Last Tuesday night after class I was talking with one of my students. He shared with me that he's having to wear a neoprene sleeve on his left elbow, as he'd taken a fall poorly the week before and it was bothering him quite a bit now. I asked him about it and it turns out I'm the culprit that threw him, shame on me. Dern Osoto-gari showing up in aikido class, anyway. I mean... he walked right onto it, I was obliged to show him, right? (Judo humor. Judoka get it)
He & I kept talking about his elbow, and I told him my right one gives me problems from time to time as I had it separated, not quite dislocated, in a tournament a quite a few years back. So then, we started comparing notes on the injuries we've each sustained in each other's time "on the mat," as it were, though for me it's been several dozen different mats.
I admit a weird (like I said, I admit it) curiousity about the injuries we've all incurred during practice, training, competition, real defensive situations and so forth. I wanted to get the thread going, and then I'll come in with my own. My student's were like this:
Cracked jaw, sprained elbow (I did that, my bad), twisted ankle, cracked rib (not me) and that was it. I must have made a face as he told me the things he'd injured, so then I started. His face got weird as I had more injuries to my right arm than he had dealt with to his entire body. But... 40 years vs. 10, I guess that's the thing.
your injury history? Fill it in with amusing anecdotes if you are lead to do so, that's always good.
He & I kept talking about his elbow, and I told him my right one gives me problems from time to time as I had it separated, not quite dislocated, in a tournament a quite a few years back. So then, we started comparing notes on the injuries we've each sustained in each other's time "on the mat," as it were, though for me it's been several dozen different mats.
I admit a weird (like I said, I admit it) curiousity about the injuries we've all incurred during practice, training, competition, real defensive situations and so forth. I wanted to get the thread going, and then I'll come in with my own. My student's were like this:
Cracked jaw, sprained elbow (I did that, my bad), twisted ankle, cracked rib (not me) and that was it. I must have made a face as he told me the things he'd injured, so then I started. His face got weird as I had more injuries to my right arm than he had dealt with to his entire body. But... 40 years vs. 10, I guess that's the thing.
your injury history? Fill it in with amusing anecdotes if you are lead to do so, that's always good.