Week 2

Sorry for the late update. My twitter account will help alot as I can see what I did each day for the most part.

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Week 2

The second week of training was intense. I took the day off on Monday to do some fighters training at FTCC. Since I work full time I usually do FTCC group classes at night. The classes are great for techniques and developing my grappling/mma knowledge but its just not the same as fighters training as far as partners and cardio demands. So I wanted to get a session in.

I did a few rounds of shadow and jab straight drills. Then Rod worked with me on the micromits. Man was my accuracy bad and I really need more time to work with Rod. Rodney Mirasol is not my main standup trainer but a key person who has been helping me alot with my standup game since I decided I wanted to do muay thai last year. Ronnie Carillo, an upcoming amateur, friend and training partner also gave me some tips as well. This helped me a ton in the next few days. I then did 5-7 rounds of mma grappling with the other FTCC guys as well as Chris Cariaso, Evan Esguerra, and Neungsiam who were visiting from Fight and Fitness. Finished with a run up a hill near the gym and into nice park a good way to end the workout. Later that day did evening pads with Edge at 445 and a set of sprints.

The rest of the week I followed pretty much my routine, making it into grappling twice but trying to avoid the FTCC bug that surfaced on Tuesday following the morning training. I woke up at 530 am each day to either go to kezar, do hill runs, or work with Edge and my main training partner for this fight adam rutland who was fighting at 179 on the same card.

Sparring gave me some indicators on where I was. I felt great on Tuesday but on FridayI sparred with Adam and my eyes were opened.

Bebe Etzler and Bret Bergmark were cornering a sparring session between us and we really pushed it. And I never felt so exhausted before in my life. To be honest, I got my ass kicked and being the emotional guy that I am I felt frustrated. Had I done enough? Was I ready? i whined and asked questions. i even called up a good friend and trainer Andrew Moy to ask what I could do. The answer was...keep working, or as Bret said...stop thinking about it and kick his ass.
I had a good nights sleep, put the night behind me.

That saturday as a team we really pushed it hard. I started it with a good stanyan run with jenny followed by 6 sprints. I did the 10 round bag work out. Then we sparred for a few rounds. We ended with intervals at Kezar. I felt like I wanted to die.

That night I watched the UFC at coach Darren Uyenoyama's house. It was good to see nog win his fight with couture that night. Watching the pros I thought of how much more I wanted to accomplish in martial arts. I shared some thoughts on the upcoming fight with Darren and he showed me some of the cool Ryan Hall concepts he learned during his VA trip and was going to teach. It was a nice way to end the hard week and to be honest it really made me miss grappling but knew I had to focus on standing up until the fight was over.