Conceptual Martial Arts
Hubud Master Series Volume II
Lockflow and Situationals
Featuring
Guro Shaun Eastman
This video is, as you might guess, the sequel to Shaun Eastman’s first video on the Filipino Martial Arts Drill hubud. The first video in the series teaches hubud in detail. If you don’t have this video yet, you owe it to yourself to get a copy.
This video is designed for someone who already has hubud under control and is ready to take things to another level. The primary focus here is to teach lockflow. What is lockflow you ask? The ability to move from one lock to another smoothly. The primary reason for doing so is if you are attempting a joint lock on an opponent and it’s not working one alternative is to flow to another lock. The reason being that your opponent will be very focused on defeating the first lock and will leave an opening for another to be applied successfully.
The video begins with Guro Eastman explaining that in addition to being able to flow from one lock to another you must, if the lock is not working. Be prepared to let go and ’enter with pain’. Too often people get caught in the monkey in the jar trap. The idea that you have something and won’t let it go, like a monkey grasping something in a jar. If he lets go he can remove his hand and get away. Instead he continues to try and pull the bait out until the hunter comes back to collect his lunch. In combat if something isn't working the ability to switch to other tools automatically is critical.
Guro Eastman doesn’t review hubud in this video. He says up front that you need to have the drill down before working on the material presented. He begins working hubud with a partner and then begins inserting a structured lockflow into the sequence. A structured lockflow is one where there is a predetermined series of locks done in a specific order flowing from one lock to another after you receive a physical cue from your partner.
The locks Guro Eastman covers are the Bent Wrist Press, Snaking Dumog (a variation on an S Lock), Sankyu, Standard Gooseneck, Walkthrough/Body Lock, Straight Arm Bar and Shihonage using a Figure 4 hold to a takedown.
He shows the locks clearly and explains them well. He also demonstrates some fine points such as foot trapping while doing Sankyu or arm circling when applying a straight arm bar. He also emphasizes the difference between doing the lock to demonstrate or teach it and doing the lock combatively.
He then goes into some low line kicking, specifically an oblique kick and an inverted heel hook kick from Kali. He shows some basic drills to develop both these with a partner.
The video finishes with some examples of taking the tools of hubud and the lockflow and using them in self defense situations involving an opponent either striking or grabbing you. The use of the concepts and, yes, the individual techniques that make up the drills is clearly explained and demonstrated.
The video also gives you some hints of where you could take this material if you are willing to think for yourself. The lockflow demonstrated is structured in nature. However, at the beginning of the tape two of Guro Shaun’s students are shown engaged in an unstructured lockflow one where there is no definite pattern and the players are flowing from lock to lock based on the feel from their opponent..
I enjoyed the video and recommend it to you. It will be an excellent addition to your training library.
To purchase a copy of this video contact Guro Eastman at Eastman62@hotmail.com. Tell him you learned about this at Spike’s Place.
