We started off waking up eating breakfast. After, we go back up to our room and go back to sleep and get some more rest. Around 11 we wake up and get ready for our noontime training with Mr. Vargas and Sir Don. First we studied sparred with each other and after we worked with Sir Don with conditioning and other exercises I'd never done before. Then we worked on some kicks. We still worked on kicks we learned on Monday, the different approaches with an axe kick, front leg round house, and out-in kick, those are the kicks we worked on. After training we went to GreenBelt and ate at Chicken Bocolod. Food there was super duper good! Well I was already familiar with this kind of food. But Ryan of course enjoyed it! After having Lunch we walked around different areas of this place. It was a nice mall and it had an outdoor church which was different and I don't see that a lot in the US. Then we head back to the hotel and rest for an hour. Then time for training! While I'm training with sparring national team, Ryan trains with the poomsae national team! Today training was fun! First we studied sparred with each other. After we played paddle hockey. It was just to have us be relaxed since some are fighting on saturday and some are leaving for Korea on Monday. We played for a couple of minutes. Even if we were just playing, I was sweating like crazy! It was SO hot! After that we ended our training with some relaxed basic kicks and that's how my day went. (:
I was about to remind you of the axe kick drills - front leg axe kick very, very effective..lot of good fighters use it (just dont move your upper body and keep it upright when you execute it, and you'll connect - tip though is a good amount of stretching. You gotta be very flexible to do it) Try now to do your counters with bullet kicks, when they skipped on you, answer it it with a bullet, start on the close and finish on the open side..do it, do it, master it..then in a match, don't end it w/o throwing a spin hook..they skip, throw it - they back leg you, throw it and target it ofcourse..ey, you'll be fine, make most of it..proud of you baby, we love you!!!
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