Martial arts class was a little bit brutal today. We were working with sticks today. Mind you, the sticks are plastic covered with foam so you have to wrap your head around what kind of hits with those cause bruising. My left knee is bruised from a couple of the harder hits. Can you imagine what it would be like if we were hitting with metal batons? Busted knee caps, fer shure.
A lot of the techniques today attacked the legs. You know:
- You can't see, you can't fight
- You can't breathe, you can't fight
- You can't stand, you can't fight
The last technique especially just blasted the left leg, with a charity strike to the right leg so that it wasn't jealous. When we do this, we call it chopping down the tree. Striking the same leg over and over until it just gives out. You will see this used in kickboxing, where one attacker will keep kicking the same leg over and over to slow down an opponent.
The technique we were doing had three fast stick strikes to the leg. Bobo (the guy I was working with) was also throwing in two kicks to my left shin as well between the stick strikes. Nice, eh?
It's effective.
After practicing that a few times, I didn't want to stand back up. I did of course, but I didn't want to.
Now, I have 6 days to heal up before we do it again.
And now, I have to mow the lawn and then get the new martial videos uploaded to YouTube.
Wishing You Success!
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