My nursing registration came through yesterday (yey!) but it bothers me A LOT that shifts will get in the way of attending training sessions at DMMAYACSA. Their classes are in the evenings so I’ll still be able to attend when I’m not on a 12 hour shift/back shift/night shift. Wait, that only leaves early shifts and days off! I really wish illnesses would only affect people 9-5…
Anyhoo, DMMAYACSA do various classes throughout the week; freestyle wrestling, submission wrestling, BJJ, fitness, striking specific to your skill level, beginners MMA and Sambo. I attend a couple of classes each night, so my week until now has looked like this:
Monday: freestyle wrestling, then basic striking with pads
Tuesday: fitness, then beginners MMA
Wednesday: striking drills and light sparring
Thursday: fitness, then basic MMA
Friday: fitness, then submission wrestling
Saturday or Sunday: go for a run around the pretty gardens where I live.
(credit Scott Malone via DMMAYACSA's Facebook page)
My shifts will get in the way of attending classes, but I’ve been doing drills outside of classes to augment my learning, so I’ll just keep this up. For example; before a back shift I’ll shadow box in the morning, or before starting night shift I’ll practise sprawls and other wrestling drills. So if one of your excuses for not training is work, it ain’t valid! Although I can fully appreciate how valid it seems, it was certainly one of my own excuses…
I made a fatal (ok not quite fatal) error last night though. For the first time since I started training I had to leave class early. I’d completed the 1 hour fitness circuits class, then started the 2 hour wrestling class, but about half an hour in I felt faint as fuck, and nothing people were saying was going in. My training partner had to tell me at least 10 times where to put my hands for a simple arm lock. I pushed through and wrestled to about the 1.5 hour mark, but just half an hour before the end of class I had to stop. What was my fatal error? I didn’t consume electrolytes or carbs after an intense circuit class, or eat enough of the right things before training. I hate that I had to leave early, I’ve woken up really annoyed at this, but my lesson is definitely learnt!
You may have noted that I don’t attend BJJ or Sambo. I’ve been debating whether to add in BJJ at this stage or wait until I’ve got the basics down in striking and wrestling. On one hand I would love to develop a ground game as it’s currently absent, and it would flow nicely with the rest of my training. After all, I didn’t start MMA just to focus on striking and do a bit of wrestling. However, I am currently of the opinion that I’m better to wait until I’ve got more experience in these areas before I can really focus and spend a lot of time on BJJ.
That being said, I’d welcome any thoughts on this and would be happy to change my mind if you would advise starting BJJ now.
As for Sambo, I think this would definitely be information overload at this point!
I gotta go for just now; I'm about to practice kata. As much as I'm loving learning all these different fighting styles, karate will always have my heart and there's just something blissful about practising kata. Plus, watch this short video of Machida to see how kata is utilised within MMA;
(credit to Emmanuel Shepherd via Youtube)
I actually squealed watching this, ahhhhh so exciting! Or maybe that's just me...
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