MMA and me; day 33

Well I got my more vigorous sweat request fulfilled yesterday in boxing class. We did nothing but work on jab defense, and some counters as well. Holding your hands up for 35-45 minutes so you don't get punched in the face, along with slipping punches is pretty dang exhausting. First we worked parrying the jab, then slipping it. After that, we worked the parry into defending a follow up 2 with a block. By the end of class, we did some light sparring, with only the jab, and I'm pleased to say, I only got punched in the nose hard, once! It still stung a bit, but if I ever intend on trying to fight, I am going to need to get used to getting hit on occasion.

Grappling was a very relaxed class. We warmed up with the armbar-triangle-omoplata transition, and after we got through with that, we moved on to flow grappling. I was really excited to try this out after the coach explained it to us. You basically just grapple at a really low level with an opponent, and instead of trying for a submission, you just alternate sweeps, passes and subs with your opponent. You go, they go, and keep it really calm, and oriented around learning and teaching. Unfortunately, my partner had not been to many jiu jitsu classes, so he was a little self conscious, as well as not very comfortable with grappling as a whole, so we spent most of the time going over things he was less than familiar with. I'm really hoping we do this again though, it looked awesome!