Today I slept longer than I had planned to. Just didn't hear the alarm. This shouldn't happen again. Weigh-in is scheduled for 8 a.m., so I'll have to stand up around 6 or so. Need to condition my body to power up early. Over those last couple of days, it'll be bedtime around 10 p.m., … Fight Prep: T -4 days weiterlesen
Kategorie: kickboxing
Fight Prep: T -5 days
Come Saturday I'll fight in a WKF full contact kickboxing tournament here in Austria.So, starting today, I'll post a short summary of my final preparations.Chris, who's now also running his own school in Gaaden (www.shinergy.com/gaaden) is coaching me. Also, he's helping me out as a sparring partner. There's nothing like having a good friend when … Fight Prep: T -5 days weiterlesen
Thoughts on Coaching Tools: Shadow Sparring, #2
In my post "Thoughts on Coaching Tools: Shadow Sparring", I mentioned my growing enthusiasm when it comes to shadow sparring.Over the last couple of months, I've really come to love this simple yet immensely effective form of training. Not only has shadow sparring become a staple exercise in my own training (I'm currently preparing for … Thoughts on Coaching Tools: Shadow Sparring, #2 weiterlesen
Fight for Fun, day #3
The third day of the fight-for-fun camp has just ended. Today, I took a kickboxing class with Mr. Zaar and two MMA classes with Andre Reinders . Just like yesterday, the total training time today was 6 hours. My plan was to take Mr. Mack's class for the morning session, but I ended up on … Fight for Fun, day #3 weiterlesen
Fight for Fun, day #2
It's my second day at the fight-for-fun camp in Ötztal, Tyrol. Yesterday, everything was too stressy to post, so I'll quickly wrap up yesterday's events before going into detail about today. First off, what is the fight-for-fun camp? Well, basically it's a training camp sponsored by Budoland GmbH, a martial arts supplier. Now while most … Fight for Fun, day #2 weiterlesen
Kickboxing
It's been a while, but I've been quite busy preparing for my first full-contact bout. Here in Austria, the ISKA was recently replaced by the WKF (http://www.wkfkickboxing-austria.net/wp/). Rules are a bit different than what I was used to, but that doesn't matter as I never competed in full-contact fights before anyways.Since my long-term goals are … Kickboxing weiterlesen
The Performance Engineer 