Love At First Strike

MMA Tuesday was just that.  I did not have a chance to do a regular workout with it but I was feeling pretty good from my workout on Monday.  We worked guard passing and clinch work today.  It was really nice because we got to do a few rounds of live MMA training with hits.  When we do this, depending on our training partner we usually do not go all out.  I am personally respectful that different people are at different places in their training or even wanting to do certain things in MMA like get punched…  Not everyone is a gluten for punishment.  As for myself, I don’t think that I enjoy getting hit, however… I do really like getting hit and seeing how I react.  I also like seeing what I can do or will do to defend myself.  Many of the most martial arts teaches are very cool and nice, but not many are very practical when there are no rules.  Example… I love playing guard.  I like to have people in my guard when playing jiu jitsu because I feel it is a pretty safe place, I have pretty good control and I can attack for submissions or a sweep.  Now when you are playing guard in MMA guard isnt such a wonderful place because there is a very real possibility you will have someone throwing punches in your face.  When we are playing MMA rules I want them as close to me as possible which means I have to break down there guard completely or I want them as far away as possible so they can’t sneak a punch through and clock me in my snot locker…

Anyhow, the training was great.  I really love it and I had a great workout.  I did about 15 minutes of jump rope and a couple of Tabata sets before practice but not a full workout.    See you all tomorrow…