My wife called me the other day about a patient of hers looking for a taijiquan class. Her teacher apparently retired. My wife was asking who I could recommend since this person was “advanced”. Not knowing what advanced means, I asked what she meant. She said “doing taijiquan a long time.”
To be...
Was feeling low, depressed and probably a bit sorry for myself this evening, and pretty much convinced my martial arts days were over. Knee was still not great, could not do the amount of required exercise today because I'm working from home and work kept bugging me, could not walk right, knee...
Well, I appears that there is a strong possibility that I now need a knee replacement. I will be getting another MRI soon and then a follow up visit with the Doctor and we go from there.
I don’t mind saying the whole knee replacement thing is creeping me out a bit. They remove your knee and...
March 11, 2011
10 years ago today the Tsunami hit Japan causing the Fukushima meltdown
Japan mourns lost souls 10 yrs after quake-tsunami, Fukushima crisis
22,000 lives lost and unaccounted for
I have been in pain, with my knee(s) for over a year, surgery was in mid-May 2020 and then complications due to scar tissue (right knee, left does have a meniscus tear again), and I have used all the physical therapy appointments my insurance would allow.
In that time, I have tried to do...
Well, this might be the end of this blog, not many folks on MT these days and no one really pays much attention to it anymore anyway.
And it might also be the end of me being able to do any martial arts, even taijiquan. Might even be the end of being able to take a nice long walk, ride a bike...