Wednesday, 13 April 2011

Training Diary: Week 3.1

TONIGHT I learnt two things.
One, don't box with a migraine.
Two, I quite like being punched in the face.
After suffering a all-day headache it probably wasn't a great idea to go to training tonight.
And it probably wasn't smart to volunteer to take part in my first real sparring session.
We started with warm ups and shadow boxing again before moving onto circuits.
Once we were nice and 'fresh' we went into twos and jabbed each other switching to southpaw and back again. Quite tricky but its nice to see training getting a bit more physical now and I landed a couple of sweet shots - and also received a few.
Today also saw the competition of our training ring.
So after being asked "who wants to sparr?" I thought i'd have a bit of that and stepped forward.
Watching some of the other guys going at it I was chomping at the bit for my chance - although with a head guard only as I am still too pretty to get cut.
And there here it was. My first real fight. It was only a 90 second round but it was exhausting.
The guy I faced had a slightly bigger reach and was going for my face. My blocking is also still not good enough and I keep instinctively putting my hands down after throwing a punch.
Because of this I got caught with a quick right/left combination in the head - but I stayed on my feet.
I've decided I am all about the speed and I did a bit of ducking and diving and landed a couple of nice counter jabs, knocking my sparring partner off balance at one stage and onto the ropes - I thought I'd scored a knockdown at one stage!
After it ended I wanted to go again but it was time to take the gloves off and head home.
I look forward to my next rumble in the ring.

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