2007 Workout #31-32: Ow.

Tuesday night, I was late getting to class due to work. The second class was primarily spent sparring, and I gave and received several lumps. Among the highlights… I landed a jumping backfist on Dobbleaire-san, to wit he replied that would be proud. It makes me happy when that happens.

Another highlight was when swept the crap out of me. I mean, all the way down to the floor. I love this for two reasons: it was a great technique on his part, and it makes the monkey in my head go off. The more it happens, the better chance I have of figuring out how to stop it from happening in the future. Either that, or I’ll figure out how to do it myself with my m4d P3tr3ll1 sk1llzzz (if you have to ask, move along).

The final highlight that I will illuminate from Tuesday was fantastic timing on the part of Garls-san. He hit me in the stomach right as I tried to evade, for some reason with a soft stomach. It hurt, but the timing was so good that I didn’t care. Luckily Saturday’s workout has helped to address what I did wrong. More on that in a few minutes.

Saturday’s workout was an asskicker, plain and simple. When Dad and I arrived, Erbe, Garls, and were doing laps around half the gym with hand weights doing basics. We did downward block reverse punch, rising block reverse punch, lunge punch, and front kick reverse punch combinations like this, making a big square the size of half of the basketball court.

While we were doing that, the rest of the group broke out the bungee cords, which they tied to the doors and did inward block reverse punch. I missed out on that combination, but we caught up with the rest of the group in time for front kick and roundhouse kick. We did each kick 20 times, stepping back after the first ten and forward for the last ten.

Then came the squatting combinations. Up the bleachers with kicks. Then squat/jump combinations, where we stepped with a punching combination to the angles after each jump. Those are what got me, my body hurts all over today as a result.

After that terror, we moved on to sparring combinations that focused on moving to the angles. It seems that I have incorrectly assumed that moving to the angles required full steps of motion. With a few tweaks, a lot of this moving to the corners stuff started working if I focused on hip motion and flow of techniques instead of foot movement. Aside from majorly sore muscles, this was my takeaway from the workout.

Also, look out world, I’m learning how to foot sweep.

That is all.