Training Log: Entry 244

MT class tonight

Note: Today I made a goal to focus solely on keeping my hands up.

Drills
Sparring
Conditioning

Drills:
Start out with light boxing sparring.  Partner was a bigger stockier guy.
-Straight shots were getting the job done.  My defense was doing pretty good in regards to parrying and patting.  Still awful at head movement.
-Worked on moving at angles rather than just straight in.  Move to side and circle left hook.

Drill 1: Straight shot boxing with goal of defending partner to time the jab or cross of the attacker and hit them with a same side bodykick
-Can get the rear leg off the jab alright, but leadleg off the cross needs more work.  Too timid about blocking the powershot rather than executing the counter.

Drill 2: Same as before, except this time we're alloted a leadleg inside along with outside body kicks.
-Always a fan on the inside leg kick.  Same issue in regards to countering the powershot as before, but at least I never let it get through my defense.

Sparring with all  boxing techniques, and all manner of roundhouse kicks allowed.
-Focus on keeping my hands up payed off.  I never once got punched directly in the face.  However, I'm patting too far out, and ended up having my gloved punched into my face like a rookie.
-Clowned a lot of people with staight punches.  I don't know why most MT folks don't know how to keep their elbows in to avoid it, but I won't complain.  Boxing training was paying off.
-Need to have better control of right cross so that I can start throwing it into combinations during lighter contact sparring. 
-Need to stop throwing isolated kicks.  Work them into combinations.
-Doing good on counter kicks.  Most people don't know how to recover well after throwing a kick.  They also leave themselves open to punches because once they throw the kick, they drop their hands way down low.
-Defense was doing good tonight.
-Did something stupid and ended up getting kicked in the back. 
-Throw a combo, then move out.  Once I landed a good punch to the face, I would follow it up with 3 and be ok, but by 5 they woudl start throwing counter leg kicks.
-Fought from a "hitman stance" (lead hand down by waist, rear hand on cheek) at one point and was baiting straight shots to evade and parry.  Worked pretty well.  Wouldn't use it in a match, but a good way to work defense.

Overall Note of interest: Stance has shifted back to peek-a-boo style.  Really comfortable with it.  Affords great defense.

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Felt my shoulder slip and pop when walking down a flight of stairs too hard.  Amazingly, all my pain went away.  Perhaps my shoulder was slightly out of line this entire time.  Hopefully this means I won't have to worry anymore.

Leg training.  Form was incredible on all lifts.  Numbers are up.  Deadlift is approaching squat numbers.  Stiff legged deadlift up to 225 for 7 or so reps.

Unlike fighting, keep your head up in lifting.

Training Log: Entry 242

Woke up and shoudler was about 95% better, so decided to go to class.

BJJ:
Warm-up
Techniques
Rolling

Warm-up: Some PT.  Bleh.

Techniques:
Working basic hip escapes.  From bottom mount, umpa to get him off balance, then push off his leg while using a heavy leg shrimp/hip escape, put into half guard, do the same for other side for full guard.

Note: Make sure to bridge on umpa to really get the torque in

Second escape from under side mount.  Work arm posistioning so that one arm traps the hip with the blade of the forearm while the other snakes in under the elbow.  Push up, kick the legs out from under and to the side, then bring elbows to knees.

Third escape: Hookshot-from under side mount, work arm posistioning, and then move the arm under their armpit and leg on the same side up and over head while escaping out and to the side to take their back.

Note: Up, not over.

Rolling: Start out one guy on sidemount, one guy on top

Was on top of some huge guy.  Got bucked over and over again.  Shame we had to start over everytime that happened, but I eventually somehow got him in a standing RNC.  Was pretty cool.

When it was my turn to be under, the rules changed to keep going even if the guy on bottom reverses.  Spent two rounds in some guy's lazy ass guard where he wasn't trying to sub.  Dick.

From there, rolling from the knees.  Went up against a huge guy (had to have been about 280 of mostly fat).  I knew I didn't want to be under him, so I reverted back to wrestling and shoved him down and went into his guard, work to half guard, work to mount.  Then he did something really annoying and stopped the roll so he could "teach" me something I already knew, afterwards starting us over in halfguard instead of mount.  Cheap move.

Pulled a guy into my guard and slapped on a kimura.  He was dumbfounded.  I did the whole move in slow motion and he didn't even bother to stop it.  Guess he didn't know you could do that.

