Beginners Class (6:00 pm - 6:45 pm)

Today we worked on A LOT of stuff. So I hope you practice it. Along with a general review we went over 5 basic punches:

6 Punch Series:

1) Middle Chest Punch
2) Vertical Fist Punch (Can punch)
3) Upper Cut
4) Hook punch (comes around level with your neck arm bent like an L at the elbow)
5) Rising Punch (Hits the stomach/solarplex and shifts up to the chin and stops there)
6) Round House punch (we didnt work on this one but it comes around like a straight punch except you turn the hand over a bit - your knuckles towards the ground - and come around to the temple/ear area on the head).

Some blocks as well 6 Block Series

1) Middle chest block
2) High block
3) Low block
We also did a lot of walking basics. Stepping and punching and turning and punching. PRACTICE THIS! IT IS IMPORTANT!

The next thing we did was a tennis ball drill to get your hands to start and stop together. Standing close to the wall and taking the ball in one hand throwing the punch and releasing the ball towards the wall at the last second when you would make contact and then throwing the punching with the other hand catching the ball at the first second. Then as that 2nd hand goes out again releasing the ball. Its tough to explain, but if you were there you can work on it at home.

Finally, we concluded with going over some kicks. Front kick and front leg front kick on the bags.

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Advanced Class : (6:45pm - 8:00pm)

We worked through ippons, kihons, and teuzus 5-10. If you remember 11 and 12 on Ippons AWESOME!

Don’t forget to practice these for Thursday, we will go over them again hopefully, or get ready for the random ones on next Tuesday.

We did a few kicks mostly the “sliding” side kick. Also the crescent kick on the bag.

Finally we concluded with the tennis ball drill mentioned above in the beginners class as a warm up drill. Then we did a few with partners.

1) One person held one ball and you stand about 10 feet apart. Execute a reverse punch and aim for the opponents head. They should block with their lead hand (catching the ball). Then your opponent puts the ball in the other hand quickly and throws their reverse punch at you releasing the ball at the last second.

2) Same drill as above just front hand
3) same drill as above just moved around (now it got really hard)
4) same drill as above but added another ball doing it at the same time keeping your eyes focused on multiple things at once.

Well Done!