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Day 67: What’s in your Backpack

May 20th, 2020

Sometimes, you gotta mix it up and do something new. Often, when you try new things, they’re okay. Occasionally, they don’t work at all. And every once in a while you make something awesome.

I’d like to think today’s “stuff a backpack full of random objects” kid’s class was pretty awesome. Watch it and you tell me.

Grappling class featured the arm drag to body lock and then a super secret follow up move if your imaginary opponent defended against the arm drag.

And then finally, for CrossFit class, I tried staying still in a handstand and sorta succeeded. Sometimes. Fun times.

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Day 66: Hammers!

May 19th, 2020

Happy Tuesday!

For striking class, we got an upper special… uppercuts and upward elbows!

Today’s kid’s class: the hammerfist! It’s a simple but super fun strike. Today, we smashed some pillows with it.

For CrossFit class, we busted out the jump ropes. Or not. You can sub tuck jumps. As always, we got scalings.

 

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Day 63-65: Masked Preview

May 18th, 2020

On Saturday, I did a striking workout with a cloth mask on. I didn’t wear it for the whole 30 minutes, but I did wear it during the “hard” part at the end – tabata bag work. It worked. I didn’t die. Anyway, watch the striking video from Saturday. My plan is to try part of the CrossFit workout with a cloth mask on tomorrow. Life is an experiment.

Today for kid’s class, we worked angle of attack. What’s that? It’s when you swing the same attack at different angles. I say swing because one of the easiest ways to imagine it is to picture swinging a baseball bat at different angles, but all at the same target.

For CrossFit, I tried working bent over rows into the skill work. They were not terrible, but I couldn’t actually get enough weight using only books and my backpack. I think I need heavier books?

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Day 62: What’s Next?

May 16th, 2020

So I did a bunch of videos on Mo Yee Do. What next? More kata? A week of kicks? A bunch of takedowns against giant stuffed animals? What? Think deeply on this. Until then, here is the content from Friday.

One of the themes of Mo Yee Do is power. So, not surprisingly, I made a video about turning your hips and (gasp) focusing on generating power in the form.

Kid’s class was all about horses. Yay! Giddyup! Besides being absurd, we did actually practice sparring from a side facing stance and doing martial things.

CrossFit class was a blast. I am really needing out on these skill pieces. I’m not sure anyone else is, but what can one do in such troubled times?

Internal martial arts class was all about “overcoming technological meltdown to find some zen.” That sounds like a worthy mission.

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Day 61: Mo Yee Done!

May 15th, 2020

Yay! I filmed a complete version of the form Mo Yee Do. Now I’ll move on to talking about themes and details.

Kid’s class today was… birds. Yeah. It’s all animal themed this week.

Looks like some of the kid’s have discovered striking class with Dug – which is awesome! Why not? Take all the classes.

For CrossFit class, the skills were pistols, handstand, and hollow holds. I didn’t anticipate all the amazing holes in my skills that I would discover over 9 weeks. I mean, maybe if I’d thought about it I would have known, but I didn’t so it was a surprise. Good thing I like surprises.

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