Bruised Feet

[Old Warrior]

The ball of my left foot frequently gets bruised, not blistered, when I train two days in a row. It looks like your arm after a good smack from an off target cut. It takes a few days before the pain is gone. Any suggestions other than ice to promote healing or to avoid the bruising in the first instance.

[JSchmidt]

On the left foot? Definitly a footwork issue. Sounds like you're snapping your foot into the ground when moving it forward.
Also, once bruised, it will bruise very easily again unless it's completly healed. It might be worth taking a couple of weeks off.

Jakob

[William Honda]

Left foot????

Wahahahahahahahah!

Yeah two suggestions: quit kendo or cut the left foot off.

Wahahahahahahahaha!

[William Honda]

Just kidding…..

Don’t know what you are dong but something is wrong

[Old Warrior]

"Don’t know what you are dong..."

The dong is OK, it's the foot that hurts.

[Inouye02]

wahahahaha, terrible , just terrible Mr Hondo

[Inouye02]

Mr Hyundai..

yaba daba dooooo !!

[William Honda]

Wahahahahahahahaha!

Good Comeback! IPPON!

[Inouye02]

i have seen your left foot honda ...hmmm strange growth there . other then seiza ....wahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahhaahahahahahh a

[William Honda]

Confound and I are practicing the same sicko wazas.

[Inouye02]

oh shit , i can hear the keyboard tapping as she gets ready to unleash her full fury now ...

[William Honda]

ok, ok!

Let's get back to the topic and help Old Warrior.

Confound, peace - don't unleash.

[Inouye02]

<<<<< confound #2 as with Inouye I detest you also Honda

[M.K. Kawai]

Old Warrior,

Did I read your post correctly? That you are getting a bruise on your left foot? Did you mean your right foot?

MKK

[Paburo]

use a tabi until you feel better. then take it off. if it happens again use the tabi, then take it off when healed and so forth.

until your feet develops strenght and callouses and whatnot. hachidan feet are virtually indestructible, but i guess for them it also took years of pain and bruises.

[William Honda]

Old Warrior,

First thing is to find out when you may be bruising the left ball of your foot. Be aware during practice.

My suspicion is during hiki waza (backwards striking techniques). That is the only time that I can imagine your left foot might get bruised.

Regardless, it is a sign that your footwork needs adjusting of some sort. Have to find out the root cause first.

William

[Old Warrior]

Yes troops, it's my left foot. It's a golf ball size bruise dead center behind the toes. I believe it's because my heel is too high off the ground when I move forward. My question is, aside from practising better footwork (a given), what does one do for foot bruises? (a new one on me since I gave up karate 30 years ago).

[m_french]

Tiger Balm works wonders for bruises.......don't know whats in it , and from the smell I don't want to.....maybee one of those crazy Canadians sold their dog down the river.:beard:

[Raiza]

Nah, we'd get a better price if we sold AlexM instead.

Besides, the dog is better behaved. :silly:

PS Had a bad ugly bruise on my hand after too many kote hits with inadequate padding-one of the sempais told me to massage it and run it under very warm water to get the bruise out. It worked pretty well for me. Not a good idea right after the injury, but for old bruises I don't think it would be a problem.

[PhilMcLaughlin]

OW
that sounds nastily like a plantar fascia problem (see KW #5)

It needs looking at by a physio - the bruising could be because youve ruptured the attachment fibres at the ball end of the PF

in the meantime, RICE it and rest it until the bruising goes, then stretch gently

but id suggest go and get it checked out soonest

regards

[AlexM]

Originally posted by Raiza
Nah, we'd get a better price if we sold AlexM instead.

Besides, the dog is better behaved. :silly:



AlexM is incredibly worthless... I've tried selling my body on St-Catherine's street (fly-fishing is an expensive habit, always need more flies...) but no got no takers.

As for Max's dog... I am much better behaved than it is!

[M.K. Kawai]

OW,

I have to agree with Phil's suggestion of having it looked at by a doctor as soon as possible. What you're describing is something that I have never heard of nor seen in Kendo before. This is beyond me. So I hope when you do get it checked out that it turns out to be nothing serious.

Good Luck.

MKK

[Flashman]

Got exactly the same thing (is it endemic to old fencers who take up kendo?) and it was due to raising the rear heel too much. Plantar fascitis usually hurts at the insertion of the plantar fascia into the heel bone. This sounds more like a bruise of the metatarsal head from too much weight being placed on it. Lower your heel so that it's just off the floor. Kinda like Maestro Nadi described in On Fencing if you know what I mean.

[Old Warrior]

Flashman

I've read Nadi's egomaniacal tome. I absolutely know its from a raised heel and I want to stop doing it. My center toe is also swollen at the knuckle. I'm still fighting the urge to turn the left foot perpendicular to the line of movement. Trust me, after so many years, it's hard to undo that muscle memory. So, I practice the footwork, slowly, forcing myself to do it right and hoping my body gets the idea (praying it will be sooner rather than later).

It is really frustrating because I switched to Kendo due to my left knee no longer being able to take that twisting motion needed to lunge. I consider myself a student of body mechanics but I'm fighting a tough battle against myself. Have you noticed, most of the kendo people on this board are highly unsympathetic to old fencers.

[PhilMcLaughlin]

OW

Give most of them another 20 years or so & theyll start understanding (IF they last that long of course ;-)

Kendo is personal - if your greatest challenge is your footwork then thats your greatest challenge

if your greatest challenge is how to put someone down on a bulletin board - what does that say about your kendo ?

keep on bashing away - there are plenty of us old farts on the board, just most of us are getting a bit bored with the rapid decline in signal to noise

cheers