Feb-22-2012 Post

February 22, 2021

Short Stick #

Today Professor was showing me how to use a drainpipe in the basement as a target. There are three paint blotches on it that correspond to head, ribs, knees. I can stand in front of the pipe and use them as targets. Because space is limited and the ceiling is low, I have to use more control to make the strikes, and that forces me to clean up my form.

Professor showed me that you keep the level strikes, especially to the head parallel to the ground and close in. There’s a way to turn your wrist when you are pulling back the stick that brings it back very smoothly and rapidly. Gotta practice it.

On a different subject, she says I ought to practice my punches on my bag. Kicks not so much, as my feet can’t take so much steady impact. She says I ought to concentrate on kicks I can do, like shin kicks.