Cloudy Promoter

Seems the bad weather has given us the gift of more students at the YMCA class. Perhaps it also had something to do with the return of the giant trash can full of medicine balls, as well. Cloudy skies bring wonderful things to the world.

For a basic technique, I ran the students through a basic roundhouse punch (or haymaker). It’s always a winner of an introduction because you can make the students throw medicine balls back and forth to each other to get a sense of good body mechanic. A good throw is a good punch is good power is good form. Or, for all you equationally minded folk, the tautologically startling A=A=A=A.

As a complement, we went over an inside defense against the punch – that is if your partner throws a right roundhouse, you block with the left and throw a palm heel strike to the nose with the right. An example of an outside defense would be to duck under a right roundhouse to the left, thereby leaving yourself next to your opponents right flank.

Mostly because we don’t want to forget the form, Lara and I are teaching the students there Lim Po (continous step), one of the Kung Fu forms that has been dropped from our curriculum. I’ve always enjoyed it because of the legato feel it has. Makes me feel all graceful inside.

Pictured is the students enjoying hucking the re-found medicine balls at one another for partner sit ups.