four-three-two-one day

four drive backs [forward drive hitting drills with cross jabs]
three j drive backs [side ways jap slapping the target back--each side/arm]
two take downs--where everyone must work until this is achieved
one hit and run--where after a brief enslaught of punches, the class
gets to take the guy down hard if he can't make it out the door.

some laughter, some tears...a rite of passage, and we all had loads of fun

i look forward to tuesdays and fridays

please get tech savvy student to video Russ

everyone's about to go off on holiday, i will actually try and do something
on friday, but i'm working on several personalities--the camera dude, and those
that can show up at off-hours. if i can get hold of three students, it's a go.

cheers

one of my students really helps keep the pace up. it'd be a bust without him because
the others are all polite about going for me. this guy wants to floor me and buy me
chocolates after so it's more fun cheeky little shit that he is.

READY FOR THE HOLIDAY...DURING A SPIRITED DRILL, MY LOCO
STUDENT KNEED MY FIST--THESE FOOKERS ARE NOT ALL THERE
FOR STABILITY. THEN, BECAUSE OF THE DRILL-JUMP RULE, LIBERTIES
WERE TAKEN AND TWO OF MY DEGENERATES ATTEMPTED TO JUMP
AND EMOBILIZE ME. NOW I'M FIGHTING WITH A NEWLY BROKEN
FINGER AND I HAD TO ACTUALLY STEP IT UP. IF THAT WASN'T AS
CLOSE TO REAL PRESSURE, THEN I DON'T KNOW WHAT IS.

WALKING THAT LINE BETWEEN SQUASHING ALL DOUBTS AND DISHING
OUT A METAPHORICAL SPANKING, THOSE GUYS WERE EATING WOODCHIPS
AND BOTH UNDER ME IN ONE VERY EXPLOSIVE BURST--ALL THAT WAS MISSING
WAS MY HAMMER[FIST] THAT WOULD HAVE COME FROM MY REMAINING GOOD HAND
ON THE STRONGER OF THE TWO'S HEAD. EVERYONE GOT A TASTE OF REAL
THIS MORNING. UNREAL. FUNNY TO THINK ON IT, FUNNIER WHEN MY FINGER
HEALS...I JUST SET IT. FOOK ME, IF YOU'D HAVE TOLD ME THIS WAS GOING
TO BE MY FRIDAY, I'D HAVE STAYED HOME NO ONE BUT ME KNOWS ABOUT
M'FINGER.

GOING TO ST. JOHN'S USVI IN A WEEK...SETTING M'SIGHTS ON THAT

Aw Man!!
Sorry to hear about the finger ... at least you got some time to rest up now. USVI huh? Sounds lovely

in truth i wouldn't trade this class for anything...where else is mum always the word, the students are real on and
off again shit heads who get occasionally arrested, and can i enjoy actually grabbing someone's head like a melon
and needing to get that palm right forcefully under a chin and fingers creeping in a set of eyes to get a cry of
'uncle'. on occasion i actually get that overextended sore inventory of body parts that used to come out of the few
real fights i'd been in. i'm addicted to these guys, and they get an avenue of negativity to drive down so it's got to
be cathartic for them . my top guy and the other that jumped in were trying to actually choke me out, and both
blood on them in small doses at the end. both actually looked like it was xmas at the end of it. like they couldn't
believe there was a place like this that they could just let it all hang out and be patted on the back at the end.

i'm inclined to agree. most are 18, 19 yr types that are probably the types i'd be training for anyway

most have siblings that come back from prison only to return. it's weird. i'm sort of addicted. mia culpa...

one other unrelated--but related to the bulk of any injuries incurred: when we stick to high line low line shots,
no one gets injured...my controlled ball shot earned me a wicked counter with no controls. i grab and no fast
physics of llegs and hands occur--just as emobilizing to have one's bollocks in a--uhm, pinch and no freight train
to meet that hand half way. just a thought