MMA and me; day 202

So I'm pretty tired, and most of what we worked on yesterday (Thursday) was stuff that we've worked on all week, but I will try and focus on some of the things that stood out to me that I need to sharpen up.

Kickboxing was all about focusing on leg kicks, and more importantly, bringing the leg up and around to really give yourself a chance to drive the leg down and dig the shin bone into the thigh. A big part of this is flexibility, but not just in the hamstring muscle, but in the hips. Having flexible hips is a big part of why a well executed leg kick is so devastating, because it allows you to bring the knee up and around, then turn it over and let gravity assist you in bringing the shin bone down, and then pushing off to finish the kick, while helping you return to your fighting stance. Another part of setting up leg kicks, is with punches, but not just throwing combos to the head and hope they raise their hands up, but instead going to both the head and the body, forcing them to defend and making them almost have to guess what is coming next, and then you drill a leg kick. You follow a few leg kicks up with a turned up head kick, and you can put someone on the mat with ease. This is another area where flexibility helps, because it makes all you rkicks look the same up to a point, and if your leg kick and head kick start out looking similar? Whoo! Anyways, Changing levels, keeping your opponent guessing, and STRETCH!!

In jiu jitsu we went over the key lock flow, and the leg lock flow. A few things I focused on where imploding with the body as you sink a submission, heavy grinding pressure during transitions, and specifically to leg locks, do not let go during scrambles, because you can put yourself inb a bad position if you don't get the finish, so you had better put that limb in sufficient jeopardy and make the guy tap, or you're going to have a bad time. The details of both of these flows were covered earlier in the week, but here are the breakdowns of the links in each one

Key Lock Flow

key lock/V-1/topside muscle lock/straight arm lock/bottom side arm lock/kimura/step over kimura/Diaz kimura

Leg Lock Flow

compression lock/toe hold/long heel hook/short heel hook/no arm heel hook (optional)/achilles lock/half crab/sit out half crab

Shout out to my teammates Walid and Jeremie who have fights tomorrow and they are about to put the pain on these guys. You been working like mad men, and we're all there to celebrate after, GTB!!!