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I didn't do resistance training this morning. Instead, I joined in a morning skills session. In this session, they did rounds of combinations that build upon each other, speedbag, and heavy bag work. I'm doing this session to get more mitts work, which I am terrible at. I'll make a separate post on that. I'm going back later to get in my conditioning.
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Mitts .... my nemesis. I have an issue with sequences. Ask me the days of the week and I have to pause and think sometimes. Getting the months in order gave me fits growing up. It's just something about how my brain is wired. This doesn't work well with combinations beyond a certain amount.
Slip, Roll, 3, 2 ... sure
Add in slip, 2, catch, 6 ... it takes me a while to get my head around it
Add in 3, 2, roll, roll, 3, 3 ... my head explodes
This coach repeats the same sequence two weeks in a row. The first week I am terrible at it and I end up not giving my mitts partner much of a workout. I write down the progression and work on it all week as part of my shadowboxing and such. I even practice holding the mitts against an imaginary partner to get that perspective. When the next week rolls around I'm fine since I've slaved over it all and made it feel more natural and I don't have to engage my brain at all.
Because of all this, I've avoided mitts. Not because I fear not being good at something, it's more I hate to let my partner down. My coach will tell me to just do it anyway and I'll improve, but I've not done that. Well, now I am. I've committed myself to jump on any opportunity I can to engage in mitt work. I'm hoping that by doing it over and over it will get more hard-wired into my head and I won't have to do any sort of thinking at all, or at least quite a bit less. That's how I have to do things. Route-trees in football did the same thing until I got them down, then I could create within them depending on what the defense gave us.Comment
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I've been consistent, but not intense. My right knee is getting worse. I go tomorrow for another eval and hopefully a plan. It's my right knee which is the one that gets the most stress. If nothing is found that can be fixed either by rehab or otherwise, I may go unorthodox and see if I want to make a permanent switch. I used to hit from that side (baseball) about 25% of the time (depending on the situation) so my body doesn't reject it. Of course, I work from that side anyway as others do but it isn't clunky to me at all.
We shall see what tomorrow brings.Comment
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Did a small lunch work session. I did the entire thing unorthodox and it felt very awkward. Switching over for short bursts always felt good but full-time does not. The boxing coached said he was pleased, given that it was the first time doing it full-time, but I thought it ******. However, I know like anything else, it will take time. Though the coached said he was pleased, that was because it's somewhat new to me. We identified a few basic things to focus on and of course, it starts from the ground up. Stance was off a bit, I'm too far forward, and my side to side movements felt clumsy.
Tonight I'll get in early and do extra shadow boxing, working on these things.Comment
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Tonight I "sparred" with a lady I've known for a while. She likes to do the boxing fitness classes and is trying to overcome being adverse to actually hitting someone and being hit. She was abused by her father growing up and has had difficulty with overbearing people, especially males, and asserting herself. She is aware of all this and has been working on things. I was encouraging her to spar with me as I'm a taller male and I'd let her beat on me while keeping her honest just a bit with some taps.
We would begin sparring and she was just tapping but we would stop and I'd encourage her and on and on. Even got her to do a combo of hook to the body and one to my head (I covered, of course). I had her cut off the ring and get me into the corner so she could wail away on me a bit a few times.
Doing this was very the****utic for her. I tole her that each time she finished a class and I was in the building I'd get in there and we would do the same thing. I'll keep giving her some taps to make sure she is also keeping her form.Comment
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