Training Log: Entry 187

Another MMA club meeting.  Interesting new twist: the TKD instructor from my previous entries showed up.

Basically it became a grappling clinic.  I showed the TKD and WC guy five positions (mount, guard, half guard, side mount, rear/back mount), and 4 subs from various positions (armbar, kimura, guillitine, RNC) to get them going.  Had them roll a little bit against each other, and then against me to find some flaws in their game.  Pretty good, they were both quick learners.

Did some light sparring with them both.  WC guy pulled a great knee pick on my lead leg roundhouse kick.  He got stuck trying to trap my jabs.  Used my reach to my advantage.

WAY light sparring with TKD guy.  He's senior to me in ROTC, so I didn't want to hurt him.  He loved the kickrange, and I was too nice to kick out his supporting leg, so I just outmanuevered him.  He panicked bad when I threw some punches at him.  He kept his hands at chest level.  He regretted it.

Goddamnit, dropping hands too much.  Light sparring breeds bad habbits.

Huge revelation today while sparring TKD guy.  I love to box, yet never use it.  Why?  Because I don't practice moving in when working the heavybag.  I start in punch range and stay there.  Everyone realizes this, and keeps me at bay in kick range.  Solution?  From now on, I'm gonna drill on the heavybag from kick range.  Work my footwork, get in quick and nail them. 

Need heavier sparring.  Wish Kenpo guy showed up.

My new weight training program currently has custody of my soul.  I think I'm gonna stick with it for life.

Bulk will be cut short.  I grew huge in a week.  I might zig zag it.  Cleaned up my diet.  Love oatmeal in the morning.

Training Log: Entry 186

More grappling instrution/practice with the girlfriend. 

Had her perfect the armbar.  Now, she snags it perfectly.

Had her relearn the kimura/figure 4.

She literally taught herself to triangle choke.  That was my proudest moment.

She's coming along really fast.  Developed her own style of preferring a loose guard and being on bottom.  Her flexibility really is helping her snag subs that I can never pull off.  Her cardio is great too.  She's getting to the point where I'm gonna need to use more than just pure technique to beat her.

Experimented with some new subs.  Found a nice way of using her own leg as a fulcrum for a short armbar.

Bulk goes well. 

Training Log: Entry 185

Forgot how much I love squats.  How could I go a month without squats?  The Holy Trinity is complete.  All glory be to squats, there is none higher.  Deadlift sits on the right hand of the squat, and bench on the right, completling the trinity.

Great leg day.  Lunges kicked my ass.  Sucks I couldn't throw in the Romanian Deadlifts, but the anti-DL nazi was in the room.

Loving this program.  Gonna make it a staple.

Took some weight gainer today.  Wanna avoid it as much as possible this bulk, but sometimes you just don't get enough calories.

Training Log: Entry 184

Finally, a MMA club meeting I'm happy about.

Wing Chunish guy showed up.  Didn't wanna spar because he had just ate.  Kinda shot my hopes down.  However, new guy with a Kenpo and grappling background showed up.  I saw him with his staff and started to worry about what kinda fighter he was, but he showed me more than enough competenace.  Pretty much fought like a kickboxer.  No real tricks.  Some solid kick, punch, and clinch game.  We agreed on a lot of points about fighting.

Sparred 2 rounds with him.

1st: Basically feeling each other out, seeing how intense we wanted to go.  Fired a couple of low leg roundhouses just to test the waters.  Still hit with my instep.  Too nice of me.  Did a lot of at range fighting, only exchanged a few ugly flurries of punches (so much for boxing).  I threw a few sidekicks with right leg to recover from missed rear leg roundhouses.  Not too many push-kicks.  Got hit with a hard roundhouse to the ribs that knocked the wind out of me for a few seconds before I was ready to go again.  Eventually adopted the strategy of one or two punches to distract and then a rear leg roundhouse.

2nd: More of the same.  Worked on my movement.  Noticed he was kinda flat footed, so I worked my angles to get him.  Threw some slow head level kicks.  Droped my hands at some points (ugh).  Just pretty much the same thing.  Next time we'll prolly go harder now that we're comfortable.

Notes: He switches stances midfight.  Must tag him while he does it.  He's not too comfortable in boxing range.  Need to eat a kick to get in and punish.  Work my clinch more.  HANDS UP.

We rolled once.  This really made my night.

Kid rolled like a wrestler.  Hard and fast the whole time.  The one quality he lacked was balance.  I rolled him about 3 times before he caught on.  Did some posistional fighting and I fought out that he had great manuevering versus my poor grappling game.  Everytime I'd get him, he'd move out on me, and made it tough for me to regain.  I eventually ended up pulling guard, which ended up with me being mounted.  I have no clue what to do here as I've discovered many a times.  He went for the armbar, I went with it and stacked him.  Passed his legs for sidemount.  He put me in halfguard, then I slapped a kimura/americana/figure 4 on him (I don't know which one, so I list them all). 

Notes: Cardio still holds up well.  He woulda won odds are if I didn't have the strength advantage, although he was a strong kid.  My go to seems to be either guilltine of kimura from half guard. 

All in all, great meeting.

Diet went well today.  Hopefully didn't burn too many cals.

Training Log: Entry 183

Begin bulk.

Current stats:

Have cycled off creatine for 1 week.  Currently in loading phase. 
Height: 5'9
Weight: 187

Dunno anything else.  My arms are small enough that I can finally roll my sleeves up on my BDUs and not feel like I'm cutting off circulation.  Currently on the West Side for Skinny Bastards program, in the second week.

Training Log: Entry 182

Taught my girlfriend some more grappling today.  I'm amazed with her progress.  It's been about 2 months since her last lesson, but after a quick refresher course and a couple of rolls, she was grappling like I had never seen before.  She normally needed me to point out when there was an opportunity for a sub, but not only did she see them when they were there, she went looking for them.  She stuck me with a gullitine a couple of times, and did a great job with getting in a good position for the armbar.  I just need to refine her armbar so that not only can she get there, but finish it strong.

She pulled off some good grappling tricks that I had never taught her, like using her knees to pin down my arms, working for posisition, etc.  At the end, she even pulled my hair to put me in a guilltine.  I was proud of her for knowing how to play dirty. 

Fun as hell, really proud of her.  Wish I knew more and could teach more.

Having issue with right middle knuckle.  Was bugging me during my boxing training last month.  Can only throw about 3 right crosses without gloves before I get a sharp pain in it.  Feels like nerve damage, or maybe stress fracture.

Training Log: Entry 181

2 days knocked out on new program.  Glad I made the switch.  It's a little awkward, but effective.  Leg day only has 3 leg exercises to it, but my legs were thrashed by the end.  Love walking lunges.  I did deadlifts today, but might switch out to squats as my primary lift and romanian deadlifts later on for hammies.  Still hooked on deadies, what can I say?

Repitition day on Sat or Sun.  Really looking forward to it.

Love the versitility of this program.  Love the 3 day nature.  Wish I had remembered it from before.

Bulk after PFT (next wed).  Gonna do this one clean.  You could butter bread with my arteries.