James Keating - Trapping DVD 1: Basics and Developmental Skills

Slap, trap and zap! Learn advanced trapping the E-Z way with these drill progressions and training methods. You will be amazed at your new skill!

Series Description:

Experts agree that Comtech's Limb Immobilization training is one of the best around. It's both defense and development in one. If you are looking to improve your empty-handed fighting abilities, then by all means check these three DVDs out today!

Fighting applications, partner drills, equipment drills and more. These limb immobilization techniques are things I have learned while cross-training in Kali, Silat, Wing Chun and Kuntao. Even Western boxing is thrown in there, too. You see, fighting isn't all that different for folks. Basically, it's the same for everyone. So I have taken the common traits from all of these various arts and compiled them into one interrelated amalgam. Why not? It's all the same in the dark, ya know. This universal system is about learning, defense and confidence.

To study these tapes you'll need a partner, or at least a Mook Jong (wooden training dummy). This method is also designed to interrelate to and support your knife skills! Multi-phase training works a lot like subliminal learning. "It just happens". Good stuff!

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Reviewer: George Hernandez
Date: May 05, 2011

Technical Specifications:
Title: Comtech Trapping Vol.1
DVD Length: 1 hour 19 mins
Region: 0
Type: DVD-R
Format: NTSC
Video Quality: Average
Audio Quality: 3/5 (Average)

What It's About:
James Keating's methods on trapping techniques based on the Wing Chun system.

Comments:

In this DVD James Keating presents his interpretation of the trapping techniques associated with the Wing Chun system. He calls his trapping method as “advanced hand immobilization with high speed application.”  His presentation begins with a mini lecture complete with a whiteboard providing terminology to assist the novice in understanding the principles of trapping.

Keating blends various Asian fighting methods in what he regards as the best system of techniques in getting the job done. Keating’s mode of teaching in Wing Chun trapping is however, eclectic; he does not discuss aspects of its application in the traditional way. If you’re approaching combat, strictly from a technical aspect, and want to see what can be accomplished using the basics of trapping forms, then this DVD is for you.

If you’re an experienced Wing Chun practitioner one could perhaps tweak Keating’s approach in using and teaching the techniques he demonstrates from a Wing Chun standpoint. That’s where this DVD has its real value for a solid Wing Chun practitioner.

Content Overview:

• Introduction
• The Wooden Dummy
• The different types of Mook Jong construction.
• Differences in materials and leg construction.
• Level arms vs uneven arms.

• Contact and the opponent
• First contact
• Pulling and bringing in the opponent.
• Turning in the waist.
• The dummy’s contribution to recovery.
• The Bong Sao and Wu Sao hands.

• Linking actions
• The feet
• The two actions.
• Noticing how the legs enter the dummy.
• Creating an arch as you move forward.
• The feeling of the dummy is a transition for the feet as well as for the arms and hands.

• The position of the elbows in Wooden Dummy practice
• The elbow in practice
• Depends on the right distance.
• Using movement to develop power.
• Achieving the right angular position.
• Using the Bong Sao and Quan Sao hand movement
• Sinking of the elbow.
• The difference between a low and high Bong Sao

• Posture and Structure
• Its contribution to stability in movement
• What happens when posture and structure are incorrect?

• Demonstrations
• Defenses against kicks.
• Using the Tan Sao hand.
• Double kicks—blocking and attack.
• Application against a tall person.
• Using a sweeping kick in Wing Chun.