Monday

-stretch/warmup
-2 man combat form (solely)
-4 quarters staff
-bo form
-short forms of the tiger
-tension form

Tuesday

-stretch
-warmup
-kicks
-spinning inside crescent 360, vertical punch
-spinning outside crescent 360, vertical punch
-wheel kick
-spinning hook kick
-chinese crescent kick
-iron broom
-reverse sweep
-jumping spinning inside crescent 360
-jumping spinning outside crescent 360
-pad work
-2 reverse punches
-2 reverse punches, ridgehand
-worked on ridgehand speed... person with pad tried moving pad before you could hit it
-self defenses
-daily dozen
-chin na

Wednesday
4/16

-went through all forms lightly
-Daily Dozen Self Defenses (solo)

*Testing in 3 days

What are the daily dozen SDs?

Pretty much they are self defenses against certain attacks... The attacker will do one of the 18 (I dont know why its daily "dozen") attacks and you use the defense against it.

There are defenses against
-lapel grabs (1 and 2 hands)
-wrist grabs
-headlocks
-chinese strangle hold
-obviously punches
-chokes
-bear hugs

There are more than one defense for most of the attacks. Eventually you work on them enough that they become second nature, and are actually effective.

Thursday Class

-stretch
-warmup
-daily dozen self defenses w/ partner
-worked on some purple belt self defenses

Got ready for testing
-2 man combat form... figured I should get this done with a partner before testing

Tuesday
4/22

-stretch
-warmup
-learned elbow sequence
-short form about 5 minutes to learn
-learned short form of the tiger self defense
-same as short form of the tiger but with a couple added moves
-application for this form

Wednesday
2 hours

-stretch
-workout
-100 side kicks on each leg
-trying to deliver all my power into my side kicks
-worked on my spinning back kick
-a big problem of mine is that I do not make my foot vertical instead it is horizontal like a side kick
-bag work
-combinations: 1)vertical punch, vertical punch, hook punch
2)backfist, with a step forward, roundhouse punch, spinning backfist (only works if opponent is moving back)
-elbow sequence
-short form of the tiger self defense
-monk staff

Monday
5:30 - 7:00 -thunder brought me inside

-stretch
-work out
-side kicks (about 70 each leg)
-worked on power
-worked on back kick
-by steps, slow motion
-bagwork
-elbow sequence
-started short form of the tiger self defense, but the thunder brought me back inside

Tuesday Class

-stretch
-warmup
-blocking technique against front kick, side kick, step in front (all the same block)
-monkey block, pull them in (so their back is to you), and kick out the knee
-sparred
-chin na