Wicker Camp Sheffield
I frequently go down to train at the Wicker Camp. The first time I went was the week before I entered the Sandee Junior Championships when I was 15 years old.
When I visited Sheffield I stay for either 1-2 weeks. I go to every class they have! So I train two times a day. 1 hour in the morning then around 3-4 hours again at night.
Wickercamps Timetable
Mondays and Wednesdays
- Bag work 10-11am
- Open Session 11-12pm
- Fighters/ instructors 5-6:30pm
- B2/3 6:30-8pm
- B1 -8-9:30pm
Tuesdays and Thursdays
- Padwork 10-11am
- Open session 11-12pm
- Intermediate Advanced 6:30-8pm
- bagwork 8-9pm
Fridays
- Bagwork 10-11am
- Open session 11-12pm
- Sparring 5-6:30pm
- Shin conditioning 6:30pm
- World of pain Circuits class 7-8pm
- Adults beginners 8-9pm
Saturdays
Bagwork 4-5pm
Sundays
- Clinch class 11-12pm
- Womens only class in afternoon
Examples for what we do in the classes
Padwork class: Skipping to warm up then 5 rounds of 3 minute padwork each with a 1 minute active rest (burpees, press ups,sit ups, squats)
Bagwork: Skipping to warm up then 10 rounds of 3 minutes on the bag with 1 minute active rest.
Example of the bagwork rounds and the active rest after each round.
- Freestyle – burpees
- Jab – cross Blitz – running around hall
- Freestyle- Squats
- Clinch knee Blitz – Running
- Freestyle – Sit ups
- Teep Blitz – Running
- Freestyle – Press ups
- Kick Blitz – Running
- Free style – Neck raises
- Hook blitz -Running
Intermediate/Advanced class: Warm up running around hall, side step, hopping, bunny walking, bear crawls, Jumping knees then into the middle 50 press ups, 50 sit ups, 50 squats, 50 leg raises, 50 lunges, 50 burpees we then do leg stretches before moving onto technique then after that we finish with pads or sparring.
Fighters only class: The warm up is skipping then 5 minutes of our own stretches. It then moves onto pad work, normally very high intensity on the pads. An example of one of the classes where we did 5 rounds of 3 minutes pad work:
- Round 1: Double left kicks –
- Round 2: double Right kicks
- Round 3: Alternative left- right kicks
- Round 4: count down kick
- Round 5:Double left kick- double right kick
- After each round we had to do 50 body kicks each leg
The beginners class: warm up is around the hall the same as the other class but it was only 10 press ups, 10 sit ups, 10 squats, 10 lunges and 10 burpees.
We then go over the basic footwork how to stand move forward, backwards, left and right before working on one technique I.E it might be the elbow we go over or the Teep.
Clinch Class: Is skipping to warm up, then a 5 minute stretch, then we go on to do clinch work rounds we work on different techniques in the clinch and throws,turns and sweeps then finish of with clinch sparring and every time you got swept you would have to do 5 burpees.
Shin Conditioning : was where they would rub Thai oil up and down your shins then with a stick of bamboo they would roll it up and down the shins and tapping the shins with the stick of bamboo.
World of pain Circuit Class: is an hour class with a mixture of different exercises, they are all traditional exercises such as neck raises with a weight, box jumps, tyre jumps-tyre flip, sit ups on the ring, back raises, pull ups, weight log twists,hammer slams are some examples.
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