25 minute Impact Workout: Sticks, Mitts & Kicks!

With the holidays and family and too much great food, this seems like a good time to post one of my favorite no time and need to hit something workouts! 

You’ll each need a pair of sticks, a pair of gloves, a pair of thai pads and one pair of focus mitts between the two of you.  Each round is 4 minutes long with a 60 second rest in between. Set your timer on an interval of 30 seconds.  Round 1 you will either need the 1 minute interval or no interval at all. Rounds 2, 3 and 5 you’ll need the 30 second interval. I’ve found it’s easier to set it for 30 seconds at the outside and just ignore the bells you don’t need.

Round 1:

• Option 1: Double Stick Siniwalli (video for your reference) Heaven - Standard - Earth - Uppercut 6 - Backhand 6: for the entire round
• Option 2: Double stick Siniwalli and Sumbrada and Single stick sumbrada right and left

Minute 1: Heaven - Standard - Earth - Uppercut 6 - Backhand 6: Fast

Minute 2: Double stick Sumbrada

Minute 3: Single stick Sumbrada (all ranges): right hand

Minute 4: Single stick Sumbrada (all ranges): left hand

 Rounds 2 & 3: Focus Mitts & Bag Gloves (video for your reference)

 Round 2:

Partner 1: Focus mitt on right hand; Bag glove on left;

Partner 2: focus mitt on the LEFT hand and bag glove on the Right

(Left Lead)

Minute 1:  30 seconds: straight punch for straight punch, 30 seconds: uppercut for uppercut

Minute 2:  30 seconds: Hook for hook, 30 seconds: Uppercut - Cross for Uppercut - Hook

(Right Lead)

Minute 3:  30 seconds: straight punch for straight punch, 30 seconds: uppercut for uppercut

Minute 4:  30 seconds: Hook for hook, 30 seconds: Uppercut - Cross for Uppercut - Hook

Round 3:

Same as round 2 except switch hands the pad/gloves are on

Partner 1: Focus mitt on LEFT hand; Bag glove on RIGHT

Partner 2: focus mitt on the RIGHT hand and bag glove on the LEFT

 Round 4:

Thai Pads: both. Drill below for the entire round (video for your reference)

 1 R Kick - 1 R. kick

2 R Kicks - 2 R kicks

3 R. kicks- 3 R. kicks

R. kick - R. knee - R. kick

R. Knee - R. Kick - R. Knee

 Switch Legs and repeat the ladder/cycle

 Round 5:

Thai Pads: both partners (video for your reference)

•  30 seconds: Right kick - Partner Right kicks,  30 seconds: Left kick - partner left kicks
•  30 seconds: 2 right kicks’ - partner 2 right kicks,  30 seconds: 2 left kicks - partner 2 left kicks

 Minutes 3 & 4: 3 right kicks and 3 left kicks - partner 3 right kicks and 3 left kicks

Merry Christmas & "Oops!"

I have shown up a) on the wrong day for a flight b) transposed the flight number for the departure time and, c) today, after a good bit of thought on the matter, set my alarm and taxi pick up time to get me to the airport 30 minutes, not 90 minutes, prior to flight departure. Needless to say, getting on that flight was a 'no go'. To complicate matters, my destination airport is extremely small and the flights into it at the holidays sell out early. Combine that fact with my penchant for late booking, my holiday travel arrangements usually cause my mother a bit of angst... so, yep, today is an 'oops, sorry, Mom' travel day.

No plane here.. 

Upshot: instead of flying right into Hailey, Idaho, I get to fly into Salt Lake City and drive a rental (5ish hours). So far the weather looks ok for the drive, a car is available, I'm into a good audio book and I haven't made that drive before. All pretty big pluses.

Best laid plans & all that. It's been a while since I've had such a huge brain fail. Not sure what all I'm supposed to learn from it aside from 'going with the flow' and not scheduling stuff for myself that involves anything in the 4am time slot. I'm sure the specific lessons from this unintended adventure will become clear at some point. In the mean time, I get to spend the holidays with family I rarely see in a beautiful place. Not bad at all for a pretty big fail.

Wishing everyone a happy and safe holiday season!

Seasons Greetings from Rathborne Training!

As 2016 winds down and I wrap up the many hanging ‘to do’ items, I hope to start writing a bit about the adventures in training that I’ve had over the last few years.  In the mean time, I’ve put together a page of links!  I’ll post it here first in the blog but it’s normal home will be on the “Links” page of the website.

I’ve had the opportunity to train with some of the very best trainers in martial arts, defensive tactics and firearms.  In October of 2015 I was struck by the travel to train bug (traditionally known as a midlife crisis) and I hit the road for four months.  The rest of 2016 I still did quite a bit of traveling to train but did it from my home base in Minneapolis.  The list below is a list of schools and instructors I’ve had the opportunity to experience and learn from.  Many of the US organizations were within the 2015-2016 training walkabout.  The UK, German and Spain trainings were during previous years.

I have organized this list by state of instructor residence, but many of the instructors listed teach all over the country and the world. Many of these trainers also teach tactical medical, combatives, knife, defensive tactics and a variety of martial arts. Many also have their own facility but others travel to teach. If you have trouble contacting anyone as their info is outdated, please let me know and I’ll find out the current way for you to find out about scheduling a learning experience with them. 

Any oversights are purely due to my memory. If I’ve trained with you and you’d like to be on the list but aren’t, please contact me at: diana.rathborne@gmail.com 

 Diana Rathborne

http://www.rathbornetraining.com