Basics (Fighting)…
Went in to noon class today expecting to work on Basics the entire time. We got started and boy oh boy do I need the work… Sensei interrupted class to test another student. We lined up and fought him, 5 fights in a row and we fought him kind of hard. He kept at it and got his Blue Belt today. Pretty cool to be a part of that.
Still need to go back and work on basics more…
Fight Class. Had regular class tonight. It was fighting/sparring. Started with 11 laps around the floor for a quick warm up. Then did a couple matches sparring and one dead-man drill.
Had to leave early before 2nd class tonight, my boy had to go home and do his homework… wheeee….
Fighting. Today’s noon class was all out. We showed up and saw an obstacle course setup with skills ladder and 5 bags pulled out. Hooyah!
We did 4 rounds of feet drills with the skills ladder then a set of different kick and punch combos on the bags, running between them. We did 2 final rounds that were the same except on the skills ladder we did pushups and a plyo-pushup hop to the next set – for every ladder rung… Hooyah!
Then we paired up and did several 1:30 rounds. Then a deadman drill of 3 rounds for 1:30 each. Pretty fun.
Then we were called into the center of the floor and drew a Kata card and did the Kata on the spot. I drew Too San and went for it. Then we did a game where we bet on each other’s ability to perform Pinan 1 in a chosen amount of time, the loser of the bet owed 30 push ups. I said 50 seconds and had Sempai attempt it. He beast-ed it out and I did the push ups…
Man what a fun class today. It had everything!
Showed up early (4:00pm) and helped out in the younger student classes with fighting. Then had fight club, we drilled kicks for 20 or so rounds, kicked the pads for 20 or so kicks. Then did the ½ round kick swap drill. 20 kicks and 10 pushups for 10 rounds.
Kicks & Fighting. We started with some stretching then did basic kicks. 3x each. We then did some combos on the kick bags. Low-highs 5x each leg twice, then we did some Front kick + ½ round to Back kick combos 5x each side twice. Then we did it on a partner for a few rounds.
We suited up and did 45 second fights for 10 or so rounds.
Fun night. My cardio held up without any worry.