A Warrior's Thougts on the Martial Arts

This is just a quick post to bridge the gap until my next post. Beginning today, I'm starting a "This is how we do it" series where I'll offer some insight into the classes I teach. Today's installment presents a technique drill I've been taking my students through yesterday: Throw a jab,cross,rear uppercut combo Slip a rear hook and throw an indirect elbow counter Follow up with a knee to create space Throw a high kick Follow up with a tornado-kick to spinning back-kick combo The film below shows my girlfriend  work the pads with the above described combination. Enjoy! So long, take care

Tomorrow's weigh-in. Still need to lose quite some weight. I never attemted to make that much weight before. If this actually works, it'll definately be something to be kept up for future full-contact bouts. Jesterday's session was short and technique-centered. 5 rounds of shadow-sparring, 5 rounds of padwork, for a total of 10 2-minute rounds. While the technique-goals were rather strict while working the pads, the shadow-sparring was rather freestyle. I didn't ask Chris what he was doing, but my concept was very straight-forward: Stepping / Movement only Boxing, freestyle Boxing, freestyle Kickboxing, freestyle, Kickboxing, freestyle Nothing fancy here. Since Chris is competing in the semi-contact (a.k.a Point/Stop) division while I'll do light-contact (a.k.a continous), our padwork obviously differed a lot. Chris devoted his rounds to the following: Roundhouse kicks only Spinning kicks Lead leg kicks Adding punches and mixing it all up Punches only On the other h...