The Martial Artists' Training Log

[bushido_man96]

1/16/2026

BJJ:  6:45 - 8:15 pm.  Some 2 minute warm-up rounds, then we went to work.  We worked from the outrigger position into side control.  After quite a bit of positional work there, we progressed to working on finishing with a gift wrap, Kimura, and armbar.  I felt behind all the time while drilling and rolling, but I also felt like I was doing some good things.  Bottom side control still sucks.  I finished with 2 live rounds, 2 minutes each.  Stretched after.

[bushido_man96]

1/20/2026

Taekwondo:  5:45 - 6:30 pm.  Traditional Class.  Taught this class.  I tried to get the students to focus on proper walking and posture in stances.  I mentioned this in basics and in forms.  I had two other black belts in class for one-steps, so while they worked with students I focused on white and orange belt students doing their one-steps.

Sparring:  6:30 - 7:00 pm.  I sparred an opening round with the 3rd dan, which kind of sucked.  After that, I led few more rounds of sparring, then I had the students line up for footwork drills.  A good chunk of the time was spent on moving.  Finished with blocking drills to include the six-star hit and lining them back up and swinging the blocker at them.

After class I had a brief stretch in The Rack.

Edited 20 hours ago by bushido_man96

[bushido_man96]

1/21/2026

Aikido:  6:15 - 7:15 pm.  Traditional Class.  Loosening, basic strikes, aikitaisos, then quite a bit of ukemi, and I did ok with it.  The meat of the class was higher kyu material, working on several "pivot throws."  They were 4th kyu and up material.  Some of them I didn't mind, some of them I didn't really care for at all.