MMA and me; day 54

Whoo hoo! I'm back! Mostly. So I missed all last week due to illness. It started out feeling cruddy as hell, and I figured I caught a little bug from a co worker, or somebody at the gym. Turns out I was partially correct. I had picked up a staph infection during jiu-jitsu. In any event, one doctors trip, I got some crap prescribed that should knock it out in a couple weeks, and I can go back to grappling in January. That sucks, but considering how gnarly staph can get, I'm okay with no jiu jitsu for a couple weeks.

Okay, so all I could do was kickboxing yesterday, and it was fairly simple as far as technique goes. We worked on punch-kick combinations. First a 1-10, which is a jab followed by a high rear leg kick. I struggled with this one a bit, I think mostly due to taking a week off, and feeling a bit rusty, but was starting to get that flexibility back by the end. Next, we worked a 1-2-9, which just adds a straight right after the jab, and then throw a high kick with the front leg. I prefer throwing a switch 9, instead of stepping over with my rear leg. The switch lets me get the kick off quicker, and snap it off a little harder. The third round was the partner holding the focus mitts calling out either a 1-10, 1-1-10, or 1-2-9, and just hitting the combo as it was called out. We finished out with partner ab drills, which was a weird combo of leg lifts and twists, and totally worked me over. Then came the beloved plank position, and class was done.