TOO much in front of you that your step is going to get really big and you'll run too fast.
- Relax the pecs: Relaxing the pecs allow you to put your arm weight in front of you gaining more speed.
- Relax the hips: Relaxing the hips allows you to bend less faster than contracting but nevertheless they have a similar effect.
If your Tori looks similar to this image then you're doing it right:
PIC_Tori_Run1.png
Now let's head on to taking the steps!
These are the absolute steps you should do:
1. Contract one of the hips.
2. Extend the non-contracted hip.
3. Relax the contracted hip's knee.
With the steps followed you should get a stepping motion like in real life:
PIC_Tori_Run2.png
Stepping and Fixing.
How to fix the kick:
The kick is the most common problem you'll encounter when running and it looks like this:
PIC_Tori_Run3.png
Let's now try to fix this stupid step.
Low body kick
- If your Tori's body position is still low, or technically diagonal then it is possible to fix the step by either relaxing or holding the contracted hip.
- Use them interchangeably and on different situations.
High body kick
This is probably the most common problem you'll encounter on mid-run, in order to step properly follow the following STEPS:
It looks like this:
PIC_Tori_Run_Problem1_2.png
When your tori reaches the half step position or the L feet position like this:
PIC_Tori_Run_Problem_L.png
Fix it by doing the following:
- Hold or relax the contracted hip, depending on the speed if the Tori is too fast contract otherwise relax.
- Depending on the speed relax or hold the extended hip similar to step 1.
- Most of the time you'll have to space twice but a visual cue would be space until your Tori's foot is close to the ground or even if it's already stepped.
- Extend the contracted foot then contract the hold/relaxed foot
- Relax the stepping from behind knee.
Note: that the tutorial is actually a WIP that some of these guide needs more work especially in grammar clarification.
By now you should have learned how to fix the "L" position and the only thing's stopping you is the
SIDE LEAN.
(WIP) - I'll add the tutorial for SIDE LEAN and the replays later. By, now i should have the right so that this TUT would not be removed because there is already on tutorial completed.
Last edited by WorldEater; Oct 28, 2017 at 09:20 AM.