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Christian showed up 8 minutes before class on this Tuesday morning after a long 4th of July weekend. Wrapped up my hands, grabbed a 15 lb medicine ball, pulled out a bag, and we lined up and got going.

We did a circuit. 30 seconds each exercise.

1. Medicine ball squats
2. Knees to heavy bag
3. Medicine ball squats
4. Front kicks to heavy bag
5. Medicine ball squats
6. Groin kicks to partner’s tombstone pad
7. Medicine ball squats
8. Holding pad for partner’s groin kicks
9. Medicine ball squats
10. Knees to heavy bag
11. Medicine ball squats
12. Front kicks to heavy bag
13. Medicine ball squats
14. Groin kicks to partner’s tombstone pad
15. Medicine ball squats
16. Holding pad for partner’s groin kicks
17. Medicine ball squats

Then some abbreviated stretching before we went into… leg kicks. Great. But it went well. Teamed up with Thomas. Starting with easy, controlled kicks to the thighs. Then we held the tombstone to the thigh to receive harder kicks. I thought the downward round kick would tweak my knee too, but not so much. Finally, we did a drill where we did leg kick + 2 punch combo all the way across the mat and back. Thomas was gassing pretty hard. I was alright.

Then we did elbow, hammer fist, elbow-or-punch, clinch, and 2 knees. This was very good practice for me, focusing on efficiency and on footwork + balance.

After that, we did wrist release drills and then stress drill with level 1 chokes. I survived without further injury, but my legs are so tired!

TJ’s Saturday KM All class was packed with 3 black belts and 7 intermediate students. Started with shadow boxing and shoulder tag, mixing in calisthenics, and then we stretched. My knee held up okay.

Next we put on focus mitts and boxing gloves, and we practiced bobbing and weaving, covering, body blocks, inside defenses, with combos. Then we did combos with kicks and checking, moving on to body and head kick defenses. Very nervous time about the knee, but everybody went light on me (unlike BJJ blue belt Eric, who got me in this predicament in the first place!)

We ended with sparring, and I survived. Gave as well as I got, I guess. Didn’t get injured.