got into the gym today, should have taken another day off. i dropped a FULL KEG on my right foot friday night. My shit has been fucked up. Couldn't barely walk on it sat/sun, and it started to feel better Mon. the keg landed just behind the knuckle of my big toe. which is a bad spot, since when you're in your fight stance, you are bouncing on the balls of your feel. shit it was painful trying to spar. my mobility was cut drastically. so i made up for it by throwing harder!!!
went to kickboxing class before sparring. we worked the following combo in succession, jab-lead uppercut-straight right. then changed it into jab-fake the lead uppercut-rear thai kick to the head. idea is that most people will pop their head up if they think the upper cut is coming, so you set them up by throwin the previous combo a couple times, then when you fake the uppercut, they pop their head up, and you land the head kick.
sparring rounds went good today, despite my lack of mobility. i actually almost got knocked out. my friend cody landed a pretty nasty head kick on my. it wobbled me real bad, he said i looked like the rubber band man, but i managed to stay on my feet. it was the last round of the night, so he made me call it a night on that kick. had he followed the kick up with something, i would have been out. don't know what it was tonight, but everyone was trying to hurt me. everyone came at me hard. but i like it.
after we got done sparring, Suave, Matt Horwich, asked me to do some grappling rounds with him. so we went from a standup, worked take downs, to submission. which was hard as shit, cause we were both sweating up a storm, and were slippery as hell. he's really excited about his upcoming fight in the UFC. leaves out on Tuesday. i hope he does well, and has a good showing. his hands are getting better, a lot better. just the speed at which he is throwing his combos is starting to be amazing, trust me, i know first hand, as he lands many strikes on me.
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