Mizblog

Christian was our surprise instructor this Tuesday morning. Not sure where TJ was, but I didn’t see him later in the BJJ class either. Probably working. Hope he’s okay.

We started by dragging out a heavy bag and spacing them out. Then we did a square around the bag, facing the mirror, in fighting stance, being careful to not cross our feet up. Next time around we faced the bag, throwing combatives at it and focusing on the footwork. We mixed in circuits of front kicks, ground front kicks, ground round kicks, and ground side kicks with sessions of circling (or square-ing) the bags and ramping up the simultaneous combatives during our movement.

After that I was gasping, and we did our stretch out. Then water and mouth guards, because it went right into headlock from the side defense. The first bit was holding a tombstone pad dangling for the striker to pivot and bitch slap it. SMACK! Then we put it together with the turn-and-tuck, pivot-and-strike-and-reach-over-grip part of the defense, then the pull-the-top-elbow-straight-down-while-gripping-their-face finisher. I tweaked my right knee as I was going down once. It doesn’t really hurt much, but it does feel weird.

After practicing the headlock defense a bit, we did 25 (solid) sit-ups before we moved to the back room and learned+practiced the sit-up-sweep. I practiced with smaller Matt, and had trouble hauling myself up onto my hand (instead I just leaned up onto the elbow, which doesn’t yield as much leverage). Still, I find this sweep to be a natural move for me.

At the end we did shoulder-hip-lateral-crawl to really continue the core blast. Oof! I expect to feel that one tomorrow!