Saturday - off needed it

Sunday - interclub sparring at Golden Grove. Over 1 hr cycling there - the last 30 mins uphill. Was a b**ch just getting there and felt tired before I started but was allowed to be a bit conservative with my energy until I had to start sparring. It's so hot at the moment they're not pushing us really hard.

I get to try out hitmandonny's starting technique and I like it Have 2 new sparring partners this time. Heavier, taller people (one 81 kg girl, a guy of average height and a tall skinny dude) but they don't try to take my head off so it's actually lighter than usual.

With the guy of average height he has this really irritating way of holding his lead hand. It's on an angle but high. makes it easy for him to go over the top of any lead punch and difficult to counter. The only way i could deal with him was by switching to southpaw and using a lead right hand jab to go over his lead hand. I'm not entirely happy with that because I don't want to have to switch to a weaker stance to tackle that kind of guard. I think that's dangerous. If anyone has any better ideas please, please, please tell me!

With the tall guy I struggled to get in a bit but right at the end of my last round it dawns on me that I don't have to go straight in against the dude. I can just step to the left when he jabs, slip inside his jab and land my own because he drops his right.

I like that I worked that out but I don't like that it took me so long to do it. If it took me that long in a fight I would have lost - i guess the only comfort being girls my own weight won't be that tall and if they are they shouldn't be strong enough to push me backwards every time I do get in like he does.

Cycle about 30 mins to mums for a free feed and a lift home

Monday

Still trying to work out how to program things in but haven't come up with any magic solutions just yet.

Do a 45 minute workout at boxing before going to judo. Includes skipping and shadow rounds with sprints and core work, hamstring exercises and pushups in between rounds. Also do some balance work on the medicine balls in the last 5 minutes to cool down. Tricky stuff now I'm working on all directions but I can see it being beneficial in the long term.

Judo
Usual warm up - mix of exercises for abs and weird pushups, rolls etc. My bro takes me and another white belt for some work. He's very technical which is good. Much more detailed in what he wants to see us doing compared to the other coach. My head hurts by the end of the session and I see we both have a similar approach to learning things - we're fussy picky podantic freaks! i like that though - I'd rather learn it properly the first time!