Sparring

Yesterday we worked on free-sparring. After warm-up and stretching, the athletes were put on to do some functional movements drills which covered multi-directional and multi-plane offensive and then defensive techniques. The athletes were to go through three sets of one minute in a offensive sparring follwed by a three sets of one minute in a defensive sparring.

Upon completion, the athletes are then work on target sparring of just 30 secs for 3 sets. Then we went through a full-fledge target sparring of three rounds of one and a half minute to two minutes.

Later, we work on reaction of their defensive moves whenever I initiated an offensive move. We did this for 6 sets and it off for cooling down and recovery stretching. We did some work on myofascial release using tennis ball. End of session.

The athletes were commited in the training and performed quite well in the session. They do have some problems in the earlier stage but halfway through, the got better and finally they are able to move more comfortably. It was a good workout for the athletes as this provide them the movement training that they really need in sparring.

We'll see how they do in the next session.