My husband, I, and 3 of my other team mates were called into the gym and presented with Thai shorts. My Coach/trainer Tony comes from a different tradition, one that has been passed down the line through his family. He told us like the WTBA presents arm bands for level tests and acknowledging progress. His family and his traditions are to give Thai shorts to students that are around level 1. He said “one of the first tests is to give back, and you have, you help the other students, and help teach.”
I am so honored and proud to be a part of this team. A gym where we are lucky enough that we can learn from multiple traditions. A gym where we are a team, a tribe, an extended family looking to better ourselves every day, and help others better themselves.
I really love Muay Thai. I love learning the rich tapestry of history that is behind this art. I love learning about Thailand, the people, and why this art came about. I feel a sense of accomplishment when I practice. I feel like I am making my body and mind stronger. I feel like I am learning an art and that I can eventually pass it down myself. This week I learned many new terms, words that are the names for some of the strikes we do, and they mean. Like Tang Kao, and Siep Kao, names for some of the knees. I learned names of some of the teeps. Like Sandal Rubbing the Forehead. I love how descriptive the name is in Thai.
Also as a person who has learned multiple languages in my life, Thai is one of the hardest I have ever tried to learn and pronounce. English, Japanese, Spanish, and some German, are the languages I have learned. In various levels of fluency. English and Spanish being the ones I am most fluent in. Japanese I learned from my grandma and mother when I lived and visited Japan. Finally German when I have time to study, so I have a basic kindergarten level knowledge. =) I digress though. Thai is so nuanced and the letter y seems to have a sound like ny. I could be wrong on this, but that is my understanding. I may want to pick up a class on Thai and pronunciation.
Tuesday 01/07/2020 – 3 hours… Muay Thaiand JKD
3 hours of Muay Thai and JKD training tonight.
I love it when my instructors say that they can see that changes, the progress in my training.
This time last year I was feeling like I was in a rut. I felt like I had hit a plateau. However this year, I am feeling like I am making progress on the training side of things. My cardio is head and shoulders above that of last year, my endurance is improving even more, my technique is improving to the point my speed. Yessss!
Conditioning warm up:
4 count rear to lead on bag, then sprawl
bob and weave drill down under a rope hanging across the mat
ladder where we switched our lead foot in and out of the ladder
Training:
Check the kick lead leg, return kick lead leg, teep lead leg
Check the kick rear leg, return kick rear leg, teep rear leg
lead knee (siep kao, pushing knee), to lead kick
rear knee (siep kao, pushing knee), to rear kick
JKD:
sitting hubud (sitting removes the ability to move around with your feet. You have to feel the partners movements and focus on working the technique.)
sitting 1 to 1 flow drill
sitting 5 to 5 flow drill
sitting 2 to 2 flow drill
Then we flowed between them
Then we worked on standing up while doing one of these drills and sitting back down, without stopping the drill.
We were drilling without shin guards. We were going light but still shin bone on shin bone will cause bone bruises. This is normal. You have to push out the fluid in the bruise. I treated it with Thai Oil, and rolling it out with the tiger tail. It hurt, but cumulatively it will start to hurt less the more it happens. So this is toughening up your bone and shins.
I only document this and show it to show what really happens in this martial art. These kinds of bruises happen, you need to know how to treat them. I am going to put a hot compress on it as well as roll it out again.
Wednesday 01/08/2020 – 2 hours… Muay Thai
2 hours of training Kettle Bell and Muay Thai. I let my baby girl take pictures and that is what I got. However, I am a little shook. Is this what I look like? It’s blurry but heck.
4 rounds of:
KB swings 10
1 arm KB swings 20
Side to side KB swings 10
Anyway I digress… today was Kettle Bells, then all knees all the time. My coach Tony who is Thai and is teaching me all the Thai words for the move we are doing. Siep Kao, yat (pronounced yhut), thee (pronounced tee) and Tang Kao We learned different kinds of tees today.
