Sonnon's "Hardwork"
Posted: Tue Nov 21, 2006 7:45 pm
3 disc set
overall impression - excellent. It's a 4 hour (on 3 discs) distillation of what I think was a 2-3 day seminar in Glasgow. You only see Sonnon teaching and demonstrating with the instructors, no wasted footage of participants drilling. Audio and visual quality is excellent, you can see and hear everything perfectly. I emailed with Scott yesterday and he said if you "get" this you don't need "Softwork" as this replaces it.
disc 1 - is more or less an over view of the general concepts of "flowfighting". This is where you're getting what was on Softwork updated. It becomes clear where it's progressing away from Systema into more it's own thing. The shock absorption which used to look more like Systema is "tighter", although that's a bad word since it's still about no tension. The constant mantra is "maintain structure" so the absorbion and movement is less noodly. It's very clear how it "works". Demonstrated in all ranges.
disc 2 - this is the cool disc. Good stuff on striking by Brandon Jones who obviously can punch like a chain whip. This is the part of Scott's stuff I really like, and IMO, really works. You see the progression directly from the clubbell/body flow drill, to the strike/kick whatever. Some interesting knife stuff from Scott Nice discussion of fienting ("credible threats").
disc 3 - this is the "bonus disc" - if you have the space or run a studio this is a nice concept of "warming up" for combatives. Kind of slow shuffling run which progressively adds some stepping, drop steps, shoulder rolls, etc...
I really like this stuff. If you don't, or you're not really into MA, you won't. If you like CBs or Scott's other stuff, this the definitive statement for now. He said they've improved it alot since this seminar, which I think was at least a year ago. One of the instructors, Joe Wilson, I think is going to put out stuff on different areas. To me well worth the $99.
overall impression - excellent. It's a 4 hour (on 3 discs) distillation of what I think was a 2-3 day seminar in Glasgow. You only see Sonnon teaching and demonstrating with the instructors, no wasted footage of participants drilling. Audio and visual quality is excellent, you can see and hear everything perfectly. I emailed with Scott yesterday and he said if you "get" this you don't need "Softwork" as this replaces it.
disc 1 - is more or less an over view of the general concepts of "flowfighting". This is where you're getting what was on Softwork updated. It becomes clear where it's progressing away from Systema into more it's own thing. The shock absorption which used to look more like Systema is "tighter", although that's a bad word since it's still about no tension. The constant mantra is "maintain structure" so the absorbion and movement is less noodly. It's very clear how it "works". Demonstrated in all ranges.
disc 2 - this is the cool disc. Good stuff on striking by Brandon Jones who obviously can punch like a chain whip. This is the part of Scott's stuff I really like, and IMO, really works. You see the progression directly from the clubbell/body flow drill, to the strike/kick whatever. Some interesting knife stuff from Scott Nice discussion of fienting ("credible threats").
disc 3 - this is the "bonus disc" - if you have the space or run a studio this is a nice concept of "warming up" for combatives. Kind of slow shuffling run which progressively adds some stepping, drop steps, shoulder rolls, etc...
I really like this stuff. If you don't, or you're not really into MA, you won't. If you like CBs or Scott's other stuff, this the definitive statement for now. He said they've improved it alot since this seminar, which I think was at least a year ago. One of the instructors, Joe Wilson, I think is going to put out stuff on different areas. To me well worth the $99.