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Post by Deleted on Sept 15, 2011 22:40:23 GMT -5
I will do my best to keep this updated as often as possible.
Light one yesterday. Junbi undo and yoga, just felt really tight. Low energy all day due to a stressful week and less than average sleep time.
Today, however, was much better. After my junbi undo I hopped into a kettlebell workout (lots of swings and snatches, working timed rounds rather than rep ranges) and did some pull-ups, then got some good deep stretching in.
Tonight was class. I don't know what it was, whether it was the earlier workout, the big emphasis on stretching today, the dinner I had, the fact that I was well rested or what, but man BigAl was on it today. I surprised myself quite a bit tonight. Primarily a kumite emphasis tonight, working blocks and punches while stepping forwards and backwards in kumite dachi. We then partnered up and worked against the 1-2 combination, primarily responding with two sweeping down blocks as we drew back in our stance then launching a lead leg kick to the body or legs (worked both mae geri and gedan mawashi geri). We then worked on sweeping down the lead arm of your opponent's kumite dachi and combinations to attack their exposed areas. During these I felt really relaxed and rooted, as I was trying to get the same feeling in my kumite dachi that I feel whenever I practice an Ikken posture. Granted it didn't work most of the time, but every now and then I caught myself feeling pretty solid. For sweeping the lead arm, when we went to southpaw I actually caught myself using a Tensho cover on the lead arm for one rep, which helped draw it across easily and left my partner's liver wide open. I liked it so much I kept doing it, then Shihan saw it and tried it for himself and liked it.
Next was padwork, focusing on kicks. Shihan lined us up as before, with one guy in the middle and two others on the outside. Facing A while in kumite dachi, you had to execute a spinning back kick to their pad, then turn to face B while assuming kiba dachi, then stepping behind and executing yoko geri with the same leg that just did the ushiro geri. Both kicks felt strong, I rocked both guys holding the pads today which is fantastic as my yoko geri used to be absolutely laughable and my ushiro geri wasn't very accurate. Now I'm rocking both padholders with strong kicks; it felt good! We then did a similar drill, only this time you execute a rear leg mae geri, then turn to execute ushiro geri to the side. Again, for the most part my kicks felt strong and were rocking the padholders. We then worked a morote mae geri combination (rear leg mae geri, then kosaho footwork (switch) to perform a rear leg mae geri with the other leg) which was a nice combination, and finished with some work on gedan kakato geri (low heel kick), which my Shihan really liked. Overall, a good fun class and very motivating, as apparently I've been doing something right lately for all the surprises I had tonight.
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Post by MMX on Sept 16, 2011 11:12:54 GMT -5
Sounds good BigAl.
Glad to have your journal here too!
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Post by Deleted on Sept 18, 2011 1:42:24 GMT -5
Thanks MilkManX! I'll mostly use this to post about classes and training sessions where I pick up something that others might benefit from. Most of my S&C stuff I'll try to keep out of here as individual posts and just throw in with the other posts.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 25, 2011 22:36:21 GMT -5
Good Kyokushin workout the other day, variety of different things got worked on. A fun drill we worked on was performing a chudan soto uke while moving inside to your opponent, then executing a side elbow strike into a pad over their solar plexus. Can't really recall too much else, been really busy lately what with preparing everything for the new baby, celebrating my son's 2nd birthday, and working long hours.
In good news, I finally acquired a good heavy bag courtesy of Craigslist. 100lb banana bag, canvas, made by Everlast. Practically brand new, got it for maybe 1/3 of the price. Was supposed to obtain a stand too from another guy but unfortunately it ended up being too tall. I'm going to keep looking until payday, then I may just score a wall mount.
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Post by MMX on Sept 26, 2011 11:19:39 GMT -5
Nice!
Yeah I got my Power Tower from craigslist.
Some good deals there.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 30, 2011 17:17:44 GMT -5
I'm keeping my eye open, that's for sure. I'd love to find a Power Tower, as dips are one of my favorite exercises but I hate doing it any other way than on parallel bars.
Been sick since Sunday, hence why no real posting. Got a bad cold, one of the downsides of always being in contact with the public I guess. Hot and cold flashes, heavy chest congestion (I could barely carry a basket of laundry upstairs without having to rest on a chair), cough, and a deep soreness in all my joints. Had to take off work for two days but it's mostly gone now, just a bit of congestion left so going to brave going in tonight (I'm off tomorrow night too so that helps a bit). No training whatsoever, couldn't even try Tensho kata as the breathing was getting to me. We'll see how tomorrow goes, I'd like to at least do my junbi undo routine and stretch out.
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Post by MMX on Oct 3, 2011 11:12:26 GMT -5
Hope you feel better soon! Don't rush back into it either.
I think officially cold season is about to start. Gah!
Osu!
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Post by Deleted on Oct 4, 2011 2:21:24 GMT -5
It hit me hard but was over with quickly. I think I got it from my son as he was sick too. He's hanging around with 9 other toddlers once a week and anytime one of them gets sick they all get sick.
Decided to take it a bit slow but ended up having a decent workout. Did some Sanchin and Tensho earlier in the day as well as some work on assisted pistols, then after a 30 minute walk with my dog I warmed up and got into my workout. I did 5x5 combinations of the compass drill then cranked out about 50 seiken push-ups (with a few 20 count pauses added in). I then did 3x10 with both my homemade chishi and a pair of 10lb dumbbells I used as nigiri game. I finished up with some abwork and some deep stretching.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 4, 2011 22:24:49 GMT -5
Class tonight, just Shihan and I. After a good long warm-up, he then had me work on my splits and gave me some pointers for those. We then worked on some kumite defense drills (e.g. A will execute a two handed grab and knee strike, B will block the knee strike) which we did for hiza geri, mae geri, gedan mawashi geri, uchi mawashi geri, and soto mawashi geri.
