MMA and me; day 34

When you go into the gym knowing you're only staying for one class, it makes your work extra hard. This can be both good and bad. It's good, because you push yourself to improve as much as you can in the shorter time period, and really exert your body, knowing you don't have to go for two hours. Bad, because you only work for one hour, not two, and as in yesterdays kickboxing class, it just wasn't as taxing as classes have been in the past.

We worked light bump drills, and I was paired up with a guy who had been doing it for a while, so we just dove right in and did that for two rounds. Since he knee was bothering him, I paired up with someone else for the next two rounds, which was outside 10s and outside 9s. My new partner, Mel, is new to the gym, so I did my best to help him get comfortable, but I'm not quite at a level where I'm good at helping newer people with techniques I'm not extremely familiar with myself, but we managed a pretty decent couple of rounds.

I had to bail on grappling, which was a bummer, but if it's only yesterday and tonight that I have to skip on, I will be okay. Maybe I'll try and sneak a few extra classes in next week, to compensate.