5 minute round of doing Siep Kao knees on the bag
5 minute round of doing Tang Kao knees on the bag
5 minute round of Siep Kao with partners
5 minute round of Tang Kao with partners
5 minute round of Swimming/clench work while getting knees in
Then we finished with core workout! Woot!
Terms for knees in Thai:
Siep Kao (pronounced see ep cow) – is pushing knee, where you knee the person with upper shin bone/knee
Tang Kao – is the spearing knee, where you knee the person with the top of you knee.
Yat (yhut) (pronounced nyet or yhut) – when you push with the knee
Thee (pronounced tdee, you will hear Americans say Dye) – word said when you knee a person
45 seconds each exercise, with 15 rest, 4 rounds
dead bugs
crunches
leg raises
bicycle
mountain climbers
clenching core with feet off ground and hands on head
pike ups
Friday 01/10/2020 – 2 hours… Muay Thaiand JKD
2 hours of Muay Thai practice. My coach Tony kicked our butts again. We learned the names for three different teeps. I thought I took a pic. You the kind of thought you took pic, remembering you put camera up and clicked, but for some reason it is not in your pics. I will get the terms tomorrow at training. But it was the rear teep, a rear hop teep, and lead head teep (that is called Sandal rubbing the forehead) will get terms in Thai tomorrow. Thank you so much for the awesome class. 🙏
Something I was thinking about. When I learn a term like ( Sandal rubbing the forehead) it’s easier to remember for me and I get to learn and extrapolate the culture from it.
Warm up:
jump rope till all students got there
2 rounds of:
bent over KB row
push ups, inside and outside
mountain climbers
bicycles
leg lift
alternating lunge jumps
sit sweeps
plank ups
prison squats
Training:
2 rounds of pad rounds – feeder kicks and you hold for immediate response
Rear leg teep
rear leg hop teep
lead leg head teep
Tiger walk or begging of Wai Kru in Muay Baron style ( meaning 50/50 stance, fist over fist movements, goal is to make it pretty, and to work on balance)
Abbs – 50 crunches, and Tony hit bellies of trainees with pad 10 times in a row.
Ka Don Teep (pronounced ka {like caw caw}, don {like Donatello}, teep) – jump teep, or feign leg shield teep
Bata Loop Pak (pronounced bata {like baton}, loop {like lopping}, pak (like pac in Tu Pac) – means sandal rubs the forehead, or head teep, executed where you blade the body to your opponent and using lead leg teep the head.
Saturday 01/11/2020 – 3 hours… Muay Thaiand JKD
3 hours of Muay Thai and JKD training. I did less conditioning and more pad holding which is a skill in itself.
JKD we worked on bridging the gap, feigning, nao tek kicks, ping choi, pak sau, and punches.
Thank you Khun Kru Krysta for great training and a fantastic class.
Saturday was a busy day after training, so I am posting this today. I did less conditioning yesterday, but I did a lot of pad holding. I feel soreness in my ribs today. My hamstrings are tired from the training this week. I clocked 10 hours of training total this week.
Thank you for reading. Please let me know what you think. If I got the terms incorrect, let me know and I will fix them. I am still learning. As always keep working to be the best you that you can be.
I wanted pancakes, but I wanted healthy and I wanted to stay on track so I made these. They don’t have any extra sugar in them other than what is in your protein powder, and bananas. A bit of honey is what they needed to top them off. They were delicious, and exactly what I wanted.
This is gluten free, dairy free because I use (Vega protein powder), vegetarian, full of protein, low in fat, and have fiber in them.
4 large eggs
2 ripe bananas
3/4 cup rolled oats, uncooked
1/4 cup chocolate protein powder ( I use Vega)
2 tbsp unsweetened cocoa powder
1 tsp ground cinnamon
1 tsp coconut oil, for cooking
fruit garnish (I had frozen fruit)
Honey for serving
Directions:
Take all ingredients and blend together in the blender.
Cook them as you would a regular pancake.
Keep in mind when you cook anything chocolate it can be hard to tell when something is done due to the darkness of the batter.
