UNBRIDLED TRUTH

It's been good to have my martial arts training as a grounding element in tumultuous times. Monday   Muay Thai class This was a fundamentals review class, partly to help a new person get started. I was in a trio with them, too, for extra help. They seemed to listen and tried to apply the advice I was giving, which is always welcome. A fine way to start their time at this gym. Tuesday   Muay Thai class This class was about grinding out long sequences to build stamina. Some

I feel like I somehow have a lot and nothing going on at the same time lately. I am reminded of the song DOS by Ayria. Monday   Muay Thai class This class was about setting up round kicks. It was pretty fundamental stuff, but as usual, I'm always fine with working on that. Nothing fancy, but I'll take practical and effective over annoying chaff any day. The kru also said I was doing well, which I'm trying to just take as a compliment. Tuesday   Muay Thai class This class

And finishing catching up. Monday   Muay Thai class This class was a head-to-head back-and-forth defense class, which are always welcome from my perspective, since it's never not nice to get some practice hitting other humans. I had a fun time with it, and finishing up with some freestyle boxing exchanges was a fine capstone. Tuesday   Muay Thai class This class focused on boxing offense and slipping. Granted, we fit in some kicks as well, but the hands and head movement we

I slipped on posting this on time again. Oh well. Monday   Muay Thai class This class was a stamina-grinder built around round kicks. The workload felt a bit lighter than usual, for some reason, but maybe that was just in my head. In any case, I felt good about how I did. Tuesday   Muay Thai class This was an offense>defense>counter class. We ended up building towards more complex drills than usual, which made for a nice mental challenge to keep everything on track. I th

It was a big competitive event last weekend. I didn't compete, of course, since I have no real interest in that, but I felt like mentioning it would be good filler for this intro part. Monday   Muay Thai class This was a statutory holiday in Ontario, so we celebrated with some stamina-grinding. Since the holiday threw off typical attendance, I got to part with one of the competitive fighters who I don't work with much anymore. We had a good time mixing in a little freestyl

Roughly on time with this one, at least. Monday   Muay Thai class This class worked on some less common follow-ups to boxing openers, going into either elbow strikes or front kicks. It was also nice as a subtle way of training different range adjustments after initiating. I had a good time with it. Tuesday   Muay Thai class This class started out with some light freestyle back-and-forth. Some people decided to interpret that as light sparring, which caused me some confusio