We then broke out the kick mitt and worked chudan mawashi geri, jodan mawashi geri, ushiro geri from kiba dachi, yoko geri using taisabaki to attack at a 45 degree angle, and kin geri. We then used the focus mitts and worked on punches, mostly oi tsuki, gyaku tsuki, and kake tsuki. We finished with some work with shotei ago uchi (palm heel thrust to the chin) using a Thai pad as a target (we held it on sides with both hands and angled it so it was like hitting a chin). Good class.
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Post by MMX on Oct 5, 2011 11:08:18 GMT -5
Oh that does sound like it was fun.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 6, 2011 22:37:50 GMT -5
OSU MilkManX, it sure was!
Two workouts today! My idea of a fun day. The first one was fairly brief, I just warmed up with my junbi undo then did about 20 minutes of alternating 2 minutes of various fighting combinations (60 sec left lead, 60 sec right lead) with various kettlebell swings for moderately high reps. Just did them as in shadowboxing, but once my bag is set up I'd like to work the bag in between sets of swings. Did a few sets of pull-ups (12 total), then cooled down with a nice deep stretch.
Then I went to class tonight. After a good warm-up we decided to work on some kobudo today for a bit. I worked out with the tonfa for a bit which I really liked, then proceeded to bang and ding the heck out of myself with the nunchaku. We put a focus mitt on one of the tonfa and were using that as a target for the nunchaku which was pretty fun. I then "taught" Shihan Tensho kata a few times. We then worked on several different kumite drills and some one step sparring where A attacks with a lead straight and B defends in various ways.
We then had a good talk after class and Shihan's going to start gearing me more towards knockdown style training. Good stuff. He's also become a fan of Kelly McCann so we may introduce some of his combatives concepts into our self defense training.
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Post by MMX on Oct 7, 2011 10:59:33 GMT -5
Sounds like your training is going the right way! Awesome.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 13, 2011 21:52:57 GMT -5
Been a difficult time for training all week. Putting in lots of overtime and details to stock up a bit for the new baby, and we had the President in town the other day which was a big to-do. I never got to train since my last post, just some light stretching here and there and some Sanchin and Tensho sprinkled throughout.
Class was about 90 minutes, nothing too serious. We did a good warm-up and then worked all upper body today, working various fighting combinations both on the pads and with light contact to each other. Focused on the lead hand punch for a bit, then incorporated the rear hand punch, backfist roundhouse punch, ridgehand strikes, reverse knife hands, and various other ideas. Shihan cut his hand on the zipper on our Thai pad when working his ridgehand so we had to quit using those after we got some blood on it (hygiene purposes).
We then did our "What would you do?" drills, which were fun. Basically one person is the aggressor and can say or do whatever they want. The other person has to respond immediately to defend themselves. We did pretty good, each of us only froze maybe 1-2 times out of 20 for each. We each got each other a couple good times as we went by instinct more than thought and got a good technique in. For me, I got some good knees, uppercuts, palm strikes, and low kicks in as well as one good outside wristlock. Shihan had me by the gi and was pulling me into a punch, so I grabbed the hand holding stepped in and fortunately used control as he had no idea that was coming and it worked beautifully. Shihan got me good when I was "woofing" at him with my chest puffed up threatening him and he drilled me out of instinct dead in the sternum, which with my chest puffed out really hit hard and actually took my breath away. A few times we used the environment to our advantage too, hooking each other for knee strikes then "slamming" each other into the wall.
Overall, nothing crazy, but fun and a good way to shake off some cobwebs.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 20, 2011 22:36:00 GMT -5
Got in two lackluster workouts this week. Missed Tuesday's class due to lots of court, so I was glad to go tonight.
We both did a vigorous warm-up with some light stretching with Shihan's stretching machine, then alternated throwing 1-2 punches at each other with the defender sweeping them low and out of the way (note: need to keep my arms in tighter for the gedan uke, and to scoop the arm a bit with my hand). We then worked some traditional kihon (mostly tsuki and shuto, with some work on the inverted roundhouse thrust).
We then worked on lead front kicks, using what Shihan offhandedly referred to as the "step-stomp-kick". Step forward with the lead leg slightly, the rear foot moves slightly forward and stomps down, then the lead leg executes the mae geri, obviously done in a quick fluid fashion. After lots of reps it started feeling pretty good, especially once we broke out the focus mitts and I was hitting something. Then Shihan got mean and we did some double kicking. We would both stand by the windowsill, hands on the sill, then A would execute a low kick, retract back to chamber, followed by a middle/high kick, rechamber, then down, all utilizing the person standing next to you as a target. We alternated back and forth with lots of reps for mawashi geri and yoko geri. We then worked on ushiro geri from kiba dachi, then rear leg ashi dome from kumite dachi (I set mine up with a left lead straight - then a switch step to a right lead straight then did the rear leg stop kick with my left foot to his lead left thigh for one side; I found doing it without the switch was harder due to the range). We then worked that same 1-2 combo with a switch but then did a two handed grab and a hiza mawashi geri to the inner thigh of the lead leg.
We finished with some work on Tsuki no kata, more stretching with Shihan's machine (got an awesome stretch with it), and some partner med ball conditioning.
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Post by MMX on Oct 21, 2011 10:49:58 GMT -5
Oh yeah we were working on lead kicks like that recently too. Feel funky at first!
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