The Martial Artists' Training Log

[tallgeese]

11/27

Squat

Overhead Press

Deadlift

abs

[pittbullJudoka]

Nov. 27

A.M. Drilled butterfly sweeps, free rolling 45 minutes

P.M. Ciriculem review for blue belts, 15 minutes standup sparring

[yamesu]

28 Nov 2012.

-30 min Volleyball game.

-120min Kyokushin class.

-Body conditioning with partner.

[tallgeese]

11/28

Drilled reverse arm bar. Moved to standard armbar off switch. Reverse arm bar to omo sweep, w straight arm bar.

40 min free roll.

[bushido_man96]

11/27/2012

I took a few minutes and got down on one knee to work some brush/trap drills with my 7 year old son. Worked defending and feeding the strike, which is tough to do, and tried to work in some arm bar or wrist lock take downs.

[bushido_man96]

11/28/2012

Forms

Naifanchi Shodan x3

Songham 1 x1

Songham 2 x1

Arm really hurt when busting out moves in Naifanchi Shodan. I really thought my arm was healing a lot better than that.

Testing: 6:30 - 8:00

I worked on a section of Yoo Sin prior to the testing, and stretched out a bit, but didn't have to demo the form. I did work with our new black belt gal who was inquiring about breaking with a round kick. Ah, I felt so proud...and she did break with it.

At the end of testing, we had a really nasty, heavy board in with all the others that our instructor didn't force on anyone else, so I took the liberty to discard it and one other board with a spin heel kick. I nailed it on the first try....but boy, was it a hard one! My heel is still sore....and bruised.

And I am now going to start really focusing on testing for my 4th dan, since I have been eligible for quite some time, and think I might have the time to really focus in on it.

[bushido_man96]

Testing prep begins!

6 minute warmup on elliptical.

Forms

Colored belt

Chon Ji

Dan Gun

Bo Chuung

Do San

Won Hyo

Yul Gok

Joong Gun

Toi Gye

Hwa Rang

Choong Moo

Black Belt

Kwang Gae

Poe Eun

Gae Baek

Se Jong

Yoo Sin

Do-Kang 1, Do-Kang 2, Do-Kang 3, Do-Kang 4

All one-steps, 31 total.

Stretch briefly; stretching was painful, as my left heel is severely bruised from the board break on testing night. But, I also had a buddy in the gym lifting, and he was doing dead lifts, and I asked to do just one. Got it.

Dead lift: 315 lbs x1. Barefoot, no belt or straps, and haven't lifted since May, and hadn't done a dead lift since April.

[yamesu]

30 Nov 2012.

-Weights training (chest, shoulders, arms, back) all compound sets at AM and PM.

-Pull ups - millitary press, 3x sets to exhaustion.

-P90x Ab Ripper X (attempted, but could not get through the whole thing without breaks!)

[yamesu]

1 Dec 2012.

-P90x Cardio.

-Mawashi Geri heavy bag work (10min).

-Triangle pushups to exhaustion.

-25min interval running on treadmill @80% effort.

-Pushups on knuckles to exhaustion (4x sets - 32, 22, 20, 20 - with 2 min break)

-Kettlebell swings - 1 set @ 20kgs.

[tallgeese]

12/1

Drilled reverse arm bar, moved to omoplata, and then to straight arm bar from omo position.

40 min free roll- focus on ankle locks

30 min sparring

Picked up a couple of subtle points on the omo that have been missing from a pretty common element of my game. Can't wait to work it in.