Holy shit am I tired. And I have hipbones, who knew?
6:30am - Watch old man Gerry Penalosa become a World Champion after 10 years since his first Title Win (not counting getting robbed blind against Daniel Ponce De Leon). What a wicked body-shot. If he can do it...
7am - Sprints. Sprinklers were on at the park, fun times.
10:30am - Gym Time.
5 minute dynamic stretch.
3 rounds Shadowboxing - either I'm getting blinding fast or I'm hallucinating.
2 rounds skip-rope.
4 rounds body-snatcher. Last 30 seconds repetitious alternating power-uppercuts.
4 rounds Heavybag. Last 30 seconds punch-outs.
2 rounds over-under rope. My patterns were as follows:
1) Jab, slip, jab.
2) Jab, slip, 1-2.
3) 1-2, slip, jab.
4) 1-2, slip, jab, jab.
5) Jab, jab, slip, slip, jab, 1-2. (fucked that one up a lot)
GYM WARS!!!
No, Diego and I were not involved. But I figured you guys would like to read about some of what we get to watch.
Match 1: D'Andre versus Nick. D'Andre is Terry Carter's young Welterweight who is 15-2 with 13 KO's. And lo-and-behold, he's a slick Southpaw who uses the Philly Shell. lol I'm sure I'll have to spar him eventually. Nick trains under Steve Collins. This was basically just 6 rounds of Nick getting his ass kicked. He doesn't do anything but back up when pressured and doesn't have good defense. D'Andre was just teeing of on him. Carter had to back D off. In the 6th Nick showed signs of life, but it was pretty bad. D is fast, has pop, and his footwork is excellent. At times he falls-in, and he tends to follow instead of cutting off the ring. But Carter said when he first got hold to him all he did was wing bombs. Now he's polished and using the Shell, and beat Nick senseless for 6 rounds.
Match 2: D'Andre versus Wes (this was immediately after the first match).
Says Nick Diaz to Terry Carter: "Can we go 4?"
Says Carter to Diaz: "Pshh, we can go 12. We Championship Calibur. I train all my boys to go 12. Well...the mufuckas who listen to me anyways. The mufuckas that don't can't do shit."
Wes was a better match for D'Andre. He's got a wacky style, jab high, HARD cross to the body, grab, HARD hooks on the inside. Plus he was fresh. So the first round he was basically 'rasslin and trying to wear D down. His crosses to the body looked like they sucked. D lost some wind more than once. But he hung in there and at around the 3rd round Wes started wearing down. D was catching him more often and backing him off, laying in hard 1-2-1-2's and had Wes staggering around a bit.
Match 3: Nick vs. Johnny. Johnny is 4-0. Basically Johnny was doing inside work with Nick the whole time, leaning on him, putting pressure, working him over a bit. I think Steve was displeased with Nick's work against D'Andre and this was his punishment. Although Johnny is significantly smaller than D'Andre.
Nobody wanted to spar Whoopie. He was pretty pissed about that.
Funny moment is T was watching D'Andre and Nick with me and because of the style similarities between D'Andre and myself he said "Das how you gon' do me Friday huh?" I said "Nah, I ain't nowhere NEAR as polished as that." He said "You gettin' there, though." T's good people.
Friday Diego and I will be back in the mix, hopefully with Big T AND Baby Ganigan.
PM Workout:
2 rounds skip-rope to get warm.
4 x 1 minute intervals of curb steps. What these are is imagine like you're running in-place, but on every knee lift you set the front balls of your feet on the curb.
2 rounds elevation drills. Going from standing, to slight knee-bend, to crouch.
1 round non-stop step-overs.
For those of you who don't know what those are, check out this video from Kyryllo, Drill #3:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6y0YYBUGP0
3 rounds speed-bag.
3 rounds double-end bag.
DEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAADDDDDDdddddd......
