UNBRIDLED TRUTH

Double-weekly-recap posting, part 2/2, the end of an era. It was a lighter week than I'd wanted to finish on, since I had a terrible mental-health day on Tuesday and the gym was closed due to weather on Wednesday, but I made the best of it, and in all, I'm happy with what I accomplished in 110 total training sessions (include extra solo sessions and the Carnage seminar) over 184 days. Monday Muay Thai class This class was all about knee strikes. For all that I tend to enjoy

Double-weekly-recap posting again today. No explanations for why this time; I just didn't do this one last weekend. Monday Muay Thai class This class had a lot of extended sequence work (the kru called it out specifically as a Dutch-style class). For the most part, I felt fine with long strings of punches, and finishing with single or doubled kicks was mostly alright as well except in the case of finishing with kicks using alternating legs. For whatever reason, that kept t

Wow, I'm not entirely sure what happened this weekend to make me forget all about posting this, but here we are. As I wind towards the end of my current membership at this gym, this was generally a good week. The future never entirely certain, but I expect I'll be back again, though that's a matter for a few months down the road from now. Monday Muay Thai class It was hot in the gym this class, probably due in part to the unusually-high attendance. We were doing defense an

It felt good to be back to a full week of training, including sparring again. Monday Muay Thai class I must've been slacking too much over the holidays, because my stamina was bad for this class. That said, I feel like I kept up some decent snap during the first few rounds, so that's a promising sign that my body mechanics are contributing more and more to my performance rather than relying solely on athleticism. I also noticed that my balance during my offense is getting b

I actually have an explanation for being a week late with this recap, rather than just an excuse; I was unable to log in to post this for a while. I've no idea if it was a general problem with Wix or just something special for me, but in any case, here we are. Only three workouts this week because the gym was closed on Monday and Friday for winter holidays, and I was feeling too depressed to do my own workouts in the mean time. Tuesday Muay Thai class Due to scant attendance