Thursday, October 23, 2008

Regular hours

I'm starting to miss them. The problem with irregular hours is that you really have to shift your schedule around and stick to it. I'm not doing that. I'm going to school in the morning to the afternoon, kickboxing in the afternoon, work at night, I'm taking naps and getting sleep in whenever I can a few hours at a time and then I'm left awake in the middle of the night...like now.

Just finished watching the Bernard Hopkins and Kelly Pavlik fight. I like both fighters but it was a surprising fight. There will probably be excuses, Pavlik's elbow wasn't all that great, Pavlik over trained, Pavlik wasn't used to moving up a weight class to figh Bhop, regardless of all that Pavlik didn't look like himself that night, didn't throw his championship winning jabs and just didn't look like he was there to fight. Bernard Hopkins however was masterful in the ring and looked like he was fighting in his prime. The Executioner was fighting backwards the entire time but he would slip or step back then step forward with the counters. Cross hook, jab cross uppercut. His footwork was a lesson in boxing that I was definitely taking notes on. Slip on the fringe of the punch, if caught on the inside duck and move away. Push off with the back foot moving forward to answer with three quick shots then move out. It's everything I've been trying to learn and perfect in kickboxing and it was demonstrated to perfection in that fight.

Probably should get some studying in, something productive while I'm up, I have an exam coming up next week and I've been remiss in attending class due to my recent comatose state over the past week.

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