Hajime no Seven - the second blog

[SevenStar]

thanks, man.

ali was elusive; frazier was agressive. i set the timer for 2 mins, with a 15 second interval. the first 15 secs, consists of only aggressive shadowboxing - forward movement, attacking and head movement. after the 15 second bell, swtich to a more elusive style - fast footwork, using the jab (and teep in our case) only planting for a second to throw a follow up cross at times, then fight back to the movement and jabbing. when the bell sounds, it's back to frazier style.

[SevenStar]

5/4 - thai boxing

tonight we drilled the lead leg roundhouse. entering with it, using it combinations, etc. both varieties - opening the hip and turning it over, and also the switch kick. We drilling counters to these as well. we also worked using the lead roundhouse as a counter to the cross and a rear roundhouse as a reponse to the jab.

There was a woman in class who had never trained before, and she was upset because everything confused her. I told her that if she returned monday, I'd spend the entire class working with her only so that she could pick up on some basic stuff, so I've got a private lesson next week.


In the gym yesterday I was kinda pressed for time, but ran 2 miles.

[brothernumber9]

GAMBARI IPPO!! err I mean GAMBARI SEVEN!!

[SevenStar]

5/5 - thai boxing

last night I stressed to the class the importance of the jab, and began to go into detail on it's many uses. Here's what we did last night:

jump rope - 3 x 4 mins
during the rest, 50 squats and 30 pushups

normal shadowboxing
ali / frazier shadowboxing
shadowboxing - in and out (aggress - throw a quick combination, then jab your way back out)
interval - speed/normal shadowboxing

various calesthenics

skill work - 8 rounds

5-10-5's - 2 rounds

neck wrestling
2 rounds

we finished it off with 100 crunches, 30 pushups and 50 squats

[SevenStar]

5/6 - weight training

felt weak today, so I didn't try to increase poundages - I performed the same workout I did last session:


cleans
155 x 5 - 5 sets

pullups
2 sets of 5

squats
225 x 20
315 x 8
390 x 5 - 5 sets

bench press
135 x 10
260 x 5 - 5 sets

dumbell swings
50 x 8 - 3 sets

deads
315 x 5 - 5 sets

dips
3 sets of 10

[SevenStar]

5/7 - thai boxing

jump rope - 3 x 4 mins

normal shadowboxing
ali / frazier shadowboxing
shadowboxing - head movement emphasis
interval - speed/normal shadowboxing

pad work
3 rounds each

sparring
2 rounds

neck wrestling
3 rounds

heavy bag
2 rounds - skill
1 rounds - power

[SevenStar]

5/10 - gym

I've come to the conclusion that no matter how far or how often I run, it will always suck and I will always hate it. I need to be like IF and boycot cardio. I logged three miles and hated aevery centimeter of it. I like to run about as much as I like having splinters in my ass...

[SevenStar]

5/10 - judo


tonight was an awesome class. We warmed up with calesthenics and went immediately into moving uchi komis the moving uchi komis I decided to work were:

harai goshi
hiza guruma
hiza guruma to harai goshi
de ashi barai to o soto gari

we performed several rounds of this, then went into some kumi kata (grip fighting) and some throw for throw randori - this is basically drilling - you clench and move, just as you would in randori, but you allow your partner to throw you, then you throw him. we performed three rounds of this, then about 7 rounds of randori. I learned a sambo throw that I worked during the throw for throw drills.

we ended class with a couple of drills - ippon seionage to juji gatame and a variation of sankaku jime when your opponent is on all fours. this also left you in position for an americana on your opponent's free arm.

[SevenStar]

5/11 - gym

my workout time was limited yesterday, but I was able to squeeze in something. I ended up having to work through lunch, so I tried to get something in before I letf for class.

bench press
145 x 10 - 1 set
225 x 10 - 1 set
275 x 4 - 4 sets
245 x 6 - 2 sets

pull ups
8 sets of 2-5

dumbell curls
40 x 8 - 2 sets
45 x 5 - 3 sets

[SevenStar]

5/11 - thai boxing

basics, basics, basics. We've had alot of new guys come in lately, so we've decided that we're going to spend alot of time on basics, so we can get the newer guys up to speed. Last night kind of built on my class last week - the jab.we worked variations of the jab, different applications of it, etc. then went into basic defense - parrying and catching. we also did some basic footwork drills.

[BibitClerus]

hey 7,
how do you feel about tiredness post-workout nowadays?
i ask in the sense of, have you gotten used to tough MT workout or your still feel physically destroyed every night? or some few nights?
do you recall how long it taken you to get used to the basic physical stress of it overall when you began training?

[SevenStar]

ya know, that's something I've never really experienced in thai, bjj or in judo - and our judo workouts are KILLER. There are times in class where I just want to stop and go home, but a few hours after class, all tiredness is gone. There are guys in class who go through it, but I never really have.

When I get home, I just grab something to eat and turn on the tv or something.

[SevenStar]

5/12 - thai boxing

I followed the flow of the earlier classes when I taught tonight - basics. We continued with working the jab. I added a double jab and introduced the cross. we used all of these in combinations and did floor walking exercises to integrate footwork with them. We did a bounch of calesthenics, so we could sweat some - one of the guys referred to me as "the devil" - I think he ended up being one of the physically exhausted guys xeb referred to.

jump rope
two 4 min rounds
at the end of round two - 30 squats, 30 pushups

shadow boxing
3 rounds

pad drills
12 rounds
every 2nd round - 30 squats, 30 pushups

floor walking drills
4 rounds
after the 4th round - 30 squats, 30 pushups

2 minute interval drill
15 seconds squats, 15 seconds lateral hops - repeat for round duration

burpees - 20

abs - 100 crunches

next thursday will be all conditioning drills. I will really be hated after that...

[ewallace]

I've come to the conclusion that no matter how far or how often I run, it will always suck and I will always hate it. I need to be like IF and boycot cardio. I logged three miles and hated aevery centimeter of it. I like to run about as much as I like having splinters in my ass...

Hence the reason I do interval training with a speed rope, or sprint/walk for no more then 5-10 minutes. Not that I'm doing that now or anything, but when I do cardio that's about it, unless there's a precor eliptical and I'm all over that, I just don't have an extra 2 grand to have one in the house.

[SevenStar]

yeah, I like the precor ellipticals - dunno if I trust the readings though. It seems like they always tell me I've burned way more calories than I do running the same distance or amount of time, yet the elliptical drains me way less...