Photo-A-Day 2.0 #00598

We got Eva her first pair of real boxing gloves today. she had a pair of kids gloves that were just for playing around. These ones are serious. Since Eva is now doing Jr. Krav Maga she’s going to need some gear to go with it like boxing gloves. She’s also need some MMA gloves at some point and a whole kit of other items. We’ll get to that. Right now there is no need for these things since there is no sparring happening until we are able to get close enough to spar.

I had been at my Krav Maga class in the morning and I spoke with Sensei Howard and let him know that I was looking for gloves for Eva. He said that one of our adults ordered a pair but they came in at too light a size and he had them in the storeroom. They were yellow he said. Eva can rock yellow so I said that we’d get them when we came in for her class later that afternoon. When we got the gloves I said that they looked like Bruins colors. Eva said that they were more like Bumblebee. She is a Transformers fan deep down and loved our time driving a Chevy Camaro years ago. When she said Bumblebee I immediately said, “Float Like A Butterfly, Sting Like A Bee.”

Eva said, “I like that”. I said that it was from Muhammad Ali, one of the greatest boxers ever. I think we may take some sharpies to the gloves and add that saying to them. “Float Like a Butterfly” on the left and “Sting Like a Bee” on the right.

We practiced a few of her drills tonight, too. She’s pretty solid for a kid who is on the thin side. She can slam into me and knock me back when needed. I’ll have to get my protective gear out the next time we work together.

Photo-A-Day 2.0 #00462

I don’t think it was until after I took this photo that I realized that the cat’s litter boxes were in the photo. I’m doing my Krav Maga classes in the basement because their is a heavy bag there that I can hit. I hate shadow boxing because I always feel so weird doing it. Hitting nothing but air just feels wrong. I know it is an essential skill to develop but if I can actually hit something, I’d much rather do that. I’m very fortunate that my dojo has continued to support the students through these Zoom classes and through virtual stripe tests and more.

It was good to do an actual class and work out today. Andy had his own class right before mine. We did his in the living room because the basement is still quite messy. I mopped the floor to clean it up but it is going to need me to do that several more times to really clean it up. I’d like to paint the floor at some point too. However, I’m not going out shopping for floor paint for a concrete floor until this whole quarantine thing is over. Of course, then I won’t have the time or inclination to actually do it.