[diamondpete]

Hi Cap,

Since you did lessons that included kicks, I would suggest incorporating them. It certainly adds intensity to the drill if you are adding kicks.

I think that I wold look more towards a "basic practice type of approach as the warm up. Anyway, I am sure you have a basic warm up from your MA experience. If you want to add kicks, I would start with simple 1-2. left jab, right cross with footwork to "close to jab range" ). (and the reverse, right jab. left cross and foot work. Then, go to a 1-2-3, with the 3 being (WOW I just realized I do not know how to write this in English) for lack of a better word a right foot cross??? Left foot forward, left jab, right cross and then right kick where your right foot is the back foot of the kick (as opposed to being the forward foot like in a jab). Don't use a round house kick as it is slow and not to my mind a "shadow boxing" type kick- a straight kick where the target would be the solar plexuis. In shadow kicking people have a tendency to get sloppy for speed make sure you retract your kicks and the your kicks are not pulling your forward. Then switch to left forward 1-2-3 combos. After that try mixing the 1-2 part -up-down, head shot, body shot, body kick. When that is smopoth from both sides, try a continuous, 123, 456 left forward, then right forward. 3 would be a right kick and then the foot is retracted placed on the floor and slid forward for distancing into the 456, where the 4 is the right jab, and so on.

Not sure if that is what you are after. If is is and it "works" for you, let me know and I can suggest some other combinations. Though it "sounds" easy, it can be quite difficult at first.

hope this helps

peter