Day 33

Woke up and did my private with Chanman. He told me to jump rope for 40 minutes before we started, and then we did a few rounds of shadow boxing and moved on to padwork. He was up to his normal tricks but I was a little quicker and felt better at blocking and moving. After the big pads he put on the smaller hand pads which meant he could hit quicker but could also give me a target to throw combos on. This was alot more tiring than just sparring as I was moving, blocking, and throwing alot of strikes. After training I had to throw 200 knees on the ring post and do 200 crunches and peel myself off the canvas. I studied some Bas and ran some errands and got back to camp in time for the advanced mma class. We started warmup and I was hurting... still exhausted from the private earlier. This time we started class with sparring so that Gaz could see what we all needed to work on. We each did two five minute rounds starting from standing. Punches, takedowns and submissions allowed. We cleared the cage and did one round at a time with everyone watching. I was so drained I did terrible. Oh asked me what was wrong and said my performance was alot different. After that we learned a new way to guillotine, a guillotine defense and then we learned, drilled and sparred mount escapes forever. A few of us went to dinner and then I slept like the dead.