It's been 4 years since that injury, and it don't bother me at all anymore.
Back when I was competing in Judo for university I took a bad fall and ruptured a disc that fractured into my spinal column. I was in agony and had to be pulled off the mats. It took surgery, a lot of physical therapy and joint mobility drills to pull myself back into it. That's also about the time I was introduced to somatics and the Feldenkrais system.
Started taking up the Keysi Fighting Method about a year later.
Don't be! It's a wonderful sport. There is a reason that falling/rolling techniques are taught before the grappling.
It's just that my opponent pulled off a high-altitude throw and reaped me up into the air before I could react properly (the point of the sport, really), and I landed at a bad angle. Injuries, apart from bruises and sore muscles are relatively rare!
Depends on the type of attachment. Back then I reckon a hard kick would have been very painful to the amputee. More recently the prosthesis is generally attached by means of a silicone liner and post. Damage to the attachment point is now is more caused by shear on the skin.
My friend this is awesome and what you are doing is genuinely inspiring. And will you say how the practice of your various arts and your TSD helps in a bigger way in your life? I am always interested to know.. I got a cardiac pacemaker as I had AF since I was a girl (I am thirty.. uh.. something haha) .. I am not able to practice as I used to and it is frustrating some of the time.. I should like to know how you manage if physical complaints ever surpass your will to do your TSD??? Thank you Jxx
It is nice to read that you have embraced the situation. Skeletal for me mainly. Have one and a half Kidneys internally with system nerve damage too. I guess that would mean connective for me? Being 44 now, I have researched many a thing at the advent of the BB, and library stuff. Yet to pay for a test, but if I had been born today, there is a major likely hood I would have born with FAS. However, I was left with some pretty good examples. My right arm over extends my left, giving me a normal shoulder, but moves forwards giving me about six inches of overreach, but normal shoulder at body idle or standing still. Just an example there. One question if I may, have you experience of Muay Thai?
