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.
