Really great fight class tonight. Everyone was really focused and working hard. Makes me so happy!
We did some conditioning and then some kick drills. Then we paired up and worked through a series of offense and defense drills (including the defensive sidekick, yay!)
Then we did the Marty Knight thing, where everyone had to fight through each belt type. For about 30x rounds. Then we ended with 100x side kicks.
Big class, pretty much everyone came out tonight. We got to work immediately. My goal was to work them out, then drill then 30 minutes of sparring. We were still fairly unfocused most of the class… I gotta get this right.
Worked up to the side kick, backfist bodypunch drill, with the defensive sidekick thrown in.
I think next week i’m going to do a ton of kicks for the workout then we’re going to do more sparring.
Only four students again. We worked hard and on some good skills.
Started off watching some Raymond Daniels fight videos.
Warmed up with some good movements to engage the legs and cardio. Then did “battle stations” for 2 rounds. This smoked them pretty well off the bat.
We then did a few side kick drills on the heavy pads. Eventually working on spinning side/back kicks against an opponents ½ round kick. Ended with some ‘limb speed’ kicks for practice out of the 1/w round. Getting them to ‘slap’ instead of kick for power.
Good hard working kids in class. Love them!
We started off badly. The class couldn’t get things together inside the 1:00 time limit, so they did 30 burpees. Ugh…
Then we worked on conditioning and some kick drills for 25 minutes.
Then paired up and did some different offensive drills:
Body Punch 2:00
Body Punch 2:00
Side Kick Body Punch 2:00
Side Kick Backfist Body Punch 2:00
Side Kick Backfist Body Punch 2:00
Then split into teams in 2 rings and did point sparring. First to 3. Got in about 12 fights.
**most kids reverted back to their old way of sparring. Standing still, single attacks, very little if any movement at all. When the other kid would actually move they would just quickly destroy the other kid. Had to really coach and drive them to keep moving, then to move laterally into 3′s and 4′s…
Lots of work to do but we’re finally starting to get somewhere I think.
Fight Class: Tonight was fighting in Adult class. We worked on moving slower than usual and hitting hard. Doing specific attacks and absorbing attacks. Good night for sparring.
Second class we basically talked about a new project/idea Sensei has for putting Dojo historical “stuff” up online or in a type of museum. Very exciting project, I can’t wait to help him with it.