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A final note on defending against a collar grab

access_time 2022-05-23T06:29:11.648Z face Kru Hemanth Kumar
Learning Self Defence: A final note on defending against a collar grab By Kru Hemanth Kumar Published on: Pull your attacker’s forearm towards your body. Use your thumb on the pressure point below the biceps, right where the triceps begin. If the attacker still moves to grab you, a quick bite on th...

Defending against a front bear hug

access_time 2022-05-23T06:25:54.413Z face Kru Hemanth Kumar
Learning Self Defence: Defending against a front bear hug By Kru Hemanth Kumar Published on: You need to put a little space between you and the attacker first. Use both your hands to grip and squeeze his love handles as hard as you can. This will cause pain and force his body to rise upwards while ...

Getting it all together – a recap

access_time 2022-05-11T08:52:30.504Z face Wesley Newton
Learning Drums: Getting it all together – a recap By Wesley Newton Published on: Playing the drums from picking up your very first drum stick to perfecting the classic two-time beat to the Waltz groove is like using your creativity in the right direction. Let’s do a recap of everything we have lear...

Get ready to disco

access_time 2022-05-11T08:41:37.598Z face Wesley Newton
Learning Drums: Get ready to disco By Wesley Newton Published on: Play a standard eighth note groove. Add the kick drum to counts 1-2-3-4, otherwise called the four on the floor beat. Next, open the hi-hat with your left foot and play the hi-hat on the & of 1-2-3-4. Experiment with broken 16th note...

Using rudiments in fills

access_time 2022-05-11T08:31:04.439Z face Wesley Newton
Learning Drums: Using rudiments in fills By Wesley Newton Published on: Play a sixteenth note groove. After a bar, orchestrate single strokes (RLRL), double strokes (RRLL) and single paradiddles (RLRR LRLL) on the snare drum, hi-tom, mid-tom and the floor tom as fills, ending with a crash on 1 of t...