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Sup guys.
Many of you probably already know that I am dealing with PCS after a few concussions. Been to specialist and basicly the cerebellum aka. little brain has taken some damage along with some of the cranial nerves which is messing up the interplay between my eyes, inner ear and brain. Basicly giving me a few balance, eye and headache problems. Yadda yadda, so forth.
Anyway, I don't know if I'll ever be sparring hard again or whatever, but I can still get better and actually learn the craft. I want to improve. So I've decided to take it a bit more seriously and I joined up with an old training partner of mine, Mikkel Parlo, for proper one on one private sessions. He coaches out of a gym that actually has different tools and a few quality boxing instructors it seems. I am rehabiliting sensory things as well, so we are mostly working pads, tennis balls, reactionary drills, defense. All the things I suck at, so that's great.
I went there today, by myself, just to get a workout in and tried a few different things:
Bagwork 1:
Bagwork 2. I have a tendency moving to my left all the time, so I tried mixing it up more and moving more to my right, and moving laterally more. I also tend to line up my feet when I move left and throw the right hand which gets me off balance.
I don't know what this bag is called lol, first time using it. A little shadowboxing there during the last min:
Only second time ever using the double end bag. I have no idea what I'm doing:
Sorry for the pisspoor quality and lighting. I know it's pretty boring watching me do this as well, but any comments are much appreciated.
Few notes by myself:
- I have a hard time deciding what stance works best for me, I try to have good posture but sometimes I stand straight up and only half heartedly can lean back. I tend to drop my lead hand and use it in odd ways, and given my tendency to have my face right there I sometimes get clipped by hard right hands and rear hand hooks. I'd like to try somekind of crab style and switch between that and a high guard one, but I don't have anyone who can teach me.
- As I said I tend to line my feet up, and when I slip and roll I feel off balance. I find it hard to try to be a smaller target and turn more sideways, without doing that. Found out today that if I point my front foot at the target, even if I get lined up a little bit it feels less ackward slipping to my left. Still, I need to practice moving both ways more, not crossing my feet and being more balanced in my footwork.
I'll probably update with a padwork vid in a few weeks. And later down the road the same drills again.
Many of you probably already know that I am dealing with PCS after a few concussions. Been to specialist and basicly the cerebellum aka. little brain has taken some damage along with some of the cranial nerves which is messing up the interplay between my eyes, inner ear and brain. Basicly giving me a few balance, eye and headache problems. Yadda yadda, so forth.
Anyway, I don't know if I'll ever be sparring hard again or whatever, but I can still get better and actually learn the craft. I want to improve. So I've decided to take it a bit more seriously and I joined up with an old training partner of mine, Mikkel Parlo, for proper one on one private sessions. He coaches out of a gym that actually has different tools and a few quality boxing instructors it seems. I am rehabiliting sensory things as well, so we are mostly working pads, tennis balls, reactionary drills, defense. All the things I suck at, so that's great.
I went there today, by myself, just to get a workout in and tried a few different things:
Bagwork 1:
Bagwork 2. I have a tendency moving to my left all the time, so I tried mixing it up more and moving more to my right, and moving laterally more. I also tend to line up my feet when I move left and throw the right hand which gets me off balance.
I don't know what this bag is called lol, first time using it. A little shadowboxing there during the last min:
Only second time ever using the double end bag. I have no idea what I'm doing:
Sorry for the pisspoor quality and lighting. I know it's pretty boring watching me do this as well, but any comments are much appreciated.
Few notes by myself:
- I have a hard time deciding what stance works best for me, I try to have good posture but sometimes I stand straight up and only half heartedly can lean back. I tend to drop my lead hand and use it in odd ways, and given my tendency to have my face right there I sometimes get clipped by hard right hands and rear hand hooks. I'd like to try somekind of crab style and switch between that and a high guard one, but I don't have anyone who can teach me.
- As I said I tend to line my feet up, and when I slip and roll I feel off balance. I find it hard to try to be a smaller target and turn more sideways, without doing that. Found out today that if I point my front foot at the target, even if I get lined up a little bit it feels less ackward slipping to my left. Still, I need to practice moving both ways more, not crossing my feet and being more balanced in my footwork.
I'll probably update with a padwork vid in a few weeks. And later down the road the same drills again.
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