Good morning?

[Mr Punch]

Dunno what one is.

Do an exercise in my mma class which is dropping to the floor, splaying your legs out on tip-toes, pressing the hips to the floor, and looking up at the ceiling before jumping staright back up into stance. Lots of times. And wiith legs angled to the left and then to the right, from left stance and from right stance, and with the left knee bent and the right, and both straight.

Is this a good morning? If not, what is it?

It hurts.

[FatherDog]

http://www.exrx.net/WeightExercises/...odMorning.html

[Mr Punch]

That'll be completely different then.

What am I doing?

[FatherDog]

Originally posted by Mat
That'll be completely different then.

What am I doing?

Sounds like you're practicing sprawls.

[Serpent]

Originally posted by Mat
That'll be completely different then.

What am I doing?

Hmmm. Sounds like a cross between a hindu/divebomber pushup and a sprawl. My guess is that it's designed to build strength and explosiveness while getting the feel for sprawling.

Sounds like an interesting exercise.

[Mr Punch]

Yeah, that's what it's for all right, just wondering if it had a name...!

'Interesting'?! Depends if you like looking at ceilings in a violent manner!!! Bloody hurts and springing back up into stance after is bloody difficult... give it a go!

[Serpent]

I did! I'm thinking of doing it more often, but then again, I'm kinda masochistic like that!

[Mr Punch]

Yeah it's good eh?! The jump up is difficult isn't it? My instructor's like a cat... well a 5'5" 78kg of muscle cat. With tatoos.

Then getting back down hurts. If it doesn't, you're not doing it quickly enough.

We do it at the start of the groundwork class, sometimes at the end of a 1.5 hr boxing session. 30 times, fast. Then we actually shoot and sprawl. Sometimes we get a break after it. Stupid game.

[Serpent]

I just had another go to do 30 and compare it with your workout. I didn't find the jump up a problem before, but the last 5 or 6 reps to 30 started to really make me wish I stopped at 20!

[Mr Punch]

Yeah, it's the same as anything else I guess. If you concentrate on form... really pressing your hips into the floor, really splaying your legs out, really looking at the ceiling, really jumping uup into stance... it really hurts!