2015/10/04: Setting Schedules, General Ramblings

So recently I have realized that I am doing a whole lot of nothing haha. I don't feel like I am really learning anything - I tell myself that I am going to learn some things, and then I don't because I'll have one of those "oh it's too much for this current moment of time" sort of a things.

So I've decided to set a schedule that I will follow, and I will begin by going whatever what I am going to do next Friday or next time I see Chris.

• Wrestling: I am going to go over the Double Leg, High C to Double Leg (American), Low Single, High Single Entrance.
• Greco: Pummel practice, review last week's stuff, and do 2-3 more takedowns
• Practice the GracieUniversity stuff, probably going to do Back Defense
• Striking: Muay Thai kick defense, footwork sparring, general bag work, other Kung Fu stuff I want to try.

That should be a good amount of stuff to practice there. On my own, however, I want to:

• Practice my Wing Chun and Tai Chi (Yang style, long) forms
• Practice my strikes (on both sides; jab, rear straight, hooks, uppercuts, overhands...?, hammers, straight kick, roundhouse kick, stomp, and their equivalents with elbows and knees)
• Practice my footwork (best with relation to my strikes)
• Shadowbox
• Study Baguazhang
• Work on my takedowns and clinch fighting
• Master energy
• Combinations

So for this week, I am going to practice Siu Nim Tau at least 2-5 times a day, and learn the first section of Chum Kiu...? I mean it's not 100% necessary that I learn Chum Kiu, but practicing Siu Nim Tau is important. Also, I'm going to learn the first section of the Yang style long form.

On days with more time, I will practice my footwork, and my strikes/combinations, doing everything 20 times each on both sides. (I will choose 20-30 combinations/strikes to practice)

Move from my center - always!

So now that that's out of the way, I'm going to talk about my afternoon training session yesterday, at Scott's house. It began with a lot of just playing around with my strikes, and trying to refine them. Then Scotty came upstairs and held the bag while I hit it. I noticed that when I hit things, my hands tend to drop. So I am going to work on that a lot more.

I was getting good power though, I was knocking him backwards on a lot of things, and I could really feel how my energy was impacting him. I just need to move from my center more and not get so fixated on hitting the object; it's okay to miss!