Boxing

Today I learned a 4 punch combination using both left and right hands. I learned straight jabs, curved shots, and body shots. The most important thing I learned is that you need to mix it up and be surprising in a actual match don't let the opponent see what your going to do. Hopefully for my next lesson I'll be sparring against someone. For my training regiment and boxing I'll lost 2 pounds this week which is my weekly goal to lose at least two or more a week I am now 175 and want to loose 15 more by May 1st.

Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard Nantucket School-To-Careers Partnership and Cape Cod Museum of Art Art Internship Program

Today was my second to last meeting with Angela. I helped create a data base for the feedback sheets from mentors and interns and also made sure all the work in the artist data base had births and death years for all the artists. We also got all my paperwork read to go to Linda the coordinator of the program, and Michael and I began to work on how my piece will hang up. I changed the name of my piece all to, "soles occidere et redire possunt" a line from the poem Catullus 5 by Catullus meaning 'Suns are able to set and return'.

Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard Nantucket School-To-Careers Partnership and Cape Cod Museum of Art Art Internship Program

Today was my last day with Michael and I have two more meeting with Angela before my work is ready for the museum and before the show for the artwork to be displayed. Today with Michael we made finishing labels for all the incoming work this year, and it gave me some ideas for what to name my piece "Ridens et Cadens meus solis" meaning Rising and Falling of my Sun.

Boxing

Yesterday, I had my right armed tied around me so that my fist was close to my face, this was to teach me to keep one fist at my fast while punching with the other. I maneuvered around the punching, doing jabs/ 1 combination working with my feet so I learned to privet on my right foot and extend my left leg so I could get a better reach. I was weighed yesterday as well and after a long week of training and being sick I lost 4 pounds putting me at 177, my goal is to be 160 by May 8th. I also went to the doctors this week and found out I have a bad case kyphosis which may require surgery which will definitely put my boxing on the shelf for a few months, regardless though I have to do physical therapy so boxing in all aspects might have to stop until I'm finished