Last night it was just me and one other person for Muay Thai.
Me: "Where is everyone?"
Coach Jose: "Niners game. But you're right, where is everyone?"
As I skipped rope coach and I chatted about our apathy toward football, along with the sports we like and how long I've been doing Muay Thai. Something I haven't mentioned before: I only recently learned how to do the boxer skip when jumping rope. After looking up YouTube videos of it the movement patterned just clicked for me one day.
I held the Thai pads for a girl I've never seen before. Gradually built up from a basic 1-2 combo to add an elbows, knees, and kicks. Got my form for holding the pads cleaned up such as not properly angling in for elbows. Also, when catching an elbow you want to intercept their trajectory pretty early on. The biggest thing was keeping everything in the center line and not being too wide.
When it was my turn the coach really work me over. She kept logging my power and speed as well as lauding how strong I am but that he sees things to clean up. Got instructed not to step out so wide when throwing a kick which is seemingly the opposite of what coach Payam showed me, who demonstrated how much power you get when you step out and let your leg follow you. It may just be that I need to find the sweet middle, though.
Got some video taken of me but anytime a iPhone user texts over a movie file the compression is horrible. Here's what I have anyways. This was the end of the session and I was tired but strikes still seemed snappy.
Me: "Where is everyone?"
Coach Jose: "Niners game. But you're right, where is everyone?"
As I skipped rope coach and I chatted about our apathy toward football, along with the sports we like and how long I've been doing Muay Thai. Something I haven't mentioned before: I only recently learned how to do the boxer skip when jumping rope. After looking up YouTube videos of it the movement patterned just clicked for me one day.
I held the Thai pads for a girl I've never seen before. Gradually built up from a basic 1-2 combo to add an elbows, knees, and kicks. Got my form for holding the pads cleaned up such as not properly angling in for elbows. Also, when catching an elbow you want to intercept their trajectory pretty early on. The biggest thing was keeping everything in the center line and not being too wide.
When it was my turn the coach really work me over. She kept logging my power and speed as well as lauding how strong I am but that he sees things to clean up. Got instructed not to step out so wide when throwing a kick which is seemingly the opposite of what coach Payam showed me, who demonstrated how much power you get when you step out and let your leg follow you. It may just be that I need to find the sweet middle, though.
Got some video taken of me but anytime a iPhone user texts over a movie file the compression is horrible. Here's what I have anyways. This was the end of the session and I was tired but strikes still seemed snappy.
You are looking terrifying on the pads dude. Real smooth. You thinking of getting in a match anytime soon?
ReplyDeleteThank you man. To be honest, not soon, no. Sparring practice has been in a kind of limbo here. Nobody showed up on Fridays except me so they decided to integrate sparring throughout the week. I noticed that stopped as people dropped out of class and an influx of beginners joined. I've just been told that if I want to spar then keep coming on Fridays and the coach will arrange that for me, so that's on again. But as of now I really need more sparring because my defense is awful.
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