Calories/Stats: Serving Size 2 servings, sans honey and fruit
Calories 800, Fat 31.6 g, Fiber 11.5 g, Carbs 80.7 g, Sodium 835.9 mg, Protein 56.7 g
I hope you all get a chance to try this out. Let me know what you think, and if you have a chance to try it out.
Today starts a new week of training. When we have several days off, sometimes it feels like I may have lost my conditioning. I know it is a silly worry. But it did crop up today, I was working and had to do some heavy lifting (literally 30 and 50 lb buckets of product). Well I was tired and thought oh crap am I going to make it through my classes tonight?
Thursday 01/02/2020 – 3 hours… Muay Thaiand JKD
Muay Thai and JKD- Little less than three hours of training tonight.
I did 4 rounds before class with my coach Tony thank you Sir. We did 3 x 4 minute rounds and 1 x 3 min round.
Then Muay Thai and JKD with my coach Khun Kru Krysta. Thank you for the great classes. We did boxing in Thai, and trapping in JKD!
Muay Thai:
We worked on the boxing 20. Focusing on the cover of your organs.
JKD:
We worked on Jeet Kune Do (JKD) today. I am going to digress here and talk about what JKD means “The way of the Intercepting Fist”. It was developed by Bruce Lee and was personal to him. There has in his own lifetime been a lot of controversy over the art he developed. Wing Chun was his basis for the martial art, and what he started with first. He added to it with the best of Taekwondo, Boxing, Fencing , and Wrestling. He had many people in his time that were upset that he was melding and mixing martial arts the way he was. They wanted their art to stay pure. However, I really like the way he always wanted to learn from everything and use the best.
“Research your own experience. Absorb what is useful. Reject what is useless. Add what is essentially your own. “
-Bruce Lee
My instructors, Ajarn Chai, and Dan Innosanto worked with him while he was alive. I have the honor to learn from them, and from my other instructors who have subsequently learned from the legends above.
We worked on the following today:
Ping Choy, Gua Choy, Lop Sau, Gua Choy, Pak Sau Da, Loy Pak Sau
1.5 hours of Muay Thai conditioning and practice. My coach Tony kicked my butt again. It was amazing. I like when he pushes me! I want to push through. He was working with me. When we had a break Tony asked me if I was feeling heavy and tired, and I said yes. He said, “good, you are pushing through the barrier. I can tell you are working past it.” He meant the tired, the pain and the haze you get when you are pushing hard.
He had us doing one for one drill, kicking on pads right after a conditioning warm up. And then the more one for one hit response rounds. I am getting better about being hit, tougher. Then we did asymmetrical response rounds. Finally he had us doing core. I am exhausted but a good exhausted.
One of the most awesome things was I got to train with my first instructors side by side. Thanks you Khun Kru Krysta and Kru Kristen for working with me! It’s amazing to work with them and train with them as well. Different than just being taught by them.
After Thai training snack was yogurt, fruit, and almonds. Nom nom nom
Favorite quote of the night, “Deal with yourself”, Tony. This was in reference to how he was taught Muay Thai. Sometimes you just kinda have to suck it up. Its going to hurt, change is hard. When your molding your body to your art, it gets hard. However, you persevere.
Saturday 01/04/2020 – 3 hours… Muay Thai Conditioning, and JKD
Whew! The last training day of this week. We did 3 hours. 2 hours of it were conditioning training.
We did between 12 to 15 rounds, either holding or working the pads. I got my numbers in for my upcoming testing. I was tired from Friday, but it was a good tired. I got a chance to work through it and it was not so bad.
For class this day we worked on JKD (Jeet Kune Do) again. This time adding the Nao Tek or pendulum kick to the routine. We worked on feigning and getting out of the pocket using the nao tek. I really enjoy JKD. I like learning the trapping and response moves. It transitions so nicely into Muay Thai and I learn better how to redirect blows with JKD.
Best quote of the day, “my safe word is a teep”, Khun Kru Krysta. This was absolutely hilarious and I loved it. I wanted to write it down so I would remember forever.
