Ballantyne beat ’em up

  • When:05/04/15
  • QIC: Haggis
  • The PAX: Chippy, Honey Bee, Fire Hazard, Wild Turkey, Twister, Kerbie, Haggis


Ballantyne beat ’em up

7 men showed their mettle in a celebration of sheer power.

The Thang:

Load up the kit and head to Loch Ness.

Basics review with shadow boxing: stance, footwork, head movement, jab (1), cross (2), hook (3), uppercut (4)

1lap of the loch with hands raised in fighting stance.

Partner up with pads and gloves.  4 rounds of jabs and crosses.  Odd man out is on the medicine ball.

1 lap of the loch with hands raised in fighting stance.

Partner up.  4 rounds of jabs, crosses.  Focus on footwork.

1 lap of the loch with hands raise in fighting stance.

Partner up. 4 rounds of partner calling out punches, “1, 1-1, 1-2, 1-2-3, 1-1… etc”  Focus on footwork and keep moving while punching.

1 lap of the loch with hand raised while throwing punches on the way round.

Finish with 10 true merkins.

Moleskin

Fight Club format is to use a ring timer for 2:30 rounds with 30 second recovery periods.  During the last 30 seconds of each round, you give it all you’ve got.  It’s a brutal combo with no time to catch a breath since the recovery period is used to change over.

Great to see Honey Bee at FC for the first time.  He seemed to enjoy it and was swinging like a brawler on the pads.  But, he hasn’t been in with Chippy yet.  Come back for more brother.

Regulars Fire Hazard, Wild Turkey, Kerbie and Twister were all pushing it hard, with compubox numbers showing high numbers of power punches sprinkled with accurate potshots.

Chipotle only throws power punches.  Do not get on his bad side.

YHC made the grievous error of using the medicine ball for long periods on the concrete pathway, and now has a sore posterior.

Come out and try Fight Club.  It doesn’t always get worse.

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Honey Bee
9 years ago

Thanks for having me out. Seeing it in print makes me relive the pain all over again. However, I don’t think I was focusing on footwork as stated (or really anything other than hitting the pads periodically and not puking). Great workout. I will be back as long as Chippy doesn’t hit me.

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