3/22/07 -

Last Friday I kicked-up my training by starting a weekly training with Rob Radford. Rob is one of the top trainers and boxing coaches around. He is the trainer for Rich Franklin, the current UFC middle weight world champion. I met Rob around 1992 and we started having Sunday morning boxing classes at our Wooster Pike center.

The training is only 30 minutes, but it is a very intense thirty minutes starting with swinging a heavy sledge hammer into a mat, doing interval punch mitt work in the ring, and ending with some new stretches for my hip.

In my lesson with GM Choi yesterday, I learned the opposite side of my two-person kung-fu form. Learning the opposite side of a form is really trying mentally, because you have to be totally aware of your opponent's action to stay in time with them, but stop yourself from doing the first side of the form! I also learned Dae=Mahng Chun # 8, "hot off GM Choi's mind." I am not sure who will learn this form yet, so we will wait to debut it.