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So last night we didn't get a chance to get to Karate but we did take the kids to the playground attached to Angelina's school and I had fun on the climbing frame and pull up bars (hanging leg raises, pull ups and so forth). For an infant/junior school it's equipment puts anything in the UK to shame.  I'm not going to bother describing it, I'll just get some pictures and put them up and you'll probably think what I thought when I first saw that playground: "Why did I never get this a a kid?"

Anyway, this morning got up and trained with Shun.  Did a mile and a half jog then came back into the training area.  James hit upon a solution for our problem with the pull up bar ropes: he's tied two rings tightly into them so now we have rings to pull up on!

I did 30 pull ups at sets of 5, Shun managed 20.

We then did 6 minutes straight on the Human Punch Bag (a punch bag you wear, I'll get a photo, another invention, basically a military satchel filled with a two by four wrapped tightly in two duvets).  6 minutes continuous is hard, bad enough holding the damn thing, but going at it... I practised power shots: everything designed to end a fight (or a combo designed to end a fight), changing techniques once I was flagging.  6 minutes of that is hard.  I used power slaps; power slap with left stepping elbow, knees with elbows, thigh kicks with elbow, push kicks... I was so glad when the time went.

So was Shun.

Have spent the rest of the day sleeping or reading or chilling.  Deserved.  Have Jujitsu tonight and then heavy weights tomorrow.

Because of those damn rings I'm going to give myself a new challenge: I'm going to do a muscle up on those rings!

Watch this space!