Learning to Fly Again, Dropping Weight to Get my Jump Kick Back

    Once upon a time I was 21 and skinny, about 155 lbs.  I was in such amazing shape that I could jump kick the hoop and a little higher of a standard height basketball backboard.  At one huge tournament in San Francisco, I placed in the top 10 of jump kickers from among some pretty amazing martial artists.

    I always took pride in my inherent talent and ability to convert forward movement and spinning motion in to height and power for my kicks.  And once you've got a lot of height you've got some time to try and make it look good.

    Now I'm 50 and of as this writing, about 218 lbs. Two weeks ago I was 227 lbs and taking creatine for bodybuilding.  Now that I'm focusing more on tournament fighting, I've cycled of the creatine and quite a bit of water weight came off.

    I feel so much better not carrying that extra weight in the ring.  Every pound I can shed, will give me increase endurance and less drag when I'm trying to get air born.

    Here is a short 15 second clip from tonight's warm up before class. I tried to get a couple of jump spin kicks in and I think they didn't look half bad.  

Progress!

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