SW Portland Martial Arts Blog

What’s in a good combo? Quality ingredients. The skill combo in CrossFit today was Turkish get ups, back rolls, and airplane balances. There’s lots more in there too, don’t worry.

Dug’s striking class had 4 combos. They may all look similar, but that, my friends, is by design! When you’ve got lots of combos that are hard for your sparring partner to tell apart… they’re that much easier to trick. Also, he titled his video “Muggle dueling”, which is amazing.

For kid’s class, we’ve got the simplest but most fun kind of combos – DOUBLES. Punch once? Why not throw the same punch twice. Kick once? Why bother when you can throw the same kick twice.

For kata work, I copied the kids class. Double every move. That’s right – it’s simple, but not easy. Do the form normally, then do the form again but repeat each move twice. Fun, fun!

And finally for the at home grappling work, I show the partnerless scissor sweep and then combine it with… shadow grappling. It’s like shadow boxing, where you punch at an imaginary opponent but in shadow grappling… you wrestle with them.

Were you looking for some balance work in your CrossFit today? Good news: Airplane balances are back! For this workout, you will need a backpack, a bunch of books, something to step on, and a couple of chairs. Whew. Hope you have all that stuff in your house. And if you aren’t a reader, you can sub soup cans for books.

Were you looking for 30 minutes of striking excitement with Dug? Look no further! Get your punch on… and on… and on!

All kids love to limbo, but you know… it’s so obvious, right? Not if you make it… ANIMAL STYLE limbo! Also, we kick, punch, and do martial arts stuff. But most importantly, animal limbo!

Perhaps you are missing our baby sign class? No need to miss it! We are on the YouTube!

The at home kata work is simple: do your form tired. Do some burpees and then your form. Don’t like burpees? Do a couple minutes of jump rope. Whatever. Sweat. Breathe hard. Then do your form. Notice what it does to your movement and your focus.

And last but not least, if you are looking for the at home grappling work, here it is! Practice those pendulum sweeps on that vicious imaginary partner of yours.