There were two great quotes this week from my coaches/trainers. “Deal with yourself,” Tony. “my safe word is a teep,” Khun Kru Krysta. This was a fantastic week of training. We did 7.5 hours of training this week. Even though it was shortened due to the holidays it was a fantastic start of the new year. I got to work on JKD trapping which I love. I got to work with and alongside two of my coaches/trainers with us all being students. It was a wonderful experience.
Finally as if the week could not get any better. I had the honor of being asked to help demonstrate Muay Boran from my coach Tony. From what I understand we are going to demonstrate this art at the Royal Thai embassy. For this I will be learning Muay Boran. Muay Boran is predecessor to current modern Muay Thai.
What I have learned so far is that this style and art was used by the slaves to get out of slavery, to fight off the Burmese, and was used as the Thai soldiers martial art style. As modern day Muay Thai moved to more of a martial sport in the ring, they had to take some of the Muay Boran out. It changed partially because it was a style used to kill, and not used for scoring points originally. It also changed partially because it was easier to award points to the person who hit more often then the person who was able to deflect and control the fight. This made it more accessible to everyone in watching the fights. (I am still learning, and if I made a mistake let me know I am happy to change it. Everything I wrote is from what I have read, and been told/taught by my instructor Tony.)
Thank you for reading. I hope you all had a fantastic new year, and I hope the rest of the year is amazing for you all as well. Keep working to be the best you, that you can be.
Steps – 31,935 Calories – 5,337 Active minutes – 394
I finally made it to day 4. I was only able to due this with friends and family supporting me. Every night after a day at camp. We would shower, talk, and I would pass out. Then get up and do it again. I was worried I would not make it this far. I was told there were some people who could not do 4 days. This was an amazing adventure, and I am so much the better for it.
This day my body was tired but kinda resigned to the process. It seemed my body just said ahh well I guess we are doing this again.
Looking back on this day, it was amazing. I got to work some of the most inspiring people in the martial arts.
And while I am finishing this post 5 months later. I wanted to finish this post before the new year. Man did I cut that close.
Total for this whole 4 day period of time we did: 250 rounds, 7500 knees
That is mind boggling. 250 rounds, and 7500 knees!
Having a post take this long is good on some level. I can focus on the highlights of the last day, of the entire camp itself. I don’t have this swirling whirlwind of emotions, thoughts, ideas, and everything just trying to shoulder each other out of the way to get down on the page. I have a bit of clarity. =)
High Lights:
I got to work with masters of the martial art I love Muay Thai. Who are also masters of other martial arts as well.
Ajarn Chai ( Surachai Sirisute )
Ajarn Parker
Ajarn Greg Nelson
Trigg
Kru Aron (Juice)
Khun Kru Carro
Khun Kru Elise
Khun Kru Krysta (my trainer/coach)
Nichole G.
Kru John H.
Khun Kru Sonya Y.
Raja
Many more I cannot remember, and all part of my tribe now, my extended family. If I did not get an Title (Ajarn, Kru, Khun Kru) correct please let me know I will make the change.
1 week of Muay Thai training. It is amazing what you learn just dedicating your time all of your time to one thing. Normally we split it between our obligations, our jobs, our bills, and add training in too. You soak up the training like a sponge.
This kind of good stress, good challenge, good push beyond your abilities, will show you what you are made of. It sounds cliche but it really will. It will ask you to go further than you have before, and you will decide in that instance to give up or continue. To pull from reserves of power, and will that you never though you would before.
You get to see so many people who have the same love you do for the art. You get energized by their love, you get to make connections, and friends with people who dedicate themselves to what they love. That alone is in infectious.
For me it was ground breaking. I got to see masters in their art. I got to get past a plateau I felt I was on. I pushed forward. I have made leaps and bounds in my art.
