Mizblog

I got to take Saranya to her orange belt test.

She passed. She passed me in only 6 months of training, and I started Krav Maga in 2009!

Her consolation to me was “don’t worry, dad – you’re old and fat.”

Tuesday morning class with Mark Morales. We worked on riding a turtle, tipping it over, and choking it out. At the end we practiced being a turtle and rolling the rider off.

I got a scrape on my left ankle at some point.

Then that night I was trying to show Saranya how to do a flying side kick and I re-aggravated my right calf. I’m too stupid to move.

I got a new Jean Jacques Machado BJJ gi on Saturday. Later I found out that it has the back patch sewn on off-center. Not sure that’s by design, since pictures of others in similar attire have a centered patch.

Christian’s Tuesday night class now starts at 8:15pm.

Warm up was straight into straight punches and inside defenses. Mouth guards in. I partnered up with Adam, our newly minted black belt! My inside defenses improved greatly since last time! I did get punched a couple times but no worries.

Next drill was standing relaxed and then bursting in with a straight punch. Very first one I threw, I strained my calf. At first I thought it was a cramp, but it is now definitely strained. Hard to walk. I sat out a bit and iced it, but got back in for the chair drill where we sat on chairs and then bursted up to throw punches. My punches were flat footed, obviously, but I participated.

We reviewed choke defenses. At first I forgot front guillotine, but then it came back to me.

Then we did rear naked choke defense again. I did okay.

Now walking is difficult. I think I strained just one particular calf muscle, because some angles of foot and ankle don’t hurt, but I sure can’t walk properly.