Seated CANE Defense
Deep Dive
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Repeated viewings of GM Perkins’ movement while flowing with students yields tremendous insights into how to react properly; words cannot fully convey this but you will begin to feel in your own body what is effective GC movement.
► How to move your body with a cane or heavy stick from seated position without fancy, useless techniques – vital info for seniors and the infirm.
► Watching this video repeatedly provides endless training/striking possibilities in your solo practice. John’s motion really stimulates your combative creativity and imagination.
► Twirly, hooky cane motions will get you killed.
► Note how John moves his entire body with the stick even though he’s seated. And yes – you still Drop.
► Note how John uses every part of the stick as a weapon with thrusting, swinging, stabbing, snapping, shielding, ripping, poking and twisting strikes.
► Note how John will let go and strike with one hand when appropriate, greatly increasing adaptability. For example, punching the groin -- which is now conveniently at shoulder height!
► Note how he constantly changes hand positions on the stick to adapt to circumstances, sliding along its surface (similar to Contact Flow sensitivity) all to facilitate changing angles and strikes. This includes switching hands as necessary. This all trains you to strike with both a two-handed and single-handed grip.
► Note the hand-switching/sliding, always keeping the middle finger and thumb loosely gripping the stick.
► Learning all this vastly increases the savagery of the stick because the tip moves far faster than the hand and is almost impossible to stop.
► You crack, snap and break an incoming hand similar to a destruction in Combat Flow and your stick is always moving, changing, flowing, but NOT twirling (as is done in many styles with rattan sticks).
► This training allows you to be deceptive: aim high but hit low, and vice versa.
► When training, you use a heavily padded stick. Serious injury can result from the slightest tap with a heavy hard wood stick/cane, especially if it has a metal head or knob.
► As in Combat Flow, you can use Ricocheting energy by bouncing the stick end off the floor (as opposed to a limb in Combat Flow) if you miss and rebound into a different strike.
► If you’re doing all this properly, the stick/cane should be impossible to grab or defend against.
► You can also use your foot to peg the attacker’s foot as you slam him.
► Note that even as you hit, you need to be “Behind Your Guard” – same as you train with Contact Flow.
