Punch Defence Playbook

Mat Manual companion guide to "Parry, Catch, Block: Your Hands Defend Punches Too." Print it. The article teaches the three hand defences and the answer each one loads. This book cards every defence against every punch, stages feed-and-answer drills at rising speed, retrains the shell as a one-beat tool, and scores sparring games on answers alone.

Name: ______________________________ Gym: ______________________________ Stance: ______________ Coach: ______________

BEFORE ANYTHING: SAFETY AND PARTNER AGREEMENTS ☐ Defence drills are fed punches before they are real punches. The feeder throws at the speed and power the part prints, to the target the part names. A feeder who speeds up to test the defender ends the drill. Pass/fail. ☐ Gloves are on for every partner part in this book, the feeder's and the defender's. Palm catches are practised with the glove on, as they will be used. ☐ Head contact follows the gym's standing sparring agreements at every stage. Rising speed in this book means rising feed speed at agreed contact, never rising power to the head. ☐ A defender who is rattled, dizzy, or hurt stops, says so, and sits out. Defending while rattled is not a drill in this book at any level. ☐ The catch is a meeting, not a grab. No partner holds, twists, or pulls a punching arm in any drill here. A held arm is a broken agreement, and the round restarts.

Part 1: The Defence Map, Which Hand Meets Which Punch

The whole book on one table. Post it where the gloves are kept.

Assignment note. Schools vary in which hand they assign to some of these pairings, and a student's coach's assignments outrank this table. Drill one system until it is automatic. The logic under the table does not vary: straight punches are redirected or met, swings are blocked, and every contact loads a named answer.