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I had to do my strength session right before class today. Luckily, it was a low-key night at the school. We mainly worked on preparing for upcoming gigs tonight. Some lion dance practice and worked out a fight set that we have to do for a kung fu demo.
Attended the junior seminar at the Clifton branch today. Spent most of the time working on the techniques that Sigung outlined and practicing with a partner. Lots of explanation and rest between the techniques, so didn’t get a big sweat going.
Using my gorgeous, new, nurse-constructed parallettes (thank god Zach’s dyad has a hacksaw), I worked on my L-sits after my GPP session.
Kept it pretty light today…can’t be too sore for my strength session tomorrow don’t ya know.
Quick home core workout:
Repeat 4x
Waiting for the phone guy to come today, unpacked a box with the old ab wheel, so:
Total time: 6:08. Broke it down into 6 sets of 5. Collapsed at full extension on the last few.
Round two of filming at the school. Round two of lots of standing around and waiting. After a last minute switch, I ended up performing a section from Yu Ga Dai Pa for the cameras. It went well, but I bashed the hell out of my knee with the fork warming up (outside, away from the cameras).
I went to NYSC with Dave and followed his routine for the day. I haven’t done this much isolation work since college, but I was able to set a PR with weighted pulls (84% BW @ 185lb) since they have a much nicer weight belt than I do. I also learned that eating grapefruit will thin out the waist and bulk up the chest. Thanks Dave!
UPDATE: Those weighted pulls still bruised the hell out of my tiny little hips. I guess that belt wasn’t much better than mine. Looking into the Ironmind belt, which I’ve heard good things about.
Sensei Ismael Franco of Tora Dojo held another amazing chin na seminar at our school. We reviewed a lot of the basic locks and went into detail with some really devastating techniques. It’s one thing to know how to pummel someone with Hung Ga, but the feeling of turning people into an unwilling marionette with some joint locks is really cool in a different way.
