This week, four new members joined the Mix. Welcome Rachel, James, Kah Hon and Benedict! One more founding member slot left! The training session went like this:
1. Relaxed run (warmup)
2. Dynamic stretching (full body)
3. Spider crawls (upper body and core)
4. Zenkutsu dachi pushing (legs)
5. Crocodile walk (upper body and core) / pushups, squats, plank (for latecomers)
6. Basic striking techniques (full body)
7. Thai clinch (neck, upper body and cardio) / slope shuttles (cardio)
The atmosphere this week continued to be good - everyone was in high spirits and put in a genuine effort to the best of their abilities. We continued to work on our fighting stance, improving on some minor but important details. Among them:
1. Keeping the hands up and the chin down
2. Bending the front knee
3. Reducing the angle of the back foot
4. Weight on the balls of the feet
We then worked our 1-2's on the kick shields. I noticed that some members were relying more on their shoulders instead of their hips to generate power. Remember to turn your hips guys. Next was another bread-and-butter striking technique - the low roundhouse kick. To keep it simple, we limited it to kicking with the back leg only.
The Thai clinch session provided a real challenge for me, especially when partnered with the bigger, stronger guys. Each of the boys got two solid minutes and I completed a total of 10 minutes, the most I have ever done. I am typing this post with a sore neck. Good work boys. The girls chose not to participate in this relatively rough activity, so they finished off with two minutes of slope shuttles.
Just like last week, I was happy with the turnout, the effort of the participants and the camaraderie. James provided some welcome LOL's and having another fit, strong guy like Benny on our team is never a bad thing. Probably the most glaring shortcoming of the night was the fact that we did not have enough kick shields to smash. I did not expect such a big turnout so early on. Hopefully this can be fixed sooner rather than later.
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Doh... missed out :(
Just turn up next week :D
how many turn up ?
Eight people, not including myself.
Wah banyaknya ! got room for more ah ?
Still got :)
Got Padanag near thos' house le.. can fit like a few hundred lol
you all can line up in lines and throw punches and kicks while I shadow box to the silhouette of the setting sun...
*padang
lol next you will see those standing on a platform trying to teach the padang ppl with a microphone. I foresee thos teaching tai-chi to the seniors !
Got padang, not enough kick shields. Maybe I should start teaching tai chi instead, no need to worry about getting more equipment. Later go Youtube :p
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