Mizblog

TJ’s Thursday class. I had to miss the Tuesday class because of that stupid work meeting, so this was my one chance at training during the week. My knee was achey.

TJ started us up with a TRX warmup. We got a brief intro to the TRX bands and the wide variety of exercises you can do with them. I felt uncoordinated and out of shape and a bit foolish.

We got right on to throwing an overhand punch. We explored different fist orientations on impact by throwing lightly on the heavy bags. Most decided that thumb down was the best. Then we practiced with the new thai pads. I partnered with Melissa. Her wrist was her weak link so I suggested she hit lightly. I did the same, for the most part.

Then we learned outside defense, which is basically a 360 defense against a straight(ish) punch, if you’re caught off guard. Meh.

Then we did stick defense, with the knife hand to deflect the stick while the other hand makes a fist and delivers a punch to the face. It’s tricky to get the fist and hand action going, and pray you never have to do it from the other side!