I know what you're thinking! Nope, I don't mean tennis elbow or anything of the sort, and my joints are in good shape.
I just thought I'd share a very embarrassing and occasionally painful bad habit that I wonder if anyone else has.
So...
I started up my training again recently, and am getting reacquainted with some of my old bad habits. To be specific, I have a bad habit of hitting myself in the left elbow on occasion, especially when swinging a single stick at full speed, and transitioning from an open horizontal strike to a closed (back hand) horizontal strike -- strikes 3 to 4 in most systems. It occasionally happens with upward figure eight strikes as well.
It only happens when I swing fast/hard. Most of the time, I'm practicing in the house, and therefore swinging in a rather careful and controlled manner. When I occasionally put power into it though, this happens. So, it seems this habit isn't as self correcting as one would hope... Maybe I just need to find a safer place to swing a stick.
Anybody else do this? I'd hate to imagine what might happen if I were using a blade...
I just thought I'd share a very embarrassing and occasionally painful bad habit that I wonder if anyone else has.
So...
I started up my training again recently, and am getting reacquainted with some of my old bad habits. To be specific, I have a bad habit of hitting myself in the left elbow on occasion, especially when swinging a single stick at full speed, and transitioning from an open horizontal strike to a closed (back hand) horizontal strike -- strikes 3 to 4 in most systems. It occasionally happens with upward figure eight strikes as well.
It only happens when I swing fast/hard. Most of the time, I'm practicing in the house, and therefore swinging in a rather careful and controlled manner. When I occasionally put power into it though, this happens. So, it seems this habit isn't as self correcting as one would hope... Maybe I just need to find a safer place to swing a stick.
Anybody else do this? I'd hate to imagine what might happen if I were using a blade...