Great job! I’m not all that familiar with Krav, so was just curious if this all-day testing is normal?
Thanks, Djwlfpack, very much! Yes, its normal I’m afraid, though the previous test was only six & a half hours. Before the test you do a “seminar” that any student at that level can attend, whether they are testing or not. You do the entire test, with guidance from the teacher, and ask any last minute questions you may have. How you perform at the seminar determines whether you will be allowed to test. Even though you have already received formal permission to test at this point, they can still ask you to leave if you do not perform well. I know 2 people this has happened to. Then you take a short break to rest & eat (this was the 20 min break) and begin the test. You may not ask questions. You go 100% on every technique or they kick your ass out. Krav was created for & is still used in war, so their philosophy is that anyone can fight when they are fresh. What are you going to do when your life is on the line & you’re completely exhausted? Do you have the will to survive, to fight? Before the seminar my teacher asked me how I was feeling & said to me, “No matter what, keep fighting. If you mess up, don’t stop & start over, keep fighting. My job is to make you quit, your job is to not quit, no matter what.”
That’s krav in a nutshell.
And thanks for always being sweet![/quote]
Makes sense. You’ve definitely got to be strong mentally to get through all that.
One drill, outside in the heat, we were tossing a medicine ball hot-potato style, with boxing gloves on for 30 seconds, then straight into sparring, then back to ball toss, etc. That’ll poop you out.
Then groundfighting class. I truly suck at the triangle choke. Instead of getting my leg around my partner’s head properly I’m smashing my own calf muscle into the back of his head. I don’t know if I need to drive my hips up more aggresively to get farther around or what. And advice?
[quote]Miss Parker wrote:
I’m including a picture of me & my boo-boos, but I don’t know if they’ll show up well. My husband asked me to wear long sleeves when we go out tonight so people don’t think I’m a battered wife. No training for me for a few days as there’s no limb left unbruised & I don’t want to take any blows on top of bruises.[/quote]
NICE! After trading Thai shin kicks, my thighs look like raw hamburger. People literally gasp at how terrible it looks. It’s the price we pay. Make sure your getting some good iron from red meat or a multi, that will help with bruising next time. Congrats on your advancement!
NICE! After trading Thai shin kicks, my thighs look like raw hamburger. People literally gasp at how terrible it looks. It’s the price we pay. Make sure your getting some good iron from red meat or a multi, that will help with bruising next time. Congrats on your advancement![/quote]
One drill, outside in the heat, we were tossing a medicine ball hot-potato style, with boxing gloves on for 30 seconds, then straight into sparring, then back to ball toss, etc. That’ll poop you out.
Then groundfighting class. I truly suck at the triangle choke. Instead of getting my leg around my partner’s head properly I’m smashing my own calf muscle into the back of his head. I don’t know if I need to drive my hips up more aggresively to get farther around or what. And advice?[/quote]
Not so much driving your hips up, but out to the side opposite of the arm you have trapped. If you’re facing your opponent head on and try to wrap your leg over his head, the result is usually what you described above. Unless you’re like me and have really long legs and can still get the leg into the proper position.
[quote]Djwlfpack wrote:
Miss Parker wrote:
Not so much driving your hips up, but out to the side opposite of the arm you have trapped. If you’re facing your opponent head on and try to wrap your leg over his head, the result is usually what you described above. Unless you’re like me and have really long legs and can still get the leg into the proper position.[/quote]
Okay, I see what you mean. I’ll work on that. Thanks.
BJJ (Gi)
Time: 90 min.
Notes: Worked on head-and-arm choke from guard. Big thing to remember is to pull your opponent’s body towards you with your legs after you trap the arm and pull it across. Then you want to scoot your hips out to the side opposite of the trapped arm to get a better angle.
Rolling went well. Locked in a triangle which I was happy with as I had been struggling with those before my break. My stamina was good and I did a good job staying out of trouble for the most part.
Glad to see you back on the mat, Djwlfpack! Last night we practiced various ways of blocking round kicks to the head, absorbed same kicks to the leg & gut, and worked roundhouse/punching combos. During sparring at the end of class I took a hard vertical front kick to the heart! From the look on the guy’s face I think it stunned him as much as it did me. I just told myself do not go down do not go down do not go down. So I came back at him, but not as hard as before. I’m really working on being able to come back hard after taking a really good hit, but its just not happening yet. When I see guys do that in the ring (or octagon) it just amazes me.
[quote]Miss Parker wrote:
Glad to see you back on the mat, Djwlfpack! Last night we practiced various ways of blocking round kicks to the head, absorbed same kicks to the leg & gut, and worked roundhouse/punching combos. During sparring at the end of class I took a hard vertical front kick to the heart! From the look on the guy’s face I think it stunned him as much as it did me. I just told myself do not go down do not go down do not go down. So I came back at him, but not as hard as before. I’m really working on being able to come back hard after taking a really good hit, but its just not happening yet. When I see guys do that in the ring (or octagon) it just amazes me. [/quote]
Miss Parker, I have to say, your will and determination is inspiring. I wish more women had that tenacity when it came to training. Good on you for hanging in there.
