Curriculum (2-day)

A typical Rough Crowd Academy weekend is either a two-day intensive, or two single-day intensives back to back. Individual weekends may vary.

This is the general schedule that a Rough Crowd Academy full weekend follows.


Saturday

Class starts

  • Welcome
  • Introductions
  • Expectations for the weekend
  • Overview of the day’s agenda
  • Rough Crowd Ground Rules
  • Call for the over-trained
  • Introduction of basic concepts used
  • Safety

Lunch

  • Before you play
  • Crawl before you walk – learning, practicing, and discussing basic forms
    • Swing – fundamental body movement
    • Open hand – a variety of techniques
    • Punching – not as simple as it sounds
    • Hand positions
    • Discussion
    • Variations
    • Backhanding

Break

  • Check in
  • Putting it all together – using what we’ve learned so far
  • Walk before you run – extending the basic techniques
    • Face slapping
    • Elbows/shoulders/body blocks
    • Knees
    • Kicking
    • Bastinado
  • Day 1 wrap-up

Day 1 of class ends

 

Sunday

Class starts

  • Welcome
  • Thoughts from yesterday and Q & A
  • Overview of the day’s agenda
  • Recap of Saturday
  • Connection
  • Attitude and Approach
  • Advanced – coming to a trot
    • Biting
    • Hair pulling
    • Pressure points
    • Cunt kicking
    • CBT
    • Quiet pain

Lunch

  • Checking in
  • Scene prep
  • Class scenes, peer review, and feedback

Rough Crowd Academy is a wrap!