Monday, July 23, 2012

Week 7/16 -7/22

Mon. Sparring drills, 6 x 3min rounds, abs, pushups

Tues. Forms, light grappling

Wed. a.m. 19 Fredrick stairs. 3 sets one legged squats
p.m. Drills, 4 x 4 min grappling. Abs & pushups

Thurs. Stipe test

Fri. Strength training

Sat. Nada

Sun. Chilled

Not really the way I wanted the week to go. Back & foot were really bothering me. Decided going up the steepest slope in the area is not helping my foot. Going to give up the hiking for the bike for a while. Sitting on a bike does not really motivate me to get out in the heat & build my cardio. Not going to Fredrick on friday & taking the weekend off seems to have helped my foot some. Still really look forward to the training. I find myself thinking about all the drills I want to do the next session.

Sunday, July 15, 2012

Movie night

Karate Games, pizza, movie, & friends. We had a great time with everyone & look foward to the next one. Thanks to everyone who made it a great night.


TKD National Champ

Luke the "Duke" Simpson won his 3rd straight TKD tournament. Pretty awesome since that is not the particular style of sparring we do at World Karate. Luke traveled to Flordia last week & won the national championship in his division. While he was down there he popped into an MMA school for some sparring. Luke was complemented by the instructor on his ground sparring, not bad since we have hardly shown him any ground skills. Could Luke be the chosen one. If not, we are still really proud to have him on our team. Great Job.

Week 7/9 - 7/15

Mon. Sparring drills. 5 x 2 min. Rounds. Finished with strength & conditioning. Great turnout. Feel great & having a blast. My foot is still hurting a lot. Not sure if I should skip all sparring on my feet for a few weeks. I will probably just keep icing & whining about it.

Tues. Forms , some very light grappling.

Wed. a.m Hiked 11 stair sections @ Fredrick. Finished with 3 sets of one legged squats Super slippery & humid.
p.m take down dills, defensive kicking drill. 4 x 3 min ground matches, finished with abs & pushups.

Thurs. Hands only sparring matches. Still slow, but footwork & timing is improving.

Fri. 16 stair repeats @ Fredrick, 3 sets of one legged squats. Whoever told me one legged squats were a good idea, was wrong.

Sat. Rode bike for 45 min. No fun

Sun. Forms & strength training.

I hurt my back during Monday nights workout. Still really bothering me on wed. Took it easy so I didn't feel like I was able to push myself like I wanted to. Still some good training that I badly need. Wed. was Sean G's Birthday, I can remember when that kid was knee high, know he's above me. What a cool way to spend your birthday. Still having so much fun training with the guys.

Monday, July 9, 2012

Week 7/2 - 7/8

Mon. Josh & I hiked up Union peak. Not very exciting, just straight up a ski slope. The views were totally worth the trampling through bushes & rutty slopes. 2500ft of gain & 5.8 miles round trip.

Tues. Bagged Jacque Peak with Josh. Same route up the slope as Union. Crossed the saddle to the 900ft climb up Jacque @ 13205ft. Got to the top just after 8 am. No wind, clear skies, & views of 3 different mt ranges. Great way to start the day. 3500ft of gain 8.8 miles round trip.
P.M. Practiced forms & did some abs & push-ups.

Wed. Hiked 5 miles with Jeffrey on the CO trail. Can't wait to do all 500 with him someday.

Thurs. Hiked 6 miles of CO trail with Kim, Lindsay, & boys. Same route with an extra 300ft of climbing.
P.M. Abs & push-ups

Fri. Best hike of the week. Jumped on the CO trail to the base of Copper peak. Went straight up the scree slope to the summit. Josh & I blazed down the double black slope trying not to ski on our face. We hit the saddle to Union peak & made our way up the ridge. Took the most direct line back to the house. 3400ft of gain 8.2 miles.

Sat. 15.5 hrs driving home.

Sun. Sick

Great week in the mountains. Taking a week off from teaching always gives me that recharge to keep the mental energy high. We were very fortunate to have a house(very, very, nice) lent to us by a very generous family. I only hope my boys are not too dissapointed staying at the super 8 motel next vacation.






Lets Battle

I wish we had nerf guns like these when I was a kid. These things could shoot across the room. A kid had one that would shoot like 10 per second. We started out with some target practice on the mirrors.

After everyone had there aim down, we then started the nerf battle. 15 pizzas & 2.5 hours later we called it a night. Shooting foam darts at friends is a great way to spend a Friday night at any age.

Sunday, July 1, 2012

Week 1 : 6/25 - 7/1

Sun. Traveling back from California. Had a blast crewing for elite ultra runner Liza Howard @ the western states 100. Got to run 40 miles of the ws trail. Not a bad way to spend a Saturday. Got home at 2:20 am. No training

Mon. Still tired from 6 hrs of sleep over past 72hrs. Was going to do some conditioning exercises, thought sleep sounded better.

Tues. Worked bow form, grappled a few fun matches, finished with pushups, abs, & medicine ball strenghth & conditioning drills. Stretched before bed.

Wed. Drilled getting to clinch, single leg take down from hook, protecting the open guard from passing & strikes, rotating off the wall, 4 x hold dominate position & 4 x escape. Finished with abs. Went home did some dumbbell strengthening drills. Man I feel slow & weak. Having a blast.

Thurs. 4 sparring matches. 25 minutes without stopping. Except for changing partners & some whining.

Fri. Practiced forms for 1hr & did a 30 min strength & conditioning workout.

Sat. Drove 17 hrs. Got to CO @ 5:20am. Didn't feel like doing much except sleeping & enjoying the mountain air.

Sun. Soaked in views , enjoyed good company, day dreamed about training.

Week 1 of 16 in the bag. Felt really good putting in some good focused effort. Had a ton of fun wed. night with the guys. Man, we have some really good black belts to train with. No egos, just good training. Already looking forward to getting back with them.