2007 Workout #50: 1,100 techniques in the hot, hot sun…

Because of my increasingly insane work schedule, I had to miss our first outdoor Saturday of the summer. I resolved that I wasn’t going to miss this one, so and I made the trek to Mapleton to dutifully march up and down the field.

We arrived late, the rest of the group was already done with 300 punches (that’s one time down and back). We joined them for 300 front kicks, 50 each of rising block reverse punch, inward block reverse bunch, downward block reverse punch, outward block reverse punch, and knifehand block spearhand thrust. Then we moved to the kicks: 50 roundhouse kicks, 100 side snap kicks (50 each leg), and 100 side thrust kicks (50 each leg).

After that, and I caught back up on punches. We did 150 lunge punches, and as we were catching our breath at the other end of the field we hear a voice on the breeze indicating that there wasn’t hair on our ass if we didn’t do sanbon tsuki (three punch combination) all the way back. So we did.

Counting each of those as a single technique, we did 1100 in an hour and a half. THAT’S a good workout, people. Special kudos go to , who joined us for the last set of punches and sanbon tsuki, even though she had been there for the first set. These workouts are for endurance, and I think we all proved that we’ve got that going for us.

We’re being told that next week we’re going to tackle The Hill, which is always a fertile ground for pain!