February 2012
4 posts
WatchGetting back into the swing of things, so decided to start towards my new goal of having a better hollow position and working on gymnastics. Hopefully, this will have some solid crossover into rotational strength for striking. Tried the movement in the video, scaled to two abmats under each arm. Still a shit show as my shoulders are just not strong enough to change direction at the bottom. ...
CF games begin
So the crossfit open has begun. Workout 1 is as many burpees as possible in 7 minutes. I didn’t feel great going in to this, since, after months of fight training my conditioning is for shit and the cracked rib is still hurting, but I still pulled out a respectable 99. It’s not a competitive score at my gym, but not the embarassment I feared it would be. Also, the rib was more of...
The Fight
After a month intense training and about a year of Muay Thai training overall, I had my first fight. I will put up a video of it when I get it, but it ain’t pretty. And by that I mean it is roughly thirty seconds of me getting my ass kicked until my coach put a stop to it.
I have had a bunch of reactions to the experience and am still trying to work them around in my head. These are some...