{"id":401,"date":"2011-04-23T13:58:51","date_gmt":"2011-04-23T19:58:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/?p=401"},"modified":"2011-04-23T13:58:51","modified_gmt":"2011-04-23T19:58:51","slug":"fun-training-semi-shark-tank-drill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/2011\/04\/23\/fun-training-semi-shark-tank-drill\/","title":{"rendered":"fun training, semi-shark tank drill!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday was a busy, yet awesome Saturday!  But I miss my fun co-workers, Jack and Ana!  I hope they come back from England&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Especially, one of my afternoon students seemed really happy with my style of correction, and said that he really enjoyed my lesson.  That was nice. ^_^  <\/p>\n<p>I hurried to training by 6:45, and Kojima-san was there early, as always.  He said, &#8220;Too bad no one else is here to spar!&#8221;  We didn&#8217;t last time, but after quickly stretching and chatting for a minute, I suggested the semi-shark tank drill that two people can do:<br \/>\nGrapple at full strength for 60 seconds, then wail on the heavy-bag for 30 seconds, then grapple for 60 seconds, then heavy bag&#8230;.  Do that five times.  <\/p>\n<p>IT&#8217;S HARD.  Harder for me, because he&#8217;s a 75 kilo (165 lb) guy and he always got the good position, but it was excellent practice.  It simulates a fight situation and intensity, and plus, he can push himself on the bag, so it eliminates some of the advantages or disadvantages. I heard him gasping for breath, so I knew we both got a good work out.  If it was at the end of practice, I would have suggested more, but it was the first round of the night. lol  Then Ota-san walked in and taped up his hands while we were doing that.  He joined in round-robin MMA sparring, and I sparred twice more with each.  THEN class started at like 7:15-7:30.<\/p>\n<p>Excellent start of the night.  I like that style of training.  Other people had shown up by then, and Kojima-san showed some wrestling moves. \ud83d\ude00  I&#8217;m learning a lot of that lately.  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/ota-and-kojima-at-zfc.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/ota-and-kojima-at-zfc.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"ota and kojima at zfc\" width=\"400\" height=\"478\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-402\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nKojima-san (right) and Ota-san  are so cool. *_* SO COOL.  I was looking forward to going there all week.<\/p>\n<p>I remembered some fan on my Japanese blog commenting about how a fighter should post beautiful pics and try to make themselves attractive to the fans.  So, in honor of that, I&#8217;m posting a picture of myself without make up and messy after-training hair!  BWaha Take that, fan.  But you can see on my face how happy I am, and how much fun I had! \ud83d\ude00   Who needs make-up anyway? \ud83d\ude00<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/roxy-after-training.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/roxy-after-training.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"roxy after training\" width=\"336\" height=\"448\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-403\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday was a busy, yet awesome Saturday! But I miss my fun co-workers, Jack and Ana! I hope they come back from England&#8230; Especially, one of my afternoon students seemed really happy with my style of correction, and said that he really enjoyed my lesson. That was nice. ^_^ I hurried to training by 6:45,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,8,4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-every-day","category-fun","category-training","category-work","category-5","category-8","category-4","category-3","description-off"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}