Very good week of training last week, I attended Krav Maga for two nights, followed by my second BJJ class on Thursday. The week started off easy enough on Tuesday where we covered techniques against low punches to the stomach and defence against a straight stabbing knife attack. On Wednesday we had a very large class of about 13 people, so it was pretty crazy. In fact I think thats the biggest KM class I’ve been to. Because we had an odd number of mainly beginners I got to train with the instructor Golan so I pushed myself harder than usual.
We practised breakfalls front and back and how to recover from that position once on the ground. The drill we practised involved our partner holding a pad and pushing us from behind or from the front, we then had to breakfall and turn to face the pad holder, kick the pads and get up while still attacking. Then, finally once we were up, knee the pad and escape and scan. We didn’t switch who was holding the pads so I had to slog my guts out twice as hard which was fine…until we were told we had to glove up and spar!
So after being pushed over and getting up and beating on the pads 50 times in a row we had to partner up and spar…we started two against one which was hard enough with my dying arms and waining guard…but then we switched to all against all, where anyone could attack anyone else in the class! It was carnage! People were punching people left, right and centre it was seriously crazy. Thirteen people all hitting the closest person to them, it was hilarious and really hard to avoid getting smacked in the melon or kicked in the goolies…thank god for groin and head guards!
A great session that I won’t soon forget.
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