I vote for protein. I just went to my first MA class in months and I'm wishing I had a bit more to fuel me through. I barely made it through the kick boxing.
It's cool to get some kind of idea what you're learning. In many ways the curiculum is similar and in some ways different. We start with grappeling and submissions. It got moved to first because doing it after kick boxing meant grappeling very sweaty people, and while good for training effectiveness was sometimes hard to demonstrate technique... and smelly. We usually work one set of related concepts progressing in stages (Ex: takedown, then takedown and position, then perhaps takedown, position, and submission). Lucky me, my first day back we also had some limited sparring/grappeling which wore me out considerably. Next is when most people show up for kick boxing. After a warm up we usually do another progression of techniques (some basic punches, some punch combinations, combinations with footwork and positioning) then do a similar set with kicks. We work in pairs with pads and targets. Last, as the kick boxers file out, we work some weapons techniques and some hand and foot techniques against a partner. Sometimes including submissions but mostly stressing coordination and an opening suite of techniques.
Much soreness. Heh, pretty out of shape lately (and the elbows to the thighs in jujutsu didn't help).
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Date: 2007-09-14 07:14 pm (UTC)It's cool to get some kind of idea what you're learning. In many ways the curiculum is similar and in some ways different. We start with grappeling and submissions. It got moved to first because doing it after kick boxing meant grappeling very sweaty people, and while good for training effectiveness was sometimes hard to demonstrate technique... and smelly.
We usually work one set of related concepts progressing in stages (Ex: takedown, then takedown and position, then perhaps takedown, position, and submission). Lucky me, my first day back we also had some limited sparring/grappeling which wore me out considerably. Next is when most people show up for kick boxing. After a warm up we usually do another progression of techniques (some basic punches, some punch combinations, combinations with footwork and positioning) then do a similar set with kicks. We work in pairs with pads and targets. Last, as the kick boxers file out, we work some weapons techniques and some hand and foot techniques against a partner. Sometimes including submissions but mostly stressing coordination and an opening suite of techniques.
Much soreness. Heh, pretty out of shape lately (and the elbows to the thighs in jujutsu didn't help).