Last but not least a dropping trousers story of my first Muay Thai camp. One of my now friends, a beautiful lady I met at the camp, whom I love and she is so supportive. Was asked to come up and test for her Khun Kru test, this is the test to go from Kru, to Khun Kru. In it you have to do the Wai Kru. You also have to have Thai shorts on. She did not, and she ran over and asked me to use my shorts. I was wearing workout tights under them. Without hesitation I dropped my shorts and handed them to her. She thanked me up and down. She was so grateful that I was able to help her in the last minute. I would do it again and again. I have grown to love this community, and this is what this community does for each other. We will help out when and where we can. We will do what we can for each other.
Training:
Kick shield – knee – lean to avoid uppercut – knee – teep OR elbow 8 – 6
Kick shield – knee – elbow 4
Trigg 10
If they go to your left, punch straight left
If they go to your right, punch straight right
If they cut in, left hook
Dip and wipe
Shovel hook cross hook (jab)
Shovel hook hook cross
“In a stressful situation, you don’t rise to the highest level of your training, you fall to the lowest level of your mastery.”
John Holt
So yeah… This is 5 months later. I had such an amazing adventure. This is the end of the year, and I look back on this amazing adventure. That I was asked to go to this camp is an amazing honor. I was able to attend Thai Camp in Oregon. This opportunity to learn from some of the best instructors/trainers/coaches ever.
I took time away from my family. I took time for myself. I learned so much about my art, I learned even more about myself.
I plan on going again this next year. I need to learn as much as I can, and I look forward to seeing friends, and team mates again.
Thank you for reading. I am sorry it took so long to get done. I have just had a lot of life happen between then and now like we all do. I did want to get it done before the new year. So yay I did it! Just one day away. I hope you all have a had a fantastic year. I hope the new year is what you all are looking forward to. Keep working hard, keep trying to be the best you can be. As always please feel free to ask questions.
Hello and today marks the first day of training for me after the holiday Christmas for us. This week the gym was closed some of the days understandably and so my training week is shortened. However, I find I am enjoying having some time off to let my body recuperate.
Normally my schedule is 5 days a week of martial arts training, and 3 days a week of weight lifting. So its good to rest.
I titled this week with the quote from my instructor Khun Kru Krysta. “What is the point of kicking twice if you have to kick twice?” If you don’t kick hard the first time and have to kick the second time, then you have wasted your first kick. Or if you are going to kick twice make them both hard.
Thursday 12/26/2019 – 2 hours… Muay Thaiand Kali
Boxing day today. When usually means you go through all your old things and find goods and food you can give away to help others.
Today in Muay Thai we focused on boxing. Moving in and moving out, being light on our feet, and striking then returning our hands to our face.
We also had the opportunity to donate to the gym some of our old used equipment so that the brand new students have something to use till they can get their own.
H and I were able to donate two sets of boxing gloves, shin guards, and an old MMA glove set, that was to big for me. This I believe was organized by Khun Kru Krysta and we were happy to be able to help.
Muay Thai:
Jab, catch, jab, opponent throws a jab and you catch it and you jab back and they catch it, then they throw a jab and you catch it.
Jab, parry, jab, opponent throws a jab, you parry jab, and you jab then opponent parry’s jab, then they throw jab and you parry jab.
They jab, then you parry, and throw leg kick
Boxing twenty – jab, cross, hook, cross, bob and weave cross, hook, bob and weave, hook, cross, cover rear body shot, return upper cut, cross, cover front body shot, return uppercut, cross, hook, duck/or dive a big overhand and then body shot to get out, hook, cross
Apparently my boxing is tight and “crispy”. My partner for the night said that it was crispy. I am old enough to have two kids that are 11 and 10 so I am old. =) I think that means it is good and he was surprised about my speed and strikes. Ability to hit my targets keep my shots in the box in front of my body and the power in them. So I will take it.
Kali –
We worked on asymmetrical sparring, knife against stick, or stick against bare hands.
Friday 12/27/2019 – 1 hour… Muay Thai
Tony my coach kicked my booty again. This was conditioning training.
He started us out with kettle bell swings, and burpees. Then we did pad work, clench, and then we finished with core training. 136 swings and 136 burpees total.
