Mizblog

Christian and TJ have switched Tuesdays and Thursdays, and Christian was there to make me pay for all my months of infirmity. The first 15 minutes of the class was made up of two cardio circuits, repeated 4x each. I thought I was going to die. Then we did a combat circuit involving 1) turning hammer fist and combatives to a pad holder, 2) ground kicks and get up, and 3) pluck practice (the rest part that Jeff and I got last.) After the ground kicks, I nearly had to crawl across the mat to station 3. I’m going to be paying for that one for a while, but it feels good to have done it, and I don’t think I’m too injured from it.

We focused intensely on basic pluck choke defenses today. I helped coach Yas from a limp hand squid to a somewhat fearsome counter attacker. Christian said I was a beast at this, for which compliment I thanked him. David is a big monster, and he gives you nothing when you’re on the receiving end of one of his chokes. Yikes! He lives near me too, I guess.

The end was a drill with one person in the center and the rest hitting and kneeing them, occasionally stopping to apply a choke, which the chokee would have to defend and then go back to being punched. I was 3rd, and it ratcheted up in intensity to the last (Jeff).