This week in training
I already mentioned Monday.
- Tuesday: Taught the beginner class (big emphasis on basics: stances, blocks, punches). Then I stayed for cardio kickboxing. It was kind of fun. Some movements I just couldn’t follow, but for the most part I didn’t look too silly. Except for my pasty white legs. Very reflective.
- Wednesday: Hapkido class (wrist grabs, punch defense). Then I ran the intermediate class — sparring night. Got the gear on early, and spent a large portion of the class doing movement/counter drills with techniques landing on the hogu (chest protector). Then during the advanced TKD class we also did some similar drills, and I had a chance to work on my advanced forms again.
- Thursday: A one-hour massage. Aah. That felt really good.
- Friday: Hapkido class. Lots of work on entries — I really need to improve on continuing my movement from entry through takedown/locks. I’m entering okay, but then I don’t have an immediate plan and I’m spending too much time trying to feel balance and deciding what I’m doing from there.
Some more notes: On Wednesday, I joined in some of the sparring drills for fun. But at one point when doing a back kick my feet shot out from under me. I fell okay — more of a front fall than anything. But I still tweaked my left wrist a bit. Didn’t actually realize that I hurt it a bit until the following morning.
Tomorrow is “Super Circuit Saturday”. We like alliteration — we’ve also got our Monkey in the Middle (aka Simian in the Center). Anyhow, this is kind of a free-form circuit workout. We’ll have the music going and a whole bunch of stations set up, from kicking bags to medicine balls to mats to jump ropes to weights, and so on. It is always fun. Back in March, I ripped my dobok pants doing squats during one of these classes. Heh. I’ll actually be running the class, so I’ll need to do some of the setup, and I’ll be keeping the stopwatch and bellowing out the order to change stations. We usually do about a minute per station, and we’ll be doing that for about an hour. Then I’ll probably have the class do a few lower-energy things, like breathing exercises.
Test day is one week from today.