Archive for April, 2008
Every Sunday, I tryyyy to make it to Markus Kowal’s kickboxing class at Krav Maga training center. Driving across town on a a weekend to make the 1030am class had never been easy for me. What’s less easy is actually sticking with this class. Markus’s drills are, arguably, the most brutal of all classes at this whole center. After 2 or 3 times of me being late, he made me do a hundred push-ups as a disciplinary action against me. I was not pleased, but I did it just to do it. Then I sat out pissed the rest of the class. I’m like that.
Chris Hunt - sparring in Marcus's class at KM
Skerik is one of the most interesting musicians running around crossing different scenes at the moment. I caught his show at the Knitting Factory. This time he’s traveling with the Illuminasti Trio (Skerik on Sax, Mike Dillon on Percussion/Drums, and James Singleton on Bass/Horn.) What a surprise it was when after a long hard look, the surprise guest sitting in was Keefus! I haven’t seen Keefus for aaages!
Skerik - with the Illuminasti, Knitting Factory Hollywood
For a good part of the year, I also was training at an additional club just a stone’s throw from Krav Maga. I did this to cross reference some techniques and also break the environment from having to spend too long in one place. Jeremy Pollack runs an MMA camp at the Wing Chun Academy. I only went as far as making their fight team, but decided to drop the camp when the curriculum started to not being helpful to me.
Jeremy Pollack goes through some standup techniques
Jeremy demonstrates a round kick
students sparring
Jeremy teaches beginning BJJ
Leonardo Soares teaches advance BJJ
Leonardo Soares teaches advance BJJ
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