Worked up a pretty nice sweat during boxing yesterday. After jumping rope, and shadow boxing, we jumped right into a 1-5 combination. Throwing punches from the same side can be a little difficult. You pump the jab, turn the rear knee in and drop it a bit, then explode your hips open and up as you bring the lead hand back through for the uppercut. We then added a straight to the combo, making it a 1-5-2. You can feel the punches start to flow together, and stringing together combos starts to feel much more natural after a bit. From there we added a slip and a rear uppercut, to make it 1-5-2-slip-6. Then capped it off with a lead hook to the head, making the final combo 1-5-2-slip-6-3. It sounds long and complicated, but once you find your rhythm and feel how to finish the punches in preparation of the next punch, it starts to flow much more smoothly, and feels pretty damn awesome. We finished up with our core exercises, and it was on to jiu jitsu.
Jiu jitsu was all about body positioning, and first we drilled on top of kick shields, using them to simulate an opponent on the ground. We started in mount, and went to S pass to side control, high judo, head mount, high judo opposite side, side control, low judo, and back to mount. We did that for one round as coach called out the positions, and transitions, then one round on our own. For the third round, we added posting up a knee on the stomach and sped the transitions up a bit. From there we did a couple rounds of the swinging armbar drill, which though I'm getting better at, still kinda suck at. I have a hard time keeping my hips in close, and keeping that momentum going from side to side. Then we switched to the triangle drill, popping the arms out, snaking a leg over the opponents shoulders, , and sinking it in. I did a little better on this one, and it's a great ab workout on top of it. After two rounds of swinging armbar drills, three rounds of triangle drills, and a sore abdomen, we finished up class. I had a blast, and am quite sore, but jiu jitsu is just too much fun!
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