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Bruce Lee's JKD Top & Bottom End Bag Training
Always focus on hitting the Top & Bottom End Bag (also called Double End
Bag), as it comes to you! Don't hit it as it is going away. Try to see the
bag as it returns to your face. Also, within the same practice session,
switch from light bag gloves, to heavier boxing gloves to bare fists; this
changes the speed of the bag, and forces you to adjust your timing and
rhythm. You tend to hit the bag with the same amount of force all the time
and this makes it easier to pick up on the rhythm. Try to vary the force
of your punches.
Top & Bottom End Bag Drills:
1. Basic Jab - work on seeing the ball
2. Jab-Slip right and left
3. Jab-Catch-Jab (You can also do a lot of
Panantukan
drills)
4. Jab-Cross - make sure to hit the ball as it returns
5. Jab-Cross-Slip - Depending on how hard you hit with the cross you may
or may not successfully slip
6. Jab-R or L Uppercut
7. Jab-Cross-R or L Uppercut
8. Jab-Lead Hook - try to hit the ball as it returns
9. Jab-Lead Hook-Cross - try to not "wait" on the ball, hit it accurately
on its first return and first "lateral" motion in front of you as a result
of you hook, easier said than done
10. Pak Sao by capture - you can do two variations in your
Western
Boxing section of Top & Bottom End Bag work:
i) put your Pak Sao hand on the ball and punch the air or ii) Pak Sao in
the air and hit the ball
11. Gunting
the ball with either hand as it returns
12. Elbows and
Destructions
in the same fashion as above
13. Add the Head Butt
- make sure you intentionally Head Butt the ball and don't call a missed
slip a Head Butt
14. As the ball returns Slip inside and take a low single on the rope
15. Sometimes after you take the single to the left, you drop the weight
and shoot a double under the boxing bag which is hung with the bottom at
waist height to the left of the Top & Bottom End Bag ball
16. Shorten the cord (lengthening the elastic) so that the ball is about
2-3' off the ground, work your thrust kicking from the butt scoot
position, accuracy and timing is important here
17. Hang the ball at waist height and work the knees, you can also punch
the cord above the ball to screw up the rhythm and return
18. Use your feet to screw up the rhythm by
Thai Boxing
kicking and
Jeet Kune Do kicking the bottom rope
19. Shoulder Roll the ball (you visualize going to the outside) and on the
return beat: i) Uppercut with the rear hand, ii) Bob & Weave to the other
side and Lead Hook or Uppercut, iii) Uppercut-Overhand, iv)
Overhand-Uppercut, v) Hook
20. Jeet Sao (Stopping Hand) the ball in flight with your palm, then use a
combination
21. Place a "dot" with tape on a couple sides of the ball and try to eye
jab the dot as the ball is in flight, this really enhances your ability to
see if the ball is spinning too fast, this can be near impossible until it
slows
22. Place the Top & Bottom End Bag ball about 2 feet off a wall so when
you hit it towards the wall it rebounds back at you hard and fast to work
your defense
23. Place your back foot on a wall so that the return of the ball will hit
you and you can't move backward as you work the ball
24. Male Triangle Lead Drill: With the right hand, Jab, Elbow, Backfist,
Hook, step diagonal back with right foot, and left Jab, Elbow, Backfist,
Hook, step, etc.
25. Ambidextrous Lead Drill: Jab, Uppercut, Hook, step back into right
lead and Cross with the left, Uppercut with the left, Overhand with the
left; then Jab, Uppercut, Hook with the right hand, step back into left
lead, Cross with the right, upper with the right and Overhand with the
right etc. Always adjust your distance to the bag appropriately and work
in slipping right and left if you need to, because of your proximity to
the bag. Make sure you circle the bag and do not stand in one place
Sijo Bruce Lee's
notes on the Top & Bottom End Bag
- The top and bottom speed bag teaches one to hit straight and fair and
square, if hit on the side or top it will be erratic in its movements, and
will tell the practitioner that he is not hitting straight.
- Treat it like an
opponent.
- The almost instantaneous return of the bag to the face will soon teach
you how, after having delivered the blow, to recover yourself quickly and
get out of danger.
- It requires more
footwork than the platform speed bag; more variety and one can also hit
upward.
Speed Bag Drills
1. Right Jab, Right Jab, Left Cross
2. Right Jab, Left Cross, Right Backfist
3. Right Backfist, Left Backfist, Right Backfist, Left Backfist
4. Right Jab, Right Backfist, Left Cross, Left Backfist
5. Right Jab, Left Cross, Right Jab, Left Cross
6. Right Jab, Right Jab, Right Jab, Left Cross, Left Cross, Left Cross
7. Left Hook, Left Hook, Left Hook, Right Hook, Right Hook, Right Hook
8. Right Jab, Right Backhand, Left Cross
9. Right Hook, Left Hook, Right Hook, Left Hook
10. Left Cross, Right Hook , Right Hook
11. Right Backhand, Right Backhand, Right Backhand, Left Backhand, Left
Backhand, Left Backhand
12. Right Backhand, Left Backhand, Right Backhand, Left Backhand
13. Right Jab, Left Cross, Right Hook, Right Hook, Right Backhand
14. Right Uppercut, Left Uppercut, Right Uppercut, Left Uppercut
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