Boxing

LI: To learn defenses with counters. This week we had boxing in the hall with Pax. First we started off with a warm up. For the warm up there was four taggers that had pool noodles. The taggers had to try and tag people with the pool noodle. We could only tag people from their stomach to feet. If someone got tagged they had to do a burpee. For the first round the taggers were Angelica, Mojtaba, Lorenzo and I. When we finished playing one round we gave the pool noodles to someone else on the second round. 

After we did the warm up, we got into partners. My partner was Alayah. We got ourselves into partner one and partner two. I was partner one. Partner one had to put on the gloves and the boxing gloves. Partner two got the two pool noodles and helped partner one put on the boxing gloves. 

We then moved onto our defenses with counters. The first defense was guard, jab and cross. Partner two had to hit us with both the pool noodles while partner had to guard then jab and cross. 

The next defense with the counters was the bridge, move forward and the cross. Partner two had to try and hit us again. 

The third defense was slip, cross, left hook and cross. Before we did slip, cross, left hook and cross we learnt how to do the slip, because last week we didn't have enough time. To do the slip you have to get into your rock position and move your body to the left of right, so that when someone hits you, they hit your shoulder. Partner two had to do the same thing with the pool noodles.

For the last defense we did roll, cross, left or right uppercut and cross. Partner two had to put the pool noodles on our shoulder, so we could roll. Partner two also had to put it vertically, so we could do the attacks.

Once we did the defenses, we went back to class.