Today I met Kru Dan at Punch Kick Grapple. We worked in their ring for 3 hours. We started off with basic footwork drills using angling using all four angles. Then added in round kicks and teeps to the footwork. Then he had me deal with a fighters coming in with a barrage of punches. Next we went on to 3 rounds of pad work, really working on my power and proper distancing for both my punches and kicks. We then went to 3 rounds of light sparring. He made me really push the pace since my fight will only be 2 minutes rounds. He also demonstraded to me when I was dropping my lead by either punching or kicking me in the head. by round three I was exausted. He then had me perform 100 push-ups, 100 crunches and 50 squats. I though great finally done, but no.... He thne had me do 2 rounds of shadow boxing. This was a tough workout but It was really, really useful and think it will help me out for my fight.
My arms were dead I was sweating a pig and there was only 2-hours to Judo.
I decided to watch the kids class at Osugi Sensei's dojo. I always enjoy watching a good teacher at work. I usually pick up at least a cool drill or 2. Watching him I definitely did. Fifteen minutes before the adult Judo class I decided I better strech out more than usual. Class then started and we went right into warm-ups. I realized that I might have bitten off more than I can chew, when after the first 2 sets of jumping jacks and lunges, I was alreay sweating like crazy. I made it through the warm-up and then we went on to moving uchi komi (Movement, set-up the throw off balance but do not complete the throw). We worked on leg sweeps both from pushing on the arm grabbing your sleave and then the one grabbing the lapel. The next uchi komi was for hari goshi, sweeping hip throw. Both techniques were a lot of fun and I several points in my movement and distancing that I need to work on. The kids class ended so we could use the whole mat. So we started doing newaza (ground work) and we did about 5 rounds. We then proceeded to do free uchi komi, where you practice what ever waza (technique) you want. This showed how tired I still was. A few of the lower ranks I did get mount or kami sho gatame, bu could not get off a submission. When rolling with the higher ranks I was not able to escape anything. A high light for the night, was i was bucking a brown belt off of me and during that he set up a cross choke so I ended up in his guard and choked at the same time. I did one round of randori and twisted my ankle and though oh no this was a bad idea. it was a slight twist with no swelling. I decided to sit out the rest of the randori.
This was a great endurance test training like that but, I don't think I will do it again.
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