Today was the day that I began my slow career as I'm going to call it in M.M.A. At 8 pm I had an appointment to meet up with one of the instructors at the academy to being my first lesson ever taken in mixed martial arts. The instructor that was to give our class had an emergency and could not attend so he was filled by Coach Marcos.
At first glance you see Marcos and would never think that he was one of the part owners of the gym. At second glance you wouldn't even think he ever stepped foot in the ring as an actual combatant. Boy does that all go away when he steps into the ring. Coach started us off showing us around the actual gym telling us a little information here and there. When it got down to the nitty gritty he started us off showing us briefly about boxing.
The jab which is one of the most important punches was shown to us first followed by the straight, hook, and upper cut. He reinforced the fact that we had to keep our elbows in, hands up, guard our face and all in all the general characteristics of a general boxing fight. After about 20 30 minutes of our first training session he moved onto the next one. When the grappling began he started showing us our first move called the guillatine(sp?). We then learned paint the brush, how to escape different positions and how to submit in different styles.
When we were done with our private lesson he had us do a physical assessment test that tested our current physical condition. after doing 60 pushups, 33 situps, reaching 14 inches, and doing 20 bojangles or whatever he called he had us take a break and drink some gatorade which he so kindly purchased for us.
As for MMA training that was all for the day. Spending all the time in the ring learning different moves I've never done before i figured out this was something I wanted to do. I ended up signing up for a 6 month contract just to see. Hell the worse that can happen is I loose out of some money. whatever.
At first glance you see Marcos and would never think that he was one of the part owners of the gym. At second glance you wouldn't even think he ever stepped foot in the ring as an actual combatant. Boy does that all go away when he steps into the ring. Coach started us off showing us around the actual gym telling us a little information here and there. When it got down to the nitty gritty he started us off showing us briefly about boxing.
The jab which is one of the most important punches was shown to us first followed by the straight, hook, and upper cut. He reinforced the fact that we had to keep our elbows in, hands up, guard our face and all in all the general characteristics of a general boxing fight. After about 20 30 minutes of our first training session he moved onto the next one. When the grappling began he started showing us our first move called the guillatine(sp?). We then learned paint the brush, how to escape different positions and how to submit in different styles.
When we were done with our private lesson he had us do a physical assessment test that tested our current physical condition. after doing 60 pushups, 33 situps, reaching 14 inches, and doing 20 bojangles or whatever he called he had us take a break and drink some gatorade which he so kindly purchased for us.
As for MMA training that was all for the day. Spending all the time in the ring learning different moves I've never done before i figured out this was something I wanted to do. I ended up signing up for a 6 month contract just to see. Hell the worse that can happen is I loose out of some money. whatever.
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