Man, aren't all my titles just really deep & insightful?? Yeah, I'm not buying that crock either. Let's be honest, I'm not smart enough to re-invent the wheel, so I'm just keeping it simple. Real quick, let's get the boring mundane stuff out of the way:
- Diet:
- Breakfast - 3 eggs & a bowl of cereal, milk to drink
- Lunch - Chicken Caesar salad, water to drink
- Cheat - my manager brought in doughnut holes yesterday morning. I held out until about 2pm, but I finally caved & had a raspberry -filled one.
- Snack - Greek Yogurt Bar, more water to drink
- Dinner - "The Regular" (see future post about food), sweet tea to drink
- Exercise
- 10 push-ups
- 10 burpees
- 10 squats
- 30 bicycles
- Training:
- Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Fundamentals
- Top position:
- How to clear your opponent's elbow if he gets it inside to make space (switch hips to kesa gatame, control tricep, switch hips back to head & arm)
- How to secure & finish an arm-triangle if your opponent passes his "free" are over your head (pin arm between your head & opponent's, pass to mount, lock up arm triangle grip, dismount into opposite side control, move perpendicular &shrug shoulders to finish)
- Bottom position:
- How to recover your guard (knee in the hip, elbow inside hip, opposite forearm framing on opponent's throat, hip away & insert knee, extend away to make space & wrap a leg around for partial guard, escape hips to side of trapped foot to allow full guard recovery)
- Positional sparring:
- Upper belts on bottom side control, white belts on top with "good arm control". White belt needs mount/submission to win, upper belt needs closed guard/submission to win
- Worked twice with ____ (man, it is really embarrassing how terrible I am with names. Not even kidding either). First time I was over eager trying to pass to mount & he was able to use the space to insert a knee. From there it was a downhill battle until I ended up back in his guard & then quickly swept into mount. The second time I was more control-oriented & didn't compromise my position. Each time he made space or got an elbow/knee inside, I stopped what I was doing, address the threat & then got back to work. I patiently focused on his far-side arm, was able to isolate it & eventually got him to tap to a kimura.
- Rolled once with Andrew. He got half guard pretty quickly, but from there I was able to maintain top control. Lots of fancy trickery going on, but I did my best to just focus on balance, underhooks, pressure, etc. Bell ended the round before Andrew decided to stop toying with me.
- Muay Thai Fundamentals
- Warm-Up:
- Partner cario - do 10 jump squats, then kick your feet into your partner's hands & wheelbarrow the length of the gym. He then does 10 jump squats & you wheelbarrow him back. Lather, rinse repeat. I was able to get through 7 lengths in the 5min. Best part, though, was having Dax yelling at me "You got 9lbs to lose, Ben, pick it up!" Gotta love encouragement from teammates! Then there's Jarrett: "He looks like a little squirrel when he jumps." Ah gee, thanks, coach!
- Footwork:
- Simple box pattern drill (forward once, left once, back once, right once; forward twice, left twice, back twice, right twice, etc.), then we started working the jab while advancing and eventually the jab-cross while advancing.
- Drilling rear kicks
- Worked a coupla rounds of on the pads, back & forth with partners. Then we put together a basic combo: jab-cross-rear kick. My roommate Alex is finally starting to get comfortable with this one & is turning his hips over more. He's consistently able to rock the pad-holder backwards.
- WAR
- Final 5min was a burnout. Both you & your partner have on Thai pads & are trading rear kicks. The idea is that the instant your partner kicks you, you return a kick faster & harder to make him pay for his impertinence. Always a killer way to end class.
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