My strangest mishap was yesterday in class, I seem to have got matt burn on my eyelid I have no idea how it happened.
Strangest, hmm, got to be the time when I was being Tomi Nage'd (stomach throw) lost all forwards momentum and virtually did a tombstone onto the other guys forehead. I had concussion and a squished neck, and he got concussion too! Col
Oh, Yoda reminded me I did manage to punch myself in the face whilst being armlocked by Fluffydoc! Col
Trying a capoeira kick I taught myself Works well on my own but I did it at a seminar and hit a heavy bag with it. Fell over as it felt like my knee went out. Thought I was gonna be sick. Funny as 2 mins later I was right as rain. Everyone said it looked good until I feel over!!!!!
not an MA injury but I did manage to break my toes while skateboarding....not strange you may think, but I wasn't actually skateboarding at the time it was someone elses laser guided missile of a skateboard that did it!
Managed to split open my own eye throwing someone else, i was teaching at the time, was a reaping throw, threw him so hard he bounced off the mat, we clashed heads, i thought nothing of it till the blood starting dripping. 6 hours in Wigan Infirmary casualty and 6 butterfly stitches!!
I cracked my own ribs (badly) whilst enthusiastically demonstrating a hammer-fist strike to a potential student. Normally, I would have Braced for Impact but I was still talking at the crucial moment. Or perhaps I should have demoed on him because my sales patter wasn't enough to get him to class. Rgds, David
At a demo in a field, we were demoing typical defences against punches. Me and my partner would do the attack and defence then swap roles. A little nervous because of the growing crowd, and the fact we always commit totally to every attack, he forgot it was MY turn to attack. The end result was 2 right hooks, one leaving me near unconscious and the other breaking his nose. I still remember the stars flying round my head
Same as adam - axe kicked my own face. Another when I slipped my hands doing push ups and landed flat on my nose, it happend quite a few times, even my chin's getting accostumed to it |Cain|
A couple of years ago I broke a bone in my finger on my own jaw whilst shadow-boxing... ... feel a bit better hearing that the mightly Yoda had a similar incident... of course his aim was better! It shows real dedication to shadow-boxing to beat yourself up.
Just remembered a funny story; a year ago or so, i was trying to teach a friend how to do a 540 reverse roundhouse. He jumped up, span once and stuck his kicking leg out waay too early, he tried to over-stretch to reach the target which ended up with him basically doing the splits in mid air with a "snap", or it was more of a "tear". When he got back up, he looked down his dobok trousers to see he had ripped his boxer-shorts clean in half! I probably laughed for 2 hours solid after that.
Well, I um... managed to... pull a butt muscle trying a 540 cold. EDIT: and another time me and my friend both did a spinning heel hook at the same time and our legs locked together leaving us hobbling like cripples on one foot! lol (not an injury, but still embarassing)
Yesterday I was sparring and my opponent head-butted me in the ribs. It still hurts. I can't beleive I let him do that! lesson learned : cough medicine and sparring are a bad combination. Also, keep moving.
Hmm...the ones I can admit to in mixed company are 1) breaking my tailbone doing a lunge, and 2) having my contact lense shoved up and behind my eyelid playing a martial arts "game" with another member. She accidentally shoved her thumb in my eye, or did I shove my eye in her thumb? Anyway, it took a couple of hours for the contact to work its way back down to my eyeball. The other things are too goofy and embarrasing to mention.
I gave myself a black eye doing an elbow strike once. The fist goes over the shoulder, and I missed my shoulder and smacked myself in the eye.
