MMA and me; day 108

We worked on the same drills in boxing that we did on Tuesday. Nothing wild and complicated, but instead it was about slowing down and working on fluidity of motion. Making sure that all our punches set up the next punch or motions flowed into each other. We started with the hook, hook, straight, into a rear uppercut, straight, hook, straight, which is the base combo that holds everything together. Then it was the more familiar roll counter. We tacked on the catch counter to that, and then added all three together for this combo; 2-3-2-roll-2-3-2-catch-2-3-2-3-3-6-2-3-2. One thing we focused on here aside from slowing the cadence to quarter speed, was continuing the combo the entire round. Once we finished, we would go right back to the beginning and start over. By the end of each round, I had a pretty solid sweat worked up. We finished with a round of planks, a round of flutter kicks, and it was time for jiu jitsu.

We started jiu jitsu with stretching, and grappling drills. We did our Granby rolls, and the roll and run drill where if someone is about to take your back, you take a few steps (crawling) and drop to your shoulder on the same side as they are and roll into a triangle, arm bar, or failing those, guard. From there we drilled triangles, starting with being in the guard. Faking stuffing one hand under your leg, you instead go for the other arm, and slide your leg on that side over their shoulder, throwing your other leg up over it in an "X" across their back. From there grab their near side arm and use it to pull yourself over to that side and get close to perpendicular so you can lock your top leg over your other ankle, remembering to keep your boot on. The next point to attack is under their near side leg, pulling yourself even farther over to the side, and lastly getting under their stomach to make things really tight. A good day of classes, and it felt awesome to be back in the gym!