6 hours of training in 4 days – This week has been a bit different. My baby girl had an adenoidectomy and tonsillectomy surgery. So this has as you can imagine changed our schedule, and it has disrupted our training a tiny bit. She is doing well so far. It is painful but she is doing ok.
Tuesday 8/13/2019 1 hour of Muay Thai training.
This month we are working on knees in Muay Thai. Today we worked on entries with knees and following it up with elbows and off balances to kicks.
Let me start with I am exhausted, because I did not sleep. My daughter was up and down all night and so was I. I love being a mother, but it is hard some days with the lack of sleep.
So while we were training. I was pulling at my reserves… to get through. I toughed the training out, but I sure felt it.
Here are the combos we did:
Jump rope warm up
Shadowbox warm up
Pad work:
- Jab
- Cross
- Tie up/full plumb
- lead knee/left knee (orthodox fighter)
- rear elbow/right elbow
- square up duck stance
- spin off
- right round house kick
- Burn out 25 skip knee #1
- Jab
- Cross
- Tie up/full plumb
- rear knee/right knee (orthodox fighter)
- lead elbow/left elbow (orthodox fighter)
- square up duck stance
- spin off
- right or left round house kick
- Burn out 25 skip knee #2
Clench work:
- Partner throws a right kick
- you shield kick with left leg, and step into right knee partner
- Tie up and then run 10 knees
- Spin off partner
- Jumping Jacks burn out
- Partner throws a right kick
- you step back to avoid kick
- you left knee partner
- Tie up and run 10 knees
- Spin off partner
- Jumping jacks burn out
We then did 30 sit ups, and 10 x X Planks each side.
8/15/2019 1 hour Thursday Muay Thai Trianing – Thai Boxing is an inside the pocket fight.
Today was fantastic. We took baby girl with us to the gym… so we only stayed for the Thai boxing training we went home during Kali. It felt good today to train. My back has been giving a hard time lately… but I have been stretching and doing what I need to do. Today it felt good to train.
Warm up:
3 minute round of: walking teeps, alternating feet, you teep and put your foot down. Keeping your balance, and throwing your hand out for long guard.
45 seconds of rapid teeps burn out
Training: (Tony wanted us to focus on these skills and get them down.)
- 3 minute round of straight rear kicks working on pivot but not stepping out.
- 10 x machine gun kicks burn out
- 3 minute round of straight lead leg kicks working on switch kick and pivot not a cut step kick.
- 10 x machine gun kicks burn out
- 3 minute round of, high cover of an incoming lead hook, you post at the same time, then lead switch kick
- 20 x machine gun kicks burn out
- 3 minute round of, Thai long hook. This is a wide long hook, that is meant to get in behind a persons pillar block.
- 45 seconds of double Thai long hooks burn out
- 3 minute round of
1) lead kick, Thai long hook, rear kick, lead knee and push off, lead double kick, high cover and post an incoming hook, to a teep - 20 x machine gun lead kick burn out
- 4 x rounds of partner back machine gun kicks. Where you hold the bag for your partner and they will machine gun kick for 30 seconds. Taking turns each time, for 4 rounds each. 2 on each side.
- Jump rope for 4 x 1 minute rounds
- 50 push ups
Tony’s training is so different from Kru Kristen’s and Khun Kru Krysta’s classes. I value all of my trainers. I love seeing the different takes on these skills, and it helps me learn this art that a love.
8/16/2019 1.5 hours Friday Muay Thai Training – Stance is so important, most people don’t focus on the importance of stance
I have mentioned Tony has his own style of Thai Boxing. If you did not know, Thai boxing is passed down through family. So if you go to one Thai gym in Thailand they will have their own style, where another gym will be different. That is what they have passed down through generations, and if you end up training there, you end up being like family. You end up learning from their traditions, and it is reflected in the Wai Kru.
I mention this because Tony’s style is what his dad taught him. When he teaches us, he is taking time out of his schedule to pass his art down. I feel so honored to have been able to learn from him, and continue to learn from him.
Training: Kicks and Elbows
Warm up:
- 3 x 3 minute rounds of warm up shadowboxing knees, to fist
- 1 minute high knees after each round
Training:
- 2 back to back x 3 minute rounds of 5 machine gun kicks groupings, on left and right side
- 20 push ups in between
- 2 x 3 minute rounds of rear horizontal elbow #1, to rear knee
- 20 push ups after each round, and then switch pads to hold for your partner
- 2 x 3 minute rounds of rear horizontal elbow #1, to lead horizontal elbow #2, to lead knee
- 20 push ups after each round, and then switch pads to hold for your partner
- We broke off, and did 4 rounds of just playing tag. This is where we kicked with shin guards on. This was conditioning to make us used to getting hit.
- We added catching the kick passing it and kicking leg
- We added catching kick and dumping person by stepping in and hooking opponents other foot.
- Then we played around light sparring
- Partner bag kicks x 3 rounds, Where your partner throws a kick, you throw a kick at the same area on the back and you both machine gun them, and don’t kick each other. =) This focuses on form, speed, and timing.
- Then we did sit ups in between
This was a fantastic class and I loved it.
8/17/2019 2.5 hours Saturday Bo staff Saint Rafael, and Striking.
Today is the end of the week workout wise for me. I am tired from yesterdays workout with Tony. My body is just tired. I am looking forward to having tomorrow off of workouts.
However, I have had a great day. We started with Bo Staff class. In class today instead of using double stick to so practice the Saint Rafael drill, we did it with staves. This poses a bit of a problem. Because the staff is a fixed stick and not two separate sticks you have to move your body in a different way to be able to complete the strikes. So while this is a drill we have done before many times. I bent my brain and made me think in a different way when the fulcrum of my stick is just center mass.
Like in any martial art, knowing your center, and the leverage you have and need to pull off a move is important. For staves I am more cognizant of the swings, range, and hand placement, because the single long stick limits mobility. As you can see in the video both my partner and I are still figuring out where and how to position the staff to get the strikes in.
Striking class
In striking class we worked on hooks, and body hooks. I got the chance to work with a brand new woman. She had never done Muay Thai before, and you could see she was nervous. I loved working with her. I saw the same fear and excitement that I had when I started. I really hope she comes back.
I love working with new students, it takes a lot of patience, but is so rewarding when they have a good time. Because they don’t know the move the drills, and then they don’t know how to feed pads, it takes a bit longer and we go a great deal slower. Due to that, today was not physically draining for me. =)
Training:
- Feeder feeds a right hook to your head
- You high cover
- You return a cross
- You return a hook
- Jumping jacks burn out
- Feeder feeds a right hook to your head
- You high cover
- You return a hook
- You return a cross
- Jumping jacks burn out
- Feeder feeds a right body hook
- You cover with elbow and sideways crunch
- You return an rear/right upper cut
- You return hook
- You return a cross
- Jumping jacks burn out
- Feeder feeds a left body hook
- You cover with elbow and sideways crunch
- You return a lead/left upper cut
- You return a cross
- Jumping jacks burn out
After these drills we worked on drill sparring. Where we just practice the drills we worked on. Taking the power out of the sparring, but trying to land a hit. This allows us to work on timing and target acquisition, and allows your partner to work on blocking, parrying and returning strikes.
This has been an awesome week for training. Even though my baby girl had surgery and is still feeling under the weather… she is healing and I was able to get my training in.
This post consists of a week worth of martial arts training. I needed to cut back on the posts due to lack of time to get it done. Let me know what you think. Thanks for reading, and keep working to be the best you that you can be.
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