Burned up MASSIVE calories yesterday and today. I went to Fawn Friday's noon Kb class at the Press gym. Lot's of cardio, kettlebell style. Very good class. Pefect technique from Fawn. I met Dan the owner. Mitch- who dead lifts 700 pounds. His girlfriend Cheryl who is a legend at 105 pounds with a dead lift of 363!!!! I know guys who can't dead lift half that much that weigh twice as much.

Then we had Judo from 5 to 6:30 pm. Lot's of rolling and mat work. Holds and overcoming the guard. Another good class/ learning experience from our Sensei George.

Today I led an hour long KB class from 9 to 10 am. Then ran errands. One errand was to Barnes & Noble. I noticed that my Yoga book from B.K.S Inyenger had a page that didn't jibe. On page 26, the sentence didn't continue onto page 27. There was a page 27 but it didn't match the previuos page.

I'd already called the corporate office to tell them and they said to bring it back to the store. I did and the book they had on the shelf was the exact same way. So now they're going to get a new one sent to them to exchange to me. We'll see where this leads...

From 4 to 5:30 I had my other friend/ Sensei Carl teaching me Kenpo. Open hand techniques. He showed me an open hand to my previously white, inner forearm. Let's just say that I learned at that instant how effective an open palm strike is and will never forget. Like a wave crashing into you. Also called water palm. My forearm is still red and has a slight abrasion on it. Wow! Now that's effective! He could kick my ass any day of the week!

After Carl was done, we trained kettlebells, He has good technique from being a martial artist.

Then after our session I did double kb presses with the 12's and 16's, one hand, ala Kenneth J. Chins with 2- 16's. The gada stick between sets. TGU to oh squats- 24k x 5 l/r. 32k x 3 l/r.

Stretched hands, wrists, calves and ankles after all of this for better Judo practice and tension release.

Have a Great Thanksgiving Everyone!!!
-Joe