Many of you know that I’ve been training at an MMA school since last summer (hence the “Body by Tiger Schulmann” article earlier). What most of you don’t know is that I signed up for a kick boxing tournament taking place in June. Which means I better learn to kick box PDQ.
With that goal in mind, I’ve been doing more kick boxing classes as well as the special tournament class on Saturdays. Yesterday we did some free sparring, 1-2 minute rounds. And OMG was it fun!
And painful.
My instructor always says “the most devastating kick in martial arts is the low kick”, meaning a round kick to the upper thigh. I never really had any reason to question him, though I doubt you're gonna knock anybody out by kicking their thigh, but yesterday I experienced what he was talking about. And let me just say, Ouch.
We were not going with full force, but damn, my leg still hurts. But in a good way, if you can imagine that.
Something else I learned during free sparring: I ain't too bad! I was moving like Muhammad Ali! Faking with my feet and then delivering a jab-cross to the gut which sent my opponent stumbling backwards. All of this was incredibly tiring, mind you. Surprisingly so. I mean, my stamina has improved dramatically in the last year, but yesterday was something new entirely. I was out of breath and worn out real quick. So I have a great deal of work to do in the next two months.
Well, that’s all for today I think.
Oh wait, I owe Tom a Haiku.
I’ll get back to you with that one :-)
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