{"id":46,"date":"2011-01-23T17:01:41","date_gmt":"2011-01-23T23:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/?p=46"},"modified":"2011-01-23T17:23:03","modified_gmt":"2011-01-23T23:23:03","slug":"the-hatano-switch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/2011\/01\/23\/the-hatano-switch\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hatano switch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend was pretty good.<\/p>\n<p>I woke at up 4:45 on both Saturday and Sunday.\u00a0 (My alarm is set for 5:10 AM)\u00a0 Sheesh&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Eat breakfast, check email and websites, do a little exercise (push-ups or stairs or something for like 15 minutes), and commute 40 mins to work.<\/p>\n<p>And then I ALWAYS crash at 8 AM,\u00a0 RIGHT as I&#8217;m about to start teaching.\u00a0 Anyway, teach teach teach&#8230;.and then one of my students called in sick, so I got a 90 minute free period.\u00a0 I lay down on the sofa in the teacher&#8217;s lounge and fell FAST asleep for 30 minutes. \ud83d\ude00\u00a0 Then woke up and went back to work.\u00a0 Finished a little early, at 5 instead of 5:30.\u00a0 Went to the gym at 7, and NOBODY was there.\u00a0 It&#8217;s so frustrating to show up, wanting to practice, knowing everyone gets in SO late.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude41\u00a0 So at about 7:30 Hatano-san showed up, along with one beginner.\u00a0 He said, &#8220;Okay let&#8217;s start with the jab!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>;___;\u00a0 He saw my sad-face and said, &#8220;What?&#8221; and I said, &#8220;Well, just&#8230;I&#8217;m trying to train for a fight&#8230;&#8221; and he goes, &#8220;uh&#8230;.&#8221; and I said, &#8220;Well, I don&#8217;t want to bother the class&#8230;&#8221; and he said, &#8220;That&#8217;s okay, okay we&#8217;ll do this counter move off ground and pound.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He showed me this SUPER COOL REALLY useful move that I LOVE and fits right into my game! \ud83d\ude00 I&#8217;m so excited.\u00a0 I&#8217;m calling it &#8220;The Hatano Switch&#8221; and I wanna pull it off in the fight.\u00a0 So I grabbed this German? guy Flo and we drilled it a ton.\u00a0 Then more people showed up and held mits for each other, but Flo offered to help me train because I didn&#8217;t want to do striking.\u00a0 He&#8217;s pretty good, so we sparred for a while.\u00a0 Then Masa-san (Masatoshi Abe, Abe&#8217;s little brother) showed up and showed some wrestling moves, and we did that.<\/p>\n<p>My body was pretty beat up, so I soaked in the Gold&#8217;s Gym hot tub, and then went home.<\/p>\n<p>Sunday, I worked from 8 AM to about 3:30, and then headed to the Oimachi Gold&#8217;s Gym. There, I lifted some weights with my Sauna Suit on.\u00a0 I also tried going INTO the sauna with the suit, to see how it felt.\u00a0 My first thought:\u00a0 &#8220;Boy, it&#8217;s hot in here.&#8221;<br \/>\nLOL\u00a0 So I lifted lightly, went on the eliptical for a little bit, and then weighed myself again.\u00a0 Wow, those things make you sweat.\u00a0 I thought, &#8220;This isn&#8217;t so bad&#8230;&#8221;\u00a0 When I had first weighed myself, I was 59.7 kilos.\u00a0 When I weighed myself after an hour, I was 59.8 kilos.<\/p>\n<p>Uh, something must be wrong with the scale&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>This morning, I train with Sean Frew:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/roxy-and-sean-taping-hands.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-47\" title=\"roxy and sean taping hands\" src=\"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/roxy-and-sean-taping-hands.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/roxy-and-sean-taping-hands.jpg 640w, http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/roxy-and-sean-taping-hands-632x422.jpg 632w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Maybe AACC in the evening.\u00a0 Then, Tuesday, I train with Kunioku-san again! \ud83d\ude00\u00a0 We have been training on and off, but recently we&#8217;ve started resuming regular training.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/roxy-kunioku-at-strikeforce-training.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-48\" title=\"roxy kunioku at strikeforce training\" src=\"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/roxy-kunioku-at-strikeforce-training.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"570\" height=\"380\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend was pretty good. I woke at up 4:45 on both Saturday and Sunday.\u00a0 (My alarm is set for 5:10 AM)\u00a0 Sheesh&#8230; Eat breakfast, check email and websites, do a little exercise (push-ups or stairs or something for like 15 minutes), and commute 40 mins to work. And then I ALWAYS crash at 8&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":[4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-training","category-work","category-4","category-3","description-off"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46","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=46"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}