Matthew Sylvester has been training in the Martial Arts since 1991. He currently studies Ao Denkou Jutsu, Kempo Ryu Karate, Tae Kwon Do and Shunryu Kempo. With grateful thanks to Sensei Dean Martin (Kempo).

Nearly every style of martial art allows some form of sparring, even if it is only to allow students to get used to the feel and randomness of having someone attacking you in an off the cuff manner. In these articles PMA will attempt to put forward techniques that the author(s) have found work for them, so that others can, should they so wish, incorporate them into their own training and their own repertoire. Because of this, the drills will be numbered consecutively, drills 1-3 were featured in PMA2. This month we feature 4 and 5.

The drills that we are covering today are:

Drill Four - Attack with rear leg roundhouse, defender shelves and sweeps
Drill Five - Defender pushes to chest, roundhouse counter

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Drill Four

	In this drill, Black decides to attack White with a rear leg roundhouse. White steps in and shelves the kick using his rear arm's bicep to soak up the blow and his rear arm forearm with which to capture it.
	From there, White steps in and punches to the chest (turning it into a grab).
	Raising his leg, white retains his grip whilst preparing himself for the sweep. If this was a self-defence move then this could easily be converted into a knee to the inside of the thigh.
	White then shoots out his lead leg and hooks it straight into the back of Black's supporting leg taking him to the ground. He then follows up with a quick punch to the chest to gain extra points.

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Drill Five

This drill is more suitable for either knockdown fighters or those entered in light continuous fights (as these are well known for time and energy wasting slug fests).

	In this drill, the antagonists are standing close together and trading punches. Too close to get a kick they are both losing points and wasting valuable time.
	White leans in and pushes to the chest of Black, just hard enough to make him step back
	This gives him just enough space to get a kick in. This can then be followed up or exploited to back off. It's a good way of giving yourself some well-needed space, especially if you were losing points or stamina in the trade-off.

I would like to thank Dean Martin for his help and patience in producing the photos for this article and Daniel Cann for taking them.