The rust was showing Monday night after being away from Krav for two weeks. It’s funny how you can fall out of your groove in what would seem to be a short amount of time. With the holidays upon us and the fact that our training center was on hiatus for a period, the only thing that I kept up with was my cardio workout. I didn’t do any weight training during that period as well.
After our warm up, we started with some focus mitts punching drills.
One of the drills had your training partner call out a number. That number represented the amount of punches you had to throw. Next... without you defending... you had to absorb a midsection kick from your training partner. Once you absorbed the kick, you immediately had to burst back in and throw the same amount of punches initially called for. Then, you repeated the sequence, but with another punch count.
We ended the night with the customary stress drill. First, you burned yourself out with focus mitts combinations. Then, you had to deal with the attacks of a training partner wearing a High Gear training suit.
You had to stand in a passive stance with your eyes closed. Once you were attacked... with punches, grabs, kicks, chokes, etc.... you retaliated immediately with combatives. When someone is wearing the training suit, you can punch and kick them a lot harder than normal.
The class was a good start for scraping off the rust and getting back into the swing of things.
