Tag Test Night

last night sour tag tests for nearly all the students, which meant we were using the format the instructors had come up with in cit that morning,

all the classes were busy and it went really well, but i cant say i enjoyed teaching as i don't like reading of scrips and doing drills people wright for me i prefer my normal off on a tangent style of teaching, so i felt i was going through the motions more than teaching,,

after the tag tests there were a fue of the adults how were grading for there new belts, so i had to put my kit on and do some points with the Senior belts, which would normally put a smile on my face as i do love to fight, however i still felt a little lethargic and was not my usual self on the mats, i did score 4 or five good head kicks even only being at 50% so not a total loss

finding time to train

finding the time to train semes to be getting harder as my new scaffolding company is getting busyer, never the less i did manage to sneek a session in on tuesday night with steve going over our joint kata for this saturday, wich we now have almost sorted. i still don't like kata though!

Flying High

Yesterday was a good day, work was good out in the sun, then when i got to stealth at about 4 mike and rose were taking the kids classes for me witch ment i was not teaching till 6.45 so i managed to get loads done,

6.45 was on to the mats first came the usual torture for the Ladies only disco kickboxing class, which was not made essayer by me being in one of my hyperactive moods,

then came the adults where i was working on using fast different height kicking combos (S/K, Sweep, R/H) and i just veryed the kicks about, a really good class,

then came Points class, the hole class was themed on chambering but building on what they had just done in the first class, then came leg only sparing,

i joined in with most of all three classes tonight (i was defiantly running on DURACELL last night)

Lazy Kieran

This mornings training didn't start well, at 6.20 i went to pick up my nephew who was ment to be training with my self and Steve at stealth coalville, to work on our 3 man public display at the up and coming fight night in just over a week, however there was no life at all when i arrived at the smith residence, so i proceeded alone to meat Steve,

we went over Kankashow, the kata we will be preforming in tandem,

then unfortunately i had to leave just after seven to go to work,

looking back

i have been strugaling to train for the last fue weeks due to my other busines comitments, in poticular starting a new busines means i an working a 15 hour week once agen, lookaly for me the industory is quite phisical whitch is better than nothing, however i have took to joining in in nearly all me classes iven if for just part of each one, yesterday saw me take my normal wednesdays worth of classes (all of them, 7 in total) thay were mainly all fitnessed baced but by joining in for 10 mins a class i was staying nice and loose,

Takit And Brack it!!

This mornings squad training was hell jogging, sprinting, up, down, press up, sit up, it was all a bit a blur and that was just the warm up!

then it relay got hard, Craig had us doing close points hand drills but hitting them hard, which i must say is some thing i like, first i was with Ross one of the Junior instructors, i took every thing he had then it was my turn to unleash and with a standing KO on the first hit you could say i was taking no prisoners.

i must say Friday morning is my favorite part of the week, as i get to take of my instructor hat and put my student one back on, and that's when i can relay unleash on any one in my way,

power & controle Part 2 (o an a hole lot of sweating

last nights classes were a continuation on Wednesdays classes, still working on the ability to switch speed for power and back agen at the touch of a button, however the classes were all very very hard work it was a proper beating section with every one leaving the academy a fue pounds lighter than when they came in,

Power & Controle

yesterday i took back to back classes as always on a Wednesday 9 in total, they were all themed alternating power and control, i used a variety of two kick combos one being as hard as you can, one being as fast and light as you can, i chucked in some new horrible exercises and wallop i had my self a really good nights worth of classes, i even joined in with the adults as i couldn't resist

cit agen

i arrived nice and Early this morning to get a head start on things, i then participated in CIT which was tort by Craig this today, we went over some close quarters hand drills that we plan to teach at the start of this week,

now its off for a full days work before coming back to classes tonight, with the launch of stealth scaffolding in Feb of this year my work lode seems to have tripled, however i do like being active all day and there's no need for wight training any more.

Just a Quickey

Nice light session this morning, i met Steve at stealth coalville this morning at 6.30am to train as normal, seeing as dozer had cry'ed off once agen.

we did some light kicking to warm up then, drilled this side kick, axe with a 4 meter projection that Steve wants to be able to do, for about half a hour , we started on bob then moved on to pads to really stretch are selves

CIT

this mornings CIT i went over with the Guys what me and Steve were practising yesterday as i described,

then a bit of a motivational speech a bout what i observed last week in there classes and how they could make them better which hopefully they took on bord and will try to act on this week.

Last nights classes

last night i swapped with Craig so i was on the mats all night,

4.15pm - ninjas - this was a really fun one to teach we did a 10 min warm up just running around, then we worked on snapping in to fighting stance thoroughing a jab the snapping back, and i finished of with some braking, (Paper) of course, but they really enjoyed it.

jedi's and adults - i worked on projecting in for 2 kicks, started off with knee, down knee, then knee, down kick, then knee, kick, then kick, kick and to finish side, axe trying to get them up to about 3 maters projection.

then for my two BBC classes it was Pinan Sandan to day for kata.

all in all a good night

Back on it!

this mornning i had a case of hevy head syndrome, by that i mean i strugeled toget it off the pillow, however i did make it to traininf and i feel better for it.

i met steave clews head instructor of stealth barwell at our coalville studio this morning at 6.35 (a bit late i no)

i went for a quick 1 mile run to warm up then joined Steve in the dojo, we went over a fue drills that i have planed to teach in class this week just to get a bit more comfortable with them,

1, defence to a side kick, as your opponent attacks hook over his leg then follow with a R/H to the chin must keep leg up (only works in a closed stance)

2, fake a stamping back fist, then as your opponent leans back with a side kick, project a axe over the top it will hit every time as there off balance.

to Finnish off Steve asked me to teach him how to do my side kick axe combo (which I'm now Nealy projecting four Maters) so we went over how to get so much distance.

then Steve asked me if he could film me doing it so he could admire me every day!!!

Where did last week go

last week seems to have disappeared with doing my first aid instructor qualification all week and then running the academy at night training seemed to get a bit sporadic last week, i remember doing a couple of mile and a half runs some light training in the mornings and then my normal five hour stints instructing on the mats both Wednesday and Thursday.

then Friday came after being at the studio all night Thursday for the refit, which was grading night trying to sort around about 100 people out was stress waiting to happen for me any way, the grading went well and the on came the presentation evening on Saturday which as equally as stressful trying to organise it. but it ran smoothly and every one seemed to enjoy it.

then came Sunday make over part two painting the reception and the dojo no small feet, but it got done,

this morning saw me teach CIT, i had the guys going over basic kicks as as a club i would say are kicking could be better and it will be so this month will see a lot of back to basics, on the kicking front.

tomorrow will see me back training at 6.30am sharp