 

Muay Thai:
Drilling
Conidtioning

Drill: Slip the jab
Notes: I need to work on circling instead of just moving back when I slip

Drill: Slip the jab and counter punch
Notes: When slip with right, counter left.  Vise versa

Drill: Slip the jab and counter kick

Sparring with only straights and roundhouse
Notes: Hands are dropping a bit, but at least chin is staying tucked, so I get punched in the eye and forehead instead of throat and chin

One guy kept circling to my powerside, so I kept roundhouse kicking his lead leg.  This wasn't enough, so I started double kicking it.  That wasn't enough, so instead of triple kicking I said "Dude, circle AWAY from my power, not towards it".  He nodded and kept doing the same damn thing, so I ended up punching him in the eye and he lost a contact lense.

Worked the inside leg kicks well tonight.

Went up against a guy with good head movement.  I love and hate these guys.  I wanna move like them, they're annoying.  However, whenever he did his headmovement, he dropped his weight way low, so I'd always just kick his leg.

Conditioning: meh

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Shoulder has been bugging me for a week.  Upped my glutamine intake, and it helped a little.  Minor annoying pain.  Hopefully nothing major.

Was doing ME upperbody day.  Found myself focusing more on using my back rather than my arms for certain movements and certain angles.  Great improvement.

Deadlift form is impoving greatly.  My back doesn't bother me anymore, and my legs are killing me.

 

Training Log: Entry 240

Went to a grappling class yesterday.  It was pretty bad, so I didn't bother writing a log entry on it.  Real bad rolling, my partners were jerks, etc. 

Am cutting about 500 calories out of my diet as of now.  Only 1 cup of oatmeal in the morning, and one less uncrustable a day should cover it.  Should get rid of some extra fat I've put on.

Training Log: Entry 239

BJJ and MT tonight.

Summary of BJJ:
Free rolling
Conditioning
Drilling

Summary of free roll:
Tapped out the biggest guy in class.  Furthermore, tapped him out with a kimura from guard.  I was applying the kimura from mount, he somehow rolled me, ended up in my guard, I still had the kimura, kept cranking, got a tap.  First time I ever used that move.

Posisitioning was excellent today.  I was flowing, never in a bad place for too long.  Took a guy's back from guard throw some posisitioning, flipped him to mount, tapped.  Managed to use a far leg cradle from bottom of sidemount to reverse and have side control.  Cardio held up well.

Went up against some kid with something to prove.  Mighta been a wrestler.  Didn't want to actually grapple, just wanted to keep moving away from me on his knees.  Don't know what the hell that was about.  He'd lock up, I'd lock up, he'd get frustrated and throw away.  Eventually he just lay on his back hoping to suck me into his guard.  I moved in for side control, slipped into full mount, put on a kimura for a tap.  Idiot.

Conditioning was fine.

Learned the omoplata.  From guard, plant a leg, push head towards planted leg, take non-planted leg and slip it over the shoulder.  Scoot out while rolling him forward.  From here, kick the non-locked leg out, keep scooting away until you break down his base.  Crank forward for tap.  Shoulder lock.

Note: Focus on kicking leg out more.

New sweep.  Motion for omoplata, when he moves his head back, lock the head and arm, break them down, slip leg inside for sweep.

 

Muay Thai Class:
Warm-up
Drill
Conditioning

Warm-up: Bag work.  No pain in shins.

Drill:
Straight punches to face, low kick to outside front leg.  Defender blocks punches and eats kick.

Same as above but shin check kick.

Same as above, but attacker uses front leg roundhouse.  Defender defends with front leg.

Coaches notes: Need to cross my front leg over more.  I do well enough to cover an inside front leg kick but not an outside rear leg kick.

Sparring with only the above techniques

Notes: Defense is doing good.  Focus on keeping chin tucked.  Partner dropped hands for kicks, so I launched jabs at his face.

Conditioning: Lots of kicks and knees on the bags.

Notes: My left knee hurts.  Might have pulled it playing soccer.  Will be taking tomorrow off with some ice.
Drills

Training Log: Entry 238

Took one week off while visiting my girlfriend in Maui.  Fun in the sun with some minor swimming/bodyweight workouts while eating some of the best food on earth.  The rest paid off.  Came back into the gym stronger than ever.  This week I'll be doing 3 back to back to back training days in MT and BJJ.  Should be an enjoyable schedule.