Month of a Million Strikes: Day 1

Month of a Million Strikes: Day 1

September 1st 2015

Strikes performed today: 30,000

Progress towards monthly goal: 30,000/1,000,000

#of sets: 3

Time spent training today: 1 Hour, 52 minutes

Time spent training towards monthly goal: 1 Hour, 52 minutes

Set #1

# of strikes performed: 10,000

Time: Approx 38 minutes

Implement: Shinai

Types of strikes: Two handed Men strikes, interspersed with one handed Men strikes. Standing

Attack rate: Approx 4.4/Second. 22 strikes/5 seconds, 44/10 seconds

Set #2

# of strikes performed: 10,000
Time: Approx 38 minutes
Implement: Shinai
Types of strikes: Two handed Men strikes, interspersed with one handed Men strikes. Standing
Attack rate: Approx 4.4/Second. 22 strikes/5 seconds, 44/10 seconds

Set #3
# of strikes performed: 10,000
Time: Approx 36 minutes
Implement: Shinai
Types of strike: : Two handed Men strikes, interspersed with one handed Men strikes. Standing
Attack rate: Approx 4.6/Second. 23 Strikes/5 Seconds 46/10 seconds

(note Men strikes are a Kendo technique performed as an over the head attack. Shinai are a bamboo training weapon)

Other training performed:
8 miles of walking

Intro to Jazz dance class Class session #1

Notes:
My left hand is pretty torn up skin wise. My lower back is a bit sore, while the rest of me is up to doing another 10k strikes, I need to not wreck my back, as I have a whole month of training, plus dance classes plus walking to school to keep in mind. Overall for this training to hit it's target I need to average 33,333 strikes/day. I'm not worried too much about being behind on the first day, as I have more time on weekends to pick up the slack, and as I over time get better at the strikes they should take less time to perform, with less of a strain on my body. My evidence for this is last week my 30K strike day took 2hr 50 min to perform. Today's took 1 hour, 52 minutes. Quite an increase in speed already!!