Right before I graduated high school, I started training MMA. I had been doing other TMA since I was 11 and I did wrestling and boxing in high school. After a year, I was in really good shape and I was competing pretty regularly. During one practice session, I was working standing randori with a newer guy. I dropped and went for the legs and at the same time, he dropped and slammed his knee into my chest. At the same time, he pinned my arms and threw me with a sloppy tomoe nage. I slammed head first into the mat and was knocked unconcious. I woke up on a backboard in an ambulence and I couldn't feel my legs. I did not break my neck though. One of the vertebreal disks was compressed and was swollen and that was what was affecting my nervous system. Still, it was scary and I almost quit doing MA altogether. I still, to this day, have problems with tomoe nage.