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Hi all,
about 3 years ago started karate at the young old age of 33, was a non contact variety which i took up as my 6 year old wanted to do it and he's shy so I took it up with him, ended up doing 4 classes a week (one of which was a 2 hour lesson) entered a couple of tournaments doing sparring and kata. got to green belt, but decided to give it up, had some hassle at work with shoplifters and went out after them, turned ugly and to my horror doing non contact karate id trained myself to actualy pull my strikes making minimal contact hospital visit later and mild concussion I decided to do something else.
Been doing full contact kickboxing for 12 months now and loving it, train 3 sessions a week, and do additional training at home, run 2 miles a day, 50 press ups, and 50 sit ups every am and again in the pm, then work on my kicks, punches, still rough round the edges but getting there, thing I struggle with the most is bob and weaving, and im very heavy on my feet, must become lighter have just entered my first competion which is in october, so training as hard as I can, have started skipping my god kids make it look so easy.
anyway im waffling, anyone else participate?
regards
J
about 3 years ago started karate at the young old age of 33, was a non contact variety which i took up as my 6 year old wanted to do it and he's shy so I took it up with him, ended up doing 4 classes a week (one of which was a 2 hour lesson) entered a couple of tournaments doing sparring and kata. got to green belt, but decided to give it up, had some hassle at work with shoplifters and went out after them, turned ugly and to my horror doing non contact karate id trained myself to actualy pull my strikes making minimal contact hospital visit later and mild concussion I decided to do something else.
Been doing full contact kickboxing for 12 months now and loving it, train 3 sessions a week, and do additional training at home, run 2 miles a day, 50 press ups, and 50 sit ups every am and again in the pm, then work on my kicks, punches, still rough round the edges but getting there, thing I struggle with the most is bob and weaving, and im very heavy on my feet, must become lighter have just entered my first competion which is in october, so training as hard as I can, have started skipping my god kids make it look so easy.
anyway im waffling, anyone else participate?
regards
J