Lesson 37 student level 3, inside entry, #1

This level introduces the famous 'entry' drills. There will be 7 basic drills shown for students to practise. There is one 'inside' entry, and one outside, that has about 5 or 6 basic followups to it. These entry drills simulate the most common responses to a basic fist attack. Attempts are usually made to jam the punch, or to push it up, down, away, to the side etc. These responses are mostly instinctive in the majority of people, so the entries allow one to practise controlling the situation to our own benefit. Bruce Lee made these drills famous, and Keith Kernspect refined them over about 8 years, by having hundreds of instructors work on them with tens of thousands of students throughout Europe.

This video introduces the entry through the 'inside' path. All punches and entries start with this attempted punch. The idea shown in the video is to show the two extremes of using either power or mobility to bypass your opponents arms and land your strike. Each person uses their own personal combination of the two. This personal area of strength/movement will have some variety depending upon the situation and the opponent's skills.