Ladder, and Reverse ladder
1 KB swing (25 lbs for me) and 16 Burpees
2 KB swings and 15 Burpees
3 KB swings and 14 Burpees
4 KB swings and 13 Burpees
5 KB swings and 12 Burpees
6 KB swings and 11 Burpees
7 KB swings and 10 Burpees
8 KB swings and 9 Burpees
9 KB swings and 8 Burpees
10 KB swings and 7 Burpees
11 KB swings and 6 Burpees
12 KB swings and 5 Burpees
13 KB Swings and 4 Burpees
14 KB Swings and 3 Burpees
15 KB Swings and 2 Burpees
16 KB Swings and 1 Burpees
5 minute round of hitting the bag.
three rounds of pad holding for partner
three rounds of hitting pads, (jab, cross, lead kick, horizontal rear elbow, double lead kick, side in drop elbow
2 rounds of clench sparring
Finishing exercises – 45 seconds each exercise
side to side kicks, or scissor kicks
crunches
mountain climbers
oblique crunches
bicycles
I got a compliment on my kettle bell swings. Also one of my old coaches said you can do heavier weight Tanya, here swing this. It was 33 lbs or 15 kilos. That is far more than I normally do. I did not think I could do that but she had faith in me. So I guess I need to go buy another kettle bell that is heavier than 25 lbs.
Saturday 12/28/2019 – 3 hours… Muay Thai
Yup just about three hours. We did conditioning rounds, pad rounds and on the bag rounds. I got a total of 35 x 3 minute rounds in. I also got a round in where I got my numbers of kicks and knees in for the Thai test coming up.
Some days you just have to put the mat time in. It is not glamorous, and sometimes grinding out the training can be annoying and boring. I however, have fantastic partners in training. I have an awesome set of coaches/trainers/Kru that help me out.
So while I am exhausted, gonna take a nap here in a bit. I got a great workout in, and I got to do it with people I love.
In class we worked on boxing. I got lots of work in, and had a blast doing it.
I made a video of me working on the bag.
I finished the week off with a bang. I did a total of 6 hours of training in 3 days. Six hours is not bad for a shortened week of training. Give everything you have, pick yourself up when you fall, and keep trying. If I can do it I believe you can do it too. Kick hard both times, and don’t sacrifice power for speed. Keep working to be the best you that you can be.
The holiday season is upon us. The hustle and bustle is pressing, and work is still going on. But the one thing that helps me focus is my martial arts training. I am tired, because, there is so much to do. It was so nice turn everything else off and just focus on my training.
If you throw a hook, and shorten it, it is an elbow. At least the #1 horizontal elbow is a shortened hook. This little tidbit last year really helped me realize how to do the mid range hooks.
Today in Muay Thai, we continued our month of elbows to clenches. I can feel my elbow strikes getting much better in execution. I am executing them well because I am stepping in, I am using my body, and I am throwing them with good form. Yay progress…!
lead elbow #2 upward diagonal elbow, rear elbow #6 side in elbow, lead elbow #9 spinning backward elbow, and lead elbow #1 horizontal elbow when opponent advances.
lead elbow #1 horizontal elbow, rear #8 lady putting flower behind her ear elbow, clench, 3 skip knees #2, off balance spin out, and kick
Clench to 3 skip knee #2, off balance, to spin out, to double rear kick.
We then got a chance to do the man in the middle drill. It was so much fun. This is a clench drill with three people. One man in the middle has to switch up between the other two to clench and get knees in. The third person has to have a hand on middle persons back.
Kali/Silat
We worked on disarms, asymmetrical sparring, blocking, passing, cutting stabbing and C cuts.
Wednesday 12/18/2019 – 1.5 hours… Muay Thai
If you have been practicing martial arts for a while I am sure you have experienced this phenomenon. If you have not, look out for it. It is absolutely amazing. This phenomenon I am talking about is the, your trainer asks you to do one thing just slightly different and it completely throws you off.
We are often taught about advancing when fighting. Today we were doing advancing drills for jab, jab, cross. However, Tony had us doing it were we had to attack while backing up. Let me say that again. Attack while backing up. Now you might think yeah… nah that is easy. But then your brain will mess you up.
So what I had to do was work on the footwork first and then work on adding the punch in. Focus a pendulum step back while throwing a jab. This felt so counter intuitive. However, by the time we finished I was able to get some what comfortable with it. This is a drill I will have to practice on my own. But it is great for when some one is advancing and you need to pop some in punches in there and then return a harder one.
Warm UP:
3 minute jump rope
1 minute burpees
3 minute jump rope
Training:
Jab, jab, cross, advancing x 2 rounds
Jab, jab, cross, while backing up x 2 rounds (focus on pendulum feet)
Jab, jab, rear kick x 2 rounds
Drill 1: x 2 rounds
1 – Jab, rear kick, lead hook, rear cross, lead hook
2 – Jab, cross, lead kick, rear cross, lead hook, rear cross
30 seconds of kicking after every round
Drill 2: x 2 rounds
1 with elbow – Jab, rear knee, lead elbow
2 with elbow – Jab, cross, lead knee, rear elbow
2 with hands – Jab, rear knee, lead hook, rear cross, lead hook
2 with hands – Jab, cross, lead knee, rear cross, lead hook, rear cross
30 seconds of knees after every round
Cool Down:
30 seconds of flutter kicks
30 seconds of side scissor kicks
30 seconds of sit ups
30 seconds of planks
Thursday 12/19/2019 – 3 hours… Muay Thaiand Kali
Whew I am exhausted today. My husband asked me if I wanted to practice/pad rounds, the hour before class we were going to be at the gym. My answer was no. I don’t want to, because I have been up since 4:30 am
Conditioning rounds with Tony
Muay Thai:
Jump rope for 3 minutes
Jab, clench, three knees, push out, teep
Jab, cross, three knees, push out, teep
Jab, lead hook, lead elbow, knees, push off, teep
Clench, to step in off balance, to curved knees
Clench sparring
Kali:
Again working on disarms, asymmetrical sparring, knife and stick.
Disarm an assailant with a stick with bear hands on a #2 strike, or on the outside.
Disarm an assailant with a stick with a knife in hand, on a #2 strike, or on the outside.
C cut
Asymmetrical sparring, one person has a stick and one has a knife.
Friday 12/20/2019 – 1 hour 20 minutes… Muay Thaiand Kali
My trainer kicked my booty today. I mean it was one of the hardest workouts I have done in a long time. We had to do a ladder of exercises and run around the gym. I was gassed afterward.
I did the maths, and if I am correct, I think we did 210 burpees, 210 push ups, and 210 mountain climbers, with 20 laps of the gym.
Then he had us doing pad work. It was so hard to keep going after that ladder. But I kept working the pads. Tony brought the 110% out of me today. I loved it and I hated it. It was a fantastic workout.
20 of each burpees, push ups, mountain climbers, run around the gym onces
19 of each burpees, push ups, mountain climbers, run around the gym once
18 of each
17 of each
16 of each
15 of each
14 of each
13 of each
12 of each
11 of each
10 of each
9 of each
8 of each
7 of each
6 of each
5 of each
4 of each
3 of each
2 of each
1 of each
Then pad work:
lead kick, rear cross, lead body hook, rear elbow, rear knee, lead leg kick
lead double leg kick, rear cross, lead body hook, rear elbow, 2 x lead leg kick
Clenching flow drilling
I am absolutely pooped. When we went to the gym today, I really did not want to do the workout. I did it cause I feel like those days when I really don’t want to go, I should go. I may not necessarily learn more, but I will push through and I will teach my body to do so. I am so happy that I stuck it out and came to class. I had my booty kicked but it was so worth it. I feel accomplished.
Thank you for reading. I learned a lot of things like attacking while backing up. I learned that asymmetric sparring with one double handed sword against 2 sticks is hard. Both those things melted my brain. I am I did it. I am happy I learned it. I have to work on those things for sure, but I learned it. I hope you have a great weekend and Happy Holiday season and a Very Merry Christmas if you celebrate it. If you have any questions feel free to ask.
