Today at my place:  Remy, Micke  and myself .

When Remy arrived we talked about being tired, but I felt it disappeared directly as we started. This is really interesting to see  how the training gives some energy. Today went pretty well,  the sunday session is always so intense, the hardest of the week and Micke is always adding some  new drills and lots of variations.

We both received some criticism from Micke  about our side kicks and as we were done with the training,  we even got an ultimatum :

 “I want to see  me some good ones next week !”

Well Remy and I know what we have to do this week 🙂

Now I am too exhausted to write :-)…

I will write about the session in details tomorrow….

Today´s training at my place with Remy, Michel and Micke.

-Focus mitts drills:

. Jab cross hook hook. I am still hurt from last week training so I have to put on  gloves for this one. Later on I will have to get som tape for Remy´s bleeding fist…

. Jab cross hook hook – hook kick , hook kick. Good energy, I feel I have more power and stability.

. High kicks. Seems my daily stretching is starting to pay off as I can reach higher kicks.

-Footwork :

. Try to kick the partner who backs up rapidly. The guys are doing pretty well, we all lack some speed and me more than the others as I train with Micke who is so fast , it is crazy 🙂

. Partner walks quickly forward,  the other one backs up quickly and reaching the wall, changes direction while punching on the pad. Same problem here, need to gain some speed… footwork !!!!

– Heavy bag:

. Rounds 3×30 seconds, full power and speed. First one: punches only, second: kicks only, third: all combinations. I feel really good about this one as I feel I have much more power than before.

. One round 60 seconds, we give all we can,  all techniques and combinations, full power. This one seems very long, good energy for all of us though.

– Lying face down on the floor:

 up directly to on-guard position and hook kick on pad, 15 each. I do 14 and then I feel I am gonna through up! But I am getting over it pretty quickly  and  I am back on the floor !

– Pushups and abdominal exercises :

Micke pushes us a lot today, hard training , no time to rest  and no complaining please!

– Hardening:

. Punches and kicks in stomach: I feel I can take more of this, which is good, I am not sure Michel was punching that hard …

. Kicks on legs,   inside and outside:  This is always a “noisy” exercise , I wonder why 🙂

. Hit one another forearm: I am better at this one but when it starts hurting it is hard to keep going on…

 – Split:

the partner is helping with the support while going down, it hurts as usual, it will take some time before we see any improvement for this one I guess..

– Bridge:

 Michel is mastering this one! I can go up now but I need to go higher, Remy´s back is still hurting.

-“Sit” against the wall.

ok… Michel is down after 44 seconds, Remy after 2 minutes 30 seconds and I complete 5 minutes  …

My legs are hurting a lot and I am exhausted  but I beat the guys at something,  I am happy 🙂

 

 

Today was supposed to be group training but because of sickness I trained on my own instead.

. Start with stretching and Stetch- Kicks

. Move on to the heavy bag:

– One inch punch : 100.  Nice to train this one,  after 50 I begin to see some strange colour on the heavy bag but not  feeling so much pain so going on to 100.. No need to guess how my hand looks like , but hello , I train martial arts, not complaining..

– jabs : 100 … I like this one, probably because Ted told me it looked good 🙂 but it feels good and I feel I am getting more power in it. Now I feel the hand hurts pretty bad, I won´t be using this hand anymore today

– Cross: 100 … no problem there , working on the technique, fotwork feels pretty good, I would need more power though

– Hook kick:  50 right and 50 left. The right side feels good, the left is weaker , but I feel the technique is better than it was before. Training is paying off.

– Side kicks: 50 on each side, this one is actually my favourite, I also feel I have more power than before in this one, the technique need some work though, I am also working on my stability, as the heavy bag ( 70kgs ) is coming back after each kicks that is when I kick again .

. Moving on to the punching ball, this one helps me with the reaction, I am working on blockings and speed.

. Footwork, working on the fluidity in the movements.

. As my abdominal muscles need some work let´s drop the medicine ball a 100 times on it…  I am lying on the yoga ball and droping the ball from the top of my arms, this one is tough but I feel good to do it, now If I can do a 100 that means  I need a heavier ball!

. sit ups 200

. push ups: regular, on the fists, on two fingers, and using the pushup handles

. and I will finish myself with some stretching, I am using the stretcher for the  final exercise and measuring time while stretching to my very limit until it hurts.

I would now wait for my trainer´s comments but I guess I did pretty well as I was alone.

Remy, Michel, Coshe and I,  first met at Stefan Nikander´s school in Stockholm in 2004. Stefan is the  JKD  Head Instructor in Scandinavia, he is certified by Ted Wong. Because of his illness, Stefan closed the school in Stockholm and  openned another one  in Nynäshamn where he lives. In 2005 I started to train privately with Micke and the guys joined us.

Let´s start with Coshe who just left us to move to the US for a while, Okan-Coskun  Akdag is currently living in Los Angeles were he is studying the film Industry. Coshe is always in a good mood, always trying flashy moves and training hard until he pukes ! no puking no fun !

Michel our team mate who is well known for always being  on time 🙂 Michel  Curpurdija has joined us at the same time as Coshe. Michel is the crazy one, like it tough and  joins Coshe in the puking team!

Remy Ng  joined us a bit later , never missed a training session since then ! Remy is very dedicated gives it 100%,  always in a good mood and ready to go! Remy has trained martial arts for around 12 years.

Micke or the Iron Man, trying to hit him is like … well.. it hurts you more than anything else !  On a more serious level , Mikael Egidéus is a very talented JKD instructor, He is certified by Stefan.  Mikael has been training martial arts for over 25 years, he trained  Shaolin Kung Fu for around 10 years and then JKD with  Stefan Nikander for several years before he started as  a JKD instructor having his own school in Uppsala. In 2005 after the Ted Wong Seminar,  he started with another team in stockholm,  first member: me.

I just would like to add that I am proud to be part of this team. My training partners are good friends and I really look forward to many more years of  hard training together. As for myself , I am a small girl trying to keep up with all the big guys:-) As I wrote in another post,  I have been training martial Arts ( JKD only)  since 2004.

Todays training at my place , participants Remy Gina Micke.

Start with stretching…a bit of trouble there for both Remy and I :-). One of my problems, my body is not flexible at all, I blame it on the fact that I really started training very late, no excuse though … working on it anyway

Drills on thai pads:

– shovel hook, corkscrew hook , full power and speed.. those are more difficult technically speaking, great exercise as well for the bare hands , Remy is bleading..

– Knees and elbows  both sides full speed and power ..  those pads are as hard as steel ! but after a while we don´t feel anymore..

Drills on  Kick pad:

– Hook kick full power both sides full speed .. kicks always take a lot of energy , great !

– Rounds 3 minutes full speed and power punches on pad

– Alternate with push ups and sit ups

Drills with the JKD pole… Ted Wong showed this to Micke, very good one but difficult, I do 15 on each side, Remy did 30 , well done ! … don´t tell us how many Ted does 🙂

drills with the wristroller .. this is a real arm killer  3 times up and down and I am done !

Stretching… Remy and I : need to work on that !!! 🙂