akeyoftime: (no strings attached)
akeyoftime ([personal profile] akeyoftime) wrote2007-01-21 08:48 am

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Sifu worked us so. hard. yesterday. It was fantastic.

I'd swear to you that we must have done push-up after push-up after push-up, because even my back muscles are sore (in the good way), but we didn't do even a single one; this is all from the pad drills. Twenty seconds on each skill. Triple-punch. Single crossovers. Double crossovers. Lead-and-trap. Lead-cross. Lead-cross other side. Lead-cross hook upper-cut. Lead-cross hook upper-cut other side. Lead-cross upper-cut cross hook. Lead-cross upper-cut cross hook other side. Sprint. Repeat, 15 seconds on each skill. Sprint. Repeat, 10 seconds on each skill. Run. Then timed line drills. More running. Especially if you didn't make get your drills done in time. Front kick, side kick, spinning back kick. Front kick, step, hopping side kick. Run.

Some of the muscle looseness it brought on (think of how you feel after a really good massage) is still with me today. That is kind of amazing and very welcome. Training is wonderful. I really need to find a way to keep at this over the break periods and even more importantly, the summer.

[identity profile] gulfpirate.livejournal.com 2007-01-21 11:10 pm (UTC)(link)
If you are out here, and thus away from your dojo/kwoon for a while, I'd be happy to work/train with you. I don't think we have too much in common, advanced technique-wise, outside of Wing Chun, but the basic stuff seems to be the basic stuff wherever you go. Your drills sound very familiar to me, and it sounds like an awesome school.

P.S. I didn't know you were into this stuff until very (less than 3 business days) recently! Squee!