Training Log: Entry 265

Sumo deadlifts rock my world.  Body is still responding well to the change in  program.  Only a few more weeks left.

Training Log: Entry 264

MT tonight

Warm-up
Drills
Conditioning

Warm up: Kicking speed is improving, as is form.

Drill 1: Attacker boxes and low kicks.  Defender defends and leg checks.

Note: Was paired up with yet another southpaw tonight.  Used this as an opportunity to practice front hand parry.  A little screwy at first, but got the hang of it real quick.  Awesome feeling.

Drill 2: Same as above, but off the leg check throw an immediate arm kick.

Note: Partner seemed a little new, so the intensity wasn't much.  Still, my patting and parrying was even better than before.

Sparring with only boxing and leg kicks.  Allowed to throw arm kick if off of leg check

Notes: Night of outfighting tonight.  Only had one partner taller than me.  The guy taller than me had much better hands (former boxer), but horrible legs, so I spent the round staying out of his hand range and planting leg kicks.

Second partner was too gassed to put up a defense.  I waited until he'd plant a leg mid step, then blast it with a leg kick.  Lured him with a left hook into a leg kick.  Ate a few shots, but nothing major.

Third partner might have been new.  He woudl get a few punches in.  Need to not learn back when taking straight shots, move to the side.  Was able to plant past his defense.  Drew his arms down with a leg kick and then blasted him in the face.

Fourth partner pissed me off.  He was a good fighter, but he hit me with a superman left hook and then alluva sudden acted like his eye was bugging him.  I didn't counter, let him readjust.  Later in the round, same exact thing happens with same exact mysterious eye problem.  Lame.  If you can't take a counter punch, don't do stupid crap.  He got my legs with some good kicks.  Good lateral movement.  I punched past his defense a few times.

Conditioning: Light tonight.  good ab work though.

Training Log: Entry 263

MT tonight

Warm-up
Drills
Conditioning

Warm-up: Nothing significant.  Working the double low kicks more.

Drill 1: Focusing on the teep today.  Attacker throws straights and long hooks, defender uses teep to keep distance

Note: Was partnered up with my grappling coach oddly enough.  He had a hurt back and was fighting soutpaw, so things were a little wonky.  He wasn't throwing at me with enough intensity.  Was focusing on circular movement rather than linear

Drill 2: Same as above, but defender throws long knee with stiff arm rather than clinch

Coaches note: When defending against an aggressive partner, wait for them to over punch, then make the stiff arm and knee one motion.

Note: Can't just defend one punch and forget about the rest.  Defend punches in bunches.

Conditioning: Was sagging a little, nothing major.

Training Log: Entry 262

MT Tonight

Warm-up
Drills
Conditioning

Warm up notes: Man, I was dragging today.  My warmup fatigued me pretty good.  Still, putting good power in those hooks

Drills 1: Taking leg kicks

Notes: Goddamn my left leg needs better conditioning.  I can only eat a few kicks.  Need to plant better and turn out more.

Drill 2: Attacker fires straight punches, defender throws leg kicks

Note: I can finally parry!  For some reason, it just clicked today.  I would slip the punch and move my head out of the way.  The right glove is doing the trick, now I need to work on the left.  Still patting too far from my face.  Must make sure to always be on guard.  A lot of times, I'd collide with another group, drop my hands to readjust, and eat a jab. 

Stop turning leg inside, turn it outside.  Stupid flinching

Drill 3: Attacker uses same attacks, defender throws leg, mid, or high kicks.

Note: I was on fire on defense of the kicks.  Unfortunately, had a knee on knee collision and knocked my training partner out of collission for most of the drill.  Parrying was still strong.

Conditioning: Cardio was lagging a little bit.  Did a ring a round punch in the gut which I managed to life through. 

 

Went on a run last night.  Focused more on speed than distance.  VO2 must be up, wasn't winded.  Good pace.

Training Log: Entry 261

New bodybuilderish routine is kicking my butt.  My body is really responding.

3 sets of 8-13 per bodypart.  Using same muscle group supersets, burnouts, and cheat reps.  2 Barbell exercises and then finish it off with DB for stablizers.

Training Log: Entry 260

MT tonight

Warmup
Drills
Conditioning

Drill 1: Attacker jabs head or body, defender defends and fires head hooks.

Note: I was in Valhalla tonight.  I had a training partner who not only tried to connect, but connected hard.  I took a few hard shots before I was on my game.  My nose and face are still a little swollen. 

Don't drop jab hand after firing.  Comes back in a straight line just like it shoots out

Drill 2: Same as above, but defender fires body hooks as well.

Notes: My movement is doing a lot better.  Instead of forward or backward, I spent the whole round using circular movement.  Circle in for the hook.  Furthermore, utilized circling to defeat the power of the hook when I was defending (circle away and have them chase you).  Slipping was there, but not that great.  Need to work on slipping and COUNTERING, not just slipping.

Drill 3: Same as above, but attacker uses jab and rear leg kick, defender right straight and lead hook.  Much like sparring with stipulations.

Notes: Ate too many kicks.  Less focus on the hands, more on the kicks.  My partner was shorter than me, and I'm not used to outfighting.  Typically, I fight out of my opponents kick range by closing the gap and staying in the pocket.

Snap those hands back after the flurry.

Drill 4: Sparring with all boxing and ony leg kicks.

Notes: Outfighting still a little wonky.  Basically pawed away with the jab.  Punched right through his defense tons of times.  Noticed that everytime I leg kicked he countered with a lead hook, so I started leg kicking and immediately firing the jab.  Popped him tons of times.  He eventually caught on, but still couldn't do much.

Need to work on my leg checks.  Legs are going in instead of out.

Second round, got to infight again.  Guy wasn't really doing much, so I kept popping him with leg kicks.  Fired some decent bodyshots (guy was too tall to try to reach up).  Lost a contact lense at one point and put it back in.  Killed some of my time.  Did an ok job of pushing the action, but didn't get to do too much.

Conditioning wasn't anything major.

Training Log: Entry 259

MT tonight

Warm-up
Drills
Conditioning

Warm-up notes: Hands felt really slow today.  Possible combination of little practice over the past week and fatigue from bodybuilding yesterday (was bis/tris/forearms).  Made sure to be sharp.

Drills:
Eat 15 leg kicks on each side

Note: My training partner had a very obvious right leg dominance.  He also lacked any sort of control.  His right leg was a baseball bat, left leg wiffle bat.

Drill 1: Aggressor boxes and throws leg kick, defender counters leg kick with 2-3.  Emphasis on countering before the kick is complete.

Note: As stated, no control.  He kept hammering my lead leg.  Rather than tell him to ease up, I decided to see how long I could hang before I quit.  17 leg kicks is the answer.  After that, I told him to go after my rear leg so I could drill more.

Personal note: The focus of today was to stop parrying so far away from my face.  Did a much better job of it when it became a focus.  Should always remember that.

Coaches note: Don't stand too close when throwing the kick so that you can avoid the counter.

Drill 2: Same as above, but add on counter low kick switch arm kick

Note: Partner was taller than me.  Need more balance on high kicks.

Conditioning: Holy Christ was it a bad idea to take a week off.  I was dying.  I managed to complete everything though, and at the end he told us that he really ramped up the conditioning, so that was comforting.