Mizblog

Christian’s Tuesday morning class started late because he was on the phone taking care of business stuff. I came in with a tweaked left elbow and delicate feet. Our warmup was a circuit of tombstone straight punches, ladder footwork drills, and calisthenics. The ladder drills had me contemplating a tapout, but not seriously.

We moved on to bursting punches, then bursting elbows. I found two things – 1) throwing the left elbow works great with a stance switch, and 2) holding for a left elbow really hurt my left elbow. Christian suggested doubling up the focus mitts to support it so it wouldn’t have to take the whole force by itself.

Then we did a kicking drill, where we were throwing front kicks with the ball of the foot (teeps), and then we expanded that drill to follow the front kick with a round kick from the same leg. A focus of the drill was the recoil of the kicks.

Next we did knees to the kick shield across the mat. Then we went into one on one side control security. Diego has some wrestling experience so he was almost getting me, but Christian didn’t want him doing a drop step so he never went all in on my legs. I was able to control Yas very easily by grabbing the hood of his hoodie and continually driving forward on him.

After that, we took it into the alley with some sticks. I got to demonstrate the baseball bat swing on Christian, and he demonstrated the defense on me. Then we did it on each other. I was surprised that I was able to remember and execute it so well. I tend to skip the elbow strike after the initial defense, instead going into stretching out their weapon arm and delivering knees to the face when they bend over. Yas was impressed with my fluency anyway, and I found myself coaching my two noob partners.

I then did a quick change for 805BJJ40.