Pencak Silat Techniques | Ground Kicking Drills You Need to be Doing

what's happening to Paul Ingram here with Marshall Flex I'm here with my good friend Kevin and we're out here training some sea lot but we're training some ground techniques and uh doing some partner drills where we're working some ground kicking and maneuvering skills and I figured this would be a great time to come on here and share some of the basic drills with you so that way you can practice right along with us so this drill we're going to be starting off in the Sawa position and I'm going to share two drills with you the first one we're going to be working a kicking combination we're using two kicks we're gonna use the round kick and we're going to use the spinning sickle kick and we're going to work both sides right here okay and we're gonna do this with a partner so I got Kevin today now when we're starting this drill out we're gonna be both kind of mirroring the Sawa position so our knees should be pointed in the same direction we're going to be working one side is going to be working the offensive kicks the other side is going to be working the evasion techniques right now so we're just evading so as I go to round kick Kevin his head is up it's giving me a good Target he's going to duck down cover his head and evade he pops back up gives me another Target there's my spinning sickle kick which he also evades then Kevin switches so that way we can work the other side he's going to evade the round kick evade the sickle kick and switch one more time now it's his turn to kick and my turn to evade so I evade that round kick pop up give him a Target and evade that Sickle kick I switch he works the other side one and two and then we switch it back and we're just gonna rep this out a few times listen to that switch this is right here this action right here could be the clawing to the eyes maybe his hands might be up maybe I'm gonna clear this out to expose the target right there and switches and now it's his turn boom there's one two and I switch one two and switch I love the martial arts aspect of these drills it's absolutely fantastic but the real reason why I really love these drills is the exercise the hip mobility the hip strength we're increasing flexibility we're increasing that range of motion in our hips we're putting a little bit of load into the hand strengthening the wrists and the Hand bones into the shoulders it's just a great full body Mobility practice now for a second drill we can go ahead and progress into the Naga kick or the snake strike kind of like an oblique kick but from the seated position so we're gonna basically do the same thing we're gonna come across with the round kick the sickle kick then we're gonna post up from our defensive position and go into the Naga that puts us on the other side we got the round kick the spinning sickle kick post it up into the Naga let's take a look at how the evasion works off of this drill this variation right here so Kevin's going to work the kicks first I'll work the evasion so from here I dodge it just the same as previous drill Dodge it same as previous drill from here I got two options I can simply slide back and slide forward as it retracts the kick to make that switch go ahead kick again boom boom I slide it back and I slide it back in so Kevin can go ahead and work that evasion and then on my turn on his next turn we'll go ahead and show you the other evasion we could work so he evades he evades he slips back comes forward I go for the head I go for the head I post there's a nice deep Naga kick right here the second evasion I can work besides just sliding back is I could work the Horseshoe evasion as well so he comes up I duck out of the way of the round kick I duck out of the way of the sickle kick and then as this Naga kick comes in I do a horseshoe which will automatically give me a switch so he goes ahead take one kick two kick number three right here and then I come back at Kevin one two three that's it so his legs are gonna go underneath my kick that time one two three right there so work these out this one's really nice because it does start to open up other techniques that we can do on the ground such as sweeps trips all kinds of takedowns and things but this is a great place to start if you're interested in working the ground portion of sea lot including the kicks getting some good hip mobility working your evasions so again you get a good martial arts aspect in your workout at the same time you get good Mobility practice as well so if you like content like this if you'd like to see more of these types of drills let me know down in the comments smash that Thumbs Up Button make sure to subscribe to Marshall flex and hit that Bell to turn on post notifications so you don't miss the upcoming next video here on the channel head over to marshallflex.com sign up for free to my Insider newsletter because I got a lot of really cool stuff coming up here at Marshall Flex very very soon more training more practice Mobility martial arts meditation the whole gamut that we do here at Marshall Flex thanks so much to Kevin give him a good thank you say hi to Kevin down in the comments and uh we'll see you next time okay