Thanks for a great thread, lots of inspiration and ideas. Haven’t been able to train due to injury. Broke my left orbital bone. Got spiffy new plastic inserts to fill the gaps in my skull and hold the ole eyeball in place.
Yesterday was simple combo drills on the heavy bag.
3 minute rounds / 1 minute rest
3 round Shadow Boxing
6 rounds heavy bag
2 rounds speed bag
Heavy bag was jabs only for the fisrt round then each round after I added to it. Jabs. Jab + Cross. Jab + Hook off the jab. Then longer and longer combo strings.
Today will be a little bag work, 6 rounds or so, then weights.
Thanks for a great thread, lots of inspiration and ideas. Haven’t been able to train due to injury. Broke my left orbital bone. Got spiffy new plastic inserts to fill the gaps in my skull and hold the ole eyeball in place.
Yesterday was more boxing/striking drills on the heavy bag.
3 minute rounds / 1 minute rest
3 rounds heavy bag hand wraps only.
Light but fast striking, with just the hand wraps. Focus was hand/foot timing. Matching the punch with the steps. Drill was Jab, Jab + Cross Combo. Straight in for the fisrt jab then circular movement for a new angle to deliver the combo.
7 rounds heavy bag with gloves.
Various combinations getting more complex from one round to the next. 7th round was the most fun, nothing but heavy bombs, hooks to the body.
3 rounds heavy bag bare handed.
Open hand, knife hand, ridge hand strikes. If the bag had a gi on there would have been some grip fighting along with the strikes. If the opportunity presented itself then I would fit in for a variety of hip throws, outside reaps, and the occasional uchi mata.
Finished off with 4 sets of pullups, chinups and alt grip pullups each. 12 sets total.
Awesome 3 hours of training tonight! First was a private with the Gorgeous Bastard - groundwork - striking while you have them in side mount, stacking, moving from mount to side mount & back, just getting used to moving around on someone. Then we rolled - exhausting fun! I love rolling!
2nd hour was a cardio class using the heavy bag, just freaking endless kicking/punching combinations, mostly side kicks tonight. Then ab work. Last hour was kicks while advancing - groin kicks, vertical kicks followed by punches, then “switch knees”, which are like an advancing front kick, but you’re throwing the knee. Ended with a drill where you just cover up, protecting your head with eyes closed & your partner beats on you. Of course, you would never stand there with your eyes closed, but it lets you feel what its like to be struck unexpectedly.
It felt like being in a violent mosh pit you’re ready to get out of, or in a crowd that’s turning into a mob. I wish you guys would post your workouts! I like reading what everyone’s doing. Lots of exclamation points tonight - I’m exhausted & jacked up at the same time.
Glad everyonebody’s training is staying on track. Keep posting!
I’m in a new town, so won’t be able to work out with my instructor but a few times a year. But, his instructor will be moving down here soon, so that’ll be good.
'till then, I’m doing kata, footwork drills, shadowboxing, etc, in my gym’s cardio room. Eight hours of solo karate work a week, with three thirty-minute full-body weight training sessions (focusing on no more than five-six reps per set, going for strength/power) on top of that.
. . . You know, that doesn’t look near hardcore enough for this thread.
I’ll probably be also hooking up with a few TMA schools around here that have open sparring. Also heard there’s a private group that does judo and BJJ, so I’m sure going to check that out.
Again people, keep making the karate guy look bad. Gives me a reason to push harder.
On the Mat hosted a bjj tourney here this weekend, I won gi and got second no-gi. I need to work on maintaining position no-gi, sometimes I get too loose from side control and the guy ended up getting back up on me multiple times.
Jeff Glover, Mike Fowler, and Jeff Monson were all here doing exhibition bouts. They were all impressive, especially Glover who also entered the advanced no-gi in like four different weightclasses and cleaned all of them out winning every match by submission.
Monson is bigger in person than I thought he would be, I wouldn’t like to know what it would be like to have that monster on my back trying to choke me…probably not much fun
Congratulations, Slimjim! Glad to see you doing so well. This weekend I attended a krav seminar with John Whitman, who is one of the top guys in our system. First day was a few hours of basic combatives & groundwork, just tweaking us, letting us fine tune our skills & speed.
Second day started with various ways of forcing your way through a crowd in either a mob-type situation, or when more than one person is trying to prevent you from getting from point A to point B. Then several hours of gun/knife/hostage defenses.
Two creepy things: First, seeing John on his knees while another instructor had a (fake)gun to the back of his head, execution style. Even though the situation was not real, it still gave me a sick feeling seeing it. Second, I didn’t always get the gun from my attacker! Maybe my hands were slippery with sweat, maybe I didn’t do the attack right, or both, but realizing you’ve failed to get the weapon that was about to blow your brains out is sobering.
The most interesting part of the day was practicing de-escalation techniques and learning cues that a person gives when they’re about to attack you with a weapon. Deciding under what circumstances you will attack if de-escalation fails. This is very tricky, especially as a female, as we’re socialized to believe, “If I’m nice to them, they’ll be nice to me”, and to act accordingly. Setting those initial boundaries to keep someone away when they haven’t “done anything”, but you sense something very wrong about them can be more difficult than striking them once they’ve crossed the line.
Third day we took a giant two-level party boat onto the lake & drank & swam & compared bruises & swam some more!