Week in Review

Sunday

Phillip Wain
Only me and Sara so I decided to jump in there with her. Did a circuit to warm up. Couple of laps and some basic movements to get the blood flowing. Followed by a long stretch

Martelo 3 sets x 10 reps
Chapiado 3 sets x 10 reps

Some partner work
Martelo - negativa dentro banda: Sara didn't count on the martelo and she switched from front to back leg with the kick, often forcing me to change the direction of my nega dentro. I discovered a way to teach the rythym for the nega dentro when you go the wrong way. Basically it is like a set step to parallela and a small balanca to the other side if the kick is coming at you.

Queixada - chapiado: Get in early nuff said

Finished with a stretch, jumped in the car and braved the One U parking to go to

Celebrity
Did a ginga warm up just to mix it up a bit followed by another stretch..... ahhh i like this
Then incorporated some balanca and martelo from back and front leg. Sent them off with partner work

Martelo - negativa dentro banda: Basically tried to get them to free up and experiment with some fintas and throwing martelo from front and back. More importantly for the the defender to watch for the time and direction of the kick and react accordingly. Set in parallela and wait for the direction of the kick then react.

Stretch to finish..... felt quite bouncy so went to the park with Woei, JC and Tofurista!

Park
Slow start .... walked around and Sat on grass.... saw what i thought was a lou hung chinese dude playing football with some kids.... i.e. Woei .... keke.... so I joined in... after some kicking about I assume my role sitting down at the side and heckling them a little while Woei indulged his inner kampung boy/Premier league manager. JC and tofurista came down from their leisurely walk on the reflex footpath to join us. Woei tore up his toe so he was out for the count. I mucked around a little with some floreios.... just keeping in touch with them. Then we decided to go do some more manly work.

Did the following circuit
Pull up 8, 7, 6
Dips 10, 10, 10
Wipers 8, 8, 8

Followed by some ponte walkovers and stretch... chups.... quite puas long day of self imposed training

Saturday
Wah this post is gonna be long. In the interest of time.....
1. Did a show for Tartaruga for a Wesak day fair. Peeps was really nice. Got a good workout cos there was only 3 of us!

2. Workshop for Terry. Did some line drills emphasizing directional awareness and balanca. Mimicked Clauds lecture style workshop with just some random moves that we don't train much in beginners classes just to give them a taste of whats to come. Finished with some more participatory music lessons.

Thursday
Class at academy. Ginga movement with Woei was nice.... looking more cagey. Good. Did a nice sequencia where you sweep your partners' nega cruzado to make him fall in to standing in parallela but his back is facing towards you. Then you move in to a sort of reverse tesoura de frente when partner. Nice torque, can feel alot of power in the move. Finished with a super hard jumping flip flip move into a half helicoptero. Need to free up my obliques and lower back a little more for these moves.

Tuesday
Again pressed for time. Did a quick warmup and stretch. Gaves it:

50 pushups
100 abs
30 ponte

Repeat 3 times

Finish with a good stretch