Sparred yesterday. Lots of improvements, so I'll focus on what I need to work on the most at the moment: range. Need to more confidently establish offense and defense zones as explained in the Bazooka Joe training video I watched. Kicks and punches are still falling short because I'm too far. Also hitting my toes, though it's on my lead leg this time. Inside leg kicks, and pretty much anything with my right leg, were accurate.

Sparred with the assistant coach, Coach Tyler, at one point. We mostly went at an easy pace but occasionally he would explode on me. I defended well. None of his hard punches landed if I'm recalling correctly. Two hard body kicks did. The first one I tanked. The second one was stronger and came with 10 seconds in the round left. Knocked the wind out of me bad. The sound of his connection was very audible. I stumbled and my inner bitch told me to take a break. Ignored it and tried to fake being fine by coming forward. He went easy on me in the remaining seconds.

Had a last spar with my friend Daniel, who is moving gyms. Fun as hell. Fast but not too hard. My legs were flexible and I landed with my first head kicks ever. He blocked but the fact I got my foot up there was new for me. He commented on that. Also landed a spinning back kick.

At the end, coach Anthony asked us the usual "One thing you did well, one thing you need to improve upon, and one thing you learned." Daniel used me as his answer for the thing he learned: I have heart and am a pressure fighter who